Thanks to a friend for sending this today:
God, What is my fascination with this game?
Is it the outdoors — the green fairways, the blue skies, the lakes and trees,
the feel of the breeze across my face?
Is it the friends with whom I play — their companionship, their encouragement, the conversation between holes, the silence as [...]

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I was lucky enough to get out and play yesterday. I am truly grateful for opportunities to get out and play during the week. And since I ended up going solo and practicing during the round, and because weather conditions were on the edge (windy, rain threatening, etc.), I ended up calling it a “practice [...]

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(Rooster Run, 96, blue tees)
No doubt golf is a game of perseverance. On the tour, I’m told they call it “grinding.” In my life, I like to make this dynamic into a gentler kind of determination that has me hanging in there but enjoying myself at the same time. To Tiger (before he hit his [...]

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“That was the soul of golf, the thing that made it the wonderful pursuit it was — that speculativeness, that not knowing where the dickens your ball was going when you hit it, that eternal hoping for the best, that never-failing chanciness. It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive…”
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