Bits & Pieces

By Kim J. Harmon

 

For anyone keeping an eye on my golf game (I know I’m not), I carded a 99 on the Tunxis Plantation Green Course last Sunday … an 11-stroke improvement over my opening round of the 2003 season. Not bad, but the thing that rankles me is that I should have shot a 93 or 94 and not paid out the $2.

At any rate, while we were carving up the course (sometimes literally) my brothers and I started coming up with the phrases you don’t want to hear on a golf course (especially since we hear them all too often):

Uh-oh

Whoops

We’ll find that

Keep an eye on that

Fore!

I heard lumber

You’re still away

Nope – it’s still there

I can still get home from there

Is that good for an 8?

Got any more?

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On another golf course – Gainfield Farms in Southbury – Newtown High School senior Mike Troy carded his first-ever hole-in-one. Troy, the No. 1 golfer on the NHS team, was playing with his brother, Kevin, and used a lob wedge on the 90-yard, 7th hole for the ace.

Now, Mike is a heck of a golfer. It only seems natural for him to get a hole in one. And probably more than one, too.

Not me. I was playing the worst round of my life when I got my hole in one and wasn’t playing all that well when I came within two inches of getting another one last year.

My father got his hole in one by banging the ball off a tree.

My uncle got one of his holes-in-one after skulling his tee shot and rolling the ball up to the green.

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Listen, it was not Pete Rose barreling into Ray Fosse, but Brittany Hutchison of Newtown and Brooke Larsen of Masuk still had a pretty nice collision at home plate on Friday.

Hutchison had tripled in a run and was attempting to score on a sacrifice fly by Caitlyn Elf. The throw beat her to the plate and Larsen had control, but Hutchison slid in low, into Larsen’s legs, and the ball popped out of the glove. And while Kelly Larsen, the pitcher, scrambled to pick up the loose ball Hutchison had to crawl over the catcher to touch the plate before getting tagged out.

A thrilling play.

Too bad it got buried in a 5-4 loss.

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It amazes me that Masuk still plays softball on that field.

I mean, it is kept in pretty good condition and all, but it goes UP HILL. It may be a matter of perspective, but the angle seems really steep. You never have to wonder why kids seem to run so slow from home to first and so fast from second to third.

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Talk about perspective -

After watching a few innings of the Newtown-Masuk softball game, I headed down the hill to see the Newtown-Masuk baseball game and I see this kid from Masuk cream one pitch and I’m thinking - WOW, he got all of that.

And then I see the centerfielder running IN to catch the ball.

That was weird.