Swap Work . . . Play Golf

Paul Chong

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My Delight With Golf
- Paul Chong
“Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.” - Wikipedia.
GOLF as a word used to stand for “Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden”. However, it’s no longer so today.
To me, GOLF is both a leisure & pleasure:
* to rise before the break of dawn, fresh & breezy
* teeing off from the first hole for a 9-hole game or 18-hole game, depending upon the availability of time
* meeting up with a group of friendly retirees for a social game & recreation
* the sheer pleasure of healthy exercise in walking & swinging crazily with your club over a distance aiming for a tiny hole which can cause you to have great sensation or frustration
* quite apart from the game, to be close to nature & surprising encounter with groups of kangaroo families sunning in the green. “You can see me but you can’t come near me.”
Golf is an enigmatic sort of sports. Someday you are on top of the world. Others you are at the edge of hell. You will never know what to expect, even with the best of the professional players.
I had a good run & fun with golf over 10 years (age 65 -75) . . . forced out of golf because of “windy shots” when glaucoma came my way.

Sujets

• Sport
• Autres sports
• Golf
• Recreation
• Sports

Informations

• Publié par: Balboa Press AU
• Date de parution: 27 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781982295974
• Langue: English

Extrait

SWAP WORK . . . PLAY GOLF
 
 
 
 
Paul Chong
 
 

 
Copyright © 2022 Paul Chong.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-9822-9596-7 (sc)
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Balboa Press rev. date:  10/07/2022
Contents
Introduction
Why This Craze Over Golf?
Turn Your Disability to Ability
Theory & Practice in Golf
The Fairways Are Wide & The Hole Is Big
The Enigma With Golf
How Green Is The Golf Course?
Golf Is Easy, Practice Like Crazy
Golf For Retirement
Golf For One And All
Golf - Enjoy It!
Golf - How Well Do You Play?
“Drive For Show, Putt For Gold”
Golf Etiquette
Epilogue
 
Swap Work
Play Golf
 
 
It does not discriminate against
Age, sex or ability
Nor race, colour or creed.
 
 
Golf
For
Activity
And
Creativity
 
 
Challenge Your Boundaries
 
 
Paul Chong
A Chinese by Descent
An Australian by Consent
Introduction
As an avid senior golfer, I am no professional. I simply enjoy playing golf. At my age it’s great to be alive, and to be able to look forward each day excitedly towards playing another challenging or frustrating round of golf.
At my age, I can never be a great golfer, especially when you start learning and playing the game at age 65. However, I can play golf to my own personal satisfaction, and that itself is a great accomplishment to see your ball soars up into the sky and landing it where you hope will land.
With age, even the greatest of golfers like Jack Nicholas has to call it quit from competition. Of course, to be sure, he’ll continue to be playing and contributing for the betterment of golf, and probably die with his “club on”.
With golf, unlike basketball, squash, tennis, cricket, football or soccer or hockey, once you’re hooked, you’re hooked for life! There’s no mandate age for retirement. To quote a famous line: There’s no business like “golf” busi ness!
Tiger Woods, today’s greatest golfer, started playing at a tender age of three. He’s no doubt a child prodigy in golf. Great as he is, he still practices 14 hours a day and loving it! There is no short cut to success. Failure or success is only demarcated by a thin line.
For the ladies, Annika Sorenstram or Michelle Wie, the 16-year old phenomenon, will be your role models. Michelle is able to pitch her game with the men and can even strike the ball as far as John Daly, Ernie Els or Tiger Woods. She’s still young and time alone will tell just how great she would be in the future.
Golf does not discriminate with regards to age, physical abilities or handicaps. Golf has seen great days from those players without legs or artificial limbs, and the visually handicapped. Golf is for one and all, rich or poor, and in this Lucky Country it is so affordable.
Be you be 3, 30, 60 or 90 years young, you’ll find your place in this most wonderful game ever devised by the mind of men. This tribute is attributed to the Scots where golf is known to have first started.
Paul Chong
Tuesday, 6 June 2006 @ 2.52 am
Why This Craze Over Golf?

What’s this silly game that I am so hooked up with? Just taking up the game at age 65 and after going through a back operation some two years ago? Like most people, I had the notion of being downright stupid chasing after a little ball not much bigger than the size of a ping pong or a squash ball, and all trying to put it into the hole, after a series of drive from the tee-off green. Most people, including seasoned professionals, encounter daily joy and frustration . . . yet they still persist and never seem to re sist!
Here’s the “G