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A writer joins his friends' golf outings, despite his initial reluctance. He attends golf school to improve his skills and rediscovers the importance of friendship.

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I Really Didn’t Want to Golf
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Man Learns Golf To Maintain Friendships
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A writer joins his friends' golf outings, despite his initial reluctance. He attends golf school to improve his skills and rediscovers the importance of friendship.
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I Really Didn’t Want to Golf

Then I found out my friends were playing without me. What’s a 40-year-old guy to do?

By Joseph Bernstein

Published Aug. 28, 2025Updated Aug. 30, 2025

As the tree of a man’s life grows, he needs to prune it. Young branches must be tamed; undergrowth cleared; shoots pared back. Over decades, a mature shape appears — husband, father, friend, worker. He gathers all the dreams he’s trimmed away, all the hobbies and identities he will never let sprout. Some of these he will wonder about. Maybe I should have stuck with those guitar lessons. Others will never even occur to him.

Like golf. As a 40-year-old man with a wife, two small children and a full-time job, it’s true that I fit the stereotype of a golfer. But as a Brooklynite, my hobbies tend to be more city-friendly: running, video games, gin.

Golf, the game of kings, requires an extravagant outlay of time, space and money. I’d never considered picking up a club, just as I had never thought to play polo,...

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