Love is the deepest and most complex of emotions. It can rage like a roiling ocean or purr like a contented cat. It’s born, it ages and lingers, subsides and swells. It lives and breathes and dies.
There are few things more painful than when love dies. It’s a feeling most of us strive to avoid and that’s why we work so hard at our relationships. Facing rough and tough times, offering support and understanding, patience and guidance. Love will endure testing situations if you’re prepared to put in the effort. It’s worth doing it as the greatest love affairs have peaks and troughs, and you wouldn’t want to miss out on the next peak by giving up at a troublesome trough.
Golfers know the analogy of peaks and troughs. We are the most optimistic and perseverant of people. No matter how many slings and arrows of outrageous fortune the game throws at us, we think of better things to come and return to the breach with hope and love for our favourite pastime.
But it’s understandable that if the troughs seem overly prevalent and the peaks just too distant, one might start to struggle to find the old love for golf. It might just subside to a point where you feel there’s no point in continuing the affair. But wait, the love is still in there, no matter how deeply it’s buried. Don’t give up, it means too much. Here are four reasons why you should climb every mountain and carry on to that next golfing peak.
Missed Opportunity
Imagine missing the chance to hit this drive!
(Image credit: Tom Miles)
In Scotland, we tell departing visitors, “Haste ye back!” No matter how irritated we’ve been by them, we know we’ll miss them when they’re gone. Maybe because it’s Scotland’s game, golf always tries to beckon one back. Perhaps it will be a fine drive on the 18th, a closing par or a decent putt on the final green. Golf wants you to return to try, try and try again… That’s another Scottish reference. I’m being terribly patriotic here.
But the point is – Golf always offers you an opportunity. The opportunity to improve, to hit a few good shots, to make some pars, to return a good score. You don’t want to miss out on the opportunity by turning your back on the sport. If you’re not in it, you’re not going to win it. Defeatism is not an admirable strategy.
Don’t give up on golf, find a way to rectify the problems you’re having with the game. Get a lesson. Get new clubs. Practise your putting, change your grip. Mix things up. Variety is…
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