I'm looking at a lot of the old stuff, but it is a lonely business reading it by oneself over a long period of time is not the same as having a dialogue about it, which is more interesting. It's not all that is understood correctly and therefore needs to be confirmed or corrected. If nobody wants to answer - that's a chance I'll have to take.
Hi Air. there are lots of hard-working professional teachers and golfers in this community. I know what my day is like with little ones and their attitudes about life. I can guess at some of the grief these folks get because I was a stockbroker for American Express many years ago.
As a broker, I had good clients and clients I fired or wanted to. Some people, with lots of coin, would trust me and allow me to research their situations and make recommendations, and pay me a fee and send other clients as referrals, paying me twice, in effect.
Some clients would always remind me of how much money their accounts were worth to me, before insulting my intelligence and work ethic. You should understand that I work twice as hard, at least, at my job, as I do my golf swing. Eventually, I would replace such clients with better, nicer people with at least as many assets.
Golf clubs are different, imho. A pro has "good clients," "steady clients," and "pains in the ass," based on my observations. So these pros on this forum are working people with all the same struggles most people face. They give us awesome gifts of insight and true golfing expertise and they ask something in return.
They ask us to try out their suggestions and learn their language. (Too bad there is not a Google Translator for TGM, like their is for Nordic languages!) Since golf is not a medical emergency, there is no sense of urgency here. This is a "long-term play." Tired, busy people, in the business talk about their favorite thing, golf, long after they suffer the trials of their business. I usually leave my job at 5pm after starting at 7am and then I don't talk about school. Wife, kids, dogs, and golf are my things after 6pm. Never work, unless I'm working on a degree or something.
So, don't get discouraged with these really fine, generous people. They are human like us and face no mandates to help us. Make a notebook. Share things that work for you with us and help us.
Everything these folks have suggested that I have tried works sooner or later and fits in the big puzzle that is my permanently unbalanced swing. (I will resist teasing Daryl at this point). I will make a trip to Mecca, soon, with God's help. If Kevin, Jerry, OB, Daryl and all the rest have been so powerfully helpful from far away,(and in MN) imagine the positive effect of going to an orthodox chapel of TGM. Sort of like going to Lourdes if you can't get to Jerusalem.
"Wait, wait.....there's a lightning bolt gleaming in the sun.....ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZSHHHZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ....I'm sorry.....no.....just using a metaphor......You use them all the time in the parables....I know I'm not you...but I haven't gotten to single digits yet ....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzsshhhhhzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ...and I have to beat Daryl .....no don't aim the lightning... thereeeeeeek! "
YBGF
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
Last edited by innercityteacher : 10-07-2010 at 12:21 PM.
You have taken the time to write about lessons in life and golf. That's a big subject that we will (almost) never be finished with. If we get any deeper now, we might get lost in our own thoughts.
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