Ever since I was a little kid, golf has been there. Golf has been something in my life that I can always fall back on and use to get some anger out of just to clear my head. No matter what it was, golf has been my rock. There is nothing like waking up at the crack of dawn to get out under the sun to play a game you love.
My uncle Buster and my dad were the ones that got me hooked; at four years old, I was out on the fairway swinging away, – I wasn’t all that great – and I loved it. They didn’t let me play every shot but when they did throw a ball down, I was so ready to give that ball a smack.
When I started golfing, it wasn’t serious at all, it was just something to go and have a great time with. My dad and I would go out on the course and spend the day out there, but it wasn’t just playing golf: we would eat snacks that we bought from the store, we would obviously play
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I started taking the game more seriously when I joined the Morse High School golf team. When I got to the first practice I was expecting a lot of great golfers to be there, and kids that have played the course forever. But to my surprise, the golfers were really only as good as I was. I actually ended up being number one on the team for all four years old high school. This is where I started taking the game to serious. Playing number one of the team can be scary; number one plays all the other number ones from other schools and some of the kids I played against were very good at the game. It was so nerve-racking having to tee of the first hole while both teams watched me, some of the time you can feel your legs shaking before you hit the ball. This made me try really hard and took some of the fun out of the game. I found myself getting angry at the game or at myself after a match or just when I played bad (which was quite a
Woods grew up watching his father golf day after day in the garage and anywhere else his father could get his hands on a club. His father was not only his coach but his best friend and when he died a few years down the road, it showed in the way Woods played. Woods had his father as a coach since he was able to stand up on his own and without the encouragement and the talent of both his father and himself the world may have never seen a problem with golf being an all-white game. Woods hadn’t doubted himself since the day he stepped on the green in 1997 to prove everyone wrong about his ability, but the day he had to play without his father was the day it
I guess it started when I was about twelve years old. My father took me to this place called a golf course. I did not know why or what we were here for, but I was interested in finding out. We entered a building called a clubhouse; then, he paid for a bucket of practice balls. I followed him to the driving range. Once we got there, he got a metal stick from his golf bag and gave it to me. I grabbed the stick, and he showed me how to hold it. Then, he told me to swing it. I swung it back and forth as careless as I could. He then said, "Son, you have one of the nicest golf swings I have ever seen." I did not even know what I was doing with that stick, but I guess my dad saw something I didn't. My father then decided that he was ready to teach me how to use the three clubs of golf: a putter, iron, and wood. He handed me the putter, and we went to the green. He explained to me that a putter is used on a green to get the ball into the hole. I took a few smooth swings back and forth to get a feel for a putter. He said, "Hit this ball until it goes into the hole." I was impressed with myself because it only took me six hits to get it in the hole. He laid twenty balls on the green, and he told me to hit every ball in with one shot. It took me about three hours, but I accomplished what my dad told me. He thought I was ready to try the next club, so we headed to the next location. We went out onto the fairway, and he handed me an iron. He laid out some more balls on the ground and told me to hit them towards the flag on the green. The first ball I hit did not even get close to the green. The rest of the balls I hit went either over or on the front of the green, but I never let another one fall short. My dad said, "Keep practicing until you hit all of the balls on the green." I kept practicing until all of the balls were laid up around the flag.
Golf, as Defined by Mark Twain, “is a good walk spoiled”, and too many in this day it is becoming more and more common to be looked at in this way. Golf, beginning around 1996, entered a new era, and that is the one controlled by a sports icon, named Tiger Woods. What used to be a game for elderly gentleman sitting at the country club, playing nine holes a day on a fairly easy golf course, took a whole new shape. Golf became a game of long tee shots and amazingly accurate approach shots, taking the game to a new super low scoring level, that seemed to be only feasible by tour pros, which seem to never miss. With all this change, golf is beginning to lose interest, yet why? Is it because it is too difficult? Not any fun? Or is it just too expensive? Well in all honesty, it may be all of these things and more. Yet, I believe, it is time everyone over looks these hurdles, hops over them, and on to the golf bandwagon, and understand how to enjoy the game, more than ever before.
Golf is defined as a game in which clubs with wooden or metal heads are used to hit a small, white ball into a number of holes, situated at various distances over a course having natural or artificial obstacles. The object is to get the ball into each hole in as few strokes as possible (2017 Dictionary.com LLC). It is a very popular sport throughout the world and it is only increasing in popularity. It is a game that takes time and effort to master, but can prove to be a great, relaxing sport that anyone of all ages can play.
