Magic of the game of golf lies in introducing it to juniors at an early age

Kenyan junior Belinda Macharia play golf during junior Africa challenge at Southbrooom in South Africa on, August, 28,2017 [Courtesy]

The best-kept secret in all golf clubs is that the game is medicine for the soul. Golf courses provide great service to humanity by teaching golfers that whatever they may have achieved in other walks of life, they are after all simply human. Golf has a way of humbling all those who choose to give it a try.

If our politicians, for example, had been ousted in the first round of club Match Play championship and went on to sincerely congratulate the winner, we should have heard a lot less of their imperious rants as they party-hopped after losing nominations. In the words of Alexander Pope, the 18th-century poet: “Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.”