Sam
Its Golf we are talking about and play what’s this with the two way street?
Perhaps it’s my blood line with all those great and famous golfers and golf course designers that through their actions we have a game and golf courses worthy of great merit. Perhaps through their game golf went global through their interactions. Whatever, it has been passed down to me that golf is a game played alone, or with friends or strangers, for simple joy, entertainment or money. The purpose is to accept the tests and challenges placed before the golfer by God, Nature and the Hand of Man. The game from the start was one of walking and thinking while navigating the course with all its traps and natural/manmade obstacles, to do so on your own ability. The rich being able to have a club carrier, the poorer carried their own limited set of clubs.
Throughout all my searches and research I have never come across the game not being a walking game or others doing the thinking for the golfer. I suppose the guys back then realised that if they were to embrace the game they had to do it their way i.e. walk and think their game through, selecting the correct clubs to gain the best distance before the little ball went into the Hole.
Golf is a game of tradition, it has its own rules of conduct, it was and is a way of life. To be known as a golfer you knew that it would have an effect upon not just you but your wife and family, not to mention your social activities. Being a golfer you commit to that knowing that it is the consequence
of your own actions. The game engulfs you and all the ones you love.
If you have lived your life as a golfer, accepted it is your game why would you want to play another variation of the game that in the past has left you feeling it’s a betrayal of everything you believe in - that is in your golfing life. For me and many others, Golf is not a cart assisted game. That’s for the lazy, the non-committed, the part timers who care not a fig for the game, its traditions or that the game is a test of the individuals character, in that his/her willingness to face the tests and challenges that defines golf as a game.
So once you can’t walk far, you expect me to abandon all that I hold dear and true for something I have nothing but contempt for as it IMHO riding is not playing golf as its shows zero commitment let alone interest in a game called Golf.
I will no ride to play golf, it simply is not golf if you ride, you have removed a major part of the intercourse with the land a golfer gets when walking. So no, no cart for me, I will stop playing until my problem is cured. I may use a cart in future to get about but not to play golf.
Nor will I ride with you as you do not play the same game as me and quite frankly I am not interested in Cart Balling.
Melvyn
PS I have played golf in many parts of the world, mainly the Tropics from Brazil, Jamaica, Nigeria India and places like Portugal & Spain. Walking never even considered riding, it’s just not the done thing if you are a Golfer – then again it’s in my bloodline and do you expect me to betray the likes of Old or Young Tom, Charlie Hunter, James Hunter, George & Jack Morris and more besides who went to America up course in Mobile Darien.