I'll Take Manhattan
Golf Magazine|September 2019

With Apologies To Ella Fitzgerald, You Can Keep The City, But Please Do Mix Us Up The Cocktail, Bartender.

Michael Corcoran
I'll Take Manhattan

JULES WAS A LAWYER by trade, a quiet bespectacled fellow with an ale belly. He was a professional, and 40 years or more on I can recall him trundling the fairways sipping from a can of Ballantine. Jules’ affinity for that particular beer and its distinctive XXX branding earned him the nickname “Triple X.”

One day Triple X addressed a ball in the rough, and verily he did smite it to smithereens. The ball exploded into many hundreds if not thousands of white bits, rendering Triple X dumbstruck. Slowly he raised his head, and sputtered to his caddie, “Diiii diiii diiiiid you see that?”

“Yes,” said my brother Whitey, who was on the bag for Triple X that day. “It was a mushroom.”

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