Almanac Golf: Dream Holes

 

From Fyodor Dogski, 1999. Golfing and the Third Eye Volume 2

 

Before you nod off, recall your favourite first hole and play it in your mind.   The air is crisp and the sky is blue and your tee shot sails far away toward the oak tree.   As you approach, see your bright white ball sitting high on the mown grass in the shade of the oak’s grand canopy.   Now notice that further in, closer to the trunk, your clairvoyant caddy has unraveled a foldable short-legged drinks table and prepared a single gin and tonic on ice.   For you.   Take a sip and imagine your second shot.   Take the shot.   See it fly over the fairway bunker onto the bank at the back of the green.   Take another sip and look up to notice your ball has turned itself toward the flag.   You make a firm putt that sends your ball to within an inch of the hole then you tap it in with one hand for a par.

 

Move onto the next.    Don’t walk there.   Arrive.   Dreams don’t need walking.   See the fairway in front of you.   It’s a par 3 of 150 metres across a valley.   There’s a slight headwind.   Take an eight iron and send your ball high. Watch it land with a skip and hop in the middle of the green.   Sink the putt for a birdie.   Remind yourself that this has all happened before.   You are dreaming your life.   A par, a birdie, another par, another birdie.   Your life is all threes and fours.   It’s the natural order.   In this dream, even if you shank one it hits a tree and bounces back to the middle.   Fluff your pillow.    You have all night.   Morning can wait.

 

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