Kitty golf ball carrier

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  Edward, have you ever hit an “albatross”? and do you carry insurance?

  http://www.englishtreejapan.com/Central_Japan_Lifestyle/golf_story.htm

  remora

  remora on May 16th, 2008
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  and for those who are keen on Golf this makes interesting reading as well.

  http://firehillsnews.blogspot.com/2006/04/strange-custom-of-golf-in-japan.html

  rem.

  remora on May 16th, 2008
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  Edward has never hit an albatross, though he did slice one that banged into a chicken coop and prompted the outraged farmer to stand at the fence shaking his hoe and shouting some very creative imprecations. And there was a time when he was commonly referred to as “the pigeon” — but that was before he learned to putt.

  Mr. Pink on May 16th, 2008
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  Who’s a hoe?

  Edward Chmura on May 16th, 2008
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  rem,

  I did have a hole-in-one a few years back and did not have insurance. It ended up costing me a pretty penny.

  After that I started carrying insurance, but have never been close since.

  Edward Chmura on May 16th, 2008
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  Mr.Pink once again you scoop the Japundit Comedy Award fine stuff sir!

  ..it painted a wonderful picture in my minds eye of you and Edward in tartan plus fours and Hello Kitty Putters

  http://www.gonemovies.com/WWW/MyWebFilms/Drama/Mash.htm

  hacking and slicing your way around the back nine..

  That’s made my day

  and Edward, I thought the Albatross Insurance Scheme would only have applied to the Indigenous Golfing Fraternity - but it appears that I’m wrong (like most other things I say).

  Fore!!

  rem.

  remora on May 16th, 2008
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  Hang on, if ‘albatross’ in Japanese golf is a hole-in-one, what do they call a 3-under on a par 5?

  overoften on May 16th, 2008
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  I’m going to take a left turn off the fairway here and into the trees where the weirder and more interesting stuff hides out..such as

  “Religions throughout the world have attached a special significance to cats (is that Hello Kitty?), snakes, and wine. It should surprise no one that a religion now attaches a special significance to golf.

  “Perfect Liberty Kyodan (Kyodan is Japanese for “Church”) is the religion in question. Perfect Liberty (PL) is so enamored with the sport that the religion’s international headquarters, its Holy Land, is surrounded by three golf courses.

  “In fact opponents malevolently branded PL “the golf religion.” To their consternation PL embraced the moniker for several reasons: it creates interest in the religion, the more interest the more members; and the members love golf…”

  (the rest is buried in this article)

  http://www.baseballlibrary.com/columns/column.php?id=38

  the most extraordinary statistic is this bit..

  “PL membership numbers several million worldwide. Members worship in more than 500 churches located on every continent but Africa. Besides Japan, where one out of every 44 citizens is a member, PL has gained significant popularity in California [Editorial Note: why is that not surprising?] and South America (particularly Brazil and Argentina).”

  “one out of every 44 citizens is a member.”!!!

  That’s probably got the Scientologists outnumbered 50-1 and green as golf course with envy.

  WOW!!..I gotta investigate this further

  by the way, it is Japan related,it is about golf, and I maintain that it is fairly on topic (well sort of)

  remora

  remora on May 16th, 2008
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  you know, the more I dig into this Japan Golf thing the more I learn..here’s a bit of history

  “…golf was introduced in Japan during the latter half of the Meiji Period (1868-1912). An English tea merchant founded Kobe Golf Club in 1903 and golf soon became the preferred sport of the Japanese corporate elite. The Japan Golf Association was formed in 1924 and by 1937 Japan had 70 courses. With the start of World War II, the Japanese government declared golf an “enemy” sport and converted many courses into military bases or used them for agricultural purposes.”

  (it starts to kick off half way thru this)

  http://www.whitman.edu/athletics/Spotlight/carlstrom04ts.html

  rem.

  remora on May 16th, 2008
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  Overoften,

  You are correct, of course. A hole-in-one is an eagle. An albatross (or double eagle) is a two on a par five.

  Edward Chmura on May 16th, 2008
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  Everthing you ever wanted to know about golf here…

  Edward Chmura on May 16th, 2008
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  I’ve played a few holes on various courses over the years, where I have awarded myself a self-administered Glesga Kiss for some of the shots I’ve made..so I know where he is coming from.

  and just bye-the-bye the guy whose link I used, firehills, seems to have the whole thing done-and-dusted his life seems to orbit around playing golf,sampling wine and ale and listening to Neil Young….

  I think I better get to know him better - maybe he can give me few pointers on where I’m going wrong (golfwise).

  remora

  remora on May 17th, 2008
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  one last thing- this post hung around gathering dust for five months, it felt like a shame not to use it to generate a bit of conversation about pleasanter things

  remora

  remora on May 17th, 2008

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