Saturday, March 28, 2020

Minnesota golfers as selfish and stupid as Spring Break students.

The Guardian: The spring breakers now regret partying.
...the University of Tampa has confirmed that at least five of those [Spring break] students have tested positive [for Covid-19].
KSTPPetition to keep golf courses open during stay at home order gains thousands of signatures.
Most golf courses are closed as part of the stay at home order, but many Minnesotans argue it's an activity that should be allowed.
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[John] Potter is the director of instruction at Prestwick Golf Club in Woodbury. He started a petition to open courses during this order, and it generated about 15,000 signatures in less than two days.
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"With this virus going around we can obviously maintain safe distances, where I hit the ball, especially, no one goes," [said said Tom Moore, who lives in Woodbury.]
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Potter hopes the voices of the golfers are heard.

"There's no reason to be closed, let's get it open," Potter said.
The preferred golf ball of PGA champions.

I really don't see why golf courses can't be open (with some restrictions for indoor areas), but that won't stop me from playing Devil's Advocate.

We can reach at least two reasonable conclusions:

1) Mr. Potter has a vested financial interest in petitioning against Minnesota's  "shelter-in-place" order issued by DEM Gov. Timmy "Ham-Head" Walz.

2) Mr. Moore can't golf worth a shit and his ball ends up in the rough more times than not.

Golf, cough, sneeze, get Covid-19 and please...drop dead anywhere other than on the green or you'll delay the golfers playing the hole behind you.

Your corpse in a bunker or sand trap would be nice. At least some golfer might be able to bounce their shot of your bloated body and onto the green instead of chipping out.

Just a reminder in this Chinese Wuhan Corona Virus pandemic...Wash your balls. Golf balls.

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