Any Reason for Golf

On May 24th , I co-hosted on a local radio show called Golf Talk and was lucky enough to interview the President of the Shivas Irons Society, a charitable foundation started by Michael Murphy who wrote "Golf in the Kingdom" and founder of the Esalen Institute. The members of the Shivas Irons Society are a very interesting group of golfers, they view golf as and artistic endeavor or a creative outlet rather than a result based activity. Make no mistake, they still keep score and recognize that scoring is the basis for the game of golf, however, score is a result of a creative process and not necessarily the reason for playing the game. The next time you hit the links, take a page from the Shivas Iron Society and change your prospective on playing the game and make the score an end to the means and not the means in itself.