Being with people, without having to live up to anyone's expectations or be the life of the party. That's what's good about Marcus, see, just taking i...t easy and still being liked. And Hope, too..." Well, at least it ended well, then." Elspeth managed, nudging the other two as they stared."Yeah..." Briana managed. "If... well, Marcus and Hope can always go out another night, right?" Oh, you know, I think he actually likes her. He could really have had a chance there, could really have found. Dave nodded hopefully but he wasn't so sure. Julie and Beth both arrived home and Dave introduced them to Alec and Shauna. They all talked for another half hour before Alec and Shauna went to bed. Dave talked with his two sisters briefly before he headed to his room as well. As he lay in bed he thought about Jennifer arriving the next day and he wondered how he would get her alone. He worked dozens of scenarios through his head and he imagined Jennifer rejecting him flat in one extreme scenario. This didn't bother me in the least, and I struck up a conversation with him. He (we'll call him John) walked up to our terrace and talked to us, telling my wife and I that he was staying at a resort down the beach with a couple of buddies and had heard about the place we were staying. As our stretch of the beach was private, John snuck over to check it out. We offered him a drink and started answering questions we knew was surly to come. Questions like, Did I get jealous when my wife had sex. Doug was a minus ten handicap which meant he would get one stroke on each of the ten hardest ranked holes. One stroke would be subtracted from Doug's actual score on those holes to give his net score.The round went well for Dave and he shot sixty-eight. It took some adjustment to get used to the large but supportive crowd. Dave was surprised how well he played and he was really pumped about the tournament. Mike Weir had beat Dave by only one stroke and Chris was two strokes higher. Doug shot.