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Article #214: George Bush's Secrets to Better Golf

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Cheat. Lie. Intimidate. These are the Starling which leads Clarice to a rent a
true fundamentals of golf. If George W. storage facility and the car of Benjamin
Bush shoots a 7 on the par 5 9th hole and Raspail, a former patient of Dr. Lecter.
his playing partner Rex W. Tillerson the Hidden in the parked car is the severed
CEO of Exxon Mobil asks the President of head in a jar of Benjamin Raspail. This
the United States of America what he was Dr. Lecter's way of teaching his
shot, George W. Bush says "Put me down student to keep his head still on the
for a 5." George W. Bush and Rex W. backswing and the downswing until the
Tillerson are walking down the 10th swinging of the arms on the follow
fairway at the Cape Arundel Golf Club in through brings the head up. It's one
Kennebunkport Maine surrounded by 10 thing to tell the average golfer to keep
heavily armed secret service agents. What her head still. The fact is that a steady
is Rex W. Tillerson supposed to say to head is often the result of the movement
George Bush? "No, I'm sorry Mr. President of other body parts during the swing.
you shot a 7 on the last hole, not a 5?" Twenty thousand American men and women so
By the time Rex got the words out he far have left their body parts in the
would be gunned down into the dirt. The sands of Babylon. Butch Harmon, the
secret service agents have been given former coach of Tiger Woods recently
their orders in advance. Lets say that taught Phil Mickelson that the way to
Rex actually pointed out the President's keep his head still on the backswing and
error to him and lived to talk about it. cure his overswing was to keep his right
President Bush would merely break into knee firm and flexed on the backswing
song, with the vocally trained secret instead of straightening it out. Somehow
service agents as his back up singers Phil Mickelson won 30 PGA tournaments and
singing "I beg your pardon, I never 2 Masters at Augusta National
promised you a rose garden." In 1921 straightening his right knee on the
renowned golf course architect Walter backswing and overswinging under the
Travis redesigned the Cape Arundel Golf tutelage of his former coach Rick Smith.
Course at 19 River Road, Kennebunkport, At least Rick Smith didn't have Phil
Maine, just down the road from the George Mickelson hacking balls endlessly out of
Bush seaside compound. George Bush Sr. the rough at Oakmont in preparation H.
bought the beautiful home to keep up with for the U.S. Open until lefty developed
the Kennedys. Walter Travis said of the chronic carpal tunnel syndrome and then
Cape Arundel Golf Course he designed, "A sending him out to compete with one arm.
really good golf course must abound in Christie Kerr recently won the U.S. Open
hazards, and good courses develop good golf tournament at Pine Needles by two
players. Trees are non existent, as they shots over Lorena Ochoa and Angela Park.
should be, and the wind should always be After her victory on the eighteenth green
an ever present factor on such a course. Christie Kerr ran over to her new husband
The greens are real beauties and will Erik Stevens, jumped up on him, wrapped
delight the soul of any real golfer." her arms around his neck, and her legs
This assumes that the golfer has a soul. around his lower body, and hung there in
To make the course more challenging, Mr. suspension until all thoughts of Hale
Travis placed improvised explosive Irwin running around the green high
devices on several of the cart paths. He fiving the gallery disappeared from the
was a true visionary. It's amazing how collective American consciousness. There
golfers tie their entire sense of self are many ways to begin the downswing with
worth to the way they are hitting the the lower body, most of which lead to
golf ball. Robert Trent Jones designed disaster. Jack Nicklaus, the Golden Bear
the Shady Oaks Golf Course in Fort Worth recommends beginning the downswing by
Texas, another Bush family favorite. rolling the right ankle laterally and not
Robert Trent Jones redesigned Augusta allowing your head to ride forward. This
National in the late 1940's. Robert Trent is the secret to beginning the downswing
Jones believed that golf should be a no properly, as it will drop your passive
risk, no reward sport. His golf courses hands and arms to shoulder height from
encouraged daring play. Eminem wrote a where you can then rotate your left
song called "The Real Slim Shady" in forearm in a counter clockwise motion to
which he says, "We aint nothing but the finish. However, George Bush says,
mammals, well some of us cannibals who "When you roll your right ankle laterally
cut other people up like cantaloupes." In to begin the downswing, make sure that
"The Silence of the Lambs", serial killer your right foot remains planted and no
Buffalo Bill kidnaps and skins Kathy part of it comes off of the ground,
Martin, the daughter of Ruth Martin, the otherwise you wil slide and come over the
United States Senator from Tennessee. The top, and you will shank, like I did by
famed forensic psychiatrist and serial invading Iraq. I'm very sorry. My fellow
killer cannibal Hannibal Lecter gives a Americans and Jesus, please forgive me
riddle to young FBI agent Clarice for I knew not what I was doing.






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