Working all summer at a small public golf course had given me a new perspective on the game. Golfers head out on the course with a supply of beer in their bags or in a cooler in their cart.  Often that isn’t enough and they run into the clubhouse or buy more from the beverage cart that cruises the course on weekends.  Right along with the consumption of quantities of beer comes gambling. Bets are made on everything involved with the game and some things that are not.  So you wrap up those two additive activities with a game of golf and what do you have?  You have a perfect excuse to be bad. After all, as the pro says who owns the course,” It is easier to tell your wife you are going golfing than that you are going to a bar or casino”.