It is true

I have never felt the way about any sport the way I feel about golf. Do you have things in your life that you obsess over? Your hair? Your clothes? Your friends hair or clothes? A restaurant? I know someone who obsesses over a cheeseburger. In fact she has had the same cheeseburger 4 days in a row. That's how I feel about golf. I could have it four days in a row. I could have it for breakfast. I could have it for lunch. I could have it for second breakfast. The beautiful thing about it, and Matt, my brother-in-law feels this exact same way, you can go out, play an awful round of golf, and the minute you are done you think, "I can't wait to go out there and play golf again." I mean this is an awful round, like "you tried to throw your clubs in the lake and you missed that too" type of a day. It's a wonderful, mysterious thing golf is.

Did I mention my sons are starting to like golf? Brayden, my oldest, is really starting to enjoy it. Matt, my second boy, is into it a little. They made me a sign for Father's Day. I hung it over my bedroom door. It says, "Worlds Best Golfer". I couldn't be more pleased. I think they really think I am the worlds best. I will tell you why. I let them drive the cart.

I will be participating in our office's first annual golf tournament. I know, kind of crazy that it's the "first annual" golf tournament for a bunch of financial advisors. That's like having the First Annual Jell-O Tournament for Mormons. Anyway, Matt and I have been paired with Becky and Jaime from the office. I will be sure to post our adventures.

I want to show you what a sweetheart my wife is. She is fueling the fire. She got me this club for Father's Day to go along with my sign.
It's what makes the sign possible.

Here's another thing about golf. It promotes loyalty. I think I will buy Cleveland clubs, hats, shirts, whatever, for a long time. Why? I think it's psychological. I think to myself, "I hit a good shot with Cleveland. I made a par on a hole with my Cleveland clubs, I might not do as well with anything else." So you stay loyal to a brand. But in actuality, as my professional golfer other brother-in-law Todd once said, it's just whether or not you think it's the best club brand. According to Todd, if you are standing over a shot and you are thinking, "I wonder if these clubs I got at Albertson's are okay to get wet?", there may be trouble. It's not like there's secret technology and designers with briefcases handcuffed to their wrists. The great thing about golf technology is they have to explain what their secret is. They have to say things like, "Highest MOI", "Conventional Titanium Crown", "460cc". So that we can say things like, "Shank", "Topper", "Hoseltoff". So there is a lot of information out there, and really, it's about what you think is going to hit your ball in the water the best.