Tiger Woods (two), Rory McIlroy (18 months), Sandy Lyle (three), Arnold Palmer (four) and Luke Donald (four), to name just a few top players, all started as toddlers. Most of the best players started when they were around ten years old but others, like Norman and Faldo, did not pick up a club until their mid-teens. You’re never too young to start and, unlike most other sports, you can enjoy golf for your entire life!
Larry Nelson took up the game when 21 and did not enter his first 72-hole tournament until he was 25. He subsequently won 10 times on the PGA Tour, including two PGA Championships and the 1983 US Open. And then won several more times on the Seniors Tour.
Famed amateur, Walter J Travis didn’t hit a golf ball until he was 35 and yet, incredibly, won his first tournament just one month later. And two years after that, he reached the semi-finals of the US Amateur championship. Within four years of picking up a club, Travis won the first of three National Amateur championships.
Reprinted with permission from “The Joy of Golf: 72 Reasons Why Golf Is the Greatest Game Ever!”
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