Not just for the sake of digging up an old thread, I happened to read something last night about what golf represents to Rob Gronkowski, an American football player who recently took up the game. He was asked what golf represented to him and other than the competition and self control he mentioned, he talked about camaraderie, drinking and playing his music in his golf cart and having fun with his friends.
Unfortunately, this is an attitude I run into a lot at Killian Greens in recent years. There's a new generation of player at Killian Greens who, and I'm not exaggerating, have absolutely no respect for the game, the golf course or anyone else on it.
Look, I'm 74 and have an attitude about golf I'll explain in a moment. Suffice it to say, if I ran into circumstances like Rob Gronkowski said too frequently, it would force me to look for a different course to play. Considering what i just wrote above, that's exactly what I'm doing.
There's a limit to how anyone should be allowed to create their personal spaceon the course, basically defined as keeping it personal with no disturbance or distraction to other players on the course.
I thought about that for a while and an interesting thought crossed my mind. Both of my initial teachers who started me in the game at the age of 4 were both from the UK. Joe Lally was Irish and Bert Croghan was Scottish. When i discovered my birth family, I learned my family originally came from Scotland too.
In the serch for my birth family, one of the most interesting things has been finding how much we have in common and things we love that have nothing to do with DNA. For example, like me, my father was a golfer. Like me, he was a pilot of small aircraft. Like me, he was over the top in love with his dogs. I could go on and on...
I wonder if the influence of such a European background has caused me to have my conservative attitude about how I feel the environment of the game should be played?
