Here is another few words on the soul of golf that I find is right on the money!
NEARLY every one who writes about a game essays to prove that it is similar to “the great game, the game of life.” Golf has not escaped; and numberless scribes in trying to account for the fascination of golf have used the old threadbare tale. As a matter of fact, golf is about as unlike the game of life as any game could well be. As played now it has come to be almost an exact science, and everybody knows exactly what one is trying to do. This would not be mistaken for a description of the game of life. In that game a man may be hopelessly “off the line”, “buried in the rough,” or badly “bunkered,” and nobody be the wiser. It is not so in golf. There is no double life here. All is open, and every one knows what the player is striving for. The least deflection from his line and the onlooker knows he did not mean it. It is seen instantly. In that other game it may remain unseen for years, or forever.
Explaining the fascination of anything seems to be a thankless kind of task. Explaining it seems almost like tearing a violet to pieces to admire its structure; but many have tried, and many have failed, and there are many who do not feel the fascination as they should, because they do not know the soul of golf. One cannot appreciate the beauty of golf unless one knows it thoroughly.
Curiously enough, many of our best players are extremely mechanical in their play. They play beautiful and accurate shots, but they have no idea how or why they produce them; and the strange thing about it is that although golf is perhaps as mechanical a game as there is, those who play it mechanically only get the husk of it. They miss the soul of the game.
This is a short video of the World Hickory Open. I found it as I was surfing around and thought everyone might enjoy it as much as I did. It won’t take long, about a minute and a half.
There are a multitude of classified ad sites on the internet that are worth searching when you are seeking that “club” for your collection. Here are a few sites that you can explore.
www.classifiedads.com/
www.craigslist.com/
www.ebayclassifieds.com/
www.freeadlists.com/
www.webclassifieds.us/
www.usfreeads.com/
For more classified ad sites google or bing “online classifieds”
There are also more than just ebay for auctions. Check these sites out.
Liveauctioneers.com
Icollector.com
Shopgoodwill.com
skinnerinc.com
timeandagainantiques.com
I hope this helps you find that “perfect” club you are looking for.
The following is from the preface of an old book on golf, “The Soul of Golf”,
that I found to be interesting. It’s my hope that you will enjoy it also.
It is frequently and emphatically asserted by reviewers of golf books that
golf cannot be learned from a book. If they would add “in a room” they would
be very near the truth but not quite. It would be quite possible for an
intelligent man with a special faculty for games, a good book on golf, and a
properly equipped practicing-room to start his golfing career with a game
equal to a single figure handicap.
As a matter of fact the most important things concerning golf may be more
easily and better learned in an arm-chair than on the links. As a matter of
good and scientific tuition the arm-chair is the place for them. In both golf
and lawn tennis countless players ruin their game by thinking too much about
how they are playing the stroke while they are doing it. That is not the time
to study first principles. Those should have been digested in the arm-chair,
where indeed, as I have already said and now repeat with emphasis, the highest,
the most scientific, and the most important knowledge of golf must be obtained.
There is no time for it on the links, and the true golfer has no time for the
man who tries to get it there, for he is generally a dreary bore.
Moreover, the man who tries to get it on the links is in trouble from the
outset, for in golf he is faced with a mass of false doctrine associated with
the greatest names in the history of golf, which is calculated, an he follow it,
to put him back for years, until indeed he shall find the truth, the soul of golf.