Posted on 06/09/2011 7:41:46 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
....a good golf drive can become a moment of self-aggrandizement or a bad one the occasion for self-loathing. The free-will advocate who takes up golf will find himself or herself constantly looking up to heaven imploring God’s intervention, or worse, staring down below – at one’s feet – wondering if the devil is making them play this bewildering game.
No, golf is best played by Presbyterians, not by denomination but mindset. There is freedom to enjoy golf only when you can rest assured that each and every missed shot, shank, hook, duff, bunker muff and lipped cup is God’s will. For Methodists, not by denomination but those who carry the free-will mindset, the game will drive you crazy!....
....There is no record of Knox playing golf, but it’s not hard to imagine that his disciples did with joy and abandon upon learning that God Almighty preordained each and every swing in golf, from solid hit to muff.
"Presbyterians often forgot that John Knox had been a Sunday bowler"
-- from the thread Revolution, devolution, evolution
For myself, playing a round of golf is simply the most pernicous way of ruining a nice walk.
Ah. Ping. Very good.
The golf course is a place where people put their soul and character on display.
Whew!
For a moment, before actually reading the article (which was quite good), I thought this was about me!
CA....
Supposedly, God got the attention
of the one and only
“School’s Out For Summer”
Alice Cooper
through a golf video commentary of R.C. Sproul...
To the Sovereignty of God in every whiff, duff, wormburner, shank, slice, hook, five-putt-to-make-a-triple-bogey....
Hallelujah!!!
Wow.
Well put.
As an unconverted youngster, I was an selfish, prideful, evil little prick on the golf course.
To my shame.
Re: see my tagline.
Golf spelled backwards: flog
He must've been in a jokester mood when preordaining Charles Barkley's swing.
....."G-damnit!!"
I found Jesus on the golf course. Well at least I heard his name several times.
“The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.”
Billy Graham
“If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.”
Lee Trevino quotes
If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is. ~Horace G. Hutchinson
I truly believe in predistination and golf. If I am shooting even par going into the last hole I will shoot at least a 12 on the 18th.
Caddyshack? Why do I think that´s such an entertaining movie? My wife hates it.
I once saw and heard a golfer cussing his soul out after he´d thrown his club and it caught in a tree. Wow, was he PO´d.
Not going to lie. My GHIN is 18.9. But I enjoy every time I get to play golf. The days are usually beautiful, the courses are beautiful, and usually my playing partners are nice guys. I find it quite enjoyable to mentally and physically seek perfection. I wish I was a better putter, but you can’t have everything. I don’t know anything about what this guy is writing about, but I have fun. And it’s always nice to sit down with a few friends after a round and have a beer.
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