Comment from Iza Deleanu

Excellent

Wow when they play forget about food and drinks and it looks almost like a cricket game judging by the duration of a game. Thank you for sharing and good luck with your writings.

 Comment Written 14-Aug-2023

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reply by the author on 14-Aug-2023

Thank you, Iza. These matches are fairly quick because they are only playing one ball per team and there are only 12 holes. Golf these days is very slow by comparison. It often takes 4 1/2 hours to play an 18-hole round.

Comment from barbara.wilkey

Excellent

I can't wait for the final match. I'm sure it will be very interesting and taxing for our friends. Thank you for sharing this post and this story with us. I am enjoying it.

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reply by the author on 14-Aug-2023

Thanks, Barbara. We'll get to see how all those rules come into play.

Comment from Paul Manton

Excellent

Hoorah! I can come back to reviewing your story - the last two chapters had details which embarrassed me.
So, at last I see we are in Match Play, which I like - and the idea of dormie but without naming it (a certain anachronism!).
Good story telling now that we have reached the action - the three rounds were all different, and the jeopardy increased each time. Knowing you, I expect a nail-biting conclusion: 5-5 with the 11th tied . . . but you might think of something more bizarre.

Dialogue as good as ever - nice idea to show Rube's strength is challenged - and Arie's intervention to put our gentle giant back on track. Very polite conversations in this tournament. How realistic is that. When on a pitch and putt course, my language was very unclerical - my then girl friend was in hysterics of laughter, which didn't improve my vocabulary at all!

Look forward to the sequel.

Paul

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 Comment Written 14-Aug-2023

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reply by the author on 14-Aug-2023

Yes, so far the conversations have been polite, but this is more for contrast with what is to come in the final match, which I hope will be substantially more exciting than these first three.

There is a larger point to this contrast along with the bad language that is part of the major theme of the story, that will eventually be made clearer when we get to Part 4 (which won't be for a while as we are only in Part 1 now).

So, golf brings out the worst in your language, eh? That's actually quite typical. My most frequent golf partner the past few years had awful language on the course, but never did I hear him utter those words elsewhere. They say "golf" is a 4-letter word. It's amazing the feelings that it can evoke.

reply by Paul Manton on 14-Aug-2023

Yes. I never once swore when playing bowls - and I was almost an international!

Comment from Mickamus J

Excellent

Hi, thank you for the story. I could follow the flow of the story and where I think you were leading the reader about what is happening to the main characters and how small events are leading them someplace, they should be.
Thank you for listing down the items and characters. I am still unfamiliar but I will check on your previous texts.

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 Comment Written 14-Aug-2023

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reply by the author on 14-Aug-2023

Thank you very much and welcome to the story. This is a time travel story, which begins in the year 2032 in Santa Barbara, California with a foursome of golfers playing golf one day when one of them steps under an old railroad trestle to retrieve a ball hit out of bounds, and suddenly he is in Holland in the year 1247.

We are currently about 3/4 the way through Part 1, and will soon be heading to other eras in the coming parts. If you want to catch up, there is a fairly complete recap in chapter 17 (which is really chapter 15 in the novel) that will tell everything up to that point. The recap in this current chapter will bring you the rest of the way to the present.

I'm very happy you've found the story.

reply by Mickamus J on 14-Aug-2023

Thank you. I will look at it soon. When I take a break from writing. :)