One Step To Go

Just a week ago Wilson Post 13 was down 0-2 in the Area one Eastern semi finals with Kinston and the season was on the brink.  Thursday night Post 13 beat Wayne County 7-6 to sweep the area one finals and in doing so have won six games in a row after having to win three sraight again Kinston just to play Another day.

Thursday night Raleigh and Garner were tied two games a piece and the winner of that series meets Wilson and the winner there earns a spot in the state tournament.  That series is only two out of three and starts Saturday the winner starts play in the state tournament July 24 In Salisbury.  Further down the road the North Carolina State champion will play the Southeastern regional in Asheboro and of course the World Series  is always in Shelby.

The British Open is considered the world championship of golf.  Very few courses in the USA look like Muirfield.  Some of the worse courses in the States look better than St Andrews.  So golf in Great Britian is completely different than the U S.    Sunday Jordan Spieght won on the PGA tour in Chicago and flew all night to Edinburgh.  Easter week in 1979 I was a chaperone on a school trip that took French Students to London and Paris.

Our flight from Kennedy in New York took off from on then Pan Am flight at 9:15 pm on a Saturday night and the six hour flight arrived at 9:15 on a Sunday morning. Edinburgh Scotland flight is approximately the same. Being my first flight on a jumbo 747 and a lot of water to swim in I never slept one second on the flight over.

By the time we arrived through customs and hotel it was after 1pm.  Our tour guide told us this being Easter that Westminster Abbey had a church service at 3pm.  With map in hand I lead a group of about ten and we walked about ten blocks to the church.   Later we happened by 10 Downy Street
And walked by Buckingham Palace.

You can believe I had no trouble sleeping about ten pm Sunday night in London.  Watching Speith charge out of the gate getting five birdies in the first seven holes it looked like not only were the holes harder through rest of the round but he looked a lot like me by the end.  He looked frazzled.  The time difference is hard the first few days.  Shooting a 67 in the opening round I bet he will be more rested as the week goes on.  All the golfers will have to worry about is the 40 and 50 mile an hour wind expected the next two days.