Eagle 2 - a golf blog written by Fred Poli, a financial adviser who also teaches and trains in that industry. Bio below but, for now, please enjoy Fred's article!
It had been a fairly terrible round. Lately, I just had no longer been playing as a good deal golfing as I could have preferred.
I managed to par the par-3, 17th and hit my best drive of the day right down the middle on the eighteenth, a short par-4. My playing partner also hit driver but pulled it into the water on the left hand side of the green.
Classic threat praise hole. As I sized up my twenty-five yard chip, he joked about my uncomplicated eagle. Bad funny story... I actually have by no means had an eagle. Never.
Then a atypical serenity came over me.
I noticed the chip.
I addressed the ball and placed a good stroke on it. It in no way gave the impression of lacking.
Eagle two, 18th hole - Indooroopilly Golf Club, East Course.
Just like that, things trade. That?S golf, the finest game inside the global.
Why?
I even have idea approximately that plenty. It?S many things.
It’s the only sport in the world where you can take it up at any age and basically play until you can no longer stand. It’s the only sport in the world where people of any standard can compete on the same “arena”. It’s the only sport in the world where if you break a rule, calling a penalty on yourself is considered the norm. It’s wonderful exercise. It’s a great social activity. It can be equally enjoyed by both genders. And so much more.....
The factor I love most about golfing is the intellectual undertaking. I even have learned greater approximately myself gambling golfing than thru some other pursuit...And I did no longer take the game up until I changed into fifty years vintage.
Yes, we have fighters. Yes, I am competitive, however golfing is a war with your self...At the least that's what I usually believed. Now, of course, I actually have come to study that it is not a conflict however a getting to know technique that never ends; a really perfect companion to the entirety else which you have happening to your life.
To suppose that I almost gave up inside the starting because, like every terrific matters in existence, there are costs to pay.
Golf has two most important limitations.
Firstly, it’s very time consuming to learn and to play it. That is an issue for a later article. Secondly, it’s a very difficult game to play well.
Fortunately, David Capaldo, teaching seasoned at Kingswood Golf Club, taught me the way to play this extremely good game. This is a need to due to the fact for each Bubba Watson there are thousands and thousands of golfers who will by no means experience the sport because they sincerely don?T learn the basics of hitting the ball.
So, if you have a hard and fast of old golf golf equipment amassing dirt, or even if you have by no means played, get obtainable, e book some instructions. I need you to experience the sensation of an eagle. I am nonetheless hovering.
Are you a golf amateur? Have you thought of quitting the game however, after a marvelous shot or spherical kept playing to stay with, and revel in, the sport?
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Fred Poli BIO:
Fred has a Diploma in Counselling and Communication from the Australian College of Applied Psychology and as a lot as he has found out in this area, he feels that his excellent lifestyles instructor has been the sport of golf.
Mr. Poli took up the sport at age fifty and is lucky to play in one of the best golfing regions on the planet, the so called ?Sand belt? Of Melbourne Australia wher he is a member of Kingswood Golf Club and plays off 19.
Photo credit: playaroundgolf.Com,http://www.Indooroopillygolf.Com.Au
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