Wii golf, don't we!

While we were with the grandkids a couple of weeks back, we played with the Wii (weird, there a lot of w’s in that sentence or is it just me?). Mom loves the bowling, I like the bowling and golf. It is humbling to get crushed by a seven year old at golf, and humiliated by a 10 year old at bowling. Okay, how can that kid get a strike while pirouetting, then falling down? And how can Calvin ‘hit’ the golf ball as he launched himself across the room to land on one of the comfy chairs? It just ain’t right. Since when is the proper golf swing overhand? Even my Dad, who launched the bowling ball harder than anyone I’ve ever seen, never did it with a side-arm delivery!

I told Calvin that we could go to the local golf course and putt on the practice green. I let him use my putter (it’s shortened considerably from a normal putter), and I used his Dad’s. I walked, he rode his Razer scooter over to the course, chatting about life and golf, talking about the etiquette needed at the course. For example, if we were loud and running around, they may ask us to leave. He was great!

He whacked the ball (kinda like the Wii) but not quite with the same result. He did get the chance to learn how to putt the ball from the fringe. Also, how the ball doesn’t roll straight across a slope. Balls putted down hill don’t seem to slow down much. Uphill putts do.

After about a half hour of hitting the ball around, he wanted to know the ‘par’ on these holes. I told him each flag was Par Two. He bought it.

There were about seven flags on the undulating green. I suggested we each aim at the same flag, and work our way around the green a couple of times. One time I sunk a long putt, 20-25 feet.
Calvin piped up, “My Dad really has a great putter!”

What? Okay. Yup, his dad has a great putter.