Find your game

*Excerpt – Golf Discovered – Find your game before you lose your mind…

I guess the reader could have just jumped to this Chapter, as I will list my favorite instructors. But as I warned you in Chapter 1, I’ve been known to pontificate, prognosticate, bloviate, and certainly over complicate in just about any State…

From my humble golfing beginnings in the state of Alabama, returning home to Upstate N.Y., no one can debate that I certainly tried. Perhaps if I could have stuck with ONE teacher, one swing, the ending would be different. Yet like a modern-day mad Baron von Frankenstein, too many experiments in the golf lab created what would become the “Monster”, or as some would call me, “M.D.D.” (Manic Depressive Doster)…

Nobody wants to be called “Manic Depressive”, or to be diagnosed with “Doster-itis” as the Gulf Coast golf ambassador “Chetti” would jokingly say when I would lose my mind on the course. Yet like a bad swing you can’t take back, life is not a mulligan as you get one shot here on this big round ball, where we play this game until we pass on to the big course above.

So, let’s move on to the list, my list of those great golf instructors, methods or systems that I attempted. I’ve been told by many if I’d stayed with just one of them, instead of jumping around like a hyperactive child, I would have found my game. There were times I thought I had it, played really good golf on many different courses. Thought I had a repeatable swing, a game that would hold up under pressure, only to abandon the method after a few bad shots.

As I reveal my Top 10 list, please remember, “patience is a virtue”, particularly when it comes to golf. Don’t gamble by flying solo, pick a pro or method that fits you, and find your game! Listen, learn, practice, commit and for God’s sake just don’t quit! Golf can be social, golf can be solo, the greatest game ever played can bring great satisfaction for most of your days.