Playing Golf At An Amateur's Level Added: 11/22/2007

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Whenever someone tells me to relax and enjoy golf because it is just a game then I know that is a person that has accepted playing golf at an amateur level. I am one of those people that thinks that if I can just find a way to shave a stroke off my game here or there then the next stop is putting on the green jacket at The Masters. But the reality is that golf at the amateur level is probably should be the most fun anyone ever has playing golf but yet golf at the amateur level isn’t challenging enough for the pros who really know the game and it is a little too challenging for the people that only get to play once a week. Golf at its best is a game that forces you to accept where you are in life or else you will certainly suffer a heart attack from worrying way too much about all of the could be situations you have ever been in. Golf at the amateur level is so beautiful and perfect that the British Open used to be called the British Amateur Golf Championship because the British recognized how wonderful golf at the amateur level is, or at least can be. But as long as there are delusional people like me that think that I can really get that slice to work to my advantage if I just turn my body more and play into my slice the golf at the amateur level will stay tainted and stained with the sweat of guys that are just not good enough and will not admit it.

Golf is like anything else in that you need to practice a lot to be good at it then you need to play a lot to stay good at it. Tiger Woods would not be the pro he is today if he had not played golf almost every day of his life from the time he could hold a club. Even today if Tiger takes a couple of months off he still needs a few weeks of practice rounds before he feels confident enough to compete again. I don’t think anyone is born with the gift of being a golf champion and that is why golf at the amateur level is probably the best golf you will ever see. It is people that know they need to work hard at something working really hard at it and still getting conquered by it. Take any amateur, give them nothing to do for six months but play golf, give them daily lessons from some of the best teachers in the game, and you will probably have a champion. The only thing that is born into any good golfer is an internal sense of rhythm. You need that to swing the club consistently. Other than that pretty much all of the other talents in golf at the amateur or pro level are learned and then maintained by constant play. It is the purest of games like that.

Next time you tee up a golf ball give some thought to where your game would be if you had the time and then when you realize you do not have that kind of time then you can enjoy golf at the amateur level. Golf is like any other sport in that you need to dedicate your life to it to be good enough at it to make a living. But don’t let all the cameras and money fool you, there is nothing that compares to golf at the amateur level and there is no more pure golfer than the one that wants so badly to go pro but just cannot find the time and cannot seem to get rid of that nasty slice anyways.

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