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Page 16, Boca Club News
Essays on Life: You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover

By Sonia E. Ravech length hair which was partially tucked under a New York good girl,” he said as he tipped the bottle forward. He turned
Sonia is a native of Massachusetts Yankees baseball cap. and retrieved a tissue from a box on the front desk and gently
and a resident of Broken Sound for People frowned and stared as he entered the Boca Raton wiped the spittle from her mouth.
more than 30 years. She is the Community Hospital emergency room pushing an elderly He continued to hover over her. “Grandma, you can’t keep
mother of four, grandmother of woman in a wheelchair. She wore a flowered nightgown doing this. Grandpa says you won’t eat or drink anything.
seven and great-grandmother of covered by a frayed pink cotton robe. Tattered slippers You have to eat or else the doctor will admit you into the
four. She has been the facilitator of enveloped her feet. Her eyes were shut, her mouth hung hospital and feed you through a tube. You don’t want them
the Broken Sound Memoir Writers’ slack. She appeared to be sleeping. He pushed the wheelchair to do that again, do you?” The woman opened her eyes and
Workshop for the past seven years. into the corner, abutting the chair in which I was seated, and stared vacantly into space.
His arms and neck were embellished with tattoos. A bent down to whisper in the woman’s ear. “I’ll be right back, He pulled the brush from his pocket and gently stroked
silver cross dangled from his left ear lobe, a stud pierced Grandma. I have to check you in.” She opened her clouded the silver strands away from her forehead, “Do you want
his nose. He wore a black tee shirt emblazoned across the eyes and gazed blankly into his face. anything, Grandma? Do you want some more water?” She
front with the image of a skeleton wielding a sword. He returned a short time later. “How are you feeling, weakly shook her head.
His baggy jeans hung low on his hips exposing green Grandma?” The woman was unresponsive. “Are you thirsty?” When I heard my name called, I arose and walked towards
and blue plaid boxers. His feet were encased in a pair of He walked to the vending machine and bought a bottle of water. the double doors. I glanced back and saw the young man take
leather biker boots. A pack of Marlboro cigarettes bulged “Here, Grandma, take a drink,” he whispered. He unscrewed the the empty seat I had vacated next to his Grandma. He held
from his left rear pocket. Stuffed into the pocket on the cap, cupped his hand under her chin and tilted her head back. her bony hand in his, stroking it gently. As I looked at the
right was a long-handled, square-shaped brush which he “Swallow, Grandma, you’ve got to swallow so you won’t pair, I realized I no longer noticed his tattoos, his earring or
periodically pulled out and used to stroke his shoulder be thirsty.” He pressed the water bottle to her lips. “That’s a his baggy pants.
Film Review: “Phantom of the Open”

By Nils A. Shapiro it would be fun to sign up for the next year’s British Open. But the best is yet to come! And while I don’t want to
This British film, which was released in the U.S. in 2022 give away too many spoilers here, perhaps it will suffice to
Country Club Golfers and may still be streaming now on Netflix, is based on the note that, in his very failure to perform at a championship
Will Love unlikely but true and heartwarming story of Maurice Flitcroft’s level the spectators lining the course applauded him at
This Film! path to a world golfing record and international fame! every hole and golfers around the world came to love
Completely naïve about such matters, Flitcroft applied to Maurice Flitcroft as an average guy– “one of their own.”
In 1975, Tom Watson enter the 1976 competition but had no answer when asked, for An American country club set up a golf tournament and
won the British Open example, the name of the private club to which he belonged… trophy in his name…and, as we learn later in the film,
Golf Championship. One or his handicap, a word that confusedly meant something after practicing his skills and much improved playing he
of the millions of people entirely different to him. He overcame such problems by entered a half-dozen more British Opens under different
who was watching returning with a set of documents he had prepared with names and using various disguises!
television in England the help of his sweet and devoted wife, Jean (portrayed by What a kick to have him in your foursome. For now,
that day and happened to Sally Hawkins)—completely false but so impressive that the meet him on film. (Mark Rylance in the role of Flitcroft
see the adulation pouring tournament officials considered him qualified! deserved every award possible for his performance.)
onto the winner was a The difficult to believe fact that Flitcroft was accepted *****
man, Maurice Flitcroft, who had never played a hole of golf into the 1976 British Open—then showed his lack of skill The Boca Raton Public Library has this film available
in his entire life. by topping, slicing, hooking his way through 18 holes to on DVD for cardholders.
But Maurice Flitcroft, a father of three grown sons who was a record-breaking score of 121, the highest in the event’s
getting on in years and tired of his job as a construction crane history—makes it important for you to remember that this
operator, liked what he had just seen on TV and decided that is based on a true story!

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