Golf
Hello again. I am sitting here once again, with nothing to do. So, I thought that I would write about golf. Not an interesting subject for those who don't play or watch it, but none the less a subject. I am currently watching the Peek'n Peak Classic Nationwide Tour, and I can't help but think whether or not these professionals care about anything else.
America seems to have a fixation with sports. The national passtime, baseball, or the most watched sport (as I see it), football, or any other sport. We just can't get enough of it. Golf, however, doesn't have as large of a fanbase as baseball, basketball, or football. Part of that has to do with the fact that most people find golf a "prep" sport. A few hundred years ago, golf was only for the richest of people, and only if you were high in the social standings.
In some way, that generalization is still in the minds of americans. I enjoy playing golf, but it's a different view from this side of the glass. By that I mean, if you're a non-golfer, you have different views of the sport than if you're a golfer. I dont see golf as a sport for the rich. Sure, it's not as fast paced as many other sports. Hockey for one is great fun to watch, because things can change very quickly. I watched the Stanley Cup final this year for the first time, and I found myself screaming at the television, which I dont do very often.
Since my family is from Africa, the sports that I know are different than the sports that my friends know. They all grew up with their fathers teaching them the fundamentals of basketball or baseball. Later he taught them how to throw a football correctly. Thats not how I grew up. My father was a world class (for his age at least) cricketer and he even had his own cricket clinic through which he taught people how to play during the summer. Since I grew up here, in America, he never shared his knowledge with me. If you went up to anyone walking on the street and asked them what a wicket is they would probably say something on the lines of "what? You mean a basket?"
So, I grew up without the standard sports of America. Instead, I was on my schools track team. Running, everyone knows how to run. It doesn't matter where you're from, you know how to run. It's one of your basic instincts. Well, not really, but it is easy. I was good, the team was not. Another example of where life didn't searve me a dog biscuit (read Dog Biscuits to understand that, it's another of my entries). But it was fun, I got to know this really great girl (that was the best part) and I won an award.
So, this entry hasn't really been about golf after all, but rather sports in general and what they mean to me. That happens a lot, I get off track really easily. Not when I'm running on one though (a track that is). So sports has a minor part in my life, but it is there, none the less.
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America seems to have a fixation with sports. The national passtime, baseball, or the most watched sport (as I see it), football, or any other sport. We just can't get enough of it. Golf, however, doesn't have as large of a fanbase as baseball, basketball, or football. Part of that has to do with the fact that most people find golf a "prep" sport. A few hundred years ago, golf was only for the richest of people, and only if you were high in the social standings.
In some way, that generalization is still in the minds of americans. I enjoy playing golf, but it's a different view from this side of the glass. By that I mean, if you're a non-golfer, you have different views of the sport than if you're a golfer. I dont see golf as a sport for the rich. Sure, it's not as fast paced as many other sports. Hockey for one is great fun to watch, because things can change very quickly. I watched the Stanley Cup final this year for the first time, and I found myself screaming at the television, which I dont do very often.
Since my family is from Africa, the sports that I know are different than the sports that my friends know. They all grew up with their fathers teaching them the fundamentals of basketball or baseball. Later he taught them how to throw a football correctly. Thats not how I grew up. My father was a world class (for his age at least) cricketer and he even had his own cricket clinic through which he taught people how to play during the summer. Since I grew up here, in America, he never shared his knowledge with me. If you went up to anyone walking on the street and asked them what a wicket is they would probably say something on the lines of "what? You mean a basket?"
So, I grew up without the standard sports of America. Instead, I was on my schools track team. Running, everyone knows how to run. It doesn't matter where you're from, you know how to run. It's one of your basic instincts. Well, not really, but it is easy. I was good, the team was not. Another example of where life didn't searve me a dog biscuit (read Dog Biscuits to understand that, it's another of my entries). But it was fun, I got to know this really great girl (that was the best part) and I won an award.
So, this entry hasn't really been about golf after all, but rather sports in general and what they mean to me. That happens a lot, I get off track really easily. Not when I'm running on one though (a track that is). So sports has a minor part in my life, but it is there, none the less.
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