Thursday, 12 January 2012

Golf: The final frontier. These are the voyages of a struggling golfer. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new courses, to seek out new skills and new perspective, to boldly go where no golfer has gone before.


It's finally dawned on me that maybe I should try to document my struggle. With all this effort and time being poured into something that has no intrinsic value other than my own self actualization I have to try to extract "something else" from it. Maybe this blog will help, or maybe this blog is just another way of side stepping something more real. 


I will start to share my journey and observations by first sharing where I am at. I'm good, think I'm on a bit of an upswing at the moment. Life has thrown me a few curve balls from time to time and god know's I willingly stepped in front of a few, but it's in my hands now and I plan to move forward with some fervor.


But what about the golf I hear you say .? Well the golf is important too. It's something I hold onto, a passion so to speak. But it has it's place too. I think it's something I will consider in the coming days. Why so many people including myself persist to make a space for this amazing yet entirely frustrating game.


For my first installment I will leave you with this quote from the great Bobby Jones, I must say it sums up things quite nicely.


"Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. 
You get bad breaks from good shots; 
you get good breaks from bad shots - 
but you have to play the ball where it lies."