The Late-Season-Golf Problem, in Diagram Form

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http://circleplastics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/ubh/up.php Several years ago, I played a few rounds in northern Scotland in December. The sun began setting almost as soon as it had risen, and even at noon it practically sat on the horizon. The late-season golf window here in Connecticut isn’t as narrow, but you have to pay attention. Five of us teed off at 1:00 this afternoon. We played in just over three hours, but by the end I was having trouble following drives. Mornings are tough, too:

Rick, November sun, Sunday morning, seventeenth hole.

Last week, I spent a couple of days in Kansas City without my golf clubs. My mother told me about a local country club, which a few years ago assessed its members for major improvements to the golf course. The assessment was substantial, and quite a few members left the club rather than pay it. Four of my mother’s friends went to the club one day for their regular bridge game, and when lunch was over they discovered that none of them could sign the check. All four, it turned out, had dropped their membership without telling the others.

Stanley on the second tee last Sunday, with his Crocodile Dundee hat (bought on eBay) and late-season club-carrier thing.

2 thoughts on “The Late-Season-Golf Problem, in Diagram Form

  1. Your Venn Diagram doesn’t make sense. Shouldn’t “golf?” appear in the part of the rectangle where both “frost delay” and “total darkness” are absent? You have “golf?” in the part where they overlap, implying that only if we have both a frost delay and total darkness, is golf a possiblity.

  2. That’s why there’s a question mark. The annoying thing about the end of the year is that you can wait and wait for the frost to melt and then, just before it finally does, the sun goes down. (The white part of my chart is Florida.)

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