Chapter Ninety-Five: A Hole-in-One
"Nothing will happen to this kid, right?" Li Xiu looked at the address sent by Chu Jun, and it turned out to be outside Chongshan City.
Li Xiu pondered for a moment, but decided to take a look.
I found Ximen Guan, but fortunately, he hadn't started to transform the ghost face demon costume, so Li Xiu took it back and used it first.
Carrying the ghost-faced demon costume out of the door, after leaving Shigeyama Castle, he headed towards the slope to the west.
It's no wonder that there is no mobile phone signal here, Chongshan Castle was originally built in the deep mountains and old forests, except for some signal towers in the city, there is no signal for mobile phones outside the city at all.
"How could Chu Jun identify gems in such a place?" When Li Xiu came to the place that Chu Jun said, he saw that there were no buildings around, just a sloping meadow.
However, it seems that the turf here should be paved by hand, and the Southern Cross Federation does not produce this kind of grass at all.
"Li Xiu, this way." Li Xiu saw Chu Jun beckoning to him from afar.
In addition to Chu Jun, there were a few other people over there, an old man, a middle-aged man, and a few others who looked like bodyguards or retinues.
"Li Xiu, let me introduce you, this is Boss Zhou." Chu Jun introduced both sides.
However, he only said that the old man was Boss Zhou, and the middle-aged man's surname was Yu, and he also called Mr. Yu.
"Boss Zhou, you see that everyone is here, why don't we take a look at the gem?" Chu Jun said to the old man.
"Don't rush, play first." The old man was holding a golf club, gesturing at the ball on the ground, and then with a putt, he gently pushed the ball into the hole.
"Boss Zhou, your ball skills are superb, I can't beat you." Chu Jun said with a smile.
"Young people's mentality can't be too anxious, so let's do it, you can play another game with me, and you don't have to be so troublesome in scoring, even if you score a stroke, you can win me by one stroke, old man, I will give you a gem, how many strokes can you win me, I will give you as many gems as you like today, what do you think?" Boss Zhou said with a smile.
"This ......" Chu Jun hesitated and didn't speak.
Li Xiu could see that this Boss Zhou was deliberately embarrassing Chu Jun, and I was afraid that he didn't plan to do business with Chu Jun today at all.
"Boss Zhou, does the stroke I won count?" Li Xiu asked with a smile.
"Of course, young man, you also like to play Goffle?" Boss Zhou looked at Li Xiu and asked with a smile.
"I don't have much fun, but I'm interested, and in this era, there's no harm in exercising, what do you say?" Li Xiu pretended not to see Chu Jun, who had been glancing at him, and said with a smile.
"Okay, then let's play a game, the rules are still the same, if you can win me by one stroke, I will take a gem out, this is a standard 18-hole course, the par is seventy-two, when I was young, I played less than sixty strokes, and now I am old, I am afraid that I will not be able to play sixty strokes." As he spoke, Boss Zhou got on an electric four-wheeled vehicle and rode towards the tee.
Chu Jun pulled Li Xiu into another car, and asked Li Xiu while driving: "Li Xiu, how are you playing golf?" Boss Zhou was a professional when he was young, and he once set a new record. ”
"It's okay, tell me what the rules of golf are?" Li Xiu said.
"You don't know the rules?" Chu Jun looked at Li Xiu with wide eyes, and the car almost lost control.
"Let's talk about the rules first." Li Xiu said with a smile.
"There's no hope anyway, so you should exercise and exercise." Chu Jun was a little speechless, but he still told Li Xiu the rules.
To put it simply, there are a total of 18 holes on this course, as long as you hit the ball into the 18 holes in turn, the fewer times you use it, the better, and the total length of the 18 holes is about 6,000 meters.
The standard eighteen-hole like this is to play seventy-two strokes, and a person like Boss Zhou who can complete the eighteen-hole with only about sixty strokes is already a professional-level level.
Generally people who don't know how to play are likely to play a few hundred strokes, and amateurs, depending on their level, generally have more than eighty or ninety strokes, and more than a hundred strokes are also common.
