Ohio Golf Journal May 2020

I Always Keep Score A golfer will always carefully keep score in recreational rounds, playing to the exact rules, while the rest of us may not even bother carrying a scorecard, at very least tearing it up after a quadruple bogey. I Track My Rounds & Stats If you are a golfer, then you will carefully track your scores and performance stats, using that as a reference to improve, whereas the rest of us don’t fancy going to that much trouble. I Carefully Maintain My Clubs Golfers will carefully maintain their clubs, researching the latest and best grips and shafts, while those of us who occasionally play haven’t so much as changed a grip, since we bought them 18 years ago. I Carefully Pack My Golf Bag Before playing, will you pack your golf bag expertly with sufficient balls and tees, pencils, energy drinks, chocolate, fruit? That’s what a golfer would do. The rest of us aren’t surprised if we find a rotten banana peel in there. I Watch Golf Videos Online Do you spend time watching hours of golf tips on YouTube, or television, like a real golfer? For those of us who aren’t quite so keen, we are otherwise engrossed by cat videos. I Only Wear One Brand of Clothing Would you gladly wear a Callaway cap with a Titleist shirt and Cobra Golf shoes? Serious golfers are passionate, unrelenting one-brand players, committed to their label of choice, while the rest of us will just wear whatever is comfortable and fits. I Have A GPS/Rangefinder Device Does a few hundred bucks spent on the latest and greatest GPS or Rangefinder seem excessive? Real golfers can’t wait to use one at every opportunity on the course, while the rest of us will stick to the sprinkler heads for judging our yardages. I Study & Plot Strategy Before Playing Playing a new course for the first time? Golfers will study guides online, analyze scorecards, check course routing maps, as well as, videos to get a feel for what they can expect to see and plot their strategy. Most of us simply like to turn up on the day and be surprised. I Live for Competitive Golf Doyou live for competitiveplayandmanageyour life around the club medal and championship schedule? For real golfers, it matters to have something to target, while the rest of us are lucky to enter a handful of events a season just to keep our handicaps ticking over, if bothering at all. If you bothered to keep score here is where you rate on the Golfaholic spectrum? 15-18 Unhealthily Obsessed Golfaholic: You should seek professional help. Ohio Golf Journal