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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Another shot at the prestigious Harmeswood Cup

Barry Evans
Barry Evans

Last week I finished my uplifting saga of Ludlow the rubber ducky and Brick Strong, CPA.  I have been advised by The Blonde in the house that I now should write a nostalgia article.  Then I recalled that back in 2017 I was on the winning golf foursome that won the prestigious Harmeswood tournament.  It was the first time this difficult tournament was staged.  Thus to be the first winner of the Harmeswood Cup particularly since I had never won anything in golf before has definitely made this occasion one of great nostalgia.

As I mentioned before this was a foursome so we all got to take home a fabulous trophy to install in our homes.  The dark side of this is that we can only keep it for a year until the next tournament.  However, the gods smiled brightly (well actually darkly) at us since last Monday the tournament producers had to cancel the tournament until this coming fall! The cancellation was due to heavy rains that resulted in some of the course being flooded.  This obviously means that we get to keep the trophy for longer than a year – although we were prepared to win again,

Barry Evans’ foursome last year captured the prestigious Harmeswood Cup.

It is possible that the golf gods are being nice to us and letting us hold on to the trophy for a longer period.  However, it is my opinion that the golf gods are just making the others wait longer to suffer another ignominious defeat at our hands.  It is no doubt frustrating for them, but the golf gods know what they are doing. One slight downside is that The Blonde does not think that the trophy meets her idea of good décor.  Thus my original idea of having the trophy on a pedestal where people entering the house could view it was found to be unacceptable. It now sits “in splendor” in the computer room where visitors do not often dwell – unless, of course, I take them for a As indicated above the Harmeswood tournament involves foursomes and each of us receives a trophy.  The foursome is composed of two men and two ladies.  Now the other male golfer has had a location problem for the trophy just as I do – and he is a CPA!  I will admit that he is retired which make a difference.  Still normally one does not mess with a CPA.  On the other hand, the lady winners seem to have no problem in locating the trophy in a prominent place – décor be danged!  I have a vague feeling that there is a double standard here. Regrettably, it is most likely just another historical fact of men being put upon.

All is not lost though.  Both my CPA teammate and I believe that with the help of our lady golfers we will win the trophy again in the fall. That will be a sign that the trophy will undoubtedly deserve a better location in our homes – perhaps in the middle of the dining room table. The lady golfers will probably have their husbands buy them a mahogany trophy chest, but that is OK.  I do realize that there are some who are also in the tournament who think that they will win.  Just because some of the other teams have better individual golfers is really of no consequence. Sometimes destiny cannot be overcome and there is no doubt that the foursome I am in is comparable to some of the Greek legends. Heck, if we had been on Troy’s side the Greeks would have been defeated in a couple of weeks before they could even finish their wooden horse!

In the very slight event that we should lose because the golf gods are involved with another tournament or something, well then I will …. nah that could never happen.

Barry Evans writes about Life in The Villages for Villages-News.com

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