Golf as a Metaphor

The Strange Nature of the Game

August 11, 2005

The truth is that this beguiling, bewitching game can also be befuddling. Golf is an endeavor of opposites and contradictions; it is counter-intuitive, counter-instinctive, and often counter-productive. But it seems to light up some uncharted corner of the human brain, like we vaguely recognize it as the game we play in the spirit world before birth and which we cling to through our mortal days, secretly hoping the Elysian Fields of the afterlife are really a links layout with open tee times for eternity. Read more