Thursday, July 11, 2019

From The Golf Archives-When Lex Armour Learned To Be A Champion




From The Golf Archives-When Lex Armour Learned To Be A Champion

By Seth Garth

Recently I did an unusual for me “slice of life” profile about some scumbag golfer who though by sandbagging, essentially cheating on his accumulated scores so he could win five dollars from his weekend partners and eventually against champion Lex Armour who took him down about twelve pegs, assuming that he could beat a very good champion-level  golfer by trickery. Naturally the bum of the month, this slimy Sandbagger Johnson, got his comeuppance and lost some serious money for his efforts.

As beautiful fate, courtesy of the three sisters, would have it the champion, Lex Armour, who I notice is now starting to make a name for himself from what avid golfer Sam Lowell tells me in advanced circles was staying for an extra day where he had beaten this holy goof named, rightly named, now that I know why, Sandbagger Johnson. Sandbagger, still smarting from his previous day’s lost would not leave well enough alone and challenged Lex to a match- stroke play match they call it for the twelve hundred dollars he had lost the previous day. This stroke play business is counting each person’s score, figuring in the handicap, Lex, zero, Sandbagger twenty-two and whoever is lowest wins. Lex, as always, said “bet.”               

Since only about three or four people under forty or so know about golf I had taken the liberty in that previous article to, via Sam’s direction, explain what is going on in this mad monk game. And explain why in the end, now that Lex has won yet again against the miserable cur Johnson why beating some backwoods farmer taught him more about how to be a champion than say beating a real deal champion like Tiger Woods or Jeff Logan. It is about grace under pressure and about not feeling sorry for some stew-ball who thought he could cheat his way to the top without anybody noticing. Jesus, what a way for some Farmer Brown to learn a lesson.    


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