The morning fog clung to the grass at Oak Creek, a silent witness to Arthur’s weekly ritual. For thirty years, Arthur had arrived at the first tee before the sun, a time when the world was quiet enough to hear the click of a golf ball against a club face from three fairways away.
Arthur wasn’t a professional. He was a man who found clarity in the geometry of the game—the arc of a flight, the slope of a green, and the unforgiving physics of a sand trap. Golf, he often told his grandson Leo, was the only sport where you were your own greatest opponent. The morning fog clung to the grass at
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Leo groaned in disappointment, but Arthur just smiled. He walked over, tapped the ball in for a birdie, and patted Leo on the back. "Why aren't you mad it didn't go in?" Leo asked.