Sandpiper3
Golf Course Designer
- Aug 9, 2006
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Well, i have College Writing I this semester, and the guy is crazy, kool though. He's super passionate about writing and is telling us to not even bother writing our assignments unless its something were passionate about.
That being the case, ill be writing a lot aboot golf in that class:laugh:. Here is the first assignment i've done, just finished proofing it and such as it'd due in about 2 hours.
If your up for a read i'd love to hear any suggestions on my writing and such, as writing has never been a strong suit of mine, it and US History are my only tough subjects im really guna have all year, and lo and behold i have both them this first term
I have no clue on the title, im not sure if i can use a quote in the title, but it seemed fitting imo. BTW- if any mods have anything against me posting my homework on here for any reasons of legality close'r and delete'r right away, i dont want to eff anything up
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The greatest mind game ever, calling golf even that would be an understatement. Walking around on a perfectly manicured area of land with a bag full of sticks chasing and whacking at this little white ball. Sounds easy, but nobody in the world have, or ever will perfect this great game. It is so tough and requires such high amount of fine tuned skill that even a thousandth of a degree open or closed face at the point of impact will dramatically change the shot. Because of such fine tuned skill being required, no one has ever perfected (although Tiger Woods has probably come the closest at an approximate 65% win rate on the PGA Tour) the game of golf, and this is a reason that so many quit, but it is also what draws people to the game.
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The first time someone goes out to the course, or the driving range, they will drop some balls or the bucket and just start attempting to swing at them. But just that ONE shot that they hit right, that feeling of perfection is embedded in the back of their head and they want to duplicate it. This is what draws thousands to the game, trying to duplicate that first perfect shot again and again, because NO ONE will hit it perfectly every single time, but they can hit it extremely well most of the time. Even Tiger himself (who is being recognized already as possibly the best player in the game, EVER) will slice or hook a tee shot into the trees, will take too much sand out of a bunker and leave his ball in it, or just simply miss a 5 foot putt (which is actually a lot harder than everyone thinks it is to make, especially if you’re on the PGA and that 5 foot putt is worth possibly half a million dollars (the different between first and second at most tournaments today)).
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The first time I was given a golf club, I swung it like a baseball bat, as do most people the first time they are given a club, as generally baseball, being a much simpler sport, is shown to most children before they even notice that golf is a sport. But that first swing was big, round, and even took a bit of a pivot away and completely missed the ball as I didn’t swing down and through as you are supposed to for golf, but swung around and even let go of the club with one hand, thinking I was hitting a home run. I probably even wanted to go run, but my dad just re-teed the ball for him and showed me how to take a correct swing. Less moving parts, swing around your centre; turn your shoulders around your spine and to keep my head down and eye on the ball. Surely enough with his help I’d hit my first perfect shot, and I was hooked, just like that.
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Now 12 years later I am a freshman at college on a golf scholarship, that one perfect shot I had hit drew me into the game and away from 4 other sports that I also excelled in and had futures in if I chose to pursue them. To lack imagination and copy a Lexus ad, golf is in every sense “The Pursuit of Perfection”. I practise for hours and hours on a range with a bucket full of balls, I go out on the course for 4+ hours and even go back out after I’m finished 18 holes. I’ve played 36 holes in a day after hitting two buckets on the range before hand, and then went back to the range to practise the little idiosyncrasies that may have saved just those one or two more strokes. The best round I’ve ever played in my life I only honestly hit about 15 good shots, I had taken 67 strokes that day, and imagine that, only 15 of them were “good”. It is said over and over, golf is a game of how good your bad shots are. A true game of recovery, because it is impossible to play a round at par (generally 72) and hit all 72 of those shots “good”, if you’d have hit every shot good, you’d have most likely been under par. In my opinion, and most definitely in a pro’s opinion, if I had hit every shot “good”, I would shoot a 54 (birdying every single hole). But no one has ever done that, at least not when the pressure was on. Only 5 players in history have ever broken 60 in a professional round.
