It seemed as if it were a hole Rock and his frequent golf partner John Czarnecki had played many times before. The long par-three demanded an accurate shot into the green, since the surface between the tee box and the front fringe was uneven and muddy and heavily littered with all sorts of garbage, including beer, soda, rusted old cans and machinery, and various other pieces of rubbish common to landfills.
Rock shanked his tee shot into slop and shallow water near the tee box, and as he began to search for his ball, immediately noticed several other balls in a pile, stacked behind some rocks on the edge of a pool of murky water. Several were nearly new, including a Top Flite with odd ridges running along its dimpled surface that Rock thought he had heard about somewhere. He might try it out, he thought.
There was an old man playing by himself a couple of holes ahead. Out of the blue, John told Rock the man had identified himself as Miller Barber, a PGA star from the 1960s and '70's who had played at the University of Arkansas.
"He told me everyone should use Titleists and nothing else," John said.
Rock reacted in a manner that reflected complete disinterest in Miller Barber's presence.
"That's bullshit," Rock said. "There are all sorts of different balls for different games. Fuck, you know that, John."
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