Golf days & clubs
The round takes care of itself. The nineteenth is the part you can lose.
Tee times, carts, scorecards, the photograph of the winner — all of it runs on rails. Then the last card comes in and the day depends on whatever you put in the room. He sets up a rolling table, and people stay.
Where it goes on the course
Groups already stop. He gives them a reason to stay stopped.
At a sponsored hole they wait for the group ahead. At the turn they eat something standing up. Both of those are minutes the day already loses, and a rolling table is the only thing that turns them into the part somebody talks about on Monday.
After the last card
An hour after the scoring closes, the bar is still full.
This is where the sponsorship gets its money back, where the auction actually happens, and where the members decide whether to come again next year. It is also the hour with nothing scheduled in it.
Tell him the date and the club, and he will tell you what the day looks like.
Check availabilityThe band
The one thing in the goody bag that actually leaves the club.
He rolls the cigar in front of the player, and the band that goes on it is yours — the name of the tournament, the year, or the sponsor who paid for the hole.
At a charity day it stops being a cost. Cigars banded with the tournament name get auctioned, or sold by the unit at the bar — which is the only line in your budget that can come back with more than it went out with.
Where it lands in your day
He works to the hour you give him.
- 01
The shotgun start
Everybody is on the course at the same time and there is half an hour of standing around before it. The table gives the early arrivals somewhere to be that is not the car park.
- 02
One hole, or the turn
Groups already stop at a sponsored hole and already eat something standing up at the turn. Most clubs put him on one of the two and leave him there for the round.
- 03
The nineteenth
The cards are in and the scoring is done. This is the hour with nothing in the program, and it is the one the sponsorship is paying for.
What he needs from the club
A table, and cover.
Six feet of table
Everything that goes on it travels with him, and it goes up in twenty minutes.
Shade, not sun
A tent, a halfway house or the clubhouse door. Tobacco does not like a bare fairway at noon.
One spot, or two
A hole for the round and the terrace after is the arrangement most clubs land on.
What people write afterwards.
Eight different people, eight years apart, reach for the same word about the man at the table.
Franklin sat down with my wife and I and enjoyed a cigar with us. He treated us like family and gave us hugs on our way out. Papo is the real deal with a heart of gold and a sense of humor that can make anyone laugh.
Before they book
What clubs ask.
Send him the date and the club. He will come back with what the day looks like.
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