Category: Golf
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How wrong I was: golf as a dad
adapted from the “Against the Grain” column in the August 2016 issue of Golf Chicago Magazine “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds…Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. — from Self-Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson…
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Know Thyself: Golf as Religion
adapted from the June/July 2016 issue of Golf Chicago Magazine Religion: 1: the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. 2: a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance. So when Karl Marx said, “Religion is the opiate of the people,” he was referring to…
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Jordan Spieth’s Greatest Lesson
By Rory Hughes, adapted from the May 2016 issue of Golf Chicago Magazine Be here now. “Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.” — Angela Carter If you laughed at Jordan Spieth soiling his Under Armour underwear on #12 at Augusta, you do not have a sense of humor; you are a sadist. If you’re a golfer…
