THOSE who have ever taken up a golf club and swung it at that miniscule white sphere called a golf ball will no doubt understand circumstances that are best described as ‘an unexpected and inexplicable change in a situation or in someone’s behaviour’. 

Parklands’ golfers of more than a few years of competitive golf, will doubtlessly recall that occasion when a perfectly struck drive climbs majestically over the fourth fairway, only to arc unexpectedly to the right, eventually coming to rest on the gravel of Kinnanes road.