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Bulletin HASKINS & SELLS 55 Golf as a Recreation AMERE glance at the vacation plans of the organization shows that the keynote is golf. Probably the most exaggerated case of golf enthusiasm is found in an item which announced that the vacation of the person in question would be spent on the "Golf" Coast. Lest this be misunderstood, or the knowing reader be led into attempting to relate the information to the person involved, it should be made clear that it was a typographical error. "Gulf" Coast was intended. Without any reflection on those who find their chief pleasure in swimming, tennis, motoring, or traveling to and from Europe on ships of foreign nations, it may be said that golf is the greatest recreative agency yet devised. The preference for golf on the part of so many members of an organization augurs well for the future. Representations sometimes have been made that swimming is the greatest form of exercise known. It may be. But there is something more to recreation than exercise. Any fish can swim. The facetiously inclined, using the vernacular of the day, may say that some "fish" try to play golf. With tennis there is the exercise, plus an occasional thrill. But tennis smacks of sameness; one shot after another which is good or bad; the ball is in or out, and the longest volley soon comes to an end, only to have the process begun again. Motoring is educational. It teaches geography. It develops a love of nature, except one seeks the sensation of being whizzed through space with a swiftness which precludes a sight of the surrounding and ever-changing panorama. But motoring lacks exercise unless one is beset with the vicissitudes of tire and motor trouble, which scarcely can be said to afford recreation. Golf is the acme of idealism in the field of recreation. It affords exercise, both physical and mental, variety of scene and of action, exhilaration of body and mind, companionship, and a stimulus to health. An hour in the bright sunshine is equivalent to one minute of violet ray treatment; is much more enjoyable and much less
Object Description
Title |
Golf as a recreation |
Author |
Anonymous |
Subject |
Golf |
Citation |
Haskins & Sells Bulletin, Vol. 08, no. 07 (1925 July), p. 55-56 |
Date-Issued | 1925 |
Source | Originally published by: Haskins & Sells |
Type | Text |
Collection | Deloitte Digital Collection |
Digital Publisher | University of Mississippi Libraries. Accounting Collection |
Date-Digitally Created | 2009 |
Identifier | HS Bulletin 8-p55 |