LIKE GOLF, TIME IS ALSO a zero-sum game. Every time we tee it up comes at the expense of two other important things: family and work.
It’s really only a certain, but considerable, segment of golfers that should feel what I’m talking about. The young are aware of guilt as an abstraction if at all, and rightly so. For the old, golf is a beautiful game that keeps them young. But for a lot of golfers in the middle of life, even if their conscience (and their partner) knows the game’s virtues to be true—exercise, fresh air, fellowship, total concentration on a hard thing displacing life’s stresses, even business networking—it doesn’t make the pencil that keeps your calendar any less sharp.
“Oh, you’re playing golf again … You’ll be back…