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NORTH SHORE NEWS HOME, GARDEN AND LIFESTYLE

Water works

KO! fish light up a pond with their bright orange scaies. They also benefit the ecosystem — they eat algae, breathe
oxygen, and prey cn insect pests. in Living Room this week, News contributor Marcie Good visits with Lynn Valley
home owner Anne Marsh and writes about the popularity of water garciens. See pages 16 and 17.

Golf and meeting men don’t mix

MY youngest boy commented the other day that
I've been so pre-occupied with moving lately
that I've been neglecting the important things
in life, like buying groceries and doing his laun-
dry.

“For erving out loud,
Mother,” he scolded me,
“you've even stopped play-
ing golf. Get a grip on
yourself!”

That I would give up
playing golf for a couple of *
weeks in the middle of the
summer is unusual indeed. hone
as J am what you would call
a serious goifer, [took the
game up six years ago, to the great skepticism of everyone in
my family, and ve applied myself to learning the game with
tremendous dedication. [I’m now a 12 handicapper, which
isn’t half bad in golf terins.

It’s also probably worth mentioning that my first hus-
band commented to ne once that if | ever beat him at golf
it would probably mean the end of our marriage. Probably
just a coincidence that the same summer we separated I did,
in fact, shoot a lower score than he did.

Anyway, now that I’m single, I can’t tell you how many
times friends (mostly non-golting women) have commented
how lucky 1] am that [ play golf. “ft must be a great way to
meet men” is the common assumption.

Ie sounds as thotgh it makes good sense, doesn’t it? I
mean, given the fact that men outnumber women on the
golf course four to one, any smart woman looking to meet a
man would naturally assume that the golf course is as good a
place as any to meet Mr. Right.

Unfortunately, most women who take up the game of
golf to meet men meet with some rude awakenings instead.
Just ask my triend Debbie. She was looking to meet some
men, and gave the golf thing a try. She says the experiment
was a bust, because if you're a woman playing the game as a
beginner, no good male golfer really wants to play with you,
it doesn’t matter how cute you look in your new golf outfit.

The reasons for this are simple. First of all, as a beginner,
you're likely a lousy golfer. You don’t know much about
etiquette (so important in this game), you can’t hit the ball
very far so you're likely to be slow, and you need a lor of
work in the conversation department. That is to say, you
cannot talk golf.

Debbie tovk up golf because the bar scene wasn’t doing
it for her in terms of finding suitable dates. It was a brave

See Married page 28

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