does your wife hate you playing golf???
David Polson
much? I am doing a project on these opinions and would love to hear from any
golfers/wives with somthing to say about the subject! Thanks
David Polson
Dave Kouchoukos
to go out and play with your friends while I stay here and do the
laundry, vacuum, ... ad nauseum" and "...sure seem to spend alot of
money on golf. Do you really need that many golf shirts? Can't you
just play with the same ball, why do you have to buy 12 at a time? How
many left hands do you have? Why do you need so many gloves? Can't you
wash them when they get dirty?" I've heard them all and it is pointless
to provide answers.
However, these comments usually come at the same time each month, so I
don't make a big deal out of it. I do take my son about every other
time I play and he and I go to the range on a regular basis. It's great
quality time with the kid and he truely enjoys the game. Plus, she
enjoys it when we are out of the house so she can do her thing and visit
with her friends.
I do my bit around the house and take care of her needs. She is
understanding and while I've never heard her say "honey, it's such a
nice day, why don't you go play golf with your friends?", at least she
knows I'm not chasing other women or hanging out at a bar.
Just my comments.
Dave Kouchoukos
David Polson
Sorry I worded the question so badly, I didnt mean to offend. I am not
sexist. I was aiming it at male golfings but I have now changed my project.
Sorry and thanks again!!!!!!
Susan Hanson
course assume the woman started playing golf because her husband plays. I
am the opposite. I took up golf before I met my husband, and now he has
taken up golf so that we have something in common and spend time together.
However, unlike alot of women who take up golf to be with their husbands, my
husband actually wants to play well. Alot of women I meet on the course are
only out there to be with their husbands, could care less about the game and
how well they do, and just "are enjoying the weather". Annoys me to all
end.
Susan
David Polson wrote in message
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YoYo
>It is really amazing, but the majority of people who see a couple on the
>course assume the woman started playing golf because her husband plays. I
>am the opposite. I took up golf before I met my husband, and now he has
>taken up golf so that we have something in common and spend time together.
Heh. My wife has played since she was a kid. I took up the sport so we'd
have something to do together, and now I play every every week, and she
only plays with me once or twice a year. When I go play golf, she stays at
home and works on her quilts.
The thing is, she has a real comptetative streak, but she doesn't like to
practice. So when we golf together, she gets mad because she's not playing
as well as she wants to, and these days I can just about beat her.
I, OTOH, am not very competative at all. I want to improve my game mostly
for aesthetic reasons.
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Inge Hertling
David Polson <Da...@avidnet.demon.co.uk> a écrit dans l'article
<912555910.28791.0...@news.demon.co.uk>...
> Does your wife moan when you go to play golf? Does she think it costs too
> much? I am doing a project on these opinions and would love to hear from
any
> golfers/wives with somthing to say about the subject! Thanks
>
> Avi...@yahoo.com
>
> David Polson
>
I probably did an mistake by sending my first message, meanwhile your
question changed a little bit. I hope that these can help you for your
project.
Well, here is my reverse. My husband never has been groaning. He enjoy when
I'll have a good time with golf. We never talked about costs, we had an
other probleme.
My husband (53 years old) don't like play Golf.
We startet with our first lesson together, but he never continues when he
saw that I had no difficulties to learn.
I was a tennisteacher and T-player for several years. He never took more a
club in his hands. 5 years I am playing now, but only during 3 month in the
Summertime and only in Spain, at the Costa Brava.
I play three-four times a week and he goes with the boat on the sea,
looking for new places to discover with the boat from the sea side. He is
enjoying so much this calm and he likes his vacation of peace.
But I would like to play Golf with him. Why men don't likes when women
are better in a kind of sports? But at the same time he is so proud about
my succes (Hcp 21) that all our friends, Golfer or no golfer are fully
informed about my performances. Infortunatelly I can't play more than in
Summertime.
We live the other time in Switzerland. Actually we have a lot of snow. (In
Crans-Montana I played in Spring twice and that's all)
I have the Golf-Virus and my husband has probably taken an
anti-virus-injection.
My hope is that he will be more interested in Golf, when he take his
retirement in a fey years.
I love so much Golf and would like to live in a Golf course.
I would also like, that my husband begin to learn Golf and play with me or
with an other group behind or before me. That's not important, but I'd like
that we can discuss Golf game, rules and others stories around Golf. We did
it with Tennis, he started to play after 10 years (oh, we only miss 5
years ) but Golf is more pupular now .
This is my comment in English.
Au revoir et merci. Inge H.
Steve Walker
<yo...@huitzilo.tezcat.com> writes
>The thing is, she has a real comptetative streak, but she doesn't like to
>practice. So when we golf together, she gets mad because she's not playing
>as well as she wants to, and these days I can just about beat her.
>
>I, OTOH, am not very competative at all. I want to improve my game mostly
>for aesthetic reasons.
This brought a smile to my face. My wife is the most uncompetitive
person I know - except when it comes to competing against me at anything
(Tennis, Monopoly, Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, you name it). Then all of
a sudden it's teeth-gritting determination. :) Pretty good-natured
underneath it all, but if I beat her at something I'd better not smile
or else she accuses me of being smug, cocky, smart-arse etc - which of
course makes it doubly hard not to (of course none of the accusations
are true!).
I keep asking her if she'd like to take some lessons and come out to
play golf with me, but she has no interest. Until now, I've just
assumed the game didn't take her fancy, but you've set me wondering
whether this has something to do with it as well.
I go the other way - I am intensely competitive, and tend to be too
hyper-critical of myself in any sport - except against my wife, when
it's easy to play for fun and not worry much about the result etc.
I'm certainly not trying to improve for aesthetic reasons, though - I
could golf like Nicklaus and it wouldn't make me aesthetic! ;)
--
Steve Walker Golfing since 12 May 98
'He comes to realise that the game is not against the foe, but against
himself. His little self. That yammering fearful ever-resistant self
that freezes, chokes, tops, nobbles, shanks, skulls, duffs, flubbs.
This is the self we must defeat.'