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How to Love Golf
Here’s the simple, plain truth – golf is the greatest game ever invented.
Disagree? What’s your nomination? Football? Maybe if you weigh 275 pounds and can run like a cheetah. Baseball? When was the last time you played that game? Basketball? How are those knees holding up?
Golf is a game we can all play, for all the years of our lives, from the level of rank beginner to world-class expert, and have plenty of fun at all these various levels of competition.
This is Shanley’s major goal—to suggest how you can give golf its best chance at working its magic. Because Shanley has found that golf does have considerable magic to offer. As well as providing an opportunity to be at play, something that otherwise might be in too short supply in life, it’s a nice way to tap into the competitive spirit.
When the weather is warm enough, most Saturday and Sunday mornings, you’ll find Shanley strolling around his local public golf course, among the trees, among friends, and to the certain betterment of his health.
Match Play At Pennywhistle
An unattached college professor, Jack Mahoney, appears to have it made. No complications. No messy emotions. Just a simple, clear focus on teaching and tee times.
But then, on his first day as a member of Adirondack Links, retired businessman Pete Tabor approaches him. “Ready to go?” the stranger asks. “Let’s get this season started.”
Jack will now find himself swept up in something he’s hardly prepared for, but secretly always hoped he’d find.
Match Play at Pennywhistle is part story of mentor and student, part journey of the heart, and all about the struggle we face to overcome our disappointments in pursuit of our dreams.
This is a tale that is, by turns, funny and sad, but ultimately about holding out hope that one day we might be touched by magic.
Fathers, Sons & Golf
When Andrew Shanley realized that his sons, then aged 10 and 13, were lacking the integrity and honesty he expected of them, he was shocked. He had believed they shared his values; now he struggled to find a way to teach them ethics before it was too late. As a golfer with an enduring love of the game, Shanley decided that by teaching his sons golf, he could instruct them in what really matters – how to be men.
Fathers, Sons & Golf is Andrew Shanley’s account of the memorable summer when he and his boys hit the fairways and learned as much about the daily conduct of life, and the love they have for each other, as they did about the elements of a good swing.
"It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course."
~ Hank Aaron