The Pearl: 10 April 2015

It took me seventeen years to reach 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. - Hank Aaron Golf can certainly be a humbling and frustrating game to play. While Hank Aaron's quote was an exaggeration, it can certainly feel like you've hit three thousand shots when you're having a bad day on the golf course. But never forget - your worst day golfing is better than your best day at work, even if your day job is playing baseball -- a sport in which batting .300, meaning one fails 70 percent of the time, is still considered a great success. Of course, a golfer's ability to break par would be severely diminished if the ball were moving. Both games require great skill to play well. … [Read more...]