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challenging tropical Scottish links course with big chin down, swing your hips and arms this way –
undulating greens and some holes overlooking it was endless. I swatted at the ball and hit only
the Atlantic. At the top of the highest hill, we got grounders, but then suddenly I popped one up
out of the cart and stood above the Atlantic whose in the air and it made a perfect THWACK. I finally
pounding surf ripped at the rocks below. understood the golf addiction. Later, I learned that
I hadn’t planned on taking a golf lesson, but I most players don’t hear that sound on every shot.
really wanted to know why so many of my friends Still, I made myself promise not to get hooked
are so hooked on golf, so Brian stopped at the golf because I will not let a little white ball dictate my
shop, picked up clubs, and drove me to the practice mood.
green. Learning to swing was almost impossible. The next day, even though I planned to do noth-
How was I to remember everything: put your feet ing, I joined a day tour on the resort’s 50-foot Palm
this distance apart, stay on your heels, keep your Beach Yacht. Why not see more of the island? The

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