From the Rough: Tee time

Clive has just completed an exhaustive winter audit of his golf equipment and discovered some very interesting facts about his stock of golf tees

Because it was very wet and windy last week, instead of playing golf I stayed at home and sorted through my golf equipment in what was something of an annual stocktaking exercise.

I emptied my golf bag and a couple of drawers where I keep my golf gear, and noted down what I have. Not only that, but I broke everything down into categories. For example, I have 188 golf balls, of which 38 are brand new, 74 are okay, 30 are just about usable and 46 are only good enough for practice. Interestingly, I have five pitch repairers and 12 ball markers.

Tees provided a particularly fascinating area of study. Would you believe that I have 492 tees; of which 98 are red, 54 are blue, 78 are yellow, 146 are white and 19 are green? The balance are a mix of colours that I wasn?t able to sort out because my wife came into the room, looked at me, shook her head and said, ?Very sad,? before leaving.

I stopped what I was doing and suddenly panicked. Was I indeed behaving strangely? Then it struck me ? of course I was. What on earth was I doing sorting the tee pegs by colour when the only thing that matters is size? Now I have them neatly in jars according to their length ? short, medium and long. No wonder she thought I was crazy!

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