Recently a couple of things happened to that really encapsulates to me the game of golf.
I played in an unofficial competition organised by a group of golfers from an online forum at which guys had travelled up to 300 miles to play golf with complete strangers. What other sport or game can you think of in which that would happen?
But that’s golf isn’t it? A game in which people from all walks of life can meet up and enjoy their pursuit, I didn’t ask what these guys did for a living, their politics etc and they didn’t ask mine it just wasn’t relevant. All that mattered was that we played fairly to the rules of golf and enjoyed our game and company together.
During the round we had a that’s golf moment on the Nearest the Pin hole. One of our group duffed his tee shot into a water hazard and elected to play 3 from the tee. Inevitably, this time he hit a great shot six feet from the hole. “That’s Golf” we agreed it’s a universal law, all golfers know that a provisional ball always, always goes on the green or straight down the fairway.
Sir Winston Churchill had this to say about our game, “Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.” Yup! That’s golf. 
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