Give me Golf

I once read this article that talked about how golf can help women become more successful in the workplace. A person’s golf game sheds light on their character much faster than sitting in an office. In this article Judy Anderson said, "Everything you do in golf is a reflection of who you are in business, because there are just so many parallels. You get to see all aspects of a person: how they are under stress, how they handle problems; how they are when things are really, really going bad; how they handle the agony of defeat as well as the victories; and time management. Their whole personality really does come out. It can come out in the negative as well as the positive."

While I was reading this, I was thinking how this made total sense. You get a huge sense of a person’s character when playing golf with them. This is especially true if you are a girl who is not afraid to play with the boys.

As I continued thinking, I came to the conclusion that if golf is such a good measure of character for business, why not dating? What better way to get to really know someone but by going golfing? I once took a guy I was dating golfing. By the 3rd hole, I was about 10 strokes ahead of him and he responded by swinging his driver at his bag like a baseball bat until it fell over. I told him if he was done throwing tantrums, he could continue playing, otherwise he could wait for me in the parking lot and I was never going to play with him again.

My one time golfing with a date did not go well, and needless to say, I'm no longer dating that guy. Which is why this article got me thinking that if you golf on the first date, you get a glimpse of all that personality and character a person has right off the bat. You see them frustrated, because who isn’t frustrated at some point while golfing, you see how they handle stress, and how they handle losing to a girl. All of those things people try and hide until you fall madly in love with them and then you just have to live with all that junk.

I am done with the dinner and a movie scene. Give me golf or give me death. Or at least give me golf as the first date.