Golf can be a funny sport

On Sunday I covered the Kiwanis Columbia Golf Championship. Earlier in the summer, I just missed out on getting the chance to shoot one of Columbia’s resident celebrities, Lucas Black. Black, whose name you might recognize from films like Friday Night Lights or The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, stepped out of the last golf tournament to be with his wife, who had gone into labor with their first child while Black was on the course.

Nothing kept Black from finishing the tournament this time around. He entered into the final round in third place, but fell back and ended up finishing fifth. Coolest thing though, if you didn’t know who he was, you would have never been able to tell he was any different from any other golfer out there. And I think he likes it that way.

Actor Lucas Black attempts to encourage his ball to alter course after a tee shot during the Kiwanis Columbia Golf Championship on Sunday, August 14.

Anyway, I know from my own golf outing experience that golfers can do some pretty funny things when the ball doesn’t do what they want it to. This kind of reminded me of a Broadway performance.