Everyone who’s ever flown has heard the frightening tales of bungling about LAX. Los Angeles International Airport is known for being evacuated when a housewife manages to unwittingly slip past 10 rings of security, of being shutdown and backed up. It’s supposed to be the air travel equivalent of a root canal, about as convenient as an enema.

I know people who fly out of their way just to avoid using LAX.

So it was with some trepidation that I found myself going through Los Angeles airport.

It only turned into the smoothest golf air travel trip ever. The golf bag was off the oversized luggage cart as soon as I hit baggage claim. The Rockettes do not have this kind of synchronization. Granted it wasn’t a rush hour time, but that’s still unheard of in golf bag airport speed.

I don’t know what Doug Carey, our old airport geek, would think of this and frankly don’t care. Less than 10 minutes from gate to car rental shuttle is reward enough.

It turns out flying LAX for a golf getaway isn’t crazy.