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Trees and the Golfer

Golf Poem

By Dr. Bob Kalsched


If it's true, as in verse, only God makes a tree
On some fairways He has made too many for me.

For some reason obscure to mere mortals on earth
Small acorns grow oak trees from the time of their birth.

Now don't get me wrong, I can still like a tree
But not quite as much as they dead stymie me.

For some reason, a complete mystery to all
So often there's a tree in front of my ball.

Yes, obstructions are common when you hit it off line
And trees sure look lovely in your yard or mine.

I do appreciate nature in all of its forms
Don't bore me with ozone and oxygen norms.

I mostly love pine trees in the wide open spaces
And X mas trees too, except in strange places.

Now, recall for a moment, that dogleg on three
Is that a sane corner to be growing a tree?

Each time that my ball finds the base of its trunk
I study the shot while in a blue funk.

It's too high to hit over, too wide for a cut
So low to the ground that you can't even putt.

As a lover of trees I know it's not gracious
To wish for less trees to make fairways more spacious.

It's at least a full wedge to get to the green
I've cursed that old tree with comments obscene.

There's no way around it, I don't hit a draw
Instead of my wedge, I need a chain saw!


Revised: 02/20/2011 - Article Viewed 30,210 Times


About: Dr. Bob Kalsched


Dr. Bob Kalsched Dr. Bob Kalsched, 93, is a retired dentist living with his bride of 69 years in Marshfield, WI. Bob has golfed for the past 80 years and scored a 78 at the age of 91.
In his spare time he enjoys tying flies, writing articles and poems about golf and working on the computer, especially in Photoshop.



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