Golf and the Spirit
Lessons for the Journey
Chapter One
Once there was a man of limited imagination
who considered the progress of life to be straightforward.
HOLE 1
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SETTING THE SCENE
To the proverbial man from Mars, golf would seem the most linear
of all human activities. For example, it is the only common game I
know where the player with the lowest score wins. The whole point,
apparently, is to get the ball from here (a tee) to there (a hole in a green)
as directly as possible. Generally, it is obvious that the straighter the
passage of that little ball from the tee to the hole, the fewer times the
player will have to hit it and, hence, the greater her or his sense of
accomplishment. Then the golfer will move on to the tee of the next
allotted space of terrain (or "hole") and repeat the same linear p ... read full excerpt from: Golf and the Spirit ebook
