Can Golf save the World?

 Can Golf save the World?

It's difficult to avoid a sense of despair

while reading or hearing the news out there

of man's  daly inhumanity to man*

with no underlying  hope or  plan

for a brief restful relief 

from almost daily grief

until last weekend that is

where we all  got it gratis

as two middle aged golfers came to our rescue

through  wind,rain, sand traps and  fescue

when for a weekend at least, at a golf course in Troon,

we could briefly celebrate a more joyous tune

as two marvelously skillful brothers in arms

demonstrated that  life  still had charms.

HzL

7/18/16

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*Man's inhumanity to man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The phrase "Man's inhumanity to man" is first documented in the Robert Burns poem called Man was made to mourn: A Dirge in 1784. It is possible that Burns ...

‎Robert Burns · ‎Notable uses of the phrase · ‎In reference to man · ‎References

Henrik Stenson outshines Phil Mickelsonto win British Open

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TROON, Scotland – In an astounding toe-to-toe slugfest on Royal Troon’s ancient, rumpled ground, Phil Mickelson and Henrik Stenson were two old men battling by the sea. …