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Are You Having Fun Playing Golf?

By Scott Kowalski

Republish: EasyPublish™ Published: 16Dec2009 Word count: 628 Viewed: 191 time(s) Get Free Content For Your Site

I'm not going to write about golf equipment or tips or anything else for that matter that can help you improve your golf swing.

I would like to talk about something that is really thrilling to me to be witness of. Have you ever taken part in a 300 game in bowling or hit the perfect golf shot resulting in a hole in one?

For me I have seen all kinds of hole in ones in my life. I've personally have 4 hole in ones. I still remember my second hole in one. It was on a 220yard sixth hole par 3. I used my 3 wood.

It happened back in 1991 when the public course I still play on today had no fairway watering system in place. In the middle of summer it gets rock hard and of course you get a lot of roll on your ball.

Back then I was known in the golf club as "King of the low ball." I always hit every one of my golf clubs on a low trajectory to get that extra roll.

That is why today I still struggle in hitting the high trajectory, because now they have the watering system in place. If someone was standing in front of me back then, I probably would cut that person in half at the waist. My ball would never go any higher.

So, I teed off and I remember they were working on fixing the ground. There was probably a 4 ft dirt mound in the area of the woman's tee box. My ball barely missed the top of the dirt mound went out about 120 yards and ran like a scared jack rabbit for the last 100 yards. It disappeared as soon as it ran up onto the green.

You see this hole is very flat with no trouble around it. At the time I was playing with an orange color golf ball, during this time period Jerry Pate made it very fashionable to play with different color golf balls.

There was no one around the green waving us up and the peripheral vision didn't allow us to see over the green.

As my foursome walked up to the green they allowed me to go first to see if it was in the hole. Sure enough the orange golf ball was in the bottom of the cup. What a feeling of euphoria!

It was my first hole in one with the golf club. Yeah, it cost me the rest of the day about $ 100 in drinks. That is cheap compared to some other hole in ones.

Tradition states if you get a hole in one, then you must pay for all drinks at the 19'th hole. In Japan, they even have hole in one insurance in case of such events.

However, on this day we took it out to another bar where I would meet for the very first time a very special person in my life. He died this past winter of emphysema.

They say getting a hole in one is harder to get than bowling a 300 game. I don't know? What is your feelings in regards to this?

I believe in golf just like bowling there is a lot of luck involved. However, it does take some skills to hit the ball in the direction you want it to go and what club to use to reach that certain distance.

Whatever way your golf ball gets there it doesn't matter one iota! It's the end result of watching that tiny golf ball disappearing in the hole.

Many people will never experience it themselves like my father who has been playing as long as I have. You may have been there watching a live golfing event or among friends but it never gets old nothing less.

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