Libre
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- Jul 29, 2007
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For as long as I've been playing - going on 38 years or more - I've always enjoyed the walk. It's not really the walk itself - my playing style, pace, course management, AND my fitness really depend on walking. I've played rounds from carts - some courses require it as we all know. I like to walk to my ball, planning or sorta planning what I'm going to do next. I'm limber. When I'm walking in a group with carts, I'm usually ahead of them. It's a better, cleaner, faster game walking.
I played from a cart today. My buddy texts me - hey you want to share a cart? I forgot my push cart. So I say, sure. He tells me he paid for it already. What the hell - 3rd day in a row playing, feet are a little tender. Anyway, it really throws me off, playing from a cart. I never know what club I want to hit until I'm standing over my ball. Never. I need to see the lie and get the yardage. With my pull cart and bag right there, I have all my clubs right there next to me. With a driving cart - you have to get out of the cart (I wasn't driving) walk around the cart to the ball, decide on your club, go back to the cart, pull the club, back to the ball, decide it's the wrong club but hit anyway. No. And sometimes you have to pull 3 or 4 clubs because you can't drive anywhere near your ball - or you get caught with totally the wrong club and the cart is 75 yards up by the green. Another thing, my clubs get all mixed up, because the bag is facing the wrong way.
I'm 68 and I'm going to keep walking my rounds as long as my body cooperates. So far, so good.
I assume most people who read and post on a golf forum are pretty serious golfers and would be surprised if most didn't agree. I'm gonna start a poll. What the heck.
I played from a cart today. My buddy texts me - hey you want to share a cart? I forgot my push cart. So I say, sure. He tells me he paid for it already. What the hell - 3rd day in a row playing, feet are a little tender. Anyway, it really throws me off, playing from a cart. I never know what club I want to hit until I'm standing over my ball. Never. I need to see the lie and get the yardage. With my pull cart and bag right there, I have all my clubs right there next to me. With a driving cart - you have to get out of the cart (I wasn't driving) walk around the cart to the ball, decide on your club, go back to the cart, pull the club, back to the ball, decide it's the wrong club but hit anyway. No. And sometimes you have to pull 3 or 4 clubs because you can't drive anywhere near your ball - or you get caught with totally the wrong club and the cart is 75 yards up by the green. Another thing, my clubs get all mixed up, because the bag is facing the wrong way.
I'm 68 and I'm going to keep walking my rounds as long as my body cooperates. So far, so good.
I assume most people who read and post on a golf forum are pretty serious golfers and would be surprised if most didn't agree. I'm gonna start a poll. What the heck.
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