Wanna Bet?
You know what really Tees Me Off?....guys who never want to play for anything.
Admit it, Golf isn't always fun, and unless you have a particularly banner day, you know you're going to be knee high in the fescue, or some other form of trouble on just about every hole.
The game can be especially brutal when you're fighting a losing battle against par, or trying to break 80 or 90, or basically whenever you're battling against the course itself. If you only play against the course and the scorecard you're pretty much doomed to failure every time out.
The point is that in order to make this maddening game fun we have to stop playing against the course and start playing against each other. And that usually requires some sort of wager, right?
Well what happens when you're foursome, comprised of a doctor, a lawyer, and Elliot Sptizer's "girlfriend", all of whom make phenomenal money, will only play for $2 a side? The whole purpose of the bet is to force everyone to give you their best game, right? Is a two dollar nassau going to accomplish that? I don't think so!
So after arguing back and forth on this a while, what's the inevitable suggestion?, you guessed it!...."Let's just play for the fun of it"! I love that line! "just for the fun of it"!
Listen up Sally!, if you had a single competitive bone in that girlish body of yours, you'd know that "playing for fun is no fun"! Next time you suggest we play for "fun," we're pulling your pants down and forcing you to hit from the ladies tees . Fortunately with the level of testosterone you're displaying it's unlikely anyone will notice.
Do us all a favor , if someone requests a little action to make the game interesting , man-up and take the bet! If you still insist on ruining everyone's match, please don't negotiate out the strokes on this $2 bet like you're Donald Trump buying a hotel. You're embarrassing yourself and everyone who plays with you, while announcing to the world that you're both a cheapskate and a weany.
If this guy's a regular in your foursome tell him you've all given up golf and find another guy with a deeper voice to play with.
Ladies....the same goes for you. Being a girl doesn't absolve you from having to woman-up and take the bet. If you win be sure to mention it to the guy's friends back at the 19th hole. Guys love it when girls beat them and then tell their friends back at the bar later. Seriously, we do.
