bill41
Newbie
Looking back at my golfing years, I now realise that golf is so unfair in that it is so easy for some people to play and others have to work so hard to even break 100.
I think 'sporty' types start this super game with a great advantage - they already have eye/ball co-ordination tuned to their sport. They also have a degree of fitness that helps as their muscles are used to flexible requirement.
I took a pro footballer to play golf for his first time, many years ago and on the 2nd fairway he hit a super mid iron shot, he then told me he just used his 9 iron but 'made the face more flat'!!
Three cards later he was 12 handicap - end of season 4!!
My tutor when I started out was a bricklayer, working 12 hours a day and then out to golf on Saturday morning with two hackers, me being one of them, he was never on the practise area. I don't remember him playing other than par golf despite the distractions we provided, looking for balls etc.
The above two examples show that some people have a natural ability that the rest of us strive for and will probably never come near to achieving.
Golf however, with the handicapping system, allows us all to enjoy the game and what must be appreciated when reading postings on a forum, is that someone's 90 is comparable to another golfers 68 and maybe the 90 took more personal effort!
This is what gives us higher handicappers the same enjoyment or even a little bit more, when we look at the score recorded and stick out our chests.
New season, new high hopes, new low scores or in our case..... lowish! All exciting to look forward to!!
I think 'sporty' types start this super game with a great advantage - they already have eye/ball co-ordination tuned to their sport. They also have a degree of fitness that helps as their muscles are used to flexible requirement.
I took a pro footballer to play golf for his first time, many years ago and on the 2nd fairway he hit a super mid iron shot, he then told me he just used his 9 iron but 'made the face more flat'!!
Three cards later he was 12 handicap - end of season 4!!
My tutor when I started out was a bricklayer, working 12 hours a day and then out to golf on Saturday morning with two hackers, me being one of them, he was never on the practise area. I don't remember him playing other than par golf despite the distractions we provided, looking for balls etc.
The above two examples show that some people have a natural ability that the rest of us strive for and will probably never come near to achieving.
Golf however, with the handicapping system, allows us all to enjoy the game and what must be appreciated when reading postings on a forum, is that someone's 90 is comparable to another golfers 68 and maybe the 90 took more personal effort!
This is what gives us higher handicappers the same enjoyment or even a little bit more, when we look at the score recorded and stick out our chests.
New season, new high hopes, new low scores or in our case..... lowish! All exciting to look forward to!!
