Playing with the Giants

BIG LEAGUE GOLF

I have always harbored a secret dream of matching up with the major players in any given sport. Intially, the dream took the form of playing shortstop with the Yankees, and that may still happen if I can ever save up enough money to make it to a fantasy camp with the Bombers. I suspect everyone would like to rub elbows with famous people from time to time. While I will never get the opportunity to play golf with Tiger Woods, I DID recently get to play "Tiger Woods Golf 2008" on a Wii system with real giants...golfers were at leat nine feet tall, as one can tell from the illustrations.

The occasion was a visit to my son's house in Pittsburgh. He and his neighbors decided that outdoor Wii was more fun than the living room version, so with the help of a projector and the side of Blaine's house as a screen, we spent most of one night hooting and hollering as we hit great (and disatrous) shots magnified by the sheer size of the house-as-a-screen.

Beer flowed rather freely, and, at some point, chips, hot dogs and brats were served, so the matches went on until the wee hours of the morning. There was no neighbor to complain since all of them were part of the action. Much hilarity ensued, but as the temperature dropped into the upper 40's, enthusiasm for a continuance of play waned...by 3 a.m. all had departed the nineteenth hole for home.

The only difficult part was getting up by 8 a.m. to continue the landscaping project we had begun earlier in the day. Playing with giants was a LOT more fun than trying to dig 35 holes in hard clay...with no beer and brats in sight.

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