A New Hobby

I’m not an athlete, by any means.  I’m uncoordinated and clumsy.  I played soccer and volleyball off and on through school, and used to be a pretty dedicated runner.  However, I am not at all an athlete.  However, I’ve picked up a new hobby.  A slightly expensive one.  However, I’m confident that it’s a hobby that will get me up and moving, at least for the nicer months of the year.

I have officially entered the world of golfing.  Granted, I’m awful, and I’m taking a late-ish start at a new hobby that people spend years improving upon (or not improving upon)…however, between hours spent trying out clubs at MC Sports and Dick’s Sporting Goods, then spent out in the “rough” of the farmhouse yard, I’m sore.  It looks easy, but you whack around enough practice balls, you’ll get a work out!

Why am I so convinced this is good for me?

Well, for starters, it takes the edge off of the laziness I constantly have to overcome to exercise.  I have trouble exercising for the sake of exercising, whereas something like golf is a good, fun motivation to get up and move around.  I was the same way with sports when I was younger; being active is fun if there’s a social factor to it!  But it’s more than just the fun aspect.  You can’t golf when you’re tense.  You can’t have a knot in your back and get a decent set-up and follow-through.

Now, I’m a person that spends 90% of their time stressed out.  However, standing there with my pretty purple clubs and my pink plastic practice balls, there was no possible way I could stress out, or I’d never hit the ball.  (This is especially important because I’m new at this, and bad.  I’ve been told that the better you get, the easier it is to golf under stress.)  However, I had to relax my body.  I had to keep my knees bent and pull myself into better posture.

There is no way to be physically tense and golf well.  And I want to get better, and enjoy myself.  Just from the hours spent getting to know my clubs over the last few evenings, I can already tell this will be the start of something good!