Golf Really is Just a Game

Playing golf can make you feel like a little kid. When it goes well, it’s like having a bubble bath, building a snow fort, and jumping into a puddle all rolled into one.  When you have trouble, you feel like throwing a tantrum, and maybe some clubs, and just leaving. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

When golf is good, it’s like childhood…playing with friends outside until dark with no worries. You live in the present and almost forget about the world outside the golf course.  This is never more apparent then when you return home after golfing with a few guys. When your wife asks the inevitable “What did you talk about?” question, you struggle to respond. The best you can offer is stating that you talked about golf…and maybe the weather.

Like children, golfers get to be curious, use their imaginations, and occasionally show off to impress their friends. Even better, playing golf as an adult, you need not worry about getting called in at 9:00 pm by your mother for a bath or for bedtime. That being said, there have been a few guys at Mens’ Night that occasionally get called home by their spouse…but that’s a different matter.

For a few of us, Wednesday mornings are like Christmas mornings when you were eight years old….full of excitement and promise. Christmas and golf scores are similar in that for both, you can’t wait to see what you get. In both cases, you are usually mildly disappointed.

If you think of it, golf is sort of like one big collection of children’s games. For example, several of us played hide and seek with our shots last night. Very often this occurred on hole #4, after wayward tee shots or overly aggressive second shots.  A few played dodge ball as sculled shots and balls hot of hozzles whizzed by them. Finally, we all played chase, but not of us could catch Brayden Stewart who had a low score of the evening. This was very appropriate for our child theme given that Brayden is 15 years old. That is 78 years younger than last night’s oldest golfer, Clayton Hunter.

A season high 44 golfers competed this past Wednesday, with skins going on six holes. Winners included Cubby / Devin Stewart ($40 on #1), Devin Allen / Bob Moffatt ($22 on #2), Brad Swereda / Dennis Green ($40 on #4), Jamie McCutchin / Theoren Hunter ($77.50 on #5), Hubey / Keith Martin ($22 on #6), and Clayton Hunter / Brad Benton ($22 on #9). Brad’s skin came on his 53^rd birthday, with him and Mr. Hunter combining for 146 years of experience.

The deuce pot of $66 was split four ways among Jeremy Hogg, Mike Pryzner, Brayden Stewart, and Theoren Hunter. Closest to the holes were Theoren on #5 and Tom Gibson on #9. That of course is Tom’s sixth time in which he has done that on #9.

Remember, we are now doing 6:30 pm starts.

One final thought connecting playing golf to being a kid…childhood is like drinking at Mens’ Night…because everyone can remember what you did except for you.