Visiting With The Queen Of England For A Few Days
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05-06-2007, 06:26 AM
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Well let me tell you about my Saturday golf match. Before we could tee off, we had to wait for the Prince to fly to Newport News in his helicopter. Now why would we have to wait? Well let me tell you. Some idiot parked the helicopter in the middle of the driving range which happened to be next to the first tee. No body was allowed to play on the first or second holes and the ninth and tenth holes until the helicopter took off. They had the FBI, Secret Service and Golden Horseshoe staff looking under bushes, behind trees and checking golf bags. I guess we resembled terrorists.
AND the story gets better. When we were finally allowed to tee off, the Marshall told us that if we didn't get past the tenth tee by 3:30, we would have to stop play until the Queen's helicopter took off. Puzzled we looked over to the driving range and there was not another helicopter to be seen. The Marshall assured us she would be taking off at that time and that VP Dick Chaney would also be landing sometime during the day. Now who would have thought the golf course would turn into a heliport.
Well sure enough as we were about to tee off on the ninth hole, this lady in a black suit was walking toward the tee. We stopped and waited for her to approach thinking she had enough sense to hide behind a tree when golfers, who would be hitting straight toward her were ready to tee off. She didn't. So one of the members in my group yelled to her that she should watch out. It wasn't pretty after that.
Turned out she was Secret Service and we soon found out that she had a weapon. Actually she did a pretty good pat down. She told us that we could continue play since the Queen and Chaney would not be taking off from the driving range heliport for about a half hour. So we played on.
When we got to the tenth tee, there were two SWAT team members in full riot gear with black bags bigger than our golf bags. As I started to tee off, one of the Swat team approached me. Since I had just been frisked by his co-worker, I asked him how he was doing. He said fine. I then asked if he would like to hit my drive for me since I had not hit a good all day up to here. Well read this.
This guy really had a sense of humor. He said no, but if I hit the ball about 200 yards he COULD put a red dot on the ball for me. Well that made my day, I certainly was impressed. No jokes from me from that point on.
Oh yeah, there were guys under the bushes, behind the trees all the way down the tenth fairway. I should tell you that the tenth tee was only 140 yards from the helicopters.
AND the story gets better. When we were finally allowed to tee off, the Marshall told us that if we didn't get past the tenth tee by 3:30, we would have to stop play until the Queen's helicopter took off. Puzzled we looked over to the driving range and there was not another helicopter to be seen. The Marshall assured us she would be taking off at that time and that VP Dick Chaney would also be landing sometime during the day. Now who would have thought the golf course would turn into a heliport.
Well sure enough as we were about to tee off on the ninth hole, this lady in a black suit was walking toward the tee. We stopped and waited for her to approach thinking she had enough sense to hide behind a tree when golfers, who would be hitting straight toward her were ready to tee off. She didn't. So one of the members in my group yelled to her that she should watch out. It wasn't pretty after that.
Turned out she was Secret Service and we soon found out that she had a weapon. Actually she did a pretty good pat down. She told us that we could continue play since the Queen and Chaney would not be taking off from the driving range heliport for about a half hour. So we played on.
When we got to the tenth tee, there were two SWAT team members in full riot gear with black bags bigger than our golf bags. As I started to tee off, one of the Swat team approached me. Since I had just been frisked by his co-worker, I asked him how he was doing. He said fine. I then asked if he would like to hit my drive for me since I had not hit a good all day up to here. Well read this.
This guy really had a sense of humor. He said no, but if I hit the ball about 200 yards he COULD put a red dot on the ball for me. Well that made my day, I certainly was impressed. No jokes from me from that point on.
Oh yeah, there were guys under the bushes, behind the trees all the way down the tenth fairway. I should tell you that the tenth tee was only 140 yards from the helicopters.
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