Golfer’s Delight
I don’t golf. I never have, and save for a foggy bachelor party recollection, years ago, my endeavors on the green have been solely of the ‘mini’ variety. So when a regular agency client of mine came to me with a tight deadline, and a creative concept that necessitated marching a full film crew (and half a living room) on to an unsuspecting course, I rated the potential for success as anything but a ‘fore’gone conclusion…ba-dum-chh! Hey, for what it’s worth, I almost chose that as the title of this post. Mercifully, cooler (and less corny) heads prevailed.
At any rate, mission critical to a successful undertaking was finding a golf course that would even consider allowing this to take place. Enter frame right the fine folks at Westwood Golf Club, in South Jersey. Through a delicate combination of intentionally vague disclosure, and the locations lack of experience hosting film crews, the gig came together better than I’d hoped. But the clincher was renowned sports network DCPN offering up their ace commentator Wes Heywood for the cause. He may be a poor man’s Howard Cossel, but he was stroke perfect for our singular needs on this one. And even though we were summarily shuttled to the club’s 19th hole (yup, count that, 18 plus one), a fairway typically reserved for practice swings and the occasional armchair politician, it all came together in the end. So if all’s truly well that ends well, then score this one a success…no mulligan necessary.
