I once asked my dad why anyone would want to play golf. No one that I knew played the game, but I saw lots of golf courses all over the place. His answer was simple and made a lot of sense. He said that golf was played by the people that were forced to live and work in the cities and wanted to get out and enjoy open spaces and nature for a little while.
I grew up in the wide open wilderness, so the thought of chasing a small ball around a bunch of grass just did not make sense until I put the experience together with getting to be outdoors. Now that I am older, and have started spending more time inside writing at the computer than I spend out in the wilderness, I am starting to see the attraction to golf that my dad had suggested drew people to the sport.
I want to be out there chasing a small ball around on the greenery rather than inside chasing a small comma around the grammar tree. (The comma will always win.)
My mom had bought a golf club in a second hand store a few years ago and her and I have talked a few times this winter about going to one of the local golf courses this summer. If nothing else we plan to make our own private driving range out at the back of the property. I can just see a little golf course meandering its way around the property. Down the long straight side drive, curving up along the sloping back drive to the wide open area we are readying for a new lawn to go in. Across behind the greenhouse, through the old herb garden (I should put a windmill out there), snaking by the water hazard (our pond system), and out over the front lawn back to the side drive where it started. It would be kewl. I could even route it through the horse shoes area to add in a small sand trap.
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