http://cymaticsconference.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=uploadFontIcon 12. Golf confers no necessary advantage on extreme youth. The average age of recent major tournament winners is thirty, a time of life by which professional football players are viewed either as has-beens or as medical anomalies. (The average retirement age in the N.F.L. is twenty-eight.) It’s not unusual for pros in their forties to compete successfully with players half their age. When Raymond Floyd turned fifty, in 1992, he seemed capable of dominating both the regular and the senior professional tours. Phil Mickelson didn’t win his first major until he was thirty-three, which is two years older than Roger Federer is now. Tom Watson nearly won a sixth British Open in 2009, when he was fifty-nine. Youth means less in golf than it does in other sports because golf is as much a mental game as a physical one. It rewards experience, poise, and strategic resourcefulness, just as life does, and it isn’t dominated by adolescent thugs.
My Usual Game: David Owen
ADVENTURES IN GOLF
So you’re telling me there’s a chance? I won’t give up my PGA tour dreams.
Never ever give up your dreams.
Even poets find the going tougher as they get older, as Wordsworth once noted, “We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; / But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.” Of course, golf has its own despondency and madness, but they afflict us all regardless of age.