The beauty of playing with strangers

Why 4 hours on a golf course with strangers is a feature, not a bug.

I’d been stuck in an apartment in St.Kilda for 6 months of lockdown, waiting for the Premier of Victoria, Dan Andrews to relieve us from what was the longest lockdown of any major city in the world at the time. It was September 2020.

I remember the day Mr.Andrews appeared on our television screens to tell us we were free. The overnight curfew had been li…