The Hybrid
For whatever reason, I have chosen to be a purist in my outlook on golf. Having regrettably started golfing late in life, I see golf in its most fundamental of forms as a welcomed respite from the overall direction that the world as a whole is going. So, when the rage about hybrids began, I avoided it like the plague. Golf was meant to be played with an iron, and in that rare instance, pull out a fairway metal. How could this general philosophy go wrong when most business is done solely in the name of profit and advertising to increase revenue and market-share. And so I ignored it and continued on my quest to learn golf from the ground up and taking the purist way out each time a choice needed to be made. What happens along the way of becoming good at golf at a late age, is that one must come to the realization that there are certain things that are easier to learn when started young. There is a certain intangible quality that comes from young muscles learning things as the body and mi...