Golf and lightning

Yesterday I played the best round of golf in a long time. I shot a 114. Now, this may be a VERY high score to some people but keep in mind that I only play a couple of times a year. Actually, I played about 6 or 7 times this year so far. But in the past three years I only played twice. So I will gladly take the 114. Of course what the score does not show (forgive me if I brag a little here) is the 50 foot putt I made and the best drive of my life. Probably around 250 yards +/-, right in the middle of the fairway (usually I go left). When we teed off, it was sunny and in the 80’s. By the third hole, the clouds moved in. We were OK until about the 6th hole. Then the rains came with thunder off in the distance. It only lasted 2 holes. The sky never cleared though. By the 14th hole, the rains came again. Only this time, the thunder was very close. When we got to the 15th green, we saw lightning. It was not that close…yet. I guess we should have called it a day but we figured we were almost done so what the hell, let’s finish. There were 8 of us and we were the first foursome and thought for sure our other foursome behind us would not be able to finish, but on the 17th hole they caught us. On the 18th tee, we saw it. Big huge bolts of lightning right over the club house. I am not going to lie, I was scared. As was everyone else. The wind picked up and the thunder was as loud as ever and we saw a lot more lightning but yes, we finished. So did our second foursome. Actually, there were two more foursome behind them and they finished. I have never played in rain before let alone lightning. That will probably be the one and only time….unless I am in the middle of another great round.