ARGOS IT ?..
Our Golf Correspondent reports
It`s been over three months now since I last reported on Snopper`s golfing world. At that time, in late August, he had just recorded his second ever birdie and so it has perhaps been surprising that we haven`t heard more of his exploits since.
When I caught up with him to ask how his game was going, he said that he would have found it difficult to better that performance on that sunlit August day and so he has been engaged in other activities since. When quizzed as to what these might have been, he confessed to another holiday in Cornwall, the onset of the football season, family matters extending to the arrival of another grandchild but also to some difficulty in maintaining his golf equipment.
He has kept in touch with golf through his annual scavenging of local courses in the quest to stock up on his reserves of golf balls but he has so far declined to pick up a club in anger. But, with Christmas just 18 days away, Snopper thinks this might be the chance to put some of his eccentric equipment to right. Now, he is one of those rare people who seem to want nothing but need quite a lot and one of the things he needs is a new golf trolley.
The one he has been hauling around the course for the past, oh I would guess, 30 years was bought by Mrs. Snopper from Woolworths as a birthday present all those years ago. It`s done well, but in recent years has developed an annoying fault, namely, that the wheels keep falling off. In many ways, this problem mirrors that of Snopper`s golf, the wheels of which fall off with predictable regularity.
Having already invested in a golf bag from the Argos catalogue earlier this year, Snopper is reluctant to shell out even more wonga on a new trolley. But Christmas is around the corner and the lure of the Argos catalogue burns brightly once more with a seduction that may be hard to resist if he is to resume his endless battle with the Royal and Ancient game. As you can see from the picture above, he is at least making a determined effort at hint dropping and in 18 days time, we will know if it has worked.
When I caught up with him to ask how his game was going, he said that he would have found it difficult to better that performance on that sunlit August day and so he has been engaged in other activities since. When quizzed as to what these might have been, he confessed to another holiday in Cornwall, the onset of the football season, family matters extending to the arrival of another grandchild but also to some difficulty in maintaining his golf equipment.
He has kept in touch with golf through his annual scavenging of local courses in the quest to stock up on his reserves of golf balls but he has so far declined to pick up a club in anger. But, with Christmas just 18 days away, Snopper thinks this might be the chance to put some of his eccentric equipment to right. Now, he is one of those rare people who seem to want nothing but need quite a lot and one of the things he needs is a new golf trolley.
The one he has been hauling around the course for the past, oh I would guess, 30 years was bought by Mrs. Snopper from Woolworths as a birthday present all those years ago. It`s done well, but in recent years has developed an annoying fault, namely, that the wheels keep falling off. In many ways, this problem mirrors that of Snopper`s golf, the wheels of which fall off with predictable regularity.
Having already invested in a golf bag from the Argos catalogue earlier this year, Snopper is reluctant to shell out even more wonga on a new trolley. But Christmas is around the corner and the lure of the Argos catalogue burns brightly once more with a seduction that may be hard to resist if he is to resume his endless battle with the Royal and Ancient game. As you can see from the picture above, he is at least making a determined effort at hint dropping and in 18 days time, we will know if it has worked.
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