[speaker001:] I was afraid for a while she wasn't going to find anyone because they were all out on the golf course
[speaker002:] oh really well it's it's raining in Texas right now in my area so there's probably not any golfers out on the course
[speaker001:] okay oh
[speaker002:] uh
[speaker001:] yeah I
[speaker002:] they just they just said that the uh Byron Nelson Tournament here had been suspended
[speaker001:] oh no
[speaker002:] for because of rain of course that's just for today it'll it'll play again finish tomorrow you know or finish today's round tomorrow
[speaker001:] yeah well near Dallas you're used to playing golf in the wind too
[speaker002:] oh right yeah
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] well I I'm not really much of a golfer I have not played golf in probably fifteen years but uh it it is an intention to take up the the uh sport again
[speaker001:] the biggest problem with it I think is time
[speaker002:] right uh
[speaker001:] yeah and I I know that it's a four hour dedication it could be four hour relaxation or it could be gritting on your nerves which you're using that much time uh and not not having that much fun
[speaker002:] yeah right well yeah if if you're good at it I guess it's a not so much frustration but if you are it it you know if you're not a really good golfer it it can be real frustrating real frustrating
[speaker001:] you know and I I played tennis for exercise but I play golf for fun uh and
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] apparently it's the attitude that you have that makes the big difference the uh I I enjoy catching it too do you ever go out to the
[speaker002:] well I it's been a while since I've been out to watch I do watch a little on TV you know when I have the chance but uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh I keep wondering why I you can understand in sports like uh basketball or baseball or football there's an age
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh position in there but I keep wondering why some of the real legends can't go just a little bit longer than they do
[speaker002:] well you know I wonder that too in watching some of these senior tournaments uh you know the uh the seniors skins and stuff like that on TV you see how well they're playing and you and you wonder why they're they're not able to you know to play with
[speaker001:] right  it the regular tour
[speaker002:] with the with the younger guys on the regular tour
[speaker001:] and they do mix some of them mix it but it's uh it it does amaze me sometimes just to see it I don't know whether it's a lack of concentration or particular muscle development or what but it seems to be uh I to me it's not a sport that you would be overwhelmed with muscle activity in it
[speaker002:] right well as I understand it and of course it's like I said it's been a while since I played but uh as I understand it as you do get older that your concentration in the putting area you know really suffers and that's that's the primary reason that some of these older that you know that the old players don't play as well
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] but uh
[speaker001:] I tell you what it's a sport that has a great number of jokes though
[speaker002:] oh yeah I
[speaker001:] I as I said I play tennis and there are no tennis jokes I don't know if you can think of one at all
[speaker002:] I guess come to think of it I've never heard a tennis joke
[speaker001:] but but there are a slew of golf jokes so it it indicated and it's great uh sport for equalizing the handicap system
[speaker002:] yeah right and uh
[speaker001:] allows you to play competitively even though you don't play on the same level play competitively with just about anyone you know I can go out and stand a chance of winning a dime off of Jack Nicholas
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] uh if the handicap system uh worked properly and it should so
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] it's nice to be able to to uh compete and and be together with someone and yet have a basis for competitiveness such as uh ten cent be anything over a a dime I joke on so
[speaker002:] and perhaps and perhaps even learn a little bit of something
[speaker001:] oh yes oh yeah
[speaker002:] it's interesting we're talking about golf the television own in my den right now and I'm watching a ball roll up about four inches from the hole in today's Byron Nelson so
[speaker001:] well you know that's one of the other things I I'd I'm am fascinated sometimes two sports bring it to mind more quickly than any others but all the other functions that the human body performs really are are uh as equally amazing But when you start thinking about the eye hand coordination and trying to get a little sphere uh four hundred and twenty yards away into a little whole in about four shots
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and it's true you have loft of club and everything else but knowing how far to bring it back and the the concentration and all the things that go on in the human body to get it there
[speaker002:] there's a awful lot of mechanics involved in
[speaker001:] yeah the same the same thing is true with basketball where a a fellows running along and runs and jumps up in the air and then pushes the basketball toward uh a hoop and it swishes through
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] the the the human body is amazing and I think I'd like to see uh elements like that in almost everything I do and golf uh I walk down the fairways sometimes just thinking about that and then of course I'll miss the putt
[speaker002:] yeah so well what uh what course do you get to play on over in North Carolina
[speaker001:] but we just moved here from from Oklahoma as a matter of fact and I'd been in Oklahoma for twenty years up in Enid
[speaker002:] oh yeah uh-huh
[speaker001:] but so uh I'm used to the wind too
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] in fact that's the only that areas the only place I know of that you really have to uh consider the wind on putts out on the grass green and everything else but the wind effect
[speaker002:] yeah yeah yeah but I guess in North Carolina you you're in an area where there are some really nice courses
[speaker001:] oh I know it I know we had just moved to Charlotte and uh I've gone to a couple of uh public courses uh we haven't settled in here yet we're just
[speaker002:] uh
[speaker001:] here temporarily but a the courses are beautiful and you can play just about year round on it too
[speaker002:] yeah that's
[speaker001:] now Richardson maybe you can too
[speaker002:] yeah right Richardson h as it's you know it's pretty close to year round there are times uh well I guess that there are times in the winter you know when you can't play but then there are times when you know when it thaws out and warms up and people flock to the golf course you know in December and January so
[speaker001:] yeah yeah in fact uh the last few years I've had in Oklahoma I went to Norman and it would play New Year's day down there now there it was stretching the imagination to enjoy it  but at least I played
[speaker002:] yeah probably a week later it was warm enough you could have gone out and played and really enjoyed it even then so
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh well I have enjoyed talking to you
[speaker002:] yeah I have enjoyed it too I I really intend to play golf you know in the future my my wife and I even uh
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] are going to try to play together sometime you know
[speaker001:] yeah yeah well that that's a good sport when people enjoy it because it can be very social at the same time
[speaker002:] yeah right well it's been nice talking to you okay
[speaker001:] good luck on the course
[speaker002:] okay you too thanks
[speaker001:] bye