Payton & I played golf yesterday afternoon after baseball practice with Russell Price. He's a friend of ours who recently moved here from Mountain View CA and also joined Sweetwater. We teed off at 5:15 so we were hustling to get 9 holes in, as was everyone else on the course around us.
We get to the 6th hole, a par 5 and I drive into the lip of a fairway trap. I basically chipped out and I'm standing at my ball in the middle of the fairway about 320 yards from the tee when a ball lands ten feet from me. Some jerk hitting in to us. I didn't hear anything, Russell says he thought he heard a fore. Anyway, after I hit, I might have run over the ball with my cart.
So on the 8th hole, I'm a little cooled off and we let the two guys play through, another shot bombed over our heads at least 325. Who drives up to play his next shot but Carlos Lee, the Astros power hitting left fielder. I'd have felt a little funny about asking for an autograph or picture after running over his ball, but anyway it was pretty cool. Payton couldn't wait for school this morning to tell all his friends.
I'm wondering how the heck he got from downtown all the way out to Sugar Land after the game ended at 4 and still managed to tee off by 5:30? Must have a fast car and a willingness to pay a big ticket, I guess $100 million contracts afford you that flexibility.
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