Despite
my great love of the sport, I always get a certain feeling of anxiety
when I step up to the tee-off of the first hole. I never feel like my
game is going to be that good and I feel like some rich, old, white
person is going to drive me from the fairway with a metal rake for
trespassing. I have never been someone who is apt to wear the
traditional uniform of golf. Silly pants, sweater vests, and polo shirts
are just not my thing. I'm more into funny shirts and blue jeans,
actually. As it turns out, I'm pretty awesome at golf...and I have
always belonged, whether I knew it or not.
The fact that you see more middle class folks out on the green these days is most likely a sign of economics in motion. The courses learned a few years ago that everyone can love golf. It isn't something that should be held away from the reaching hands of the public, just so rich people have a place to go to feel special. The more the course let in people who wore funny golf tees instead of polos, the more money they made. Now private golf courses are going extinct because they just aren't generating the revenue that public courses are.
A wonderful example of how this sport is for everyone is a man you all may heard of named Tiger Woods. Tiger takes that rich, white golfer image and tears it apart with tremendous drives and stunning finishes. His golfing skill elevates him above all others. If golf were as aloof as the television claims, someone like Tiger would never have broken out and became the star he is today and golf would have been deprived of witnessing his particular method of genius.
Golf is genuinely a game for gentlemen, despite the fact that idiots like me who wear shirts from Wal-Mart love the game anyway. I make jokes, but golf has taught me much about life outside of the game. It has taught me to treat others with respect, and that what they are doing in their game (or life), is just as important as anything I am doing. It has taught me to be patient with myself and to know that skill will come with much practice. Above all, golf has shown me that it is okay to have tiny balls, as long as you are swinging a long club.
My father and I may be 'common', working-class folks, but we have the hearts of lions where golf is concerned. I shave points off my handicap every year, and I plan on continuing to do so for as long as I'm able to swing that iron. I dream about golf, I eat golf, and I breathe golf. Perhaps if I ever settle down into marriage, I'll retire my golfing shirts and spend more Sundays at home. Of course, perhaps I won't. Golf is the best time I have all week, and giving that up would steal a huge chunk of passion from my heart. Hopefully, my future wife will be a golfer too.
The fact that you see more middle class folks out on the green these days is most likely a sign of economics in motion. The courses learned a few years ago that everyone can love golf. It isn't something that should be held away from the reaching hands of the public, just so rich people have a place to go to feel special. The more the course let in people who wore funny golf tees instead of polos, the more money they made. Now private golf courses are going extinct because they just aren't generating the revenue that public courses are.
A wonderful example of how this sport is for everyone is a man you all may heard of named Tiger Woods. Tiger takes that rich, white golfer image and tears it apart with tremendous drives and stunning finishes. His golfing skill elevates him above all others. If golf were as aloof as the television claims, someone like Tiger would never have broken out and became the star he is today and golf would have been deprived of witnessing his particular method of genius.
Golf is genuinely a game for gentlemen, despite the fact that idiots like me who wear shirts from Wal-Mart love the game anyway. I make jokes, but golf has taught me much about life outside of the game. It has taught me to treat others with respect, and that what they are doing in their game (or life), is just as important as anything I am doing. It has taught me to be patient with myself and to know that skill will come with much practice. Above all, golf has shown me that it is okay to have tiny balls, as long as you are swinging a long club.
My father and I may be 'common', working-class folks, but we have the hearts of lions where golf is concerned. I shave points off my handicap every year, and I plan on continuing to do so for as long as I'm able to swing that iron. I dream about golf, I eat golf, and I breathe golf. Perhaps if I ever settle down into marriage, I'll retire my golfing shirts and spend more Sundays at home. Of course, perhaps I won't. Golf is the best time I have all week, and giving that up would steal a huge chunk of passion from my heart. Hopefully, my future wife will be a golfer too.
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