Stories

  • #23: The Myrtle Beach Nightlife, the Midnight Call, and the Bible   One year, twelve of us golfers were in Myrtle Beach, and all of us were having a great time.  On the second evening after golf that day and dinner at Greg Norman's Steakhouse, we decided to all head to one of the local strip clubs for some entertainm...
  • #22: Skiing in Vail on Super Hot Wings   This is the story of one of my friends, Animal Doc, who happens to be a very prominent and well-respected veterinarian in the Peoria area. He went skiing in Vail several years ago with two of his college buddies.  As he tells it, Two-Ton Tommy, who h...
  • #21:PRESTWICK GOLF COURSE, TIGHTWAD TERRY AND HIS MARKERS    Tightwad Terry decided to go with us on a trip to Scotland.  As before, on all of our golf trips we had everyone send PA Paul, a check for the skins, and for the golf game betting; generally $10 for a daily skins and $30 for the daily golf game.  Ea...
  • #20:Ireland and the IRA   Twelve of us golfers, along with five wives, and some kids, decided to go to Ireland and play some of the best courses that the Emerald Island had to offer.  One of my main concerns was the IRA bombings that were still taken place in Northern Ireland...
  • #19: Scotland in the Morning - Follow the Rising Sun    Dr. Derm and I decided one year to play golf in Scotland. We had flown into the Glasgow airport. Once we retrieved our golf bags, our luggage, we headed straight over to the car rental area to pick up our car, which had the steering wheel on the wro...
  • #18: The How To: On Removing One's Partner   Thaddeus Ted and I were partners in our club’s 2-Man Better Ball of partners’ tournament with the both of us having sugar plum dreams of winning the whole thing. The only obstacle that could keep the dream from happening was ourselves. Double T, as I...
  • #17: First the Vegas Casinos, then off for Myrtle Beach Golfing Biff is about 6'2" tall, 290 pounds, with a wild unruly wiry brown hair on the side of his head similar to that of Gene Wilder with an extremely receding hairline that goes to the back of his scalp. Biff loves to eat fine foods, more than his desire to ...
  • #16: "And What's in Your Golf Bag?"   A little background on Howie, who is a very successful retired dentist with above average size, about 6 feet 3 inches tall, 230 pounds, having the arms and wrists of Popeye, for all of his earlier years as a dentist who would pull teeth out only ...
  • #15: St. Andrews and the Marine    As I mentioned before, on my first trip to Scotland, Dr. Bruce and I did not have tee times for Muirfield or St. Andrews golf courses. Therefore, I would have to enter our names in the daily lottery in order to play the Old Course at St. Andrews.  S...
  • #14: The Naked City, Chicago  Dateline: O'Hare International Airport, departure for Myrtle Beach.  Upon arriving at O'Hare Airport we all hurried to the Spirit Airlines ticket counter to check our luggage and golf bags, get our treasured boarding passes, then heading through secur...
  • #13: St. Andrews, the Big Match, part 2 It’s 12:30 pm on a bright sunny warm magnificent day, you could hear the sounds coming from the nearby town, then the sounds of golf balls being hit crisply off the first tee, Jerome and I were in the second foursome, we teed it up and we were off, with...
  • #12: The Club Championship at St. Andrews, part 1 Myself and Jerome each had reached the semi finals for our club championship in the "A" flight. We were scheduled for our ‘match play’ round on the second week in August. There was only one slight problem, being that both Jerome and I, along with six ...
  • #11: Scotland - the MacCavish Manor   It was in mid-August with the sun shinning brightly above us, the temperature hovering around the mid 70’s, with a few white clouds floating so softly in the heavens, against the backdrop of a sea blue sky, as Willard and I were driving from Edinburg...
  • #10: One Too Many Beers and Shots    Barney's second home is on the fourth hole of one of the very exclusive private golf courses in his development in Brownsville, Texas, located only two blocks from the main clubhouse. Barney plays golf every day, as well as, daily working out in...
  • #9: The Ryder Cup Match at Gullane - Part 2   After we blew off lunch with Hamish and the lads at Muirfield, we headed straight to the Gullane golf course, which was only about 2 or 3 miles away, for our first international Ryder Cup match.  The Ryder Cup match on the Gullane #1 course, never...
  • #8: Muirfield Scotland and Lunch - Part 1   It was a warm overcastted Thursday morning in late summer; all of us were scheduled to play the Muirfield golf course in Scotland at 7:30 AM. There was a light rain that was coming down; actually it was more like a real fine steady mist that last...
  • #7: He ain't heavy, he's my brother   We’re all playing at the Tidewater golf course in Myrtle Beach early in the morning, the third week in September. Having just finished the third hole, a par three, 142 yards into the wind, I just took my third straight double bogey. I’m not playing v...
  • #6: The Oklahoma Bar   Barney has gone to Myrtle Beach with us several times displaying the best sense of humor of anyone on the trip, which he seriously believes that he is as funny as Chris Rock or Rodney Dangerfield. Barney is of average height and weight and very n...
  • #5: The PGA Pro, his Manager, and his Caddie    We’re sitting in the Atlanta airport in late September, all 12 of us returning home after five solid days of golf in Myrtle Beach. The temperature was a little on the cool side, probably around 58° or so. At that time I would travel with a tan sport...
  • #4: The Amazing Putter Throw One of the years we had this high powered malpractice attorney who we all affectionately called Raybo. He was a pretty good stick carrying a 10 to 12 handicap, who could not get any of his fellow attorneys to play golf with him, nor would any of the docto...
  • #3: Protecting One's Own Brother  We are on the fairway of the 11th hole at Glen Dornoch in Myrtle Beach with my middle brother Ron in the golf cart with myself on a beautiful bright September morning, when a group of four golfers behind us hit their drives about 10 yards just short of u...
  • #2: The Infamous Krispy Kreme Doughnuts  Being born and raised in Chicago, then moving to and living in Peoria, I have found that all of us in the Midwest grew up on the doughnuts from Mr. Donut. I never heard of or tasted a Krispy Kreme doughnut until several years ago while golfing in Myrtle ...
  • #1: Encounter with Michael Jordan at Oak Park C.C. Several times we will play a round in Chicago before we jump on the plane for Myrtle Beach. On one such occasion we decided to play at the Oak Park C.C. in River Forest, since I knew one of the presidents of this very private country club. He said that he...