In the Golden Age of Golf, the greats were attired in shirt and tie, plus fours and two-tone spectators. Well, don't be surprised to see some of those ensembles April 26th at The PGA Golf Club, when the Shivas Irons Society launches it's Florida Chapter.
Now in it's 16th year the Society will have a foothold in The Sunshine State. Besides my obvious passion for clothes, I have counted the metaphysical aspect of golf as one of my greatest interests.
The 1972 cult classic Golf in the Kingdom by Michael Murphy upon which' character Shivas Irons the SIS is based, was the true pioneer of an esotericely perceived "movement" at that time, to entering every aspect of mainstream golf today.
With Inner Game of Golf by Timothy Gallwey, Extraordinary Golf and Putting by Fred Shoemaker and Zen Golf by Dr. John Parent as best sellers evolving the genre, we see the presence of "the mental" game on all professional Tours and permeating recreational golf.
Who hasn't experienced that purest golf shot of their life or a round where everything seemed to move in slow motion and we only realized what we had done when we "woke up"? It is those moments or sustained times of effortless virtuosity we all yearn for when we tee it up and the visionaries of human potential in Golf have seen their business blossom.
The Shivas Irons Society has organized a plethora of events all over the country to find true gravity ... with a great sense of camaraderie and a like minded approach to the greatest Game ever played, the events are great experience and ... a lot of fun. So I encourage you to join us on Saturday April 26th at the links like Pete Dye course at the fabulous PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie for an introduction to The Shivas Irons Society, a great round of Golf and ... a Scotch tasting with Chivas Regal.
Now if you show up dressed for the occasion, you may find yourself ending up with The Best Dressed Award, which from the preliminary indications, could be as toughly contested as the Golf.
For registration, click on the following link.
Florida Chapter-Charter Event
In Shivas' spirit and always in Style,
Auke Hempenius
2 comments:
It seems that originally, PGAs were the central bodies for all forms of professional golf in their territories, but now some of them, including those of the United States, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Ireland, are focused on the needs of the majority of professional golfers who work as club or teaching professionals, as opposed to being tournament professionals.
Wrong. Golf is science and mysticism. Visualization is a key component to the game. If it was all about science Mike"Radar" Reid would have won 15 majors.
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