Lessons from the Links

No, not those internet links … the golf links! Yup. Golf.

I love watching golf because my family often watched on a Sunday afternoon if the weather wasn’t conducive where we lived for my folks — who loved playing — to play. I tried playing for a few years, but didn’t enjoy actually it, although I came to love watching others.

Because of time constraints, I always save programs on my DVR, which allows me to both fast-forward to skip commercials and to pause the show for something interesting.

Recently I was watching the first day of the RMS Classic, and I saw how differently the greens were colored (on the TV screen, the bluish area in the picture above was much grayer) from the surrounding terrain, and then I remembered I’d taken a few pictures previously showing some other physical features at a different tournament that amazed me.

Suddenly I saw the connections between those pictures and the lessons they can teach us.

1. Perspective #1: It can change depending on where you’re standing. Folks on golf courses see their surroundings from their ground view — looking ahead shows the level of the ground, but it may not show some of the treacherous details, especially if they’re lower than the ground level.