"How many strokes do you want to win?" After Li Xiu listened to the rules, he said to Chu Jun.
"It's better to win more than five strokes, but you don't even know the rules, so you don't need any pressure, just play." Chu Jun said.
Li Xiu smiled and didn't say anything, Chu Jun helped him get the qualification to enter the Brave Trial Ground, this favor is to be repaid, and now it is just right to repay this favor.
After a few people came to the tee, Boss Zhou first chose a club, and then played a few balls to warm up.
Mr. Yu, Li Xiu and Chu Jun also tried to play a few balls, warming up first to find a feeling.
"This hole is a standard par 4 with a distance of more than 200 meters." Boss Zhou smiled and said: "When I was young, I only used two shots at most for this kind of par-4 hole, and I often played double eagle balls. ”
Li Xiu didn't understand what he meant by the Double Eagle Ball, and looked at Chu Jun on the side.
Chu Jun explained in a low voice: "One shot less than par is called birdie, less than two strokes is called eagle ball, less than three strokes is called double eagle ball, and there are several other names." ”
"The highest par on a hole is a par five, and if you can make a hole-in-one, you'll be four strokes less than par, so what's that called?" Li Xiu asked.
"Theoretically, it's called Mitaka, but this kind of ball should be very difficult to come by, and the distance of the par-5 hole is more than 400 meters, even if you are a professional, it is difficult to play that far. Of course, there are a lot of trialists who can go that far, but it's still hard to get a hole-in-one, and I've never heard much of the Mitaka Ball. Chu Jun thought for a while and said.
"It seems that young man, you are not very familiar with golf." Boss Zhou said with a smile.
"Just play and get acquainted." Li Xiu replied.
"Okay, then let you fight first." Boss Zhou felt that this young man was not very modest, and he was a little unhappy.
Li Xiu did not refuse, stood on the table, held the club, and took a batting posture.
He'd just seen a couple of guys' batting positions, and he'd practiced it, so it's not a problem for him to get a hole-in-one at this distance.
Boss Zhou looked at Li Xiu, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and he said secretly in his heart: "Young man, don't underestimate the sport of golf, there is a lot of knowledge in it, you even chose the wrong club, and you still play with me, do you really think the old man is easy to bully?" ”
When Boss Zhou was thinking about it, Li Xiu twisted his waist and swung his arms, and he had already knocked the ball away.
Watching the ball fly high into the sky, Boss Zhou was a little surprised in his heart, this ball hit very far, and the arc was also good, and the direction did not seem to be deviated.
Boss Zhou hurriedly picked up the binoculars and stared at the direction of the golf flight.
To his surprise, the ball flew to the golf hole on the green, but it looked a little higher and he was about to miss it.
In the next second, Boss Zhou's eyes widened.
The ball actually landed on the flag at the entrance of the hole, and when the flag blocked it, the ball fell and fell right into the hole.
"Is this beginner's luck?" Boss Zhou's expression was a little strange, but he still felt that it was just Li Xiu's luck.
"Hole-in-one, beautiful." Chu Jun exclaimed with some excitement.
"Hehe, beginner's luck is good, the flag has helped you a lot." Boss Zhou said.
Then it was Boss Zhou's turn, he took a deep breath and aimed in the direction of the green, seemingly hoping to make a hole-in-one.
Unfortunately, God didn't take care of him, and although the ball hit the green, it didn't make it to the hole.
Mr. Yu and Chu Jun were even farther apart, and Chu Jun even missed the direction.
Several people left the tee and continued to play.
Boss Zhou only took two shots, which was a good result to celebrate on this standard par four. But with Li Xiu's hole-in-one in front, Boss Zhou couldn't be happy.
On the second shot, Boss Zhou still let Li Xiu hit first, and he and Mr. Yu sat on the chair behind him and chatted.
"Young people are just too impatient, the wind is so strong now, and they don't know how to avoid the limelight, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers!" Boss Zhou looked at the flag swaying in the wind, squinted his eyes and smiled.
"How can young people be as calm as you are Zhou Lao, they still have a lot to learn." Mr. Yu followed Boss Zhou's words and said.
