You the reader can draw your own conclusions about your humble blogger's writing ability. What is not subject to dispute, however, is said HB's typing ability (or, more accurately, lack thereof). My fingers skim the keyboard with all the grace that I imagine Charles Barkley would bring to a performance of Swan Lake, though without the comic genius.
What elicits this soul-searing confession? Shackelford has a post up this morning featuring a couple of fun, golf-related typos, the best of which is alarmingly similar to one of my own contributions to the genre.
Taking them in reverse order, we'll start with Nancy Thomason's account of the Symetra Tour's (that's the ladies' development tour) local event from the Charlotte Observer. Apparently the course is playing exceptionally long this year:
The grounds crew at Raintree has been working nonstop to get the course ready for the 54-hole tournament. Fresina said it will not be the same course the members play. Marked by the LPGA, it will be 63,000-65,000 yards of narrow fairways.
OK, that's modestly amusing to a golfer. Thomason's bio says she's a freelancer, so she may not be particularly familiar with our game, and we here at Unplayable Lies only throw the first stone at those that have been, you know, begging for it.
But the second immediately ascends to the Mount Rushmore of typos. This was tweeted by Greg Machtaler from The Okanagan:
Been there, done that. In this case, someone simply hit the wrong vowel key (Vanna, I'd like to buy a different vowel!), very understandable given that the "i" and "o" are neighbors on the keyboard.
In my case, it was a misplaced space. I was writing my after-action report the Monday after the Masters, and offered the insight that most players hit three-woods off the 13th tee. Well, turns out that the space between "players" and "hit" was instead mistakenly inserted before the "s." Good friend Mark W. comes running into my office shortly after posting, barking at me that there's a million typos in the piece, but one requiring immediate attention. True that!
Unplayable Lies - Come for the profound golf insights, stay for the scatalogical typos!
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