Hibernian Golf Association

HGA history was made today.
John “Fairways” Fahey was playing in his regular Wednesday match with fellow Hibernians Kevin McColgan, Jerry Brennan and Aiden Kilcoyne. John was playing great, and his team had long since won the match, when Kevin took a look at John’s scorecard. John had only seventy strokes through sixteen holes. John Fahey is seventy-seven years old, so if he parred the last two holes, he would shoot his age.
Kevin shared the news with Jerry and Aiden, but he didn’t dare tell Johnny.
On the par-three seventeenth, John’s tee shot was a little short and a little right of the green. His chip rolled to within twelve or thirteen feet. Blissfully ignorant, John nonchalantly sunk the putt and headed off to the next tee box.
Johnny’s drive on eighteen was, of course, in the fairway, but a little bit to the right. On his next shot John had to carry the water and avoid the tree protecting the right side of the green. Johnny’s shot flew over the water and missed the tree but was still a couple of yards short of the green. He made a nice chip and rolled it within a couple of feet. John looked around, expecting the putt to be conceded, but all he got was silence. Since he was playing with Kevin McColgan, he didn’t give it another thought. He stepped up to the putt, and tapped it in. And made HGA history.
Here is John and his foursome just after he learned what he had accomplished.

There is a lesson to our young Hibernians like John Carroll and the Duggan cousins. If you keep hitting fairways, maybe in fifty-five years you will shoot your age.
Congratulations, Fairways!