I want to talk about Tiger and John Daly, two beleaguered golf superstars of the PGA Tour. We've become more interested in who they are than we have become in their golf games. Who doesn't want to hit a golf ball as far as either of these guys? What would you give to be able to stand over a putt inside three feet and virtually be guaranteed that it's going in?
Who wants a marital scandal to chase them into hiding? Who wants to live in a seemingly perpetual tailspin, unable to make lemonade out of all the lemons in his life?
Since this is my first blog here, and I have another site I welcome you to visit at www.thehumanswing.com, I just want to spark the notion that what we pay attention to in other people's games as well as our own could easily be the biggest roadblock to our overall golf-game improvement.
I think we should all be thankful that we are not Tiger or John, but not because of their trials. We should be thankful that some part of us--even just who we are, physically speaking--is distinct. There are the challenges we face, the ones that look like other golfers have less trouble surmounting. Not true. How we handle the challenges we face become apparent when we get to see the greats struggle.
Call it karma or just plain, old comeuppance, but I think that the best thing for the game is to hope that we can see the fallen stars rise again. As much as we admired them for their great play, and as much as they have been reviled for their humanness, they are role models by virtue of their achievements. If they can rise again, then when we fall, there's something to help us believe that we can pick ourselves back up again, too.
And, I hope, we'll be able to think about laughing at ourselves rather than looking into the bathroom mirror with scorn and shame.
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