O’Brien loved to play golf and would go out alone to a course and get paired up with any group that needed a fourth. One day he went to his favorite course and the pro said, “I’m sorry O’Brien, but the only group I can put you with is one with three Hasidic rabbis.”
O’Brian says, “That’s fine with me.”
He joins the group and tees off. His shot is about 200 yards out and off to the right rough. Reb Moshe tees off 300 yards straight out into the middle of the fairway. Reb Yitzchak’s shot is about 290 and Reb Yaacov’s is 300, but slightly off center. O’Brien has trouble getting out of the rough and four-putts, while the rabbis’ approach shots are right on the pin, and each two-putts for par.
The rest of the round is the same, with the rabbi’s scores either par or under par, while O’Brien has a 95. He says to them, “You guys must play and practice all the time.”
Reb Yitzchak says, “No, we study all the time and only play once a week. But, on our Sabbath, while we are in shul, we say a prayer asking G~d to give us one good round of golf each week.”
O’Brien is so impressed that he goes home and tells his wife that they are converting. They study, convert, join a shul, and go to services every Shabbat. About a year later, O’Brien runs into the threesome of rabbis at the same course and they invite him to play with them. The game is exactly like last year’s. O’Brien is doing nothing right, and the three are perfect.
At the end, O’Brien says to the rabbis, “I don’t understand it. I converted, I joined a shul, pray every week.”
Rabbi Moshe says, “You joined a shul? Which one?”
O’Brien says, “Beth Shalom.”
Rabbi Moshe says, “No, no, no! Beth Shalom is for TENNIS!”