Don’t Tell Me to Tuck My Shirt In

Dear Stodgy, Old, Golf Traditionalist,

We’ve had about enough of you.

We’ve had enough of the judgmental glares when you see my friends and I walking into the clubhouse. We’ve had enough of being blamed for the slow play on the course. And we’ve absolutely have had enough of “being what’s wrong with golf today.”

We know you don’t like change. We know we threaten “the way things have always been done.” But we aren’t going anywhere. And very soon, if not already, there will be more of us than there are of you.

We get it. You aren’t used to seeing “our type” in “your” territory, especially on “your” golf course. We don’t look like you. We don’t sound like you. And we definitely don’t act like you.

So your natural assumption is that we’re trouble. We’re hooligans. And, most importantly, we don’t respect the game of golf.

You couldn’t be more wrong.

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Yes, we like music on the golf course. No, we don’t always have our shirts tucked in. Sometimes it may not even have a collar. And yes, those are tattoos on our arms.

But we also love the game of golf. Just like you. And just as much as you.

We enjoy being outdoors, being with our friends, playing an incredibly difficult but beautiful game, and shaking hands at the end of the round.

But hanging on for dear life to some of your other “traditions” is a lost cause. There has already been a tipping point within the game of golf. Maybe you know this already, which is why you’re fighting so hard against it.

This isn’t to say we want to take the game away from you. The game we both love needs all of us. And you deserve it as much as we do.

We can peacefully coexist.

But you’ll have to be a little more open-minded and a little less judgmental of who you think we are.

We’re golfers. Just like you…just a little different.

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