Your Game 16. Conn. I t is two hours before show time, and Willie Nelson is still wearing his golf clothes. He has just finished playing 18 holes at a local Connecticut course and is kicking back in his bus, Honeysuckle Rose III, before he has to change into his jeans, strap on his tattered six-string guitar and open this evening's concert in the coastal hamlet of Westport. And I try to get out on a course a couple of times of week when we are gone. There aren't many things I like better than a game of golf, and like sex, it's one of those things you don't have to be very good at to enjoy.
Somebody likes every shot.
A man with Willie Nelson's celebrity and connections can get on just about any course he wants, and he has played some of this country's best ever since he was introduced to the sport more than 40 years ago. But ask him to name his favorite track, and he picks one most people have never heard of, the Pedernales Golf Course in Spicewood, Texas. And the reason is simple. Once part of a surrounding subdivision, it is now a public course owned entirely by the musician. I originally bought it in 1976, and then lost it to the IRS for a while in 1991 when I was going through all my tax trouble.