07 April 2012
04 April 2012
The golf season has begun
The golf season has begun
This is a late entry. I was supposed to post this last sunday but it got holed up on my wife's Ipad but had trouble figuring out how to post it on my blog. No excuse for my ignorance...
This morning waking up, I had this terrible pain on all of my joints from my knees, ankles and down to my toes. I had a round of golf yesterday for the first time in a very long time. As the golf season has just begun after the winter lull, I was actually looking forward to this game when one my ambassador friends invited me to join him with some others. Not to feel embarrassed by the prospect of having to play the game with a respectable crowd, I actually went to a driving range practising the golf swing a couple of times before yesterday trying to remember how golf was supposed to be played. With more than 6 months or so without touching any golf club, it did feel like I just got up from a very long comatose when I tried to swing the clubs. The muscles were just too stiff and the knees very wobbly which if you ask any golfer, not a very good thing. But the point about golf and diplomacy is if someone respectable invited you to join the crowd, you should feel very honoured as there is more to it than just the game. Diplomats often use golf to establish friendship and to discuss things in a more informal and cordial environment. After all you don't wear a three piece suit to a golf course with a gamut of entourage that follows you from behind. So I went ahead knowing full well that I wouldn't return a respectable score. With little exercise before this, walking more than 7 kilometres up and down the hilly fairways felt like the london marathon. The golf course was a walking course up and down on the hill side in a place called Bonmont about 25 Kms from Geneva. It is a beuatiful course overlooking lake Geneva which on a sunny day you can actually see Mont Blanc in the horizon.
My usual macho gait didn't quite hide the pains I had all over. I do feel like a hobbling pensioner with backbone arthritis jerkily making his way downstairs with a permanent expression of misery which is my way of telling mrs and the kids that dad's golf season has just begun...
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