Well, lemme tell ya, I heard folks talkin’ ’bout this the other day down at the market. Seems there’s some kinda rule ’bout how many of them golf clubs you can carry around. Now, I don’t know much ’bout that fancy game, but I reckon it’s like anything else – gotta have rules, I s’pose.
So, they was sayin’ you can only have so many of them golf clubs in that bag you lug around. Fourteen, they said. Can you believe it? Fourteen! Back in my day, we didn’t have no fancy golf clubs, we made do with what we had. But these days, it’s all different, ain’t it?
They say it’s a rule in some kinda book. A rule book for golf! Imagine that. Rules for a game. Well, I guess it makes sense. If everyone was just runnin’ around with all the clubs they wanted, it’d be a right mess, wouldn’t it?
You see, even if you are just playing for fun, like when we used to play with rocks, the rule is the same. You can only carry 14 golf clubs. You can’t just have a whole bunch of them golf clubs in your bag. No sir, it is 14 only.
Now, why fourteen? Shoot, I don’t know. Maybe someone just picked that number outta a hat. But it seems to me like a lot of clubs. What do you need all them different clubs for anyway? They all do the same thing, right? Just whack that little ball around the field. Or, as they say, the course!
Anyway, here is what I heard, in the order they told me:
- Fourteen golf clubs, that’s the limit. No more, no less.
- It’s in the rule book, the official rule book for golf.
- Everybody’s gotta follow it, even them fancy professional players.
- It doesn’t matter if you’re playin’ for fun or for serious, 14 is the number.
I reckon it’s to keep things fair, you know? Like, if one fella’s got twenty clubs and another’s only got ten, that wouldn’t be right, would it? So they made this rule, and everyone’s gotta stick to it. It don’t matter if you’re a big shot golfer or just startin’ out, fourteen’s the magic number when it comes to them golf clubs.
Now, I seen them golf bags, and they’re big enough to fit a small child in, let alone fourteen clubs. So you’d think they’d let you carry more. But rules are rules, I guess. And if you wanna play that game, you gotta follow ’em.
I remember when my grandson, bless his heart, tried to tell me all about golf. He went on and on about drivers and putters and irons. Sounded like a whole lotta nonsense to me. But he said each one of them golf clubs does somethin’ different.
He tried to explain it to me, somethin’ ’bout how one club makes the ball go far, and another one makes it go just a little ways. And then there’s one for when the ball’s in the sand, and another one for when it’s on the grass. It’s all very confusin’, if you ask me.
But even my grandson, he said you can only have fourteen of them golf clubs. He said it’s a very important rule. Said if you have more than that, you get in trouble. I don’t know what kind of trouble he means, maybe they take away your ball.
So there you have it. Fourteen golf clubs. That’s all you’re allowed to have in that big ol’ bag. Don’t ask me why, ’cause I sure don’t know. But that’s the rule, and that’s what them folks at the market was sayin’. And if you’re gonna play that game, you best remember it. Or you might end up in trouble, like my grandson said.
You know, all this talk about golf makes me think of my old man. He used to whittle sticks for us kids to play with. We didn’t have no fancy golf clubs or balls, but we had fun. We’d run around the fields, whackin’ at rocks and pretendin’ we was playin’ some fancy game. Maybe we shoulda counted how many sticks we had. Maybe we was breakin’ the rules and didn’t even know it! Haha!
So if you are going to play golf, just remember, it is 14 golf clubs, even if you are just playing with friends. It is the rule.