"Wherever it is my turn, the world will teach them a lesson first." Boss Zhou watched Li Xiu knock the ball out in the wind, and his eyes were about to squint.
Unlike sports such as football and basketball, golf is more susceptible to environmental influences, and the wind does not seem to be very strong, but when the ball is in the air, it will be affected by the wind during long-distance flight, and it will seriously deviate from the target.
Li Xiu's ball flew out, and when the ball flew in the air, it really shifted significantly.
Boss Zhou was still smiling at the beginning, but as the ball flew farther and farther, it gradually began to fall, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared.
The ball was originally very biased, but due to the influence of the wind, it gradually approached the position of the hole, and it was about to fall to the hole.
Boss Zhou stood up suddenly, picked up the binoculars to look, and just saw the moment the ball went into the hole.
"Young man, you're really lucky." Boss Zhou said with a smile.
"Luck is also part of strength." Li Xiu said vigorously, and he didn't give Boss Zhou any face.
Boss Zhou coughed lightly: "You rest for a while, and when we finish playing, we will go to the next hole together, the next hole is a par-five hole, but it's not easy to play." ”
Turning his face, the smile on Boss Zhou's face disappeared immediately, and he muttered: "Young people nowadays are really uncute, and they don't know modesty at all." ”
This hole is a par three, and Boss Zhou has scored two shots, but he still can't be happy.
When it came to the third hole, Boss Zhou sat there with a sigh of relief, still thinking in his heart: "I don't believe that your luck can be so good, even if you are lucky enough, the distance of this hole is 500 yards, I don't believe that you can still rely on luck to get into the hole, if you can still get into the hole with one shot, I will eat this club." ”
"Old Zhou, what do you want to be so happy?" Mr. Yu looked at Boss Zhou and laughed, and asked a little uncertainly.
"I was thinking, this young man has a good talent, but he doesn't have a good temper, if we can change this temper, maybe I can become a good golfer in the future, maybe we can use it." Boss Zhou said.
"I think he's doing well right now, and if I can, I'd like to talk to him later." Mr. Yu said.
"No, if you want to find him to participate in the trial, just rely on his two balls, it's all ......luck," Boss Zhou said with some surprise: "Aren't you afraid that he will waste the opportunity you got so hard?" ”
"I don't think it's luck, this young man is amazing." Mr. Yu said seriously.
"What's amazing, you don't understand the ball, those two balls just now were all luck, who can make a hole-in-one like that? I'm telling you, if he can get a hole-in-one this time, I'll eat all the clubs. Boss Zhou accidentally said everything in his heart.
"It's a bit farther, and it's a bit harder to get a hole-in-one on the par-five hole." When Mr. Yu was talking, Li Xiu had already knocked the ball away.
He still used the same iron as before, which is generally used to tee off on the par-3 hole, and it is not suitable to play too far away.
Li Xiu used this club at the beginning and never changed it.
At the moment of hitting the ball, the skill imprint on Li Xiu's finger emerged, which was an E-level blood-boiling skill.
With the swing of Li Xiu's hands and waist, the head of the ball hit the white ball, and directly knocked the white ball out and flew high in the direction of the green.
Seeing that the ball flew high and far, and actually flew in the direction of the green, Boss Zhou suddenly stood up, walked directly to the front tee-off table, and took a telescope to look carefully.
"Won't you...... Impossible, right...... Can't go in......" Boss Zhou's face kept changing, and the corners of his mouth kept twitching, almost shouting out what was in his heart.
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Again, the ball was a hole-in-one, clean and not a bit of mud and water.
"This is okay......" Boss Zhou looked at him blankly, people were a little numb, he was a little skeptical now, whether Li Xiu was a real robot, how could a normal person be so accurate.
This is a hole more than 500 yards away, one hole-in-one, Boss Zhou has played golf all his life, and he has never seen such a play.
Don't talk about Boss Zhou, Chu Jun is stupid, what kind of ball is this, it's like a missile with a positioning and tracking device installed.
"Li Xiu, you are amazing, this ball is as accurate as a homing missile." Chu Jun said happily to Li Xiu.
