| The Exercise | | | | The challenge within yourself to play better golf, and |
| Golfing is one of the best exercises that you can do. | | | | the challenge to play better than you?re competitor. |
| I taught this fellow about ten years ago how to play | | | | A lot of times the challenge to beat your own game |
| golf. He had bypass surgery done on his heart, and | | | | can be a real uphill battle. Go ahead and try the |
| his doctor told him to walk for exercise. So he asked | | | | challenge. |
| me to teach him how to golf. He was a retired | | | | The Scenery |
| carpenter. Think about it for a second. There is 1760 | | | | Golf courses truly have some of the best |
| yards in a mile. The average golf course is anywhere | | | | breathtaking scenery, depending on where you |
| from 5000 yards to 6500 yards on some of the | | | | reside. A lot of the golf courses have rolling fairways |
| bigger courses, depending on which tee box you are | | | | and trees of all colors that stretch out on both sides |
| playing from. They say the shortest distance | | | | of the fairway, creeks that split fairways in half. Lot |
| between two points is in a straight line. Can you | | | | of golf courses have greens that are surrounded by |
| imagine the amount of walking you can do on any | | | | huge trees, rock formations, and rolling mounds, and |
| given course, if you?re not a straight hitter? Some | | | | many other natural beauties. Most golf courses |
| golf courses make you take a golf cart because of | | | | surround their greens with water and sand traps. The |
| the steep terrain. Golfing can keep you?re heart | | | | tee boxes on some courses are perched up on a |
| pumping at a good pace depending on the golf | | | | hillside overlooking a valley, or body of water. Flowers |
| terrain. So if you have not walked a country mile. | | | | and plants, and or more trees surround a lot of tee |
| Take up golf and you will have you?re fair share of | | | | boxes. Sometimes the tee boxes and greens are in |
| walking a country mile. | | | | the wilderness, and or near cliffs. There is a lot of |
| | | | great scenery on golf courses that will want you to |
| A lot of people would ask the same question over | | | | say. This is amazing scenery! |
| and over again, and probably still do today. Why | | | | The Peace and Tranquility |
| would anybody want to chase a little golf ball around? | | | | The best part of golf is the relaxation you get out it, |
| I use to think and ask myself the same question until | | | | depending on how you?re game is going of course. |
| that very first liftoff from a fairway lie. Oh yes! It is | | | | Just imagine yourself nestled on a tee box first thing |
| a great feeling when you finally lift it off the fairway | | | | in the morning, and all you hear is the chirping of the |
| and watch the ball fly towards the green and watch | | | | birds and the sound of the trees blowing around you. |
| it land and roll towards the flagstick, especially if you | | | | Another good feeling is standing in the middle of the |
| are a long distance from the green and hitting the | | | | fairway with the sun beating down on you with a |
| green in regulation. The feeling of success is amazing | | | | cool misty breeze coming from a nearby body of |
| and the challenge to do it again brings you back time | | | | water. I like the late afternoon just before the sun |
| and time again. Once you catch that feeling, the | | | | goes down and the trees are swaying a bit more. |
| challenge to come back and repeat the same golf | | | | Sometimes all you hear is a plane going by overhead |
| shot makes you a better golfer in the long run. The | | | | and the crack of another golf ball going off a tee |
| challenge you have now sticks with you the more | | | | box. A lot of the golf courses take you away from |
| you play. The frustration of not being able to do it | | | | the clubhouse and land you out in the country, and or |
| over and over again, and then finally once again there | | | | fairly wooded areas where the peace and tranquility |
| goes that beautiful golf shot again, makes you come | | | | of mother nature truly makes you sit up and take |
| back for more. Golfing has more than one challenge. | | | | hold of it?s natural beauty it has to offer. |