Travis is one of our assistant coaches for the LSU women's basketball program. He is a graduate of tu in Austin, Texas. For those of you unfamiliar with the institution I refer to as tu, its colors are Burnt Orange and its mascot is a bovine named Bevo.
Travis played basketball at tu. Actually he didn't just play - he excelled! He was an All-American in 1990, and was the first player in Southwest Conference history to earn back-to-back Player of the Year honors.
He is the second all-time leading scorer in tu men's basketball history and is the second all-time leading scorer in Southwest Conference history.
He was good - he was REAL good !!
Travis is also an avid golfer. So am I.
Up until yesterday though, Travis and I have never played golf together. Over the past few years there has been a lot of trash talking back and forth among us as to who is the better golfer.
We have failed on several attempts to align our schedules so we could settle this dispute. Yesterday, our schedules finally aligned.
The Challenge was on !!
Carter Plantation, a David Toms golf course in Springfield, Louisiana was the site we chose to settle this long-standing dispute.
Following a quick lunch, Travis and I made our way to the driving range to loosen up and get ready for the match. It was a gorgeous south Louisiana spring day - 80 degrees, low humidity, and a slight breeze blowing out of the south.
An absolutely perfect day for golf !
Now I won't break the entire match down hole-for-hole, but I will tell you that Travis started out double bogey-double bogey-double bogey.
I started out birdie-par-par.
After 3 holes Travis was down 7 shots !
Travis did manage to birdie the par 5 fourth hole, but by the time we made the turn after 9 holes my lead was up to 8.
Unfortunately neither of us played real well on the back side - mainly due to the fact that we found ourselves behind a group of five buffoons - four of whom I believe had never seen a golf course, much less played on one!
It was slow going - we had to wait to hit every single shot on the back nine - sometimes as much as six or seven minutes. For a golfer, that's frustrating.
REAL frustrating.
Travis spent some of those minutes talking on the phone - to recruits, to his head coach, to his sister.
He might should have spent some of those minutes talking to his swing coach or whomever he relies on to help him with his golf game.
I'm just saying....
In all fairness, Travis is a very good golfer. And we had a great time on a beautiful day on the golf course! This time of year there's not much else I'd rather be doing.
When it was all said and done, Travis lost by 8 strokes.
And he knows I won't let him forget it.
EVER!
I'm sure Travis will want a re-match one day soon. And I'll grant him that. After all, we had a really good time playing together.
In addition to learning that I enjoyed playing golf with Travis, I learned something very important yesterday.
Travis can't beat me on the golf course.
EVER!
Until next time...
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