The Common Golfer

Sitting nervously by the window, I switch back and forth between looking up at the sky and looking at the radar on the weather channel.  Is it going to rain all day?  Maybe things will clear up soon – there looks like a “window” in the radar to the west. Nothing can ruin an avid golfer’s weekend more, than waking up in the morning to bleak skies and the sound of raindrops.  I myself am a huge golf fan, but tend to only get out on the weekends.  Not only does getting rained out put a damper on my weekend (what else am I supposed to do for fun?), but it also makes it really hard to keep any “momentum” going from week to week.

We’ve actually been pretty fortunate this golf season, in Central Ohio; it’s mid-September and this is the first weekend that it has rained a lot.  But what do people do in traditionally rainy regions of the world?  For example, is golf not as popular in Seattle, Washington compared to Dallas, Texas?  For the casual weekend golfer in a rainy area (or a golfer that only has time on the weekend), I suppose your two options are to only play a few times per year or to learn to love golfing in the rain.  We should all be so lucky to live in year-round warm climates!

So what’s the solution?  Why hasn’t science/technology progressed yet to the point where we can control the weather?!  Unfortunately, I can’t think of any better ideas.  If faced with the dilemma, what is your approach?  Would you learn to “embrace” playing in the pouring rain, or get used to golfing less frequently?