TOM

By Tom Bedell

In my last post I mentioned a long history of twisted swing thoughts, best illustrated by this drawing a member of the MOTO Research Team sent me awhile back. It’s presumably been making the rounds since 1995. No one seems to know what genius concocted it, but if anyone ever finds out or the artist steps forward, let’s give a tip of the golf cap for this expert rendering, which hilariously captures the essence of the cranial eruption that is the golf swing, said to occur in 1.5 seconds.

The mixture of axiom and admonition here, wonderfully contradictory with the jocular exhortation to, “Have fun!!” finds its literary equivalent in “Swing Thoughts,” by John Updike, part of his collection Golf Dreams (Knopf, 1996), which would first on my list of desert island golf books, and quite possibly sufficient to the job.