GOLF IS A MEAN AND CRUEL GAME
The forms of golf’s pains are as multiple and varied as its pleasures. They can be as immediate and indisputable as a topped, duckhooked, or...
Tips, Tips, & More Tips
Like the advice we receive to make and keep ourselves happy, golf tips are as numerous as they are fruitless. Indeed, some tips are just dow...
Practice Talking to Yourself
The practice ground is where the golfer courts his body. If the golfer wishes results, he must work patiently as he tries out new approaches...
The Swing
As much as players count on favorite lucky clubs, hats, rituals, and amulets of one sort or another for their success, they understand that ...
Clubs, Swings, & Tips
THE GOLFER OF EARLIER TIMES assembled his bag of unmatched, individually-made clubs one by one over a period of years. If completed, this pr...
Grace or Control?
The golfer wants to play by grace and control. He wants to play beyond himself and, at the same time, to play within himself. Our whole gene...
The Requirement of Streaks
The golfer’s search to hit good shot after good shot, however, has less mystical impulses. It arises simply from the game’s requirement, whi...
Getting & Keeping the Grace
GOLF’S ESSENCE IS GRACE. Grace alone seems to account for glorious shots, wonderful streaks that run across a sequence of holes, a number of...
Graceful Motion
The long shot rises and flies, drawing the eye upward to follow it. Its length adds to the duration the player spends in pleasurable, suspen...
The Eye of Flight
It is easy to lend mystique to the golf shot, as it contains the mysterious elements of aim and flight which affect our spirit in primordial...
The Delights of the Clubhouse
In the clubhouse another order of golfing pleasure begins. There golfers define, clarify, and readjust their round by rationalizations, exag...
Bettors, Buddhas, & Perfectionists
ALTHOUGH EVERY GOLFER is locked in a game against himself, golfers have been traditionally divided into the two distinct families of those w...
When the Wind Is Up
Even the dullest course is improved immensely by the wind, even though it is commonly considered the golfer’s worst enemy. When the wind is ...
The Pleasing Garden
As the player progresses around the course, all his pleasures are not of swing and shot alone. The course itself is a pleasant garden. The c...
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