Have you heard about the
phenomenal lives and earnings of world-class professional golfers
and thought how great it would be to have your child or grandchild
take up the sport of golf? I suppose most of us have experienced
these yearnings. If your juniors do take up golf, it will be
wonderful for them whether they ever become champions at the sport
or not. I consider this to be true for the following reasons:
1. Golf teaches self-discipline.
True mastery of the sport takes hard work as well as fun. Once they
begin to play in competition of any kind, they are required to be
well prepared; to be on time for either a practice session or a
game. They are taught to restrain their reactions when things do not
go as well as they desire.
2. Golf is a game of honor. Many
of the strokes players count against themselves may not have been
witnessed by others, but the player knows in his heart that if he or
she cheats, they are only cheating themselves.
3. This is an incredibly complex
game which really is made up of several games: the short game, the
long game and everything in between. A girl recently asked me if the
golf courses in Michigan were much different from those in Florida
and I told her that every course is unique. Even if you play the
same course all the time, it will play differently at different
times depending on the weather, the time of day, exactly how tall
each blade of grass is and an infinite amount of other variables.
This can teach a youngster the kind of flexibility we all need to
deal successfully with the variables in life.
4. Juniors can work on their
golf game without a golf course. In fact, it is absolutely necessary
that they work on their game a lot before they go out onto a course.
This can be done in several different places: Chichi Rodriguez said
that every night before he went to bed he hit the leg of the bedroom
dresser with several dozen three foot putts. Golfers understand the
significance of this exercise.
5. This is a game to enjoy our
entire lives. Its complex nature prevents it from becoming boring.
No one so far in history, has ever defeated the game.
6. There is an element to golf
called "handicapping" which categorizes golfers as to their ability
and a player strives to improve his or her "handicap." So, actually,
in this game, one is always playing against one's self. This teaches
a special kind of independence.
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