Better Aiming
You will find many opportunities to improve your aim. In your car, whenever parking, especially at the golf course, take some extra time to make sure you are dead centre and perfectly parallel to the white lines. At the local fete have a go at the Knock ‘em Downs. Win a koala bear. If you have stationary crows on your telegraph wires, find some unripe apricots and put those crows on the move. At your closest pub play a game of darts. On your way home walk straight. Don’t sway. Write on unlined paper. Exactly fifty lines on each page. If the lines slope uphill or down—your natural aim is off kilter. Uphill often means you hook, downhill—you slice. Concentrate on writing straighter and your drive will follow too. A session of target shooting may also pay dividends. Do not waste your time with clay pigeons. Golf has no moving targets. There is little difference between lawn bowls and indoor carpet bowls—they are both as good as each other. Turn your hand to decorative sewing or tapestry. Being a good aim is useful for everything in life. Hanging pictures. Building a fence. It’s why babies can close their eyes with lids sealed in perfect semi-circles. It’s how a hand finds a matchbox beside the bed and lights a smoke in the dark.
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Gee, if only I had known all this when I still played golf! It’s all elementary, isn’t it?
Thanks for this, Pards.
I love how these are not really about golf at all and especially laughed at, ‘If you have stationary crows on your telegraph wires, find some unripe apricots and put those crows on the move.’ When I played golf most of the conversation was not about golf and this, I reckon, is its beauty and function.
Thanks Ian and Mickey for your appreciation.
No mention of porcelain or stainless steel?
Very good point Percy. Right on target.
Outstanding Pards.
I would like to respond in a short story to do with putting and the New Yeer.
I will write the first draft on unlined paper..
JTH
“Love and putting are mysteries for the philosopher to solve. Both subjects are beyond golfers to solve”. (Tommy Armour – winner of The Open; US Open & US PGA).
Love your droll insights into golf’s mysteries Pards.
Thanks John and Peter. John, the scratch golfers often do the unlined paper exercise on a sloped roof for extra oomph. PB we must have a game soon and muse upon the joy of vicissitudes.