One of the activities that I\u2019ve been able to participate in more since we moved to West Virginia is golf. The courses aren\u2019t crowded and the cost is reasonable. Four or five of us play on a pretty regular basis when the weather cooperates. The nice thing about our group is that for the most part, we\u2019ve all decided that it\u2019s okay to play golf just for fun!<\/p>\n
Someone once said that golf was called golf because all the other four letter words were taken. I guess our group leans more toward defining golf as, G<\/span>etting O<\/span>ld & L<\/span>iving F<\/span>ine\u2026<\/p>\n With the exception of our group, most golfers I know seem to take the game too seriously. Golf is the hardest sport to consistently play at the highest level. It can also be the easiest sport to play if your goal is to enjoy yourself and have fun. Since the weather is really too cold for golf, we\u2019re currently playing Winter Golf. During good weather, after our round of golf, we always stop for a beer or two and solve a few world issues. Since it\u2019s so cold now, every week we play Winter Golf \u2014 we just skip the hitting the ball part and get right to the beer and world issues. So golf can truly be played year round, even here is West Virginia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the activities that I\u2019ve been able to participate in more since we moved to West Virginia is golf. The courses aren\u2019t crowded and the cost is reasonable. Four or five of us play on a pretty regular basis … Continue reading
\nFirst of all, like anything else, you need to have realistic expectations about your abilities. We usually use the scorecard as a map to the next hole \u2014 we rarely keep score. When we hit a ball out of bounds or in the woods, we generally don\u2019t bother looking for it, we just amble down the fairway and drop another ball where we figure a good shot would have landed.
\nI even made up a score card that we use sometimes \u2014 it gives everyone a few \u201cfreebies\u201d along the way, like having a few mulligans\u2026 Of course my score card is much more imaginative. One of the rules we play by and rigorously enforce is to meet any serious or competitive behavior with the ridicule it deserves.<\/p>\n
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