The Brunswick School golf team, trying hard to become the most hated bunch of rich kids on the planet, did just that last week to avoid a traffic jam on Interstate-95 that would have caused the team to potentially miss the biggest tournament of the year.
"We were going to have to bag it. It would have been a bummer. I just called my dad. He has a friend who has a couple of puddle-jumper planes," said Conor Kenny, 18, the team's senior captain.When I was in high school, my golf coach once stopped on the interstate as we were heading to a tournament because he said we were making too much racket. I'm assuming Brunswick probably doesn't face those types of problems.
And in the amount of time it takes to play a par-5, four golfers and an assistant coach flew by charter plane Wednesday from Bridgeport's Sikorsky Memorial Airport to Fishers Island, N.Y., where the squad arrived in time for a 12-team invitational tournament that they went on to win.
"It's a 10-minute flight. Boom, got us right there," said Kenny, who shot an 80 and was the medalist from the blue tees at the Fishers Island Invitational.
The fact that a team took a plane to a golf tournament and then went on to win might seem like the best part of the story, but this line had me rolling.
Kenny's father, Michael, could not be reached for comment Friday. His wife said he was out playing golf.Seems like a tough place to live.
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You say, "jet." The kid said, "puddle-jumpers." Aside from the absurdity of it all, realistically this could have been a small, piston engine airplane that holds six people and some golf clubs.
If using connections to get the job done, gets the job done, this is little more than a human interest story.
I agree with diane, you use the tools available. I'm sure that anyone other than these "rich kids" would have turned down a free ride to a golf match on a private jet. I find that unlikely. Oh and if that picture is of the plane they took I would say its a bit more than a puddle jumper, but congrats to these kids for turning lemons into lemonade.
That was an interesting story.
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Hey, if I had friends with a plane...i would use it too.
I heard brunswick is a great school with a great bunch of kids