Like a Painting
One of the best parts of playing golf is the beauty of a great course. I stopped a few times yesterday morning to take in the amazing glimpses offered by nature. The weather was perfect. It was seventy-five degrees. The clouds were perfectly positioned, and I took that photo after hitting a drive down the middle, chipping onto the green, and two-putting for the par. “This game is easy,” I said. “Look at how great that is,” I said to JC who was 3-putting the very same hole for a double bogey. “Yeah. Who gives a shit?” He asked. How much you enjoy nature while you’re out playing is directly tied to how you’re playing. And it was a fun weekend as I was asked to play in a scramble on Saturday morning and the youngest member of our group was capable of hitting a ball more than 300 yards. Which was fun to watch. “You hit it pretty well for an old dude,” he told me. I laughed. As I was looking around at nature the next morning I was contemplating how quickly one goes from being a youngster to...