Outside Reading - Week 5, Post B

A Golfer's Life by Arnold Palmer

Dear Mr. Palmer,
Reading the memoir of your life was inspiring to me. I am a golfer also and everything that you talked about i could relate to. The struggles of your game and the successes you have enjoyed, I felt a connection to all of them, granted my experiences were on a much smaller scale. I loved learning about what was going through your head as you were waling down the fairways, listening to you explain your tendencies and habits on the course, and seeing your life up close as you have laid it out in this novel. I twas interesting to see how you related golf to life, it got me thinking about the game on a deeper level, and the lessons you learned I learned with you. Now I can relate them personally to my life and think about and realize more lessons as I encounter them. When I bought this book, I did not know what to expect, if it would be about your golf game, or your life, or tips on golf, or your knowledge, and it was none of that. It was just your life with all of your golfing experience tied in. You did not blatantly write out morals and lessons, but they worked in as common themes. I also looked for stylistic elements as in other memoirs that I have read, and I saw none but a true openness and a wanting to share what you have learned with others that look up to you. I have heard that you are a very serious golfer when out playing, not a social golfer who wants to chat it up with your partner. Now I know that you are not trying to be intimidating or rude, you are just being focused and unaware of what you are or aren't saying. I have also heard that you really relate to the crowd and I noticed that in your memoir, when you would wave and be friendly to the spectators. I really enjoyed this memoir,
Monika