There's nothing about golf that hasn't been said.

I write with a subject in mind and with golf, I had so many things to say, but when I got to writing about it, I got stuck from the first sentence.

I bought my first clubs in 1982, but I started to play seriously 5 years ago during the corona pandemic and really seriously in 2025. No coach, just me figuring out mechanics of a swing. I change my swing every time I am playing a round, which is 3 times a week. My golf buddies play 6 times a week.

I watch YouTube for Tiger Woods and Rory McElroy swings to emulate them. Like everyone else I am in awe of Tiger and his accomplishments. I don't think I will see another Tiger in my life time.

I am relatively short with short arms and a stiff back with a beer belly which makes my swing arc not so big making my shots 30 yards shorter than it should. And I haven't learned to overcome my handicap, yet.

I know that it's a losing cause because golf changes every time you think you got the hang of it into a chaos. It takes you to euphoric states then, bring you down to oblivion with just one swing. In a swing that is less than a second your whole body has to be in a perfect sync to make the ball fly to your destination. Every joint, every muscles. Another thing is that in less than a second, you have to remember all the sequence of the swing. You always forget one move! It makes you crazy.

It's a frustrating and daunting task. Even if you're a pro, you can't do that day in and day out, continuously. That's why you are in awe of Tiger. Even Tiger fucked up time to time.

If you're a bogey player, you swing and putt 90 times. Out of 90, if you had 1 single shot that was in perfect sync, you are so happy the whole day just thinking about it. Forget about hole-in one, it’s pure luck.

They say that there are 3 key factors in golf and they are; money, time and partners.

Golf is expensive, it takes a lot of time and you need partners to play with. I played by myself once and I don't want to do that again. Unless, if I wanted to make a point.

I am at a point now where I am not as obsessed as I was with golf. Actually, getting a bit weary because other things happen when you play with other people. Golf brings out people's true nature and collide if it's so different. And there are no two people that are alike. Bound to collide.

In golf, there are rules. You have to follow them in order to play fair and square. Rules are made to be broken, but in golf, you get penalized. And if you are in betting game with your buddies, those penalties are serious damage to your wallet.

They also say that you can never break an appointment to play golf. You get ostracized.

My wife had a situation where she seemed to have broken an appointment as promised, which she didn't, ended up in jealousy fight between the two of the eldest couple. My wife was just used to vent their anger. When you get old, you have to act your age. Some people are not built that way. They are so wrapped up thinking that they are better than others when there are no people around them. Stupidity rules the mass.

Things leads to another in strange ways and that's what golf shows. You hit a longest drive into the middle of the fairway and you're feeling great then your second shot goes OB. You're thinking, how could this happen?

You muff your approach to the green ending up in a bush. Then you hit a shot that goes into the hole. Birdie. You're thinking, how could this happen?

Strange!

There are even more strange things that happens in life, but we live with it to spend time until we all die.

I forget about the round of golf I just played on the way driving home. I guess my memory bank is depleted. Another sign of aging or just my character.

Thing about golf is that it is so similar to life itself that I wish now gone George Carlin, the sarcastic comedian whom I admired, played it. Then, he wouldn't have said golf is a mindless game for the elites and all courses should be for the homeless.

It's not a mindless game, it's a mentally and physically demanding sport that is based on science and physics. The mind is the key to the game. The game plays with your mind and your body. It tests your character. And it takes great effort to play the game as you want. People forget that true effort is required in everything you do. The effort is greater than the result.

Golf.

In the end, it's just a game.

Oh, what a game!