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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, August 8, 2013 | 12 O Revealing the well-kept secrets to going gaga over the game of golf That's Life Andy Juniper Most importantly: don't take the game or yourself too seriously. Because it is only a game and you're not (insert favourite professional golfer's name). I know I certainly don't take the game too seriously. Granted, when played at my level of reasonably consistent incompetence, there's a guaranteed level of levity built right into the sport. And you might want to keep in mind just because you have a good shot or two, does not mean you are ready to join the professional tour. Those good shots will invariably be followed by a succession of unspeakably bad shots. My specialty is getting onto the green of an epic, par- ve hole in two and then coolly four-putting. I call this my "four-putt prowess" and, trust me, not everyone who plays the game has my innate ability to turn a most-certain par into an unfathomable bogey. Another well-kept secret to enjoying golf is, don't practice. Contrary to prevailing wisdom, practice does not make perfect. By practicing you're probably just perfecting your assorted imperfections, or helping yourself to a hernia. Or tendonitis. Also, the more you practice, the less time you have to actually play the game. Finally , if you want to be as gaga over golf as myself, choose your playing partners wisely. These are the people you're going to try and con into picking up your beer tab on the 19th hole. Choose the right partners and you'll go out on the course and lose yourself. -- Andy Juniper can be contacted at ajjuniper@ gmail.com, and found on Facebook or Twitter . nce a week, for about seven months each year, I go out and lose myself for a few blissful hours: in conversation, concentration and, at times, consternation. But, more often than not, I just lose myself in laughs. I took up golf about 13 years ago at the urging of my wife who envisioned it as something we could do together well into our dotage. With the rst few swings of a club I was acutely aware that I'd come to the game late -- if you want to be truly good at golf, take it up in your youth -- and that, like a horrible hit off the tee, I was nonetheless hooked. Which surprised me. I'd spent so much of my life thinking golf was middle-aged lame, to the point where I was in Coco's Camp. Years ago, in Guest Contributor what was then a minor scandal, rock star Sting was photographed exiting an `adult club' in Germany. When asked for a comment on her father's unbecoming behaviour, Sting's daughter Coco sighed indifferently and said: "Well, at least he wasn't gol ng." Of course, there are secrets to enjoying golf. 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