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Golf is training on my heart. One: Fall in love wi
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Golf is training on my heart.

One: Fall in love with golf.


I learned about golf by accident.

A friend of mine wanted to learn, so I followed. Golf is boring, and not many women like it. But strangely, I fell in love with golf right away and addicted to it since.

I had three teachers on the way. I learned from the beginning, and I invested more and more into this sports. Now golf changed my attitude and my life.

Zhiqin Chen who works at Bayhood No.9 is my initiation teacher. He is a Malaysian and has a PGA certification. I learned from him for a long time to practice every basic move. Practicing swing at the driving range, again and again, made me more focus on my movements. Under the instruction of teacher Chen, I finished the painful road of basic practice, and because of him, I can do a fascinating full swing.

My second teacher is Guohua Zhao who is a beautiful woman. She was a national professional. I learned how to chip shot with pitching mashie for two weeks from a foreign teacher. I saw a foreigner who’s arm thicker than my thigh chip shot a ball and the ball rolled softly. I didn’t know softness is the soul of chip shot with pitching mashie until then and softness can overcome hardness. That is why I choose teacher Zhao. Her gesture has the strength yet elegant. I realized that how to combines strength with softness is the special point of women golf player.

My third teacher influenced me a lot as well. He is Minggao Cui who comes from Korea. Korean international champion Chenglie Lu and our champions of national team Haotong Li and Zecheng Dou are his students. He only has two non-professional students, and one of them is me. His responsible attitude touched me. He would ask me if I practiced and sent him a video every day no matter he is in Beijing or not.

What he helps me most is to decide learning focuses base on my real circumstances. We do not have much time to think about all the details like professionals. So he let us who are non-professional students focus on spin. Coach Cui is working at Huangshan Pine Golf Training School. There is a wall in the school that hangs photos of Coach Cui with his every student. My picture with Coach Cui is there as well. I improved a lot under his instruction and opened my road of luck.

Two: Addicted to golf.

The most prominent reason why I addicted to golf is four holes-in-one.

Hole-in-one is the dream of every golfer, and some of the golfers never achieved it. In 1999, a group of statistic number was released by an insurance company. The possibility of hole-in-one happens at PGA Tour was 1 in 3756. The possibility of an amateur made a hole-in-one was 1 in 12750, and the possibility of an amateur makes two holes-in-one is 1 in 9.22 million and 2500. I have had four holes-in-one since 2011. It all happened when I stuck at a bottleneck and could not break through. The most magical thing is two holes-in-one occurred in the same hole.

My first hole-in-one happened at the A course 17th hole Qinghe Golf Course on July 1st, 2011. I thought I was lucky enough but another unbelievable thing happened two years later. At April 14th,2013, I made another hole-in-one at the same place. If you go to Qinghe Golf Course now, you will find two boards with my name on it on the honor board. Then I made hole-in-one at Tahiti in Chengdu and Kunming.

I think that is the God telling me that I bound to play golf. God uses it to guide me to the training road of my life. I would say to myself that this sport brings me joy, luck, and enlightenment, and I should insist on it no matter whenever I hit the ceiling with golf.

Three: You will find insight on things you love.

People say that golf is a sport that contains the philosophy of life. The unique point is there is no direct opponent. Everyone is competing with themselves. Work hard to defeat yourself instead of other people. I learn this when I truly addicted to golf.

My work is busy and stressful all this time. I used to be grumpy and could not accept failure. There were countless sleepless night, angry at my subordinate and fought with colleagues due to work.

I did not sincerely feel everything had subjective rules until I am on a golf course. You can not guarantee a success even if you want it and no one could control the outcome. The only thing you can control is your status during the process. You can not hit far if you are too nervous or focus too much on the result during golf. Trying to relax and make sure every shot is good and this is how you can play a nice golf.

Golf also makes me realize that direction is more important than hard working. You have to have a good strategy and control the direction during golf and this triumphs strength.

In the beginning, I would set a minimum goal like how many pars. But I gave up that already. I only enjoy the fun and change golf brought me now. This is good enough.

My insight into the golf course changed my life, my working attitude, even my character. I become calmer and relax all the time. I can settle down and find the pattern in things and decide my direction. Making a strategy and follow it step by step. I can accept the outcome even when I fail.

Lao Tzu said that those who beat other people are strong and those who beat themselves are powerful. I stop rival with myself and other people and believe everything is the best the way they are. Perhaps cave in is the best attitude. When you stop obsessing with the outcome, everything goes more smoothly.

I start to enjoy life with self--restrain and health. I was used to joining all kinds of parties at night and meet more people hoping they could help me when I work in Beijing. But since I started to play golf, those things seemed not important anymore. I am used to getting up and sleep early now. I do not go to the parties that is unnecessary. What I enjoy now is walking on the fairway and putting green when the dew hangs on the grass to smell the odor of grass, feel the dew fell on my feet and breath the fresh air. At that moment, everything smells like happiness.

Four: The world is different when your heart becomes free.

My heart becomes calmer since I started to play golf. The world I see and feel is entirely different.

I used to get to the cities that people think are good for vacations during travel. Since I started to golf, I would go to the national and international golf course to golf like Pebble Beach in America and Saipan. Some of them are near the sea; some of them are mountain course; some of them are Linx style. Different courses have different styles, but they have one thing in common is that they are all breathtaking. I am fascinated by beauty and variety of nature again and again.

I never felt lonely on the golf course even without saying a word. I immersed in the deep communication with the golf course designer and gaming with him. I tried to understand his design idea from his perspective. Thinking why he designed the ball like this; how he lead the player into his trap and how he made the ball you shot carefully falls into the sandpit. I felt like the designer was right beside me at moments like this.

Golf also give me a genuine friendship after many years in the society.

Just like a friend said,“you can know who is honest; who is brave; who likes to lie; who is true; who always late; who knows how to respect people; who never repudiate a debt; who is stingy; who you can cooperate at the course. The most important thing is the friend you make through golf are on the same channel with you.

My classmates at EMBA701, Guanghua School of Peking University and I formed our golf team. We play at national and international golf course carrying our golf clubs since 2011. We are gathered together because of our simple interest and hobby. We enjoy the pure fun it brought us, and I treasure a friendship like this.

Looking back my golf journey, from hours of swing at the driving range to beautiful full swing at the course. Hole-in-one encouraged me whenever I encounter a bottleneck. The thing I feel deeply is that golf is the fate and chance given to me by God. God wants me to use it to train my self. I will continue to train myself on this road.


Author Meng Ao

EMBA of Guanghua School of Peking University. She is a media worker and a senior investment worker. She started to play golf since 2011 and had four holes-in-one. Her motto: I can shot balls, have people to love and do things.

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