Mors Ab Alto
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- Aug 28, 2006
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I have playing golf for about 5 years now, and like any of my previous obsessions, I completely emmersed myself into it. This included buying every publication with the word "Golf" in the title, but over the years only 2 have remained at the right hand of my throne: Golf Digest and Golf Magazine. Each month I waited with baited breath for the stork in a USPS uniform to delivery my newest baby, and each month I fawned over the newest issue like a loving parent. Well, it took 5 years, but I have come to the realization that my 2 children are basically ugly, misinformed, contradicting, greedy idiots. It's a hard truth to come to grips with, but it's true.
This is no sudden revelation. I have kept every issue (over 120) in my garage as sort of a time capsule of golf history, and since I am moving this week, I have had to start packing up my house. So like a good husband, I moved some boxes around for about 10 minutes and proceeded to go through my collection. There were numerous covers boasting how you could "Buy a better game" (last month's GM said exactly that), how there were secrets inside that would add 10, 15 nay! 25 yards to your drives, and other such BS.
Well friends, I have had it. I could care less that for only one mortgage payment I can purchase unnecessary clubs that will make me look like I can play, but won't really help. I hate that a 150 page magazine has 50 pages of crap I could care less about, such as last month's "Best New Courses You Can Play" (unless you make less than $60K, which we in the military do). Honestly, I am not planning on dropping $1500 on a 3 day golf trip, so I don't care where I should eat while NOT on vacation. And I love the contradictory advice bestowed up us by teaching pros who make more per hour than should be leagally allowed unless you are saving lives. Maybe there should be a magazine called "Golf Tips" where they offer nothing but bad instructive advice (oh wait, I think there is).
Unfortunately, there are aspects of each magazine that I DO like: David Fehrety in GM is always the first page I turn to, and some of the articles and player prifiles are awesome, especially those dealing with golf history (I have learned quite a bit about how Palmer and Nicklaus figure into the great scheme of things that I was ignorant to before). But sadly, this has proven too little in my decision to not renew my subscriptions.
And if you have read all the way to this point, well then either you have feelings one way or the other on this subject, or you are really, really bored. Either way, I'd like to see if anyone else out there feels the same as I do.
This is no sudden revelation. I have kept every issue (over 120) in my garage as sort of a time capsule of golf history, and since I am moving this week, I have had to start packing up my house. So like a good husband, I moved some boxes around for about 10 minutes and proceeded to go through my collection. There were numerous covers boasting how you could "Buy a better game" (last month's GM said exactly that), how there were secrets inside that would add 10, 15 nay! 25 yards to your drives, and other such BS.
Well friends, I have had it. I could care less that for only one mortgage payment I can purchase unnecessary clubs that will make me look like I can play, but won't really help. I hate that a 150 page magazine has 50 pages of crap I could care less about, such as last month's "Best New Courses You Can Play" (unless you make less than $60K, which we in the military do). Honestly, I am not planning on dropping $1500 on a 3 day golf trip, so I don't care where I should eat while NOT on vacation. And I love the contradictory advice bestowed up us by teaching pros who make more per hour than should be leagally allowed unless you are saving lives. Maybe there should be a magazine called "Golf Tips" where they offer nothing but bad instructive advice (oh wait, I think there is).
Unfortunately, there are aspects of each magazine that I DO like: David Fehrety in GM is always the first page I turn to, and some of the articles and player prifiles are awesome, especially those dealing with golf history (I have learned quite a bit about how Palmer and Nicklaus figure into the great scheme of things that I was ignorant to before). But sadly, this has proven too little in my decision to not renew my subscriptions.
And if you have read all the way to this point, well then either you have feelings one way or the other on this subject, or you are really, really bored. Either way, I'd like to see if anyone else out there feels the same as I do.