So regular season football has been on for two weeks now, and for two weeks I’ve had a few buddies come over to watch the games with me. Our faces are being stuffed with pizza, wings and chips. Beers are being guzzled. Ooh’s and aah’s spread throughout the room after big hits and great catches. Football season is in full swing and I love it.
It’s all of this that makes me realize what that one thing is that’s missing from golf that keeps me from having the guys over to watch a round – everything.
A long time ago I wondered the reason my buddies and I get together to watch football, along with the occasional baseball and basketball games, but we never do for golf, even though we all enjoy and play the game. But I’m thinking that sometime in the next few months, I may try to have a golf get together. But a few dilemmas exist.
1. It’s going to be limited to only certain months of the year. Think about it, if the weather is nice enough, we’re going to be playing golf, not watching it. It’s the same reason that, despite there being a PGA Tour stop only fifteen minutes from my house, I’ve only attended it three times. If the weather is nice enough to wander around a golf course, then I’m going to wander a golf course with my clubs in tow.
2. As mentioned before in the linked post above…it’s boring. Let’s face it, watching golf on TV is just not very exciting. “Hey guys, want to come by my place Sunday and watch the sun move across the sky?” Yeah, that’ll be a blast. “Hey man, I just painted my garage. Why don’t you head on over and we can watch it dry together?” If I was to actually ask either of these questions to my buddies, do you know what the response would be? “Thanks but no thanks dude…I’d rather watch a golf tournament.”
3. How do you plan ahead for it? Do you just pick a time and say come over then? What if it’s the final round and you’re only interested in one particular golfer? How much of that golfer do you really get to see? Let’s go to 13. Now back to 7. We’re going to head over to 17 now. We end up watching a bunch of practice swings before we see eleven seconds of real action…if you can really call it that.
You know, this idea is actually beginning to start sounding bad. I don’t want to have the guys come over and be bored. None of us want to sit and watch golf when we could be playing instead. And honestly, it just seems hard to plan for. So if I’m going to do it, it looks like it’s going to have to be a final round, which means a Sunday. It’s going to have to be in the cold weather, or else we’ll be playing. So that leaves a Sunday in the winter. And that, my friends, is football time. So it looks like my idea is going to have to be put on the shelf. Oh well, maybe one of our rounds will be rained out. Then there may be some time to watch golf.
Swing ’til you’re happy!
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