To a fifty three year old who does not feel that old, this is an affirmative encouragement.
To one whose drug of choice is baseball not golf, his reflections open an intriguing window on a game that is pretty much a mystery to me.
(To his comment that a PGA touring pro ‘eats what he kills’ I would add the knowledge, told to me by the wife of one such touring pro, that they, the golfers, bear the expenses of their touring. Therefore, a pro could conceivably travel to the British Open, miss the cut, and in the end find that he has lost money.)
TulipGirl
Since I'm constantly around people in their 70s, 80s, and even 90s who are active (though maybe slower) and involved in life — 50 really IS young. And I feel like a babe in the cradle in my mid-30s.