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Even Golf 'Experts' Can Learn A Few Things When I started planning this col umn, I had hoped to teach some readers about the language of golf. Like every other sport, golf has its own special jargon and lingo that people outside the sport don't un derstand. 1 was hoping to clear some things up for the people out there who don't know the meaning of the term "golf widow" or don't know the dif ference between a green, greens fee and grccnskceper. 1 planned to write the column for that group of people affectionately known as "golf illiterates." The group includes Susan Usher, who edits the golf roundup 1 write each week and consistently comcs up with questions about best ball, cap tain's choice and Stablcford tourna ment formats. 1 felt qualified to write this col umn bccause I've been playing golf since I was 12 years old. The only reason I didn't start playing before then was bccause the local golf courses wouldn't let anyone play who was under 12. Actually, I dabbled in golf when I was just 10 or 11 years old. I would act innocent at the pro shop and prc .? tend 1 was just going to watch my father, brother and uncle play. I But when we were far enough away from the clubhouse that no body could sec us, 1 would sneak in a few shots. It's hard to believe, but , they never got me for underage golfing. My original plans for this column were shot to pieces when 1 opened up a book we keep in the newsroom called The Language of Sport. Tim Considine wrote the book, which is billed on the front cover as "the ultimate guide to the history, definitions and usage of over 5,000 highly colorful and descriptive words and terms used in baseball, basketball, bowling, boxing, loot ball, golf, hockcy, soccer and ten ? nis." I knew most of the terms and phrases listed in the section on golf. But I quickly learned that even golf : "experts" can learn a few things. For instance, I learned that the term "bandit" refers to a high-handi cap golfer who is able to play much better than his handicap indicates. Golf is supposed to be a gentle A3 Doug ^ Rutter H ? 7W*/ man's game, but there arc people out there who artificially inflate their handicap so they can lake your money. These people also arc called "mug hunters" or "sandbaggcrs." I just call them liars and crooks. A "blacksmith" is a golfer with a rough touch on the putting green. My brother, Jeff, has done his share of blacksmithing on the golf coursc. He can hit the cover off of a golf ball, but get him around the green and it's a lost cause. He might as well be chipping and putting with a Louisville Slugger. Somebody who spends a lot of time in the rough is called a "cab bage pounder." On the other end of the scalc, a good or "lethal" putter is called an "undertaker" because he can "bury" the ball in the hole. 1 was surprised that a few golf terms weren't in the book. I use words like "worm burner" and "lawn mower" to describe shots that roll along the ground at a high rale of speed. Depending on what coursc you're playing, you can also call them "squirrel chascrs." One word in the book that I was very familiar with is gamesmanship. It's defined as "the science and/or practice of causing an opponent to experience confusion, anxiety, the loss of confidence or concentration by one's words and actions before and during a match." Translated, gamesmanship is telling your opponent after three holes that he's playing a lol better than he usually docs. Just pulling that thought in the mind of most people will cause them to play worse. If you were a "golf illiterate" be fore you read this column, I proba bly haven't helped you very much. But if you think you're an expert in something, realize that you can al ways learn more. WE'VE MOVED! 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Such was the view on Easter night this year when the clouds lifted and the moon made a bright night out of what had been a dull gray day. i 1 The waves seem to take on an entirely different life. They move mysteriously in the moonlight as if on another planet and only the constant sound of wash and splash on the sand arc familiar. Light catches in the cresting surf and moves along the waves almost as if neon lights were at work in the water. Reflections bounce from wave to wave and back to us in rhythmic undulations like sheet lightning during a storm. The water seems almost transparent in places, without the familiar blue cast from the daytime sky. KAVER Along the edge some small birds coniinuc their feeding, taking advantage of the extra light to look for food. Willets call loudly at waves coming too closc to them and continue their feeding. There arc no people in sight, no dogs or other animals, and nothing to dis turb the birds. Several pieces of driftwood guard the empty beach like ghostly sentinels, changing shapes as the moon passes overhead. Binoculars reveal they arc not large dead animals or someone sleeping on the beach. Later in the night the light path across the water to the horizon just beyond the moon in the western sky sparkles as it is shaken by the waves. It will soon break up as the moon sets and the dawn of another day begins. The bright night will be forgotten until another full moon and richly illuminated landscape. Bright nights are another one of the many things adding variety and interest to life along the shore. Take the time some full moon to sit out in the moon light and watch the landscape and enjoy seeing the fa miliar beach in a different mood! STAFF PHOTO BY DOUG RUT7ER POSTER CONTEST WINNERS from Shallotte Middle School were (from left) Amanda Chestnut, Ashley Helms and Brandon Benton. Also pictured is principal Mark Owens. CASH AWARDS GIVEN Soil And Wafer Conservation Service Announces Poster Contest Winners Fourteen local students received cash awards recently as winners in the Brunswick County Soil and Water Conservation Service poster, essay and spccch contest. The contest for youths in grades four through eight concluded March 3. Conservation servicc secretary Millie Wilson said individual scho ol winners received S10 each and county winners were awarded S20. Overall county winners in the poster contest were Ashley Helms, fourth grade, Shallotte Middle; Brandon Benton, fifth, Shallotte Middle; and Gary Lewis, sixth. South Brunswick Middle. Crystal Bailcs of Waccamaw Ele mentary School was the county win ner in the sixth-grade essay contest. Both of the county's speech con test winners were from Waccamaw Elementary School. David Bowens won for the seventh grade, and Aimce Duncan was the eighth-grade winner. Ms. Wilson said Bowens went on to win the seventh-grade speech contest at the 14-county district competition March 7. He will com pete in the slate contest May 15 in Raleigh. Individual school winners includ ed Amanda Chcstnul, sixth-grade poster, Shallottc Middle; Donnie Bain, sixth-grade essay. South Brunswick Middle; Amy Long, fourth-grade poster, Waccamaw; Lee Everett Milligan, fifth-grade poster; Waccamaw; and Curtis Stevenson, sixth-grade poster, Waccamaw. School winners from Leland Middle School were Jaqual Willis in the fifth-grade poster contest, Na than Thomas in the sixth-grade poster contest and Ginger Pope in the eighth-grade speech contest. \/A I I can learn I YUU... PAINT or DRAW I ART CLASSES I Beginner, intermediate and advanced | | classes for children and adults. For information call: ofaclcAon cHiuliaa I 754-8002 Boone's Cove Custom Framing & Matting Thank you for a successful first year. To celebrate, we're offering a 20% Discount On Custom Framing Art Supplies ? 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