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We are good friends with a couple who are both 74. They both have lived vibrant retirement years since their early sixties. However, the husband has had back surgery which has really caused his mental process to slow down. He would play a 150 rounds a year, and can only play now about twice a week.
Well his wife played with my wife yesterday. My wife said she seemed confused most of the golf round. She would hit first, and then the other ladies would hit, and then she would go to the T and hit again. My wife figured she did not like her first ball and was taking a mulligan. However, when they got out to her two balls on the fairway, she hit her second ball which makes sense if she had done a mulligan, but then starts driving off, and my wife goes hey......are you going to pick up your first ball? She goes.....that is not my ball. She then picks the ball up and says.....hey this is the same type of ball I am hitting. My wife goes.....you hit twice from the T box.....she answers....no I did not hit twice. My wife goes ok, at least you found a ball that you can use.
The decline in a year has been shocking. The wife did tell my wife that it was getting more difficult to spend six months in South Florida away from home, and that next year they may stay at home. We have been very sad because we knew how happy they were to be independent and enjoy the winter months at Marco Island or Arizona. Anybody who thinks getting to your golden years is always golden is a fool. Have fun and travel when you are in your fifties and do not expect that all cylinders will be firing when you get in your seventies.......nature has rules, and Americans try to keep pushing back the aging process, but reality will hit you with a two by four.
Well his wife played with my wife yesterday. My wife said she seemed confused most of the golf round. She would hit first, and then the other ladies would hit, and then she would go to the T and hit again. My wife figured she did not like her first ball and was taking a mulligan. However, when they got out to her two balls on the fairway, she hit her second ball which makes sense if she had done a mulligan, but then starts driving off, and my wife goes hey......are you going to pick up your first ball? She goes.....that is not my ball. She then picks the ball up and says.....hey this is the same type of ball I am hitting. My wife goes.....you hit twice from the T box.....she answers....no I did not hit twice. My wife goes ok, at least you found a ball that you can use.
The decline in a year has been shocking. The wife did tell my wife that it was getting more difficult to spend six months in South Florida away from home, and that next year they may stay at home. We have been very sad because we knew how happy they were to be independent and enjoy the winter months at Marco Island or Arizona. Anybody who thinks getting to your golden years is always golden is a fool. Have fun and travel when you are in your fifties and do not expect that all cylinders will be firing when you get in your seventies.......nature has rules, and Americans try to keep pushing back the aging process, but reality will hit you with a two by four.
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