In the years to come the players would slowly develop rules for the game. Golf began to take shape as the game played today in the 1800’s. “Golf in the first half of the century was still largely an informal game: there was almost no distinction between amateurs and professionals, and matches were set up primarily to bet on, bets made between players and spectators.” (Pearson, History of the Game of Golf) The elitist members of the clubs used these matches to help set up the rules used in today’s game. Peasants were only allowed to play under special circumstances, “The artisans may play on Sunday after raking the bunkers, but they’re not allowed at any time to walk in front of the clubhouse.” (Arscott, Golf: A Very Peculiar History) Other than this the course and golf club was only available to the elite citizens that would spend weekends and holidays playing golf and other
The legendary beginnings of golf in the United States can be traced back to the mid-1600s. One of the first published references to golf in America was in 1659 referring to the ban on golf in the streets of Albany, New York. The next substantial reference to the game comes from Charleston, North Carolina in 1786. At that time, a local Charleston newspaper ran a story about the formation of the Harleston Green Golf Club. The Harleston Green remained in operation for approximately twenty-five years, closing about the time of the War of 1812. Around the same time period, approximately1795, another golf club opened in Savannah, Georgia. References to this golf club continued until 1811 again apparently closing just before the beginning of the war. The War of 1812 served to destroy the desire to play golf. It wasn’t until the late 1870s, well after the Civil War ended, that there was a resurgence of golf in the United States.
Golf is different than any other sport I’ve ever played. Golf challenges the body, mind, and soul. The average person doesn’t think a lot about golf, or thinks that it is not a challenging sport. Once they have played it is a different story. Golfing is not just taking a swing at the ball, it involves several tedious techniques and strategies such as; making sure you are aimed where you want the ball to go, your hands are in the right spot on your clubs, your knees are slightly bent, etc. In the book “The Mind at Work” a member of the UCLA Graduate school of education and Information Studies, Mike Rose, states “With time and practice, all this becomes routine, automatic.” We are asked to compare Rose’s work with intelligence that we as students have acquired through our lives thus far. Something that I have worked for and learned about since I was young is golf. I
Throughout this experience I have learned a lot about golf and about how it effects the mind and body. My interview put things into perspective that kids and teenagers are actually learning life skills and life lessons that they can take into adulthood just from playing a game with freinds. Also learning that golf isn’t just a game that you may lose some weight from, but it can improve so many other things on your body and in your
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Me my dad my brother and grandmother will always play a couple of rounds of golf a trip. I love to play golf with them down there because it is so nice out and the courses and amazing. I do get frustrated playing because I'm not that good at it but it is still fun. I remember vividly a time just me and my brother played. It was the first time I played a full eighteen hole round, and I did terribly. I put a couple balls into the water hazards, put some balls into the woods to never be found again, and even hit someone's house and then pretending like it had come from a different person on a different hole. I had a little over one hundred strokes, but I was only twelve at the time. I've gotten better since
Tennis and golf have a different history and are played a lot nowadays. Historians believe that tennis originally came from Northern France. In the 12th century people used to play tennis with their palms. Racquets were invented in the 16th century and the first tennis balls were white. The history of golf is unclear, but most people think that it was invented in Scotland during the middle ages. This game only started to become popular in the 19th century in England and the United States.Tennis and golf are the two sports that have become more and more popular with new generations. These two sports have a lot of things in common and are very joyful. However, tennis and golf are played very differently and there are tons of differences that make them unique.
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I 'm going to compare tennis to golf to reveal the similarities and differences between the two sports. I think you will be surprised how similar they are. They both depend on the swing of your body; grips of your hands, the strike zone of the ball and both are a mental game. Tennis and golf are also very different in many ways. The types of balls used to play the game, materials used to make the balls and equipment used to hit the balls. Tennis is a team sport and an individual sport. But golf is primarily a single player against the golf course. The exertion level differs by sport. Both sports are challenged by weather and attire. I 'm writing this essay because I had played golf for many years before I switched
Millions of people around the world take pleasure in the game of golf every day, but few know when and where this complicated sport began to evolve. The game is played outdoors on a large course with a series of 9 or 18 holes placed far apart. The intention is to hit a small hard ball using various clubs into each hole with as few hits as possible. The game is loved and hated with equal amounts of interest by many. Golf though is much more to me it is just not exercise it’s an exciting activity which I love. I am very passionate about the sport. For me I find it a very rewarding pastime and an extremely challenging game. As I play the game I wonder, how did the game of golf evolve and who are the people that made the game what it is