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David Owen's piece on golf dreams hit home with Jamie Thould of Winnepeg. Here's David:

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My friend Jim has a recurring nightmare. "I've had it a bunch of times," he told me recently. "I'm a guest at a very fancy club, the only guest in the foursome. They ask me to tee off. I put my ball on the tee, but when I address it, I'm in the club's grillroom, which is full of people eating and drinking. At the very end of the room, there's a door that opens to the first fairway. I'm supposed to thread my tee shot through all the people and furniture and out that door. When I hesitate, for fear of killing someone, the other three guys and most of the others in the grillroom laugh. I stand there paralyzed, just like [name withheld] with the full-swing yips."

And Jim:

I have had variations on the same dream over the past few years. I thought that I was really losing it until one day I casually described one of these dreams to my regular playing partners and they informed me that they too had experienced this phenomenon. I have since discovered that Alice Cooper has been "tortured" by this dream as well. It would be interesting to hear if there any Tour players out there who have suffered from the same affliction!
Love to hear from more of you on your golf dreams....

--Bob Carney

(Illustration by Lou Beach)

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Davud Owen's piece on golf dreams.

Jim,I once stood novicly paralyzed to say the least from those types of fears: that is the first tee shot!
After have been trained as a child by a frieds dad on weekend in thier back yard for over five years, I got my chance for my first tee off.

I was only ten. With many years of training behind me. Which I always considered childs play, due to being an adolescent.

It was just my friend and I. A ten-year-old and a tweleve-year-old. He was 12 and my coach, his dad was the trainer but not there at the time.

It was the first hole.

Posted by Garyhard February 5, 2008 7:20 AM
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