Saturday, October 02, 2004
Aye! But is it golf?
For many ears I've said you've gotta be a masochist to be a golfer.
To suffer the tortures and mental torments of a round of golf.
And then suffer the week-long wait for the weekend to get back
out there and beat this bloody game.
But over the years I've started to get a feeling that I kind of enjoy
self flagellation - and that's a scarey feeling.
So what would I do if I suddenly played almost perfect golf?
Give up the game because it had become boring?
And what would you do?
Here's a story, food for thought and maybe discussion
over a wee dram at the clubhouse during the weekend.
The (true) story goes the great triumvirate were playing in an exhibition game and Vardon was in
such awesome form Braid and Taylor couldn't come close to matching the pefection of his play.
Braid, the canny Scot said very little. But Taylor became so moody and disconsolate he advised
Vardon this kind of form was "Not Golf."
And indeed would it still be golf as we mortals know it, if we began playing golf like a golfing god ?
Good golfing over the weekend and may the gods be with you.
To suffer the tortures and mental torments of a round of golf.
And then suffer the week-long wait for the weekend to get back
out there and beat this bloody game.
But over the years I've started to get a feeling that I kind of enjoy
self flagellation - and that's a scarey feeling.
So what would I do if I suddenly played almost perfect golf?
Give up the game because it had become boring?
And what would you do?
Here's a story, food for thought and maybe discussion
over a wee dram at the clubhouse during the weekend.
The (true) story goes the great triumvirate were playing in an exhibition game and Vardon was in
such awesome form Braid and Taylor couldn't come close to matching the pefection of his play.
Braid, the canny Scot said very little. But Taylor became so moody and disconsolate he advised
Vardon this kind of form was "Not Golf."
And indeed would it still be golf as we mortals know it, if we began playing golf like a golfing god ?
Good golfing over the weekend and may the gods be with you.
