Golf at Poplar

I played golf at Poplar a local course not too long ago, it is a fun little course that many locals play, many of the people where I live are asian. It was a Wednesday afternoon, I met a friend and we were planning on playing 18. I hadn't played in a while but it was a nice day, the round was pretty cheap and the course is fairly easy with very little penalty for slicing or hooking the drive (meaning all of the fairways are wide and if you miss too badly you are in another hole's fairway and can just hit from there).

As I got ready to tee off an older gentleman pulls his hand cart up and introduces himself and tells us he will be joining us. That sucks, but he seems nice enough, so it will just prolong the round a bit, but no big deal.

I lined up, hit a drive 240 yards but pushed it left onto the adjoining fairway. After I hit the shot a tall skinny guy wearing sunglasses about my age walked up and said he was joining our group as well. Very annoying.

Everyone tees off, I track down my ball, line up with my fairway wood, hit it another 210 straight, but of course straight means down the middle of the other fairway. I hit it almost into an older man on the tee box of the hole I should not have been on. I yell fore, but to no avail. Luckily the ball narrowly misses the man. The man is plenty angry when I walk past him, he admonishes me for not yelling fore. The tall young man is with me and I make it clear to the older gentleman that I did yell fore and that I was sorry he couldn't hear me. I then tell the young man that it is odd that the old man was not asian as usually on this course all of the other people playing are asian. He laughed a little bit, I explained how odd it was to see how few asians were actually on the course today. I walked up to my ball and tried to chip it onto the green.

A few holes go by where I have varying success, but I keep coming back to the Asians not being there. By this time I have figured out that the young man is asian. He is either asian or a methhead, since he is just way too skinny for his height and he has a very faint accent.

The 6th hole is this ridiculously short par 4. It is about 260 to the green. I was second to hit but the group ahead of us was still on the green. Against my better sense I went ahead and hit my drive. The drive landed in the sand trap just short of the green. I laughed a bit then stated that it was odd the people on the green were not asian, I wonder if all the older asian men are on holiday or if they are at older asian man church.

The young man, waiting to take his next drive, rips off his sunglasses displaying asian eyes. He raises his driver and tells me to lay off the asian comments. I reply, first, you don't need a driver on this hole, I mean look where I hit it, second, no fucking way, they're funny.

He seethed, hit his drive (hooked it and was about 40 yards shot of mine). He reiterated that I should shut up, I replied that no, if they weren't funny I would try harder, but that I am not racist and will make fun of jews too if that will make him feel better. He storms off to his ball. I stop at my friend's ball since he had hit a pretty crappy shot 100 yards or so behind mine. The asian man kept walking, went into the sand trap and grabbed my ball as well. He continued his march and went back to the 4th hole to play by himself. The older man inquired what he was doing and he said that he did not want to deal with an asshole like me. After my friend hit his shot I dropped a ball where he took it from, put it on the green and 2 putted for par. As I got on the green I told the older man how glad I was that the asian guy was asian and not arab as now I did not have to fear for my safety.