billr sends this in: “I don’t play golf. Is this supposed to be a pun on “fore”?”
Your editor isn’t a golfer either. How often do players actually yell “Fore”?
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Yes, it’s supposed to be pun on “Fore” – how the tradition began. Of course, the point of yelling Fore is supposed to be to warn someone there’s a golf ball heading their direction, which doesn’t enter in here. I don’t know how often it actually gets used (don’t play golf either).
Husband took golf lessons when he was in high school – per his dad he needed same to work in “business”.
When I was in high school the girl’s gym class learned to play golf – we did not go to a course and played mostly inside the gym – sometimes behind the school. We used doll wigs instead of tees while in the gym.
So we both got older and met and started dating. His family was going to a hotel in “the Catskills” and they invited me to join them. Husband (to be) brought his golf clubs – I think there were/are 5 of them in his bag. We were NOT good players – I would hit the ball very short distances, he would hit longer distances but off from straight along the green. We played the 9 hole course – “no one who is serious about golf will be playing it, so we won’t annoy anyone too much.”
We go to the 7th hole and were still working our way along “playing golf” or whatever it was we managed to do. We each teed off and went to find our balls to continue. We found them and hit them towards the hole. When we go to the hole to take the balls out and go to play the 8th hole – we found that we had hit the balls into 9th hole! :-)
That was the last time we played golf- those decades ago.
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Yes, it’s supposed to be pun on “Fore” – how the tradition began. Of course, the point of yelling Fore is supposed to be to warn someone there’s a golf ball heading their direction, which doesn’t enter in here. I don’t know how often it actually gets used (don’t play golf either).
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I am a novice golfer and I can tell you, on 9 holes this past week, I yelled it twice.
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It has to be better than yelling, “Excuse me, folks, but my golf ball is headed right for your head, so you might want to duck.”
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Targuman –
Husband took golf lessons when he was in high school – per his dad he needed same to work in “business”.
When I was in high school the girl’s gym class learned to play golf – we did not go to a course and played mostly inside the gym – sometimes behind the school. We used doll wigs instead of tees while in the gym.
So we both got older and met and started dating. His family was going to a hotel in “the Catskills” and they invited me to join them. Husband (to be) brought his golf clubs – I think there were/are 5 of them in his bag. We were NOT good players – I would hit the ball very short distances, he would hit longer distances but off from straight along the green. We played the 9 hole course – “no one who is serious about golf will be playing it, so we won’t annoy anyone too much.”
We go to the 7th hole and were still working our way along “playing golf” or whatever it was we managed to do. We each teed off and went to find our balls to continue. We found them and hit them towards the hole. When we go to the hole to take the balls out and go to play the 8th hole – we found that we had hit the balls into 9th hole! :-)
That was the last time we played golf- those decades ago.
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