Jeff
"Putts from the ruff"?
I think I can help here. The Forecross employees are all very much into the performing arts, and will often unwind on a Friday night by putting on a spontaneous production of some Elizabethan or Jacobean tragedy. They keep a large wardrobe of period costumes on hand, with many authentic bodkins, pantaloons, codpieces and ruffs.
Forecross employees also have the use of a unique in-house eighteen hole golf course, behind the code factory on the seventh floor, which is famous amongst golf buffs in the bay area. Designed in the mid 1980's by Jack Nicklaus, it is less windy than Pebble Beach, but still very difficult.
Pat Dittmar will be the first to admit he is not much of a golfer, although he continues to accept invitations to play on the Forecross course out of his advanced sense of social etiquette. But he has trouble getting around in under 200, and will, without fail, slice left into the wardrobe area on the treacherous 3rd hole. He is thus forced to "putt from the ruff" (as well as "wedge from the codpiece" and "niblick from the heraldic armor").
As usual, the simplest explanation is the right one.
Kevin |
