Golf Tips For Beginners

Crazy how the days zoom along once we break through our thirties! Suddenly we have to use golf carts more than walk around with our clubs slung over our shoulders. Then some of the people we grew up admiring or at least watching from afar start passing away.

Farrah Fawcett, the woman every teenager wanted to crawl out of the poster on the wall, even if the bathing suit she wore was a one piece… after all, you could tell she was cold when the photographer took the picture! She passed away at 62 years of age from cancer.

The Importance Of Regular Doctor Visits

If President Obama wanted to use scare tactics to help along national health care reform, he could use Farrah Fawcett as a prime example of someone with a lot of money who found out too late that she had cancer. If you can get people on an annual checkup schedule, they are more likely to diagnose and treat illnesses before they have a chance to ravage your body and spread from organ to organ. Problem with famous people is that they rarely have time to schedule doctor visits, they are too busy being famous.

The problem, Mr. President, is not with insurance (or lack of) it is the poor education of people on how they should take care of themselves. Scheduling an annual checkup should be something that parents train their children to do from an early age, and they should lead by example. A plan where parents put their own money aside for health care is the best way to be certain that they will have money available for emergencies. The problem is again education, not lack of legislation.

My Gosh, I Went Into A Bunker On This Blog Post…

Michael Jackson allegedly had a heart attack, and until the autopsy, we may not know for sure. It is my belief that Michael would not have had heart troubles had he hit the golf course at least twice a week. Even if he did have heart troubles, he would have found out much sooner, and when you have a heart attack on a golf course, the guys behind you will run you down pretty fast to ask you if they can play through!

I will definitely miss the two stars who are now playing the front 9 in the celestial golf course. I know that my fellow golfers and I will be holding our clubs up to the heavens before our shots tomorrow (except if we hear thunder in the distance) in honor of our fallen icons from our past.

“Mind If We Play Through?”

Of course, if too many young golfers are behind us, we may have to let a few of them play through, since many of them don’t have this spirit of oneness with our historical icons. Of course, should someone like Arnie fall, we will certainly cry before each green (and bring a towel to wipe up the tears, since salt water will kill the greens)…

Pay your greens keeper enough, or they'll do this to your course!

All seriousness aside (did I say that right?), take care of yourselves, my fellow golfers, take your vitamins and noni juice. Only bring beer in glass bottles (aluminum is bad for your memory – and it attracts lightning) and park the golf cart at least 3 yards from the ball so you have to walk a little.

Oh! And don’t forget to chase down your divots!

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