In my previous post I mentioned how Whotter started to play golf and was determined to start in the Rainbow Masters, a golf tournament in Second Life that takes place in the first week of April, just like the real life Masters in Augusta every year.
When I heard him all rave about it, I thought it was just a fling: he would go to the tournament, play a round of golf, loose all of his golfballs and then get expelled from the course for fishing in their ponds and rivers. Or worse: playing 'Theme from Titanic' on his recorder.
I didn't count on two things though:
- The Rainbow Masters used a handicap system to give the less competitive players a chance
- Whotter's stubborn and often obsessive nature
This meant that Whotter, after playing 5 full practice rounds on the course, started the tournament with a handicap of 18, meaning he would have 18 strokes subtracted from the total number he made for every round.
This soon proved to be an error on behalf of the organisation: with all the practice he had put in, his progress during the tournament was rapid. The tournmament results below give an indication, but only when you realise that the last two round he played with an adjusted handicap of 8(!), not 18...
If they had not corrected his handicap, Whotter would have won the Masters with a 10 point lead!
Inspired by her brother's rapid progress on the golf courses of Second Life, his sister Ngọc purchased herself a golf set too. Having previously financed her brother's gear, she knew exactly who to solicit to get the money together.
So now she is not just extorting the neighbours with 'alien object'-schemes, caused by her brother's golf balls, she is striking them herself too...
