Some strange things are found along the beach's tide marks, but nothing quite as fascinating as this.
It could even change sports history - all depends on how long it took those coral wrigglies to solidify around a golf ball.
I've always understood it takes hundreds of years for the tiny polyps to form into a rock.
If that holds true then we may have proof here that golf was not invented in Scotland, as widely believed, but here on Yoron island.
That would send shivers
through a few sporrans.
through a few sporrans.
It would also put our little nine-holer on the map, maybe even on the pro circuit?
But then we'd have all those fancy rules, and I doubt the club champ would want
to play in any footwear other than his flip-flops.
Dear Ivan,
ReplyDeleteYou probably were the person standing in your perfectly manicured garden hitting golfballs across the rocks into the ocean to retrieve them next morning from the beach below? Or am I mistaken? Probably safer not to state that golf might have been invented on Yoron, if ever you want to keep your British passport ... Golfing is much the same as flyfishing really, or at least the people involved are much the same. Golfers and flyfishers believe both that their sport is or should have been invented in the UK. they both believe their sport is some sort of an art form in which obviously they excell, especially when performing their noble art form ... alone. Neither wants or accepts any change (especially Tenkara). Really strange dress codes apply to both sports. Tweed and ties in Scotland to stand upto the waist in a river... weird coloured shoes for golf all over the world. A bar, beer, a brandy is never far away from both 'playgrounds', making it possible to play golf or flyfish till very late into the night. Last but not least, both know that anyone between 6 and 96,5 years of age, can can 'participate' in the sport, but excellence is only achieved at your age for golf and mine for flyfishing! Your entry in this blog reminds me that someone in the UK, after the Olympics claimed that ping pong was invented in ... the UK?
All the best,
J.J.