November 17th, 2007: The San Pedro Classic

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The San Pedro Classic 2007Saturday, November 17th, 2007One of many World Dive Bar Tour membership benefits is the privilege to participate in the most exclusive golf event this side of Augusta. WDBT Extension welcomes you to try your hand at 9-holes of imbibery fraught with hazards, on a course where every hole is the 19th. We have designed a challenging, yet fun course through some of the purest dives in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and an afternoon that will feature a little something for everyone on the tour in a timeless game of strategy, luck, and consumption.The working class harbor town of San Pedro is an untapped resource on the Tour, its distance precluding it from inclusion among our standard Wednesday destinations. Yet in this magical town, within just a few blocks of drunken stumbling, one can find a rich assortment of dives that cater to longshoremen, grunts, the disenfranchised, and the occasional townie. This unusually high concentration of bars, each of them 5-Star Louganis dives in their own right, makes for a perfect golfing experience where every (watering) hole features new levels of excitement, danger, and disheveled regulars.For those unfamiliar with the game, Bar Golf combines the best elements of a pub crawl with a variety of rules derived from that fabled club and ball sport invented by the Dutch and popularized by the Scotts. Each bar serves as a different hole, with a scorecard of drinks of varying difficulty corresponding to golf nomenclature of “Bogies”, “Pars”, “Birdies”, and so on. Other familiar golf concepts also apply, including water hazards (vomiting penalty) and mulligans (spilt beverages). Bear in mind that, whereas in real golf, shooting a hole in one on every hole is merely highly improbable, in bar golf, attempting to do so will result in a hospital visit and stomach pumping. Bar golf is a sport of moderation and pacing, where the tortoise oftentimes does beat the hare.Come to compete; come to caddy*; come to watch. Golf wear is encouraged. If you want to compete, please RSVP to divebar@worlddivebartour.com so that we can arrange transportation and caddies accordingly. This year’s winner will receive the coveted ‘green jacket’ with commemorative patch, and all competitors will receive prizes fitting this vaunted occasion.Carpe Drink’em,NateAuxiliary Captain* Caddy: Designated Driver, score keeper, shepherd”So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald… striking. So, I’m on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga… gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he’s gonna stiff me. And I say, “Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.” And he says, “Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.” So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.”- Carl Spackler (Bill Murray), Caddyshack

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November 17th, 2007: The San Pedro Classic