So far this summer has been a wash for me as far as golf goes. Some of you know that I’ve been recovering from heart surgery and with that comes very little physical activity.
It’s been a couple months since the actual surgery and the doc’s have cleared me for light physical activity. Even though golf isn’t that demanding, a healing sternum impedes your swing and rules out a quick 9.
What to do, what to do…how about fishing? For smaller fish obviously, nothing that’ll pull me in. Believe it or not, the whole time I was fishing I thought about golf and how the two are similar. For example, a good golf swing definitely helps in striking a ball well. As does a good cast. If Skippy over there can’t cast well, there’s a good chance someone’s getting hooked. Just like when I tee off…there’s a good chance you’ll have to duck.
I have to say, the biggest similarity between the two would be they both end up pissing me off. I flub, shank and hook shots all day. I snap a line, barely get any bites and the ones that do bite get away. Oh yeah, lots of fun. Just thinking about it raises my blood pressure. Where’s my beta blockers? Maybe these “relaxing” activities aren’t as heart-healthy as I thought.
That said, it leaves one last activity…brewing my own beer. I have found that as I consume beer, it lowers the stress and anger levels that golf (and fishing) might bring. Therefore, I brewed my own beer for three reasons. 1) It’s beer 2) golf and beer just go together and 3) it helps me cope with my golf game. Now that I have stocked-up on my own home brew, I am ready to hit the links once the doc gives the thumbs up. Isn’t golf great?
Hit’em long…yell FORE!!!
Usually if I can’t play a full round of golf for awhile, I end up chipping foam balls in my house. I will set up a target in my house and try to hit it with foam balls. I may also have to break out the Tiger Woods Golf game on the Wii. You can hit a ball 300 yards down the middle of the fairway without having to take a full golf swing. I certainly can’t do that on a real golf course and the Wii allows me to play Pebble Beach without having to book a tee time or fork over $500.
Reading the headline, I had some problems to see the connection between golf – fish – brewing beer. I asked myself how can someone do bring this together… 🙂
Reading your post everything became clear.
At this point I only can say: Go for it and take the best out of it!