ESPN’s ‘Where It Lies’ is about the soul of public golf
Public golf remains a special thing
MONTREAL, QUEBEC - SEPTEMBER 28: A general view of the flag on the third green during Saturday Morning Four-Ball on day three of the 2024 Presidents Cup at The Royal Montreal Golf Club on September 28, 2024 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images) | Getty Images Nobody gets it like you do.
They don’t understand how big of a deal it was when the club championship had to be delayed for rain. All of that waiting in the clubhouse and how the leak in the roof required everyone to come together. The jokes and laughs that were shared in the process.
You have to call in the food you want at the turn after only three holes. Things get backed up and if you don’t give it enough time you’ll go hungry. You have to order after your first tee shot on Thursdays when the restaurant is running specials, at that.
Only you and your closest friends know about how you had the scramble match of your lives that went into dusk in the summer of 2010. It has been a decade and a half, but the group text never lets anyone forget. The point here is that nobody gets it like you do, nobody gets your home course, your public course, like you do.