Golf Through a Childs Eyes

I was fortunate as a youth to grow up on a golfLiving on the course I would also occasionally dive
course. Besides the scenic view, there wereinto the golf course ponds to pick up golf balls.
numerous benefits to living on the golf course.This was very profitable as we could on a good
I could pull up a lawn chair and observe and takenight pick up 75 or more name brand balls and sell
in all of the free golf lessons a young aspiringthem the next day for 50 cents a piece. For a
golfer could ever want. There were many goodyoung kid I was rolling in the dough!
golfers worthy of picking up pointers, but theThe best finds out of the ponds were not the
golfers that really stuck into my memory overgolf balls. Once in a while we might pick up a club
the years were from the bad golfers.or two. But the grand prize of all was finding
Golf, while a serious competitive game, was takencomplete sets of golf clubs. Evidently for some
a bit too serious by some. One of my first golfgolfers wrapping the club around a tree wasn't
lessons was watching the turf fly further than theenough. So if you're that frustrated why not
ball. While we have all done that once or twice,throw the club into the pond!
the real lesson was the four-letter vocabulary ILooking back I think the guy that threw his whole
learned that was used to describe such a shot.set of clubs in at least had something right. He
That lesson could then proceed to the moreknew that he had to walk away from the game.
advanced lessons on how to ground your clubGolf is meant to be fun! We all have bad shots or
hard into the ground. If it was a real special day Ibad days but don't let it eat you alive.
might even learn how golfers wrap their clubsI still wonder how the guy that threw his whole
around trees.set ever got home that day. I still have his keys!