[speaker001:] Golfer?
[speaker002:] Well, yes, I am as a matter of fact.
[speaker001:] Well,
[speaker002:] Not a good one, but I am a golfer.
[speaker001:] Well, that's about the way I am. I don't consider myself a good one, but I do enjoy it.
[speaker002:] I, uh, haven't been out all year. I didn't get out this year, but, uh, I enjoy both watching it and playing it.
[speaker001:] I usually play a couple of times a month. Sometimes more, but lately it's been just about that. But, I do enjoy, I think the, one of the things I enjoy the most is the beauty of the golf courses.
[speaker002:] Yes, and, the, the peacefulness.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh. You can get out there,
[speaker002:] And the little critters that are around.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Yeah, that's really neat. You can just get out there and lose yourself in it and forget everything else in the world except what you're seeing out there.
[speaker002:] That's right and it's such a personal challenge.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh, yeah, it really is.
[speaker002:] More than competitiveness against someone else. It's, it's a competitiveness against yourself.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] And, you know, it's so frustrating, I keep wondering sometimes why do I do this because it's so frustrating. You think you do pretty good one day and you're doing a whole lot better, you know, and then all of a sudden you go back out and it's just terrible.
[speaker002:] Well, you'll,
[speaker001:] You can't do anything,
[speaker002:] [Throat clearing].
[speaker001:] right [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Or you'll hear thirty and think, boy
[speaker001:] Boy, I'm improving.
[speaker002:] I got my game together. I've had a par and a birdie,
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] and a bogey and then you quadruple bogey [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Uh-huh [LAUGHTER]. And you think, my goodness, why did I think I was doing better [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Being down there, do you, uh, get to see, like the colonial or any of those?
[speaker001:] I don't, I guess I could. I've never been to a golf, to a major golf tournament.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] I, uh, watch them on T V a lot.
[speaker002:] You really should go at least once. You know, we've
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] had, uh, the P G A up here.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] Uh, a-, and in Tulsa and I've been to both of them and it's [breathing], it is so much fun to
[speaker001:] Really?
[speaker002:] see these players you see on T V to, and to hear that ball go whizzing by.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] I mean, it's, it's like a bullet going by.
[speaker001:] I'll bet, um.
[speaker002:] And, you know, to, to see their concentration and yet to see them, how friendly they are when they're, walk by you, you know, and
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] how good they are to their spectators.
[speaker001:] Well, I've only been playing like about three years now. My husband's played for twenty-five. But, I just took it up about three years ago and, uh, we play in a lot of couple's scramble tournaments. We belong to a country club a little ways outside of Dallas, and
[speaker002:] Both,
[speaker001:] we have developed a tremendous number of friends that
[speaker002:] Yes.
[speaker001:] couples do this and, you know, it's fun to go on vacations and things and go to golf courses.
[speaker002:] Yes, it is.
[speaker001:] You can meet some really neat people.
[speaker002:] The scrambles are fun.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh, they really are. I just love them.
[speaker002:] I belong to the country club there in El Reno when I lived there and
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] it, you know, it, it's fun because it's so uncompetitive.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] You really, on those, you really go out for fun.
[speaker001:] That's right.
[speaker002:] And, you know, you won't, you know you're stroke is just one of one or two or three
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] or four, you know, that's going to make any difference.
[speaker001:] That's right. And you just do your own thing and be relaxed and enjoy it [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] That's right. I used to, when I worked at Kerr McGee, I used to play in their tournaments.
[speaker001:] Really?
[speaker002:] And, uh, now that was very competitive.
[speaker001:] Really?
[speaker002:] And, I enjoyed it tremendously, but, uh, I, I'm more, I think I get more enjoyment just couple friends going out.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] And if, if it takes one of us ten shots to get up to the green, so be it.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] You know, we just think, well, the next time has got to be better [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah, I have never played in any tournament except just a scramble. They have a lot of them there at the club, you know, they have A B C D type tournaments and then they, they have the club championships and everything with the women's slots as well, but, I don't know, I've just never really gotten into that. Now, my husband and all the men, I mean, they love the real competitiveness of playing for money, you know.
[speaker002:] Oh, yes, every hole.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh. But I, I'm not good enough for that [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Does your club have a good woman's association?
[speaker001:] Yes, they do. I don't do much with it since, uh, most of theirs, they have a traveling league, and, uh, most of their meetings and all are during the week and I don't, don't get to play except on the weekend. I work during the week all the time.
[speaker002:] It's hard to be a weekend golfer and improve your game.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh. Someday when I, I get where I live closer to the club and partially retired, maybe I'll, uh, be able to play a little more but,
[speaker002:] It, uh, it's, it's a, it's a good game. I, uh, I wish I had more time to play and I felt, you know, had more energy to play it, too.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.