Golf: The horror and fun of playing in a soggy course

You wouldn't play golf here but you could do it elsewhere in less extreme conditions. [File, Standard]

Golfers are simply indomitable. A current photo on social media features a group busy golfing nonchalantly as a huge cloud of black smoke billows and covers the entire background as the Kilauea volcano was erupting last week. I thought the two guys who once got marooned inside a California forest fire as they golfed and had to be rescued by air were tough, but these lava-resistant dudes take the trophy. I guess erupting volcanoes, lava flows and laze (who makes up these words?), is par for the course in Hawaii (pun intended).

Unless you play your golf on the upper slopes of the Aberdares, odds are that one of your recent rounds of golf has been affected by the current long rains. An explanation is in order.