Written on 12-26-19.
The tractor driver saw it coming, and although it was well below where he was sitting, he dodged to the left in his seat for safety. The ball bounced off the one of the big tires, and it made a sound like a red playground ball bouncing off the pavement. Poink! Instead of flying off into the desert and some miserable or impossible lie, it bounced toward the green and stopped on the fringe near the famous rocks.
Leave it to Bruce to have a shot that hits a tractor and ends up just off the green. I wish I could write that Bruce sunk his shot from just off the green for a par. That would be an incredible story! My first thought at that moment, however, was that Bruce gets all the lucky bounces, but I know that simply isn’t true. He has had his share of wacky, awful bounces, too, but his game is a super example of the more he practices the luckier he gets.
He rolled his putt for par too far past the hole, though, and then he missed the comeback putt for a bogey, but I am pretty sure that the bounce off the tractor gave him a much better score than he would have earned if his ball continued on unimpeded by the tractor tire.
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