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**trilochana.nejman** · 09-23-2009, 12:07 AM

Here's a distraction that I'll bet no one has ever had (I still laugh about it to this day):

Bethpage State Park is of course more than just golf courses. There are walking and riding trails, picnic areas, ball fields - and a polo field. The polo field was used regularly (I have no idea who actually plays polo anymore) but when the field isn't being used for polo, it's sometimes used for other equestrian events. The 13th tee of the Blue Course is adjacent to the polo field and is separated from it by about 75 yards of wooded area. This provides a visual block, but sounds from the polo field can be heard quite clearly.

One day, I'm in a foursome waiting to tee off on the 13th and over at the polo field, they're having some kind of horse show. Apparently what was taking place at the time was some sort of "dancing horse" event and the musical accompaniment for this event just happened to be "The Liberty Bell March".

Now for those of you who don't know the Liberty Bell March, it is a very bouncy tune written by John Phillip Sousa, but most people who've heard it know it as the theme music for Monty Python's Flying Circus. Anyone who knows Monty Python knows that this tune - this theme - ends with a giant cartoon foot stomping down on something, accompanied by a rather flatulent "Pllllllt" sound.

We begin to tee off, but this song isn't over yet and now I've got it in my head and knowing that it basically ends on a fart, there is no way that I'm going to be able to tee off until it's over. The three guys in my group all tee off and now they're waiting for me. The song in the background has at least another thirty or forty seconds left to it and although I know that they're not going to end it on a "fart" at the horse show, it's going to end that way in my mind.

Have you ever tried to waste forty seconds on a tee?

It's not easy. I think I checked to see if my shoe was tied, pretended not to have a tee, made five or ten practice swings and didn't step up to the ball until I knew that there was less than ten seconds left to the song and I stood there, staring at my golf ball until my mind got to the "fart" at its end and then I just smiled to myself, relaxed, and hit my tee shot.

You can't make this stuff up.

-JP

09-23-2009, 12:07 AM	#11
trilochana.nejman Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 578 Senior Member	Here's a distraction that I'll bet no one has ever had (I still laugh about it to this day): Bethpage State Park is of course more than just golf courses. There are walking and riding trails, picnic areas, ball fields - and a polo field. The polo field was used regularly (I have no idea who actually plays polo anymore) but when the field isn't being used for polo, it's sometimes used for other equestrian events. The 13th tee of the Blue Course is adjacent to the polo field and is separated from it by about 75 yards of wooded area. This provides a visual block, but sounds from the polo field can be heard quite clearly. One day, I'm in a foursome waiting to tee off on the 13th and over at the polo field, they're having some kind of horse show. Apparently what was taking place at the time was some sort of "dancing horse" event and the musical accompaniment for this event just happened to be "The Liberty Bell March". Now for those of you who don't know the Liberty Bell March, it is a very bouncy tune written by John Phillip Sousa, but most people who've heard it know it as the theme music for Monty Python's Flying Circus. Anyone who knows Monty Python knows that this tune - this theme - ends with a giant cartoon foot stomping down on something, accompanied by a rather flatulent "Pllllllt" sound. We begin to tee off, but this song isn't over yet and now I've got it in my head and knowing that it basically ends on a fart, there is no way that I'm going to be able to tee off until it's over. The three guys in my group all tee off and now they're waiting for me. The song in the background has at least another thirty or forty seconds left to it and although I know that they're not going to end it on a "fart" at the horse show, it's going to end that way in my mind. Have you ever tried to waste forty seconds on a tee? It's not easy. I think I checked to see if my shoe was tied, pretended not to have a tee, made five or ten practice swings and didn't step up to the ball until I knew that there was less than ten seconds left to the song and I stood there, staring at my golf ball until my mind got to the "fart" at its end and then I just smiled to myself, relaxed, and hit my tee shot. You can't make this stuff up. -JP
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