4th August '98

Play golf alone

It was cloudy day today from in the morning. It was sometime a little rain. It was the best day for playing golf in Hawaii, because I could not play golf under the Hawaiian sunshine. I asked concierge to reserve starting time in the morning . I would play golf all four people with three Japanese. I went to the clubhouse at 9:30am and checked in. But there was no player without me. The ball boy said that if I was ready, please start alone. So I start to play golf alone. I saw the front party after finished three holes. There were two parties on one hole, which was a per-three hole beyond a pond. I was patient until No.6 hole. But as the front party played very slowly, I passed two parties on No.7 hole. And I passed two parties next No.8 and 9 during playing golf. As the result, I played golf alone from No.10 hole, exactly. I had two shots on the tee grand and I enjoyed play twice. I finished No.18 hole at 12:30am. It took three hours to play all holes, because I started at 9:30am. The score of first Nagato was 95, and second one was 88. I finished playing golf earlier than I thought. When I came back to room, there was no person. I thought that my son and wife might go to pool. So I waited them while I was drinking beer. After for a while, they came back. They went to pool as I expected. We went to Kona town after lunch, again. I visited Kona long time ago, in 1995. My impression was that Kona town was a old country town. There were few shops at that day. I could saw many shops and felt that town was prosperous. But I looked Kona like unrefined rather than Lahaina, Maui. I thought that exhibits of the shops were no good. There was no exhibit, which I want to buy, when I saw inside these shops. The shops of Kona are same as Enoshima's or Atami's in Japan. I want to eat a pizza for supper. So I bought a whole pizza at Kings shop and fried chickens at Kona town. American type pizza was thick and big size. So I ordered a Margarita pizza, which was pizza of tomato and cheese for us, three. But this was too big. My son and I played tennis after reached condo, because I had a time until sunset.