On June 27, Southern Regional Board of Education member Kevin Lyons openly posed a question to me on Facebook. “When do you want to rumble?” the post began, a day after I played my third “Can You Beat Biggy?” challenge match of the summer. “How many strokes do you need?”

Now, this easily could have been dismissed as a rhetorical question – onethat didn’t need to be answered. However, once the shock of such an audacious question finally wore off a week or so later, I messaged Lyons privately.

“You want to play me?” I asked, leaving off the “LOL” in case he really was serious.