Boxing Kangaroos.

[StevOz]

Just another day at the office and few shots of a couple of young bucks having a practice match up for when they get bigger!

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Well! That's something I never saw on a Kansas golf course... and I spent a lot of time in the "outback" looking for my drives! Are the Roos ball-stealers?

 

[StevOz]

Actually we have a local rule here, if your shot hit's a kangaroo on the fairway you're playing you can elect to replay the shot without penalty.

I know that might sound harsh, though it happens rarely even when there can be mobs of 30 or more within range, that said they are really tough I've seen a few hit by a golf ball that would have seriously dropped a person and usually they don't even flinch much at all.

Oh, ball stealer's, that's another local rule if you actually see a crow or a kookaburra, steal your ball you can take a drop at the point of theft without penalty, they can assume it to be a fallen egg, though this does not happen often, maybe 4 years ago was the last time one of mine was stolen.

 

[LeeVanCleef]

LOL! Yep, those are not typical USGA rules. I saw a family of possums once while playing Clapp golf course! That was... that was real... oh, who am I kidding? My story sucks. So does Kansas. On the plus side, it does have a golf course called "Clapp".
i figured the roos would go after the balls, as well. They seem to be pretty inquisitive creatures. I would hope that they can't track back the errant balls to whoever hit them. I would not want a golf-ball-hit pissed-off kangaroo chasing me down! Well... "chase" being a relative term, since it'd take a kangaroo a literal hop, skip and a jump to clear the 200 yards between my ball and my eventual demise.

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Clapp Golf Course definitely has a special place in my heart. It was only about a mile away from the house I grew up in. As a child I used it as everything but a golf course, mostly as a really good bike short-cut to the mall, which didn't much please the local duffers. As an adult, it's where I scattered my father's ashes.
But it was this time of year that made Clapp an indelible memory. It ceased being a "golf course" and became an "endurance test". When I played it in the '80s it was before fancy-pants innovations like "in-ground sprinkler systems." The fairway on the par-5 17th had been baking under 90-plus degree heat for at least six weeks, leaving the grass drained of even the barest hint of green and the topsoil little more than powdery concrete. Add that to the fact that the hole was located right next to a fairly busy city street and the carbon monoxide layering the stifling air wouldn't be sitting too well with that warm Coors you took out of the bag and downed between 11 and 12. Ah, but I don't think there was a more welcome sight than the "19th hole" clubhouse and few ice-cold beers tasted better than that one. Especially since that clubhouse was built in the mid '70s and would forever after be referred to as "the new clubhouse" by the male members of my clan. It was made with warm, disco-era wood-paneled walls and a polished stone floor that echoed the clacking percussion of metal cleats . It was like spending an afternoon on a stroll through hell and then having a cold one in the Brady Bunch den.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/L...1s0x87bae4a398006d91:0x9b91b1ac80c7194d?hl=en

 

[StevOz]

Looks like a nice golf course not to sure about the name, as for water it's still a problem here and our course is pretty much a winter course.

Golf is just part of the Country Club, I'm the odd jobs man, mow the croquet courts and maintain the club house surrounds as well as work on the course.

http://dunsboroughcountryclub.org.au/

 

[sleepy]

That is some mighty fine writing Bill. Very tasty. :)

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Aw, thanks, Arne! Man, that is one gorgeous course, Steve! What I don't get is why you're not a pro. You've got a handicap that most golfers would give their left pinkie for (because that wouldn't screw up the grip as much as losing the right pinkie).

 

[StevOz]

Meh...a 13 handicap is rather weak and nothing near scratch play the best I've ever done is 3 over the card @ 75, you can view my recorded golf history here...

http://www.golflink.com.au/handicap-history/?golflink_No=6680700001

I have an eagle on a par 5, down in 3 and a hole in 1 on a par 3, so at least that's two off the bucket list. :)