"Beatin' balls and beatin' balls." That title comes from our fair city's attention to golf this week with the presence of the PGA Tour here for the Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic. (It will always be the GGO to me though.) "Beatin' balls and beatin' balls." Whoever happens to win this afternoon will undoubtedly offer a phrase like that to anyone looking for advice about how to win at golf. Get out on the practice tee and spend hour upon hour upon hour upon hour "beatin' balls and beatin' balls."

As most of you know, I dearly love golf. I never played the game in my youth, but took it up finally...almost reluctantly... just over 20 years ago. At the time, I was living on Hilton Head Island, a hotbed of golf, but I played tennis, and had since I was a boy. One day, while playing tennis,…