Once again, the US Open (not really; the PGA) is being played here in Minnesota. After two days of play, it looks like Tiger is going to win, but one never knows in this crazy game...
Yeah, one knows. It's gonna be Tiger. (exept it turned out to be Y.E. Yang. And good for him.) (Okay. I'll stop George Lucasing now.)
I don't care about the tourney, it's just funny to me that my
Dad can't stay out of the news.
He didn't tell any of us that he was going to be on the other night because he didn't know. When MJ told him she saw him on tv the other day at lunch, he laughed and told us yet another tidbit of his life in the fast lane.
Early in his career, he had the privilege of interviewing Bobby Jones. That part we all knew, as we had all seen his autographed copy of Jones' biography. What we'd never heard was that Dad had a golf buddy who was a very good golfer and in fact had won the Minnesota State Amateur championship and thought quite highly of himself. This guy had an opportunity to go south and play in a tournament sponsored by Jones. When he met the legend, he introduced himself and said he was from St.Paul.
"St. Paul?" Bobby Jones said "Do you know my good friend, John Hubbell?"
When Dad's buddy came back to town he told Dad "I was never really impressed with you before, but now I am."
Dad told us that tale and laughed so hard I thought we were going to have to perform CPR on him. He has a history of laughing himself unconscious.
No, wait! It wasn't the Bobby Jones story but a
different one that made him laugh that hard!
I don't remember the details but it involved Dad being dropped off by his brother, a navy pilot, into a military base, Dad was on his way to do an interview and Wood was flying by the neighborhood, so...
Imagine you're the gate guard at a military installation and a guy in a suit with a briefcase comes marching up to you from
inside the base. You have no record of him entering and when you ask him how he got in he says "I flew in." The other guard turns to you and says "He says he
flew in."
That's when Dad laughed so hard he almost passed out.