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This great game isn’t about how big you or your opponents are, or how perfect you hit every shot, but it’s about how good your misses are and how the player manages said misses. A game that no one can ever perfect, in my opinion, is the greatest games ever because everyone out there is striving for it and will never turn away for it’s become “just too easy”.
That being the case, ill be writing a lot aboot golf in that class:laugh:. Here is the first assignment i've done, just finished proofing it and such as it'd due in about 2 hours.
If your up for a read i'd love to hear any suggestions on my writing and such, as writing has never been a strong suit of mine, it and US History are my only tough subjects im really guna have all year, and lo and behold i have both them this first term
I have no clue on the title, im not sure if i can use a quote in the title, but it seemed fitting imo. BTW- if any mods have anything against me posting my homework on here for any reasons of legality close'r and delete'r right away, i dont want to eff anything up
“3 Bad Shots and 1 Good One Still Make Par”
- Walter Hagen
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></o>The first time someone goes out to the course, or the driving range, they will drop some balls or the bucket and just start attempting to swing at them. But just that ONE shot that they hit right, that feeling of perfection is embedded in the back of their head and they want to duplicate it. This is what draws thousands to the game, trying to duplicate that first perfect shot again and again, because NO ONE will hit it perfectly every single time, but they can hit it extremely well most of the time. Even Tiger himself (who is being recognized already as possibly the best player in the game, EVER) will slice or hook a tee shot into the trees, will take too much sand out of a bunker and leave his ball in it, or just simply miss a 5 foot putt (which is actually a lot harder than everyone thinks it is to make, especially if you’re on the PGA and that 5 foot putt is worth possibly half a million dollars (the different between first and second at most tournaments today)).
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></o>The first time I was given a golf club, I swung it like a baseball bat, as do most people the first time they are given a club, as generally baseball, being a much simpler sport, is shown to most children before they even notice that golf is a sport. But that first swing was big, round, and even took a bit of a pivot away and completely missed the ball as I didn’t swing down and through as you are supposed to for golf, but swung around and even let go of the club with one hand, thinking I was hitting a home run. I probably even wanted to go run, but my dad just re-teed the ball for him and showed me how to take a correct swing. Less moving parts, swing around your centre; turn your shoulders around your spine and to keep my head down and eye on the ball. Surely enough with his help I’d hit my first perfect shot, and I was hooked, just like that.
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></o>Now 12 years later I am a freshman at college on a golf scholarship, that one perfect shot I had hit drew me into the game and away from 4 other sports that I also excelled in and had futures in if I chose to pursue them. To lack imagination and copy a Lexus ad, golf is in every sense “The Pursuit of Perfection”. I practise for hours and hours on a range with a bucket full of balls, I go out on the course for 4+ hours and even go back out after I’m finished 18 holes. I’ve played 36 holes in a day after hitting two buckets on the range before hand, and then went back to the range to practise the little idiosyncrasies that may have saved just those one or two more strokes. The best round I’ve ever played in my life I only honestly hit about 15 good shots, I had taken 67 strokes that day, and imagine that, only 15 of them were “good”. It is said over and over, golf is a game of how good your bad shots are. A true game of recovery, because it is impossible to play a round at par (generally 72) and hit all 72 of those shots “good”, if you’d have hit every shot good, you’d have most likely been under par. In my opinion, and most definitely in a pro’s opinion, if I had hit every shot “good”, I would shoot a 54 (birdying every single hole). But no one has ever done that, at least not when the pressure was on. Only 5 players in history have ever broken 60 in a professional round.
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></o>This great game isn’t about how big you or your opponents are, or how perfect you hit every shot, but it’s about how good your misses are and how the player manages said misses. A game that no one can ever perfect, in my opinion, is the greatest games ever because everyone out there is striving for it and will never turn away for it’s become “just too easy”.
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