Golf can be so frustrating. It can also be so exhilarating. One day you can do nothing wrong and the next time you go out you seem to be able to do nothing right! Some days you can strike the ball really well and score badly and on others you seem not to hit it as well, but somehow you manage to chip and putt well and finish up with a better score.
At our club, we managed to acquire the services of a first-rate head greenkeeper and this guy has really gone to town on the greens, so that we have been playing on the main greens all winter. Not only that, the greens have been mighty speedy - as good as we have been used to only at the height of summer.
One of the greens' staff also happens to be an excellent golfer, with a handicap of +1 and he is the guy charged with cutting the holes and the actual placement of the flags. He places them in some very tricky places, often at one end of the green and usually at the start of an awkward slope. This means that we have a lot of very long putts that can gather speed as they go past the hole. Putting can therefore be a very tricky part of the game. Another challenging part of this great game.
I have been fortunate enough to be in a "clobbering-the-ball-well" phase for the past few weeks, with some nice iron play and some pretty good chipping and putting thrown in. This make a chap feel great when playing golf, a fabulous adrenaline buzz, which means that every shot is approached with a lot of confidence. If you get to play against someone in the same fame of mind, which I managed to do last week in a club Stableford competition, you get the most fantastic morning's entertainment imaginable.
If you are one of these people who reckon that playing golf is a good walk spoiled, you will have no idea what I am talking about, but, unfortunately for you, you are missing out on one helluva great pastime.
When you have reached a certain age, you will reckon that a good game of golf is better than sex (one of the guys said to me last week, "If you think sex is a pain in the ass, you are doing it wrong!").
One of the great things about a round of golf with your friends is the banter and the gamesmanship. You shouldn't get involved in gamesmanship with someone you don't know well or in a competition - this is bad etiquette - but with your friends you can have some highly amusing moments with comments like "make sure you don't hit into those trees on the right" or "watch this guy hit a ball!" or "Go on then! Get past that one!".
If you dish out gamesmanship, make sure you can take it with good humor. Golf is a companionable game and you have to play it in such a way that your playing buddies enjoy playing with you.
I'm Al Rimmington and I invite you to visit my blog at AlsGolfSite.com. It contains some of my ramblings and thoughts on improving your golf, golfing trips and golfing equipment.
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