Swap Work . . . Play Golf

By Paul Chong

My Delight With Golf
- Paul Chong

“Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.” - Wikipedia.

GOLF as a word used to stand for “Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden”. However, it’s no longer so today.

To me, GOLF is both a leisure & pleasure:
* to rise before the break of dawn, fresh & breezy
* teeing off from the first hole for a 9-hole game or 18-hole game, depending upon the availability of time
* meeting up with a group of friendly retirees for a social game & recreation
* the sheer pleasure of healthy exercise in walking & swinging crazily with your club over a distance aiming for a tiny hole which can cause you to have great sensation or frustration
* quite apart from the game, to be close to nature & surprising encounter with groups of kangaroo families sunning in the green. “You can see me but you can’t come near me.”

Golf is an enigmatic sort of sports. Someday you are on top of the world. Others you are at the edge of hell. You will never know what to expect, even with the best of the professional players.

I had a good run & fun with golf over 10 years (age 65 -75) . . . forced out of golf because of “windy shots” when glaucoma came my way.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Oct 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9781982295974

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Balboa Press rev. date:  10/07/2022

Contents

Introduction

Why This Craze Over Golf?

Turn Your Disability to Ability

Theory & Practice in Golf

The Fairways Are Wide

&

The Hole Is Big

The Enigma With Golf

How Green Is The Golf Course?

Golf Is Easy, Practice Like Crazy

Golf For Retirement

Golf For One And All

Golf - Enjoy It!

Golf - How Well Do You Play?

Drive For Show, Putt For Gold

Golf Etiquette

Epilogue

Swap Work

Play Golf

It does not discriminate against

Age, sex or ability

Nor race, colour or creed.

Golf

For

Activity

And

Creativity

Challenge Your Boundaries

Paul Chong

A Chinese by Descent

An Australian by Consent

Introduction

As an avid senior golfer, I am no professional. I simply enjoy playing golf. At my age it’s great to be alive, and to be able to look forward each day excitedly towards playing another challenging or frustrating round of golf.

At my age, I can never be a great golfer, especially when you start learning and playing the game at age 65. However, I can play golf to my own personal satisfaction, and that itself is a great accomplishment to see your ball soars up into the sky and landing it where you hope will land.

With age, even the greatest of golfers like Jack Nicholas has to call it quit from competition. Of course, to be sure, he’ll continue to be playing and contributing