Golf Tales Volume I
By RJ Smiley
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Volume I of Golf Tales contains "nice guy" story about Terrible Tommy Bolt and a tale about a broker who gets the "shits" on the golf course. In addition this volume contains a wonderful story of a young caddy's first adrenaline rush while caddying for his father in a big championship.
RJ Smiley
Spawned from a family of story tellers, Smiley's keen eye and quick wit give his readers a unique look at characters and the critters who inhabit a golf course. Spending over 7,000 days at the golf course, Smiley has seen, done and heard it all.
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Golf Tales Volume I - RJ Smiley
01/04/2014 13:42:00
GOLF TALES
Volume I
By RJ Smiley
Copyright 2013 RJ Smiley
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Table of Contents
Introduction
The Most Beautiful Trophy
Wile E Coyote
Battle of Dinosaurs
My Round With Tom Lehman
Señor Alligator
Frog on His Ball
Hawk Dive-Bombed Reunion
Terrible Tommy Bolt
Golf Towel for TP
Rabbit Chasing the Snake
About the Author
Other Books by RJ Smiley
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Introduction
Golfers love to share golf stories!
RJ Smiley, who has spent over 7,000 days at the golf course, has been collecting.... and telling golf stories his entire life. The individual stories in all volumes of Golf Tales were written by RJ Smiley. However, many of the story Ideas come from fellow golfers from around the world. Varying degrees of poetic license have been used in telling the stories where some names and golf course locations have been changed.
If you have a favorite golf tale that you would like to share with the world wide fraternity of fellow golfers, please submit the story idea along with details to par4golftales@gmail.com. The golfer who submits story ideas will receive recognition for the story. No compensation or commission will be paid for any story idea used in future volumes of Golf Tales. Once published, Golf Tales retains all copyrights to the story.
Certain stories in various volumes of Golf Tales are reprinted with permission from Tee Times Press, Inc. (teetimespress.com).
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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL TROPHY
I first felt the surge of competitive juices,
that sport induced adrenalin rush, while caddying for my dad, Big John as he was known, in the final nine holes of the 1952 Southwest Kansas Sand Green Golf Championship.
Sand Green Golf, the poor step-child to the game we watch on television, represents a mid-point somewhere between the early sea-side golf played on sheep pastures, and the lush manicured oasis that we call golf courses today.
The Championship venue was Fort Hays Country Club in Hays, Kansas, a wind-swept, hill-top, 9-hole golf course built on the of historic grounds of old Fort Hays. It may have been sand a green golf course, on a historic blood soaked battle ground,