TAKE 2 WEEKS OFF AND QUIT
Some of the golf pros I knew in the past liked to have fun with their members and students and when they were asked for their advice, they would say, “Take two weeks off and quit.”
I actually took that advice 10 years ago and quit and only recently went back to the driving range to see if I should come out of “retirement”.
I hit the ball better than I could have expected but I haven’t gone back on to a golf course yet.
I quit because of a bad knee that would have prevented me from practicing and would have caused my scores to go up.
I was about a 15 handicap at the time. I had been as low as 13, even though I didn’t start playing seriously until I was 31 years old.
This is a roundabout way of asking why Barack Obama doesn’t take lessons.
Obama’s been playing a lot of golf lately and that’s fine with me. If he’s playing golf, that means he’s not spending time thinking about more ways to spend my money.
By all accounts, his golf game stinks. Never is security tighter around him than when he has a golf club in his hand.
If he had a nice swing, he’s be making sure that as many cameras as possible were there to see it.
I have a feeling that Obama is one of those guys who could be a lot better if he took a lesson, but refuses to do so because that would mean he’d have to cut back his playing time.
I could be wrong. Maybe he is taking lessons. I just have my doubts based on some of the descriptions of his game.
He’s obviously a pretty athletic guy. Lessons could save him years and years of aggravation.
I don’t know how many men still use the president as a role model, but, if he’s sending a message that it doesn’t matter how bad you are, just so you’re on the course, that’s not good.
The courses are already overrun by people who shouldn’t be there. They hold everyone else up and they don’t score any better with clubs than they would if they were playing with a shovel.
Those people need to get off the course and stay off.
And based on the accounts that I’ve heard and read about his golf game, he should, too, before he encourages more hackers like him to clutter up all the courses.
