On the obsession with score over quality of shots played.
“The man who regards golf as a matter of ‘card and pencil’ is not a golfer at all, for he has lost his soul in arithmetic, whereas the true golfer puts his soul into the game for the love of it, and not because it amounts to a mere matter of mathematics as he wends his way back to the club house.”
Henry Chellew (1927)
As quoted in C.B. Macdonald’s
Scotland’s Gift-Golf
In comparing two ways of learning to play-one based on trusting your natural instincts and the other focusing on acquired technical knowledge.
“A perfectly good, well-formed, strong, and healthy man with a keen eye may do all that he has been taught and yet never really learn to play the game well, try as he will. In getting all these injunctions synchronized comes the real test of a man’s inherent ability to excel; primarily there must be concentration, and further, there must be coordination with the subconscious self, strength applied with extreme delicacy.”
C.B. Macdonald (1927)
Scotland’s Gift-Golf
The Golfer’s Journal regularly offers a wide array of stimulating golf content for the golf inebriated mind, both written and oral selections, that cover everything but instruction and golf jokes.
This podcast #124 is a Tom Coyne travelogue interview with Bill as they drive through rural Georgia on the way to a golf event at The Ohoopee Match Club. Bill is driving….aggressively…which presents a few thrilling moments and Tom is the enchanted frog on a log just prodding Bill to rap about just about everything.
Learn a bunch of interesting Bill tidbits:
-Bill’s collection of golf recovery devices
-His currency preference for $50’s and $10’s and disapproval of Andrew Jacksons
-An informal dissection of a pop-up movie set
-Yearning for java and fruitcake
-Some Arnie musings
-His early life as a shag boy and a barefoot caddie growing up in Chicago
-What he loves about the golfing experience
This is a pleasant car conversation between friends with you sitting in the back seat just taking it in. Well worth some lounge chair time for a listen.
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