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Thursday, May 26, 2011

The "Considini"

Old Irish proverb: For each petal on the shamrock this brings a wish your way. Good health, good luck and ... a "Considini"!
How does one define a "Considini"? Those of us who have been playing golf with the inventor of the "Considini" know it only too well. Bill may have thought that his 165 hybrid eagle on the first hole at Lehinch could have qualified. However, he was under no delusion. You see his well struck ball rolled up the left side up the slope behind the green fell back down onto the green and into the cup.The ball encountered no obstacles on its journey. A perfectly struck ball, it tracked to the hole as if it had eyes. To qualify for a "Considini" at a minimum the ball would have had to bounce over a bunker into a gorse bush only to be expelled by some hidden hand ( maybe a leprechaun ) to the green where it would be redirected on its path and into the hole by a stone left from some previous bunker shot.
Fellow playing partners of our Master of the Considini, you know what I am talking about!
Now, as Thomas Jefferson so wisely said: "I am a great believer in Considini, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." Certainly this is true.
However, Ernest Hemingway also understood "For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good Considini and write better than I can."
We should all be so lucky!

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  2. Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - and listen to the birds...
    Eubie Blake

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