I saw it Don and it was awesome. A story...
When I joined your club, I think I was 23, just starting to play golf. David was 10. I watched him grow up. I mean, we played all the time. I played with all the young kids. I've played countless rounds with him.
After he got on tour, one time, we were playing and he gave me a putter... a TPM. I played with it for years. He won the World Junior Championship with that putter, so, it was worth like a million dollars to me.
My golf clubs got stolen from my van at my office on Spring street. Immediately, I thought 'Where is the nearest pawn shop?' I went down North Market to the nearest one. I'm not kidding, I spent 15 minutes in there, pleading my case. Maybe something told me to hang around. I guess I hung around long enough. They kept saying they hadn't seen them. Finally, a guy pokes his head out of the back room and says "Again, what color is the bag." I said blue/gray Ping bag. He held them up, said "Is this them?" Yep. Hallelujah.
Prior to this, I kept telling them, "I MUST find these clubs. The hell with the clubs, I just want the putter! Except that the clubs, I'd paid like $1,500 for them.
You know how much the thief got for those $1,500 clubs? $15. FIFTEEN DOLLARS. I paid the $15 and got my clubs.
One day, David called me (years later) and asked if I still had the putter. I said "Yep, I'm looking at it in my bag in the corner of my office." He said "Oh, well, I was going to ask you if you would want to sell it back. Never mind." I said, heck, take it back, period. He was kind of in a putting slump. he came by and I gave it to him. He gave me some other goodies.
Last weekend, they showed his putter and I said "Hey, THERE'S THE PUTTER!" But it wasn't, it was too new. Very similar, though.
Another story... one time, it was David and I and two others... playing best ball against several other matches at your golf course. We shot 20 under in 18 holes. And this was before he got good, he was still in college.
It's really weird to see a world class tour player win and you used to beat his brains out on the golf course. Well, yeah, he was 12 and I was 25 but still...
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Bill