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BE PREPARED - YOUR DAY IS COMING !
Take a look at yourself in a mirror. Now take a look at a picture taken of you 20 year ago. There is a little bit of difference, isn't there? Down the road some years later you will be flattered if an old friend even recognizes you. Be aware, because that is exactly what is going to happen to your golf game.
To work on your physical appearance you can use some of that "Just for Men" hair coloring. (If you still have any,) Maybe one of those corset types of things, that Payne Stewart used to advertise, might make you look a little slimmer, (Providing you can stand the discomfort) but what can you do about your golf game?
Remember that tree in the middle of the fairway that you used to carry over on the fly. Now, if the ground is hard and the wind in your back, your ball might reach the base of the tree. Maybe the answer would be that great new driver you saw advertised on TV that will go 20 yards past the next nearest competitors might do the trick. A second mortgage on your house ought to pay for it.. That, along with that new super duper golf ball, should solve the problem. The next day, with your new purchases, when you reach that particular hole your mightiest swing might put you 5 yards past the tree. By 10 o'clock the next morning, after consuming a few muscle-relaxing pills, you will be ready to go try it again.
Forget it! After the aging process sets in all you can do with your golf game is to patch, patch, and patch. Exactly as you do with your physical deterioration. You can not longer do the same things that you did in other sports in your younger days. In golf, a perfect example is Arnold Palmer. As your distance goes, so goes your confidence in the rest of your game. These are some of the factors that make this game so great. Your football days are far behind, but you can still play golf, Whether you are young or old, you will always be trying some new piece of equipment, or golfing theory, to find the answer. You will find yourself in the similar frame of mind as a punch-drunk fighter who knows he has one more good fight left.
The Senior Golf Tour is another prime example of the aging process. Not too many years ago Lee Trevino was the big winner on that Tour, and now he is way down on the list and the young 50-year-olds are doing the winning.
Take advantage of those Senior Tees, as they were put there for your enjoyment. Forget the distance and try to hit it in the fairway. Practice your short game and you will still be able to beat those wild hitting young "whipper snappers." If you are having some physical problems, you can always ride a golf cart, but never give up looking for the answer. It is there such a thing as a "Fountain of Youth," and you find it, please let me know and I will find a way where we both will be able to make a fortune.
An unscrupulous businessman died and went below. After a period of time he mentioned to another how much he missed golf. His friend said, "We have some fine golf courses down here ? He then took him out to one of the finest golf courses he had ever seen. He purchased clubs, and balls, and got a caddie and headed to the first tee. He smashed a 260 drive right down the middle, and he being a 20 handicap, was elated. To top it off his iron shot ended up 6 feet from the hole. His putt lipped out, but he was not too disappointed. Every hole he hit shots that he never dreamed possible, but every time his putts would narrowly miss the cup. In the late portion of the round he remarked, "If I could just get this putter working I would tear this place up." His caddie said, "Mr., You are going to 2 putt every green down here." "That’s the Hell of it."