At last, she could only choose to use something wild-ranging as the stake. "Let's say, the one who loses the bet must fulfill one request to the other person no matter what it is."
Max's eyes gleamed with excitement when he heard this.
He narrowed his eyes and revealed a mischievous smile.
"Are you serious?"
Laura hadn't realized that she had walked into her own trap.
She even said righteously, "Of course. A great person never goes back on his or her word!"
Max instantly laughed happily and said, "OK. Let's do this!"
Then, the two adjusted their posture, ready to bat the last two balls.
But a question crossed Laura's mind. She called, "Hold on. What if we both score twice?"
Max said, "It's no problem. Then we shall just try more balls until one of us fail to score first."
Laura reckoned this sounded fair.
Thus, she agreed to compete like this.
After they set the rule, they started a new round.
Max scored on his first try.
So did Laura. She missed several goals when she was anxious before. But now, she had calmed her nerves, so she scored without difficulty.
However, she was not so lucky on her second try.
Max's ball rolled into the hole as he expected. But Laura went slightly astray and paused outside the hole.
She stared incredulously at that ball with rounded eyes.
"How could this be?" she thought, puzzled.
Seeing she failed to score, Max immediately rejoiced.
Standing there leaning on his club, he said with a smile, "What now? Will you admit defeat?"
Laura wrinkled her nose with disgruntlement and protested, "That didn't count. The wind was too strong and caused the ball to go astray."
"Tsk." Max screwed up his eyes, not arguing with her. "Alright. The wind is to blame if you say so. Then shall we try one more time?"
Laura was a little surprised. She clearly didn't expect Max would be so forbearing.
It was a perfect sunny day. There was no wind at all. She was obviously making an excuse for her defeat.
But Max didn't expose her trick. Thus, Laura was glad to play along.
She hurriedly put on a smile and said, "Sure. Let's try one more."
Yet, little did she know that this was Max's setup.
He had let her cheat only because he would make her fulfill her promise when she ran out of excuses and conceded defeat from the bottom of her heart later.
On the next few tries, Laura failed gloriously.
She resorted to all the pretexts she could think of. But God of Fortune just no longer favored her. No matter how hard she tried, she didn't get to score one more time.
What Laura had not realized was that she had played golf for more than an hour. As a regular woman, her strength was running low.
Thus, she had little energy for the game. Her muscles were tired.
That was why she failed to score several times on ends.
But Max was physically active. Playing golf for an hour was no challenge for him.
Besides, Laura just started to learn golf today, while Max had played golf for years. Therefore, she was not his match at all
In the end, Laura sincerely admitted her defeat.
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