Playing Golf

Playing golf is one of those things that might appear at first glance to be a little dull to those whose athletic pursuits tend toward the more dangerous or sweaty. But when you look at the number of professional athletes from other sports and listen to them talk about golf, you begin to realize that it is simply a pursuit in athletics that is really far more than it appears to be at first glance.

What becomes obvious when you watch guys like Michael Jordan, one of the best athletes ever and arguably the greatest basketball player in history, playing golf you begin to understand just how difficult it is for even one of the best athletes ever to master the intricacies of golf. With his physicla skill set, you would think that if golf was really easy he would just go right onto the tour. Recently, another athlete with hall of fame credentials, Jerry Rice, has announced his intention to play golf professionally, but his debut was a little inauspicious.

With that out of the way, you can begin to get a grip on the fact that it's not just pudgy white guys out there wandering around drinking beer and tearing up grass. There is something so difficult about golf that it is something that very few folks ever completely master. That is why, at least until the rise of a guy with freakishly good skills - Tiger came along, you never saw very many guys dominate the game over time. Hogan, Palmer and Tiger, those three guys  are basically head and shoulders above everyone else where other sports might have an entire hall of fame full of dominating players and a phenom or two comes along every ten years or so.

So, playing golf is both the easiest thing in the world to start doing - just grab some clubs and start whacking away toward that flag over there - but also the hardest sport in the world to master. But you'll never know just how much fun the challenge can be until you give it a try for yourself and find out why it is perhaps the most popular sport in the country.