What does playing golf mean to you.

What the sport of golf means to people is extremely difficult to put into words, since at any one moment golf can be any number of things. 

It can be a moment of triumph as you break 80 for the first time and give your mates a hard time or copping it from them in a crushing defeat as you 3-putt your last hole to lose a match, it can hold moments of pure joy and jubilation after you hole out for eagle and disbelief and heartbreak on the next as you pump two tee shots right out of bounds. 

We are not playing against other players, as much as we are playing against a course: an inanimate, unfeeling thing, even if it does not always seem like it. 

Why do you spend the money to play a game that humbles you?” 

 The answer is as simple as it is complicated: we love it, hitting that shot out of the trees and onto the green is why we love golf. Hitting that crisp iron from the fairway and seeing the ball roll onto the green or dropping in that snake from 35 feet to save par is why we love golf. We play for those moments and we LOVE how it humbles us. 

It challenges us: pushing us to our limit both mentally and physically. It does not matter if we shoot three straight 93s – we will come back that fourth day and shoot a 82. That’s golf. 

We love that we learn something new about the game every time we play it. We experience the challenge, learn how to get out of tough situations or persevere through adversity to grind out pars and bogeys when birdie isn’t an option.  

So the real question is does it matter if due to circumstances we are playing a Par 3 course or when the course gets back to normal.   

The most important thing is that we are playing the game we enjoy.

See you on the course soon