I have been too humble to mention the comparable national attention this blog has received. But I have been encouraged by the presidents pride in his golf course prowess to fill you in on the honors and accolades this blog has achieved in the decade-plus in which it has been published.
This is the tenth consecutive year that this blog has won the international prize for the best blog published on bobpriddy.net. Unlike the winner of the president’s club championship, this blog first must win the local, regional, and national prizes.
The humility that has prevented me from making these announcements has been eased by President Trump’s self-generated humble displays of his great linksmanship, exemplified by his announcement three years ago.
It is an added tribute to his strength & stamina that he was able to win the tournament that year although he missed the first day of play. He had played a round of golf somewhere else a couple of days earlier and he counted that score for his Mar-a=Lago tournament. I have not read his tournament rules although I am sure there is a past-champion’s exemption for times such as those.
It was an innovative approach that the PGA should consider.
An added distinction came earlier this year in recognition that this series of insightful writings has neither caused nor ended a war when I was awarded the bobpriddy.net Peace Prize. I was not invited to the White House to celebrate that victory. But that’s fair because I haven’t invited him to the Priddy house to celebrate his gold victories.
It takes considerable strength and stamina to compile these entries each day—-and I don’t have a big airplane to take me someplace to compose them.
Strength and stamina are qualities we share in achieving these honors and accolades. He uses a golf cart. I have a chair from which each of my fingers makes letters appear on a screen. In fact, I probably had far more key strokes than he had golf strokes, so my strength and stamina actually might be superior to his.
I differ, however, that golfing and blogging are “in a real way” like a physical examination because neither involves a prostate check.
Although I cannot match his claim that the same strength and stamina that it takes to win a golf tournament is the same kind of strength and stamina that it takes to govern because cats govern my house more than I do and often sit on my lap to supervise. He has no supervision.
He and I share the same ability to preserve our strength and stamina for the important times by maintaining an attitude that any time is a good time for a nap.
On rare occasions I have been forced to miss some days of posting, much as Mr. Trump missed the entire first day of his 2023 tournament that he won, although I think his number of missed days governing exceeds my missed days of posting.
For many years, bobpriddy.net also had a golf championship and, as is the case with Mr. Trump’s club tournament, I won every year whether it was on the glamorous Pirate’s Cove Course at the beautiful Lake of the Ozarks, or at courses in Michigan and Colorado or near Jefferson City. Sometimes there were other competitors but club rules categorized all of them as amateurs and scoring records were not kept.
I would show you my wall of medals and my shelves of trophies but all of you know that I differ somewhat from the president by not being as prone to gratuitous displays as he seems to be. I can’t afford a ballroom. The best we can do is a walk-in shower and two walk-in closets.
I wonder if his club trophy is a new one each year or if it is a large trophy such as the Stanley Cup that is engraved with the winner’s name annually. I also wonder if it’s 24-carat gold. Mine are more modest although several are artistic creations in Lucite.
The burden of the passing years is a concern and it is hard to anticipate what will happen when this blog’s greatest inspiration exits the stage. There will be no bobpriddy.net museum and library. I don’t think there will be room in my urn.
Nonetheless, congratulations to me for winning this important international award again. In all honesty, I could not have done it without him.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.