Golf Bag Research - Part 1

With Winter abusing most of the country, the South is flooded with golfing refugees. Courses are clogged and tee times are hard to come by. Golfers are often thrown together at random in order to fill out a foursome. This often results in a tense and awkward first tee meeting where friendly wagers are made with little or no reliable information regarding the relative abilities of the participants. Lying about one's handicap is very popular in certain circles, and ascertaining a players handicap does not tell you what you really need to know. In order to make intelligent decisions on both partners and strokes, you need to know what kind of players are involved. The most reliable way to determine this is to simply look at a player's golf bag and it's contents.

Golf bags, when properly investigated, speak volumes about a golfer. The clubs and accessories represent choices made by that player in response to his or her strengths and weaknesses on the golf course. They are the tools with which that golfer will try and conquer the looming 18 hole challenge. The following are some, but by no means all, of the things you may see and what they tell you about their owner.

First, let's deal with accessories:

SCORE COUNTER- They come in different styles and shapes but they all mean one thing...this player is frequently capable of more shots than he or she is mentally able to catalog. It also indicates that the player doesn't have the good sense to pick up when things are completely out of hand.

BALL RETRIEVER- Signals a complete lack of confidence or a woeful undersupply of ammunition. Neither is good. In a worst case scenario, it also tells you that this individual enjoys poking around water hazards for golf balls other than his own. This is a very annoying hobby.

DISTANCE FINDER- Means either very bad eyesight and no feel for distance. The majority of golf courses now have adequate distance markers of one sort or another. These markers are customarily located in the fairway. The golfer in question may not want to expend the energy to walk all the way back to the fairway in order to calculate his relative position.

To be continued next week...

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