Why Do You Play Golf?

Some of us play because we LOVE to play and would find the time to play no matter what.

Today was a good example of “no matter what”, when I left home it was sprinkling, not much, just a little, so we go to the course just to see if it might stop shortly. Upon arriving at the course we go in the Club House and wait to see if any other idiots show up. Now I should tell you that this is the middle of the week and everyone that I play with is retired, so we have time to wait and see if the rain stops, or at least lets up a little.

There are always a few real golfers (idiots) that show up on these days. So we stand around the club house and talk about what the weather is going to do, can we get 18 in, if not maybe we could get 9 in. OK, the rain stopped and one of my partners showed up, a retired Doctor (so much for the intelligence of doctors). We find one other real golfer that is ready to play so we head for the 1st tee.

Yesterday the temperature was 90 degrees and sunny, today we have a north wind and a temperature of 60 degrees (real idiots, right). It might help you to know that my Doctor friend has only been playing golf for about two years since he retired and doesn’t play that well. I have been playing longer, but I didn’t really start playing until after I retired either, but I play a little better then the Doctor. The third we picked up really plays bad. Not that it makes any difference, but we stopped after 9 holes, it was raining again and it didn’t look like it was going to let up.

Why do we play? We just have to go out and hit that little white ball, then we hope we can find it and hit it again. What a dumb game!

As you get older you go to the golf course because it is good for you, you get out of the house and spend some time in the sunshine (or rain). We see our friends at the golf course and that is how we keep up with what is going on with everyone.

There are some people in our group that play golf very well and they are playing because they play well. There are people in our group that play fair and they play because they are trying to get better. Then there are people in our group that play not so good and they play because they like to play and see all the other golfers and they don’t care if they get any better or not. (Now this group complains about their game just as much as the good golfers, but they really don’t care how bad they are. This is also the group that says they are going to give this stupid game up, but they show up, on time, tomorrow).

So let me ask you, Why Do You Play Golf??