Practice Makes Perfect

This is the time of year I hear cries of "Fore" around most of my job sites. I am in a golfing community several days a week and just about everyone who lives there plays golf at one time or another. Friends sometimes ask me if I ever play golf since I am around it all the time. I have played a half dozen times long ago but I could never get that spark in my eye when I thought about golf. Three and a half hours of chaseing a little white ball I could never seem to find did not exhite me at all! It was really the practice I could not stand. By practicing golf I specificsally do not mean practice in the sence of banging balls at the driving range. I mean practicing golf in the sence of approaching the game from a broader long term prespective. Maybe one should practice golf the way a doctor practices medicine. My ideal of practice was to tee the ball up and cream it as hard as I could while useing the theory of hit and hope. It's a good thing the word practice is such a versital word. It's suppose to mean theory or knowledge but when it is applied to my golf game it is neither.
This week I will attend the Fedx Kinko Golf Tournment at the Hills of Lakeway Country Club where I will set and watch golfer after golfer hit 300 yard shots and land the ball with in 8 feet of the flag stick. The whole time I am at the tournment I'll have only one thought on my mind "How the Hell do they do that". The answer to that question is simple! PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
These days the only golf I think about is Disk golf. I can play 9 holes of disk golf in 40 minutes and I have never lost a disk but that's only because a disk is 100 times larger than a golf ball. My therory is the same as it was with regular golf, I just fling and hope. I just keep trying to convince myself it's not about the the score, it's about the excersize. With that thought I never have to worry about the long tern goals of my game so the word practice nevers enters my mind.