Tag: Fatherhood
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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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Can you make your kid love the sport you love?
Adapted from the “Against the Grain” column in the April 2016 issue of Golf Chicago Magazine The indoctrination begins. Within seconds of my wife saying she was pregnant — after a few joyous expletives — one of my first thoughts was, “I hope he loves golf.” Actually, at the time it was more like, I hope “it” loves golf.…
