It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to this brand new column \u2013 Well Out!<\/p>\n
In this column, golf related issues will be discussed.<\/p>\n
Did you know that the fastest growing sport in the world is golf? Since we are now living in a world of prophets, allow me to prophesy that I see football being displaced by golf as the number one sport.<\/p>\n
Golf remains the only sport that can be played at a competitive level at literally any age from around eight as long as one can still walk.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, life in football is short-lived. Look at the likes of my all-time favorite, Thierry Henry.<\/p>\n
The best thing the good man can do at around 40 years old is to be a supporter of a football team and not play.<\/p>\n
Phil Mickleson is way older than Henry, but he remains a force to reckon with.<\/p>\n
What makes golf unique is that three to four generations can compete in a tournament.<\/p>\n
Can you think of any sport in the world that can match that? If we are to refer to the just-ended Malawi Matchplay finals, one Muhammed Patel, who I would estimate to be around 65-plus years, played his semifinals against Ignatius Kambale aged 25- plus years. Although Kambale was victorious, he had a tough time beating his grandfather equivalent [Patel].<\/p>\n
I can never think of any sport in this world that has such a unique arrangement.<\/p>\n
Do you remember basketball great, Michael Jordan? The lad plays basketball no more.<\/p>\n
Guess what he is busy doing. Jordan is now a very good golfer playing off eight handicap.<\/p>\n
He is done with basketball because of age. I guess he can still play basketball, but not competitively.<\/p>\n
A few misguided individuals consider golf a rich, lazy man\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
Well, I still continue to forgive you guys. To complete a full round of golf, one covers an average of eight kilometres.<\/p>\n
On the misconception of it being a rich man\u2019s game, the under-privileged programme of the Golf Union of Malawi with the support of the R&A \u2013 the world governing body for golf – has over 70 junior golfers.<\/p>\n
The purpose of this column, therefore, will be to provide to you as much information as possible.<\/p>\n
A number of you are not interested in golf because of the prohibitive information which you have. This column will change that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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