Fore!

I tried my hand at golf on Friday. Virtual golf, that is.

Pick a course (we chose Hawaii). Select your club (I stuck with the five-iron). Swing at the ball (yes, a real ball). Before you know it, you’ve made a frighteningly loud noise by slamming your golf ball into a vinyl screen on which the course is projected … and your ball goes sailing across the fairway on the screen in front of you. Or, in my case, the ball goes sailing into the lava rock and Pacific Ocean.

Three strokes into the game. Seventy over par. We called it quits after two hours.

And my friends told me I was a natural.

Posted on April 9th, 2001 by Lynsey in lynsey.org