40 is not just a number, it’s a vibe.
For some, it’s the line between a good round and a great round. Some people shoot a 40 and call it the round of their life. Others shoot a 40 and say their round wasn’t anything special. It’s all about perspective.
40 in golf is way better than 50. There’s something psychological about seeing a 4 at the start of your scorecard. You feel competent, even if the rest of your round looked like a nature walk with clubs. Even a 49 is infinitely better than a 50. You get a 49 and you feel as if you dodged a bullet. You get a 50 and you hope no one asks you how your round went.
40 minutes is roughly the gap between the first group turning in their scorecards and the last. This week was no exception. It was a nice evening. Who is going to blame someone for playing a few extra holes.
There were probably 40 comments about how the scores would have been lower…if only the greens were better.
Many of us put in a 40-hour work week just for the chance to three-putt from 10 feet on Wednesday night.
40 yards was the total distance of a couple of shots in my group. And that’s being generous.
Age 40 is when many of us start believing that golf is the one sport we might still peak in. Our dreams of stardom in baseball, hockey, or figure skating? Long gone. But golf? Golf gives us hope. No running, no jumping…just unrelenting optimism sprinkled with quiet suffering.
40 guys at Men’s Night means 40 different stories about how their putt just lipped out.
40 dollars is what many guys take to poker later in the evening, each hoping to leverage it into a legendary windfall.
And some say golf is 40% mental… and 60% denial. They’re not wrong.
40 ounces is also the approximate volume of several bottles that get emptied on Men’s Night. We stay hydrated.
40 mosquitoes followed me around Wednesday evening like I owed them money. It was definitely one of the first nights that demanded a good dose of bug spray.
Kevin Bartram won a combined total of $187.15 on Wednesday. He claimed the $135 deuce pot with a deuce on #9, while winning $20 for closest to the same hole and getting the $65.63 skin with Alvin Rutchka. If you convert that $187.15 to the currency of Kuwait, Cubby won approximately $40 Dinars.
Another skin went to Pete Ostash and Wayne Griffin who won $25 on #2. If you add their two ages together and divide by four, you almost get 40.
The other two skins went to Jeff Hunter/Zach Bartram ($8,76 on 7#7) and Joel Ostash/Orin McKay ($83.76 on #8). If you add Zach and Orin's ages, it is almost 40.
Closest to the pin was Braeden Allen. It you divide the total number of letters in his first and last name by three and multiply by ten you get 40.
So, here’s to the 40 golfers who showed up on Wednesday. Next week, let’s aim for another 40. Or maybe even 41. Dream big!
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