Life compared to golf 13 Articles

by Jeremy Peters

Life is often compared to golf, at least by those that play the game with passionate obsession. I suppose any sport or game can be compared to life in a metaphoric sense, but golf really lends itself to the idea by its ba...read more

by Freeway Lane

I still wonder how it was that a certain muddy golf club first arrived at my door asking me to come out and play, determined to wrest free any last remnants of secret shame? Yet there it was, this illustrious mentor of the...read more

by Lawrence Poploski

"I hate this game, and I can't wait to play again tomorrow." -PGA Tour Pro Jeff Sluman I'm convinced golfers good golfers have a screw loose in their craniums. In fact, it's probably a prerequisite to success. You...read more

by David Ireland

What a category? Life compared to golf! Obviously this title was created by a non-golfer. I will write to the title "Life is Golf". Today is wet and windy as was yesterday. Too wet! My course is closed because of fallen...read more

by Paul Erland

President Bush recently announced that he's forgoing golf out of respect for those who might have lost a child in the conflict in Iraq. Personally, I've always thought of golf as, to paraphrase the writer Raymond Chan...read more

by Mike Romeling

Here's the main problem with golf: Everything is too small - the hole, the ball, the club -everything. This leads to golf commentators, with those annoying voices, continually saying compelling and wildly exciting things l...read more

by Cody Lancaster

Golf is more than the game you play. It is the embodiment of all the human emotions and physical actions that make life worth living. Golf is 18 holes and 4 and 1/2 hours of self-examination in the beauty and naked lushn...read more

by THE GROUCH

1. Life, rather like Golf is full of hidden traps, obstructions, and holes to fall into. 2. Life, rather like Golf, is about maintaining parity (par) with your fellow man (golfer). However, whilst being below par in the...read more

by Joe Nienaber

Note: I know this has nothing much to do with this subject but, for some programmer's reasoning disability, I can't write on the Masters Golf Tournament this year because I wrote one last year. I don't know - I wish there...read more

by Randall Joines

It drives you insane, it's addictive to your senses, you want it all the time, you can't figure it out and if you think you have, it changes. Its appeal and allure are all encompassing and when you have been smitten, y...read more

by Jason Devine

First off, get rid of your 2 Iron, that's the equivalent of your mullet. Golf changes, just like life does and it depends how much you want to stay with the game, both of them. You can be the nicest person in the world, ...read more

by Randy Brown

The game of golf offers many lessons that apply to our lives. For every mistake or poor choice there is usually a second chance waiting for us. Second chances are what golf is all about. In a round of golf there are 18 sec...read more

by Erica Elliott

PLAY IT AS IT LIES I am a one-year old golfer. When I began to chop away at that little white ball, I began to correlate golf with the agony and yes beauty of life. I will describe a few of these life lessons below: ...read more