DiscussWorldIssues - Socio-Economic Religion and Political Uncensored Debate - View Single Post

**ebonytipchik** · 07-25-2010, 07:27 PM

God, I love this game. It will make you feel like you can fly, then burn your wings and force you tumbling to the ground.

I spent a week of vacation just working in the yard in the AM and playing golf every afternoon. I shot 76, 75, 79 on successive days, only to post a 90 on the next. Same course, same clubs, same person, different game. If I didn't have a sense of humor and a grasp on the concept of irony, I'd slit my wrists.

I know all of us suffer under the same delusion that one day, we will get consistent. It is a myth. There is no such thing. No one ever looks at the pros who miss the cut. Sometimes they go from shooting 65 the previous week to win only to shoot back to back 80's to miss the cut by 15.

It is an ugly truth that if you love this game, there are going to be days when you want run screaming from the course then toss your clubs one at a time from the car window. I know brother, I can testify!

Still, it is part of the tradition of golf to sit around comparing war wounds from those God-awful rounds when you couldn't make a shot if they were holding a gun on you. My last debacle was just yesterday when I took a 12 on a par 5 without really hitting a shot I thought would end up in the trouble it did.

What was your last misery that you can laugh about now?

07-25-2010, 07:27 PM	#1
ebonytipchik Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 450 Senior Member	Golf's not frustrating. God, I love this game. It will make you feel like you can fly, then burn your wings and force you tumbling to the ground. I spent a week of vacation just working in the yard in the AM and playing golf every afternoon. I shot 76, 75, 79 on successive days, only to post a 90 on the next. Same course, same clubs, same person, different game. If I didn't have a sense of humor and a grasp on the concept of irony, I'd slit my wrists. I know all of us suffer under the same delusion that one day, we will get consistent. It is a myth. There is no such thing. No one ever looks at the pros who miss the cut. Sometimes they go from shooting 65 the previous week to win only to shoot back to back 80's to miss the cut by 15. It is an ugly truth that if you love this game, there are going to be days when you want run screaming from the course then toss your clubs one at a time from the car window. I know brother, I can testify! Still, it is part of the tradition of golf to sit around comparing war wounds from those God-awful rounds when you couldn't make a shot if they were holding a gun on you. My last debacle was just yesterday when I took a 12 on a par 5 without really hitting a shot I thought would end up in the trouble it did. What was your last misery that you can laugh about now?
	Quote