One of the beauties of golf is that every round is different. No matter how many times I play a course, no two shots will ever be the same. The position of the ball, the position of the pin, and the course conditions will always make for a different shot.
It’s a fantastic part of the game.
Add to this the changing of the seasons, the sunrises and sunsets, the endlessly variable bounces of the ball, and the friends who walk alongside me, and every time I play, it is a unique experience.
Then there are the deer, coyotes, hawks, foxes, and other fauna occasionally gracing the fairway.
It’s always an adventure.
This past weekend, while playing with a friend in Rhode Island, we looked down the first fairway and spotted an object near the hole.
“Is that an animal?” I asked.
We proffered guesses as we made our way toward the green.
“A rodent of some kind?”
“A hunk of tree?”
” A top of an enormous boulder, poking out above the grass?”
Nope. It was a snapping turtle, making its way across the fairway, camouflaged, probably not intentionally, in a collection of autumn leaves.
Basically a dinosaur.
It wasn’t the first snapping turtle I’d ever seen while playing golf, but it was the first I’d seen outside the water.
No two rounds of golf are ever the same.
