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Golf is a Sport that takes All of Who you Are! Weird Facts & Fun Trivia - 4 are


by Paul Andrew Doyle


Sonoma County, CA. ~ Ah Golf… Sometimes there


certain sports that really test our resolve on what sort of shape we are in. Although golf


tency in my game. A few years back, I wrote an article about golf and had a bit of fun with the subject. I told one of my long time friends that I really enjoy


not a sport Paul!” We both laughed because it made me want to urge him to go and give it a try. Well, we lost contact for a few years(both of us are very busy people), and while eating lunch with my wife, comes my ing into the


here friend


rant and one the first com- ments he made was…”I played golf for the first time about a


year ago, walk- restau-


Golf Mart in Santa Rosa. My older brother Brent suggested this place because they really set you up by using the latest fitting techniques utilizing sev- eral


computer golf


analysis pro- grams. They determine a number


of


calculations and calibra- tions while you swing a


and you


were right! It’s not as easy as it looks. It’s not about hitting a little ball around…but a lot harder!”


Golf is also an investment.


looks like a simple activity. It really is...and is not. It is a con- nection between a stick with a heavy metal end meant to pro- pel a very hard pockmarked ball hundreds of yards, and you, the golfer, to connect and direct its trajectory. Not always the case, but it is a very desired result.


Sometimes it comes


together and sometimes it does not. I’ve heard it is an obses- sion with some people and for others…well they say it wasn’t hard to give up. I play because I am outdoors and I love it. I’m not competing with anyone ex- cept with my muscle memory. It can really be fun playing with others too. It makes for a great social outing!


There was a time I was playing a round of golf of 18 holes, 2 to 3 times a week. This was necessary to create consis-


“Thoughts Become Things... Choose The Good Ones!” ~ Mike Dooley


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playing the game, but he had never played. Of course, com- ments like “ Golf really seems kind of silly. What do you do, hit this little ball around with little sticks? Seems kind of ri- diculous & really easy. That’s


You need clubs. You need a bag. You need balls, glove, golf shoes & golf bag. You also need the proper attire, noth- ing complicated or fancy, but for the respect of the game at certain golf courses, there is a required dress code, ( most im- portantly, a great attitude and remembering you are there to have a good time!) The main one is a collared shirt with de- cent pants/shorts. There are also green fees as most of you know. $12-$600 per round de- pending on where you go, but most in the realm of $30. Where might a place be a person can buy the correct gear? At this juncture, I chose


club that is connected


to a camera and a super high powered computer. The com- puter generates a result from a number of swings, and wah- lah, it’s time to go find that set of clubs that is similar and best reflects club head speed and distance. I did all of this with James Fish, a local pro golfer


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At the age of 25, Woods orchestrated one of the most spectacular seasons in sports’ history. He won nine of the 20 PGA Tour events he played in this year and finished out of the top-three just six times. More amaz- ingly, he became the second golfer in history to win three of pro golf’s four major tournaments in one year. He followed a 12-under-par per- formance at the U.S. Open with another decisive victory at the British Open, and then finally defended his PGA Championship in a tense playoff with Bob May. He now owns the scoring record for all four majors and has won more money than any other player in golf history.


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