When Boss Zhou heard Chu Jun's words, his heart suddenly moved, and he stopped playing, and directly asked the bodyguard behind him to take the ball that Li Xiu played, and directly halved everything, he wondered if there was any positioning device installed in it, otherwise how could it be so accurate.
Boss Zhou has forgotten that this ball is his own.
Of course, there was nothing, which made Boss Zhou even more depressed.
In the next hole, Boss Zhou has stopped playing, because there is nothing to play, Li Xiu is a hole-in-one every time, and Boss Zhou feels that golf is not interesting at all, and he doesn't want to play anymore in the future.
"Don't fight, just tell me how many gems you need." Seeing Li Xiu score the hole again, Boss Zhou directly threw the club in his hand.
"Boss Zhou, I don't want much, I will buy the five gems that I negotiated before, and I will buy them at the price I said before." Chu Jun said with the excitement in his heart.
"You don't have to pay for it, I'll give you the gems, can this little brother lend me a favor." Boss Zhou directly asked the bodyguard to bring over a box full of gems, and when he opened it, it was full of large gems, small ones were three or five carats, and there were not a few large ones with more than ten carats, and they were all high-end goods such as ruby sapphires, not cheap gems such as tourmaline.
Picking out five sapphires and giving them to Chu Jun, Boss Zhou's eyes looked at Li Xiu, and he didn't even talk about the price.
"Boss Zhou, Li Xiu has no intention of offending, it's all my ...... blame for this," Chu Jun hurriedly said.
"You misunderstood, I didn't want to embarrass him, I just wanted to talk to this little brother and exchange experiences, there is no other meaning." Boss Zhou hurriedly waved his hand, he just wanted to know why Li Xiu was able to hit so accurately.
"This ......" Chu Jun couldn't make a decision, and looked at Li Xiu.
"No problem." Li Xiu nodded and agreed.
Boss Zhou was overjoyed, pulled Li Xiu directly into his car, and couldn't wait to ask: "Little brother, can you tell me, do you have any tricks to play, how can you play so accurately?" ”
"It's not a trick, I've got the talent of enhancing control and accuracy in a trial ground before......" Li Xiu pushed this away from the trialist talent.
"It turns out that little brother you are a trialist, it is not easy to get a talent trialist, I didn't expect that little brother, you have already achieved such achievements at a young age, and your future achievements are limitless......" Boss Zhou praised Li Xiu vigorously, and he was about to hold Li Xiu to the sky.
Chu Jun in the car behind him listened more and more strangely, Zhou Bailong, the gem king of Red Sand City, actually filmed a young man's sycophant, and he was so refreshed, if he said this, I'm afraid no one would believe it.
Although the five main cities of the Southern Cross Federation are said to be on an equal footing, no one can control anyone, and they are nominally equal.
But in fact, among the five main cities, Hongsha City is the most powerful one, because Hongsha City produces the best rubies in the world, and also produces the best sapphires in the world, and its strength is the strongest among the five main cities.
Of course, Taylor City can no longer be regarded as one of the five main cities, and some small cities with slightly better development are much better than the current situation of Taylor City.
Zhou Bailong is known as the gem king of Hongsha City, and one-third of the gem mines in Hongsha City have more or less his shares.
Even throughout the Southern Cross Federation, many gem mines have his shares.
Such an old man, just such a hobby, but he was pinched by Li Xiu, Zhou Bailong still eats this set, and has been asking which trial ground can let him have the same ability as Li Xiu, and he seems to be eager to try, and he has the posture to break through himself.
Of course, even if Zhou Bailong really wanted to go, I am afraid that no one would really dare to let him in.
If something happens to Zhou Bolong, something will happen to the Southern Cross Federation.
Zhou Bailong invited Li Xiu, Chu Jun, and Mr. Yu to have dinner together, and specially asked Li Xiu to sit next to him, looking intimate.
Chu Jun originally wanted Li Xiu to help him identify the gems, but now he doesn't need it, Zhou Bailong doesn't want his money at all, five sapphires of more than three carats, all of them were given away for nothing, what else do you have to identify the gems that were given away for nothing?