The Philosophical Value of Golf For Students

The Philosophical Value of Golf 

More than just swinging the ball into the hole

Patience …

Staying power …

Adaptability ….

And …

 

In April 15^th, The National Plus Students of Mutiara Bunda had given a chance to run an outdoor learning at Palimanan Golf Ciputra Surabaya.  At first, we are so confused why we had this activity for outbound? What is the interesting of GOLFING! We know that golf is not a popular sport for Indonesia and Golf people assumed is HIGH CLASS sport. Besides, we CANNOT play golf anywhere we want. It must be PLAYED ONLY On a GOLF COURSE!!! So, what will we learn from this activity?

Okay… here are what we learn when we were there…

1.        When playing golf, you should prepare the tools, the golf stick and the ball in the bag. We just knew that every stick has certain number and every stick has certain purpose whether long range shot or short range shot.

Learning Point:

We must be well prepared or be ready for most of time, don’t forget to bring your golf bag.

We must carefully choose the best option in our life or wise fully just like picking up a golf stick or batter.

      

Before we entrance a golf range, we got a brief explanation about the rules there. Such as:

a.      Wear suitable clothes while playing golf such as collar T-shirt, belt, wear trouser not a jeans, put your shirt in, and wear shoes especially golf shoes. Hat is also appropriate.   

b.      Walk in a queue or walk one by one when entering a door or corridor and keep your volume of voice low.

c.       Listen carefully when the coach explains the detail of the rules. Analyze and raise your hand before you ask something that you have a doubt.

d.      Pay fully attention or Look at carefully when someone is giving us a instruction

e.      Behave excellently

3.        Here are some of the instructions we got from playing golf.

a.      A perfect Standing position. Where you put your right and left foot, how you hold the batter, how you get a effective grip?

b.      Get focus look at the ball before we swing our batter. We must fully concentrate if we don’t want our swing missed.

c.       Hit it high or low. We cannot hit the ball always hard but sometimes we must be able to measure and control the power when we hit the ball.

d.      Control your volume of voice whether someone is fail or success when swinging the golf stick. It is called “Give respect to others” which can be a saluting or sympathizing. We must respect our opponent whether he won or lost.

e.      Others, when we failed or missed the ball, we should never give up. But we should continue making progress, go back to the first steps and do it all again… and again … till you can. We learn a staying power here or never giving up.

So, what are some of the value we got so far?... I think we got mamy, didn’t we? Can you mention me some of the value you got? ….