The Nip Out Nines
I collaborate with AI + a community-organising wizard to rapidly solve an age-old golfing pickle for me and like-minded blokes.
I love golf and I love my family. Unfortunately, right now I can’t do both, and that places my golf career on ice. 😔
A full round of golf takes about 4 hours.
Plus time to get there, warm up, wind down with a beer or six, get a taxi, jog in the next morning, retrieve the car and drive home…
That’s half a weekend, and for a man like me, who works during the week and tries to be a considerate, present spouse and parent, it’s unviable to play.
So I maintain my membership at Mattishall out of pure pride. It means I can cling onto my official, internationally recognised handicap. That’s the number that tells the world ‘I’m a practicing golfer'. Even when I’m really not.
My problem is one that faces a significant portion of the pro-golf world.
It’s actually not an expensive sport to play, but it does cost time. That’s why the most active age groups tend to be pre…