Joey's Golf Bag

February 23, 2008

Hooking Left

Filed under: Golf Courses — Joey @ 9:03 am

Golf to return to Cuba.

Now that Fidel Castro has retired, perhaps he can find the time to work on his golf game.

In 1962, Mr. Castro lost a round of golf to Ernesto “Che” Guevara, who had been a caddy in his Argentine hometown before he became a guerrilla icon. Mr. Castro’s defeat may have had disastrous consequences for the sport. He had one Havana golf course turned into a military school, another into an art school. A journalist who wrote about the defeat of Cuba’s Maximum Leader, who was a notoriously bad loser, was fired the next day.

The golf course will be a fine place to celebrate Castro’s passing, don’t you think?

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