This is my essay.








The hot summer has gone and cool autumn has come. On the other day, I went for playing golf with my son. He has just graduated from a law school and got the master's degree. This is a kind of congratulation golf to him, because he is just passing the lawyer's test.

This is the second golf play for him. And I have not played golf for the last 10 years. So we went for practicing at a golf range. At first I showed him a model swing. Then I hit some balls using short irons. Although I felt a dull pain on my left hand, but the balls flew straightly. Well I was satisfied. Next, my son hit the ball. Oh! It was good. At least it flew straightly. Not so bad it was! Then I hit the ball by a driver. Oh! No good! The ball flew just like a screw. It means that my ball went to mostly left hand side. Well I reminded of my young days. When I just started playing golf, my ball flew just like this. Well, my skill went back to old days. I thought in my mind, "My best half score was 38. How come my present ball is like this! I can't believe by myself." It is because of ten years' blank. As for my son, he hit the ball quite well. Of course some of the ball went to left and right. However other balls went straightly. I wanted to learn from him.

The Golf Club was located at Chiba Prefecture. As it is far away from the center of Tokyo, we had to start from our house at 5:35am. We had to get up early, which is very bad point to play golf in Japan. We arrived at the Golf Club. I think it is very gorgeous club. It might be the building of the Bubble economy of 15 years ago. We started from the IN course. I was surprised to see the strange statutes of three kinds of human being's face. The top face looked like the face of Mr. Shigeru Yoshida, who was the late Prime Minister. The middle face was just like a happy Buddha and the bottom face was like a small Demon, who was depressed by God. I haven't seen such strange faces.

As we had a time to start, I took some photos of my son. He showed me a very good smiling face. Apart from the status of his father, I dare to say that he has grown up a very nice young man. Since his oversea study in the U.S.A., his physique has become like an American, having wide shoulders and strong neck. Still he has a Japanese sensitive, brave, devoting and honest mind. And that he got the degrees of Master and Doctor. From now on, I hope he can build up his own good career and become happily. Thinking like this, it was the time for start.

At the first hole, my son hit the ball into the banker and had a trouble to go out. My score was not so bad, and then I commented how to tackle with the banker. At the next hole, to the contrary, I had a trouble. My driver shot went to the left and my ball was lost. His score was better than I. After a few holes, we arrived at the hole, which was guarded by the pond. Three sides of the green were water. I hit the ball to the safe side. But I didn't see where my ball was. My son hit the ball and shouted that it went to the left, which was directed to water. We thought that my ball was just before the green and his ball was in the water. However when we approached to the green, we found that both of the balls were on the green. We were so happy. In the case of my ball, it was 15 yards to the cup. His ball was 20 yards. He pats it firstly, but it was too short. Then I pat the ball strongly. It was just near to the cup, which was only one yard. I got a par score. However he pats another two. He missed the par. Well, this is the difference of the career as a golfer.

Next par four hole, both of us passed through different sides of the fairway. As my ball left 100 yards, I hit it by nine iron and it was on the green. As I watched my son, he left 50 yards to the green and hit it. Surprisingly his ball went to the cup and only a few yards left. He shouted as nice! Well, it was a very wonderful shot.

We came to the next par four hole. We looked each other, because a big valley lied before the fairway. We had to hit the ball at least 160 yards. Miss shot was not allowed. I swung the driver and I heard a sound that the ball hit on the cart road. I thought it was safe. My son hit his ball and it was very nice shot. The ball flow to the sky straightly. We rode on the electric cart under the strong rainfall. I found that my ball was on the green. But I found that there was a big banker before the mountain green. As I made a miss shot and it didn't go so much. My son hit the ball and it straightly flew to the banker. He made a sigh. My ball scarcely was on the green but he had a difficulty to hit the ball from the banker.

When we reached to the final hole, we were surprised to see the fairway, because there was a big pond in front of us. As the location of the pond was distorted, if my ball went to the right hand side, it would go into the pond. However the left and side are safe. Luckily my ball went to the safe side. My son's ball went to the right side and disappeared.

We reached to the Club House and whole our cloths were wet, because of rain. After the lunch, we were the OUT starting hole. There were no statutes. At the par three hole, we noticed that there was a big pond in front of us. I hit the ball strongly; however it was too short and went into the pond. Also my son's ball couldn't across the bank of the pond. The last hole was also guarded by the pond. His ball flew in a good course, but it was a bit short to across. As my shot was mistake, my ball didn't fly nicely and trapped by the water. Anyway we were bothered by the water quite often on this day. After the play I found that my score was only 4 strokes smaller than my son's one. I thought I should make a practice much more.

Although it was a rainy day, I had a very good time with him on the beautiful green.


(September 21, 2006)




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