We all get choked up when he gets to this last part of the story, and we even feel sorry for him sometimes. Back to the golf course, though. Sometimes we wonder what it's doing there, why Old Man Durham even has one. Not many people play golf in these parts, and when we are out on the course there is usually no one else playing. Sometimes, we all believe, Durham changes the pin placements before they're used by anyone.
Entire days go by when no one plays the course, even with the weather reasonable.
The old man himself doesn't play. He admits this to us often, along with the prediction that one day he indeed will take up the sport and find out for himself if it is really as frustrating a game as everyone claims. No one knows and we are, for some reason, hesitant to crack down and ask him. It could be that it is just a hobby of his, that he likes to maintain his tees, fairways, greens, rough, and hazards, but we rarely see him out there working. Sometimes we critique the conditions and we express our comments to him at the completion of the round.