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I’m not afraid to admit it: I live in fear of the game of golf.

It’s an enjoyable game – there’s a lot to be said about spending time outside, slowing down, and enjoying nature. Golf is an opportunity for a nice walk (so long as you’re not one of the heathen “cart” people). Golf is, in principle, a fun sport: you have to believe this if you live in such close proximity to Dublin, OH, which is a golf community centered around the yearly Memorial Tournament (going on now). We at dynamIt like the sport. ¹

That’s not to say that we’re terribly good at it. Phil is probably the best we’ve got. He’s our lead artist (also a former collegiate baseball player), so the swinging of implement to object is something with which he’s quite familiar. But the rest of us are learning to enjoy it – even if we (ie, me) tend toward the use of brute force over savvy after a few bloopers. My mind knows that tempo and form are the basis of a good golf swing: my soul wants to punish the ball for its disrespectful behavior.

Back to fear: my greatest fear, friends, is that one of you might just happen to see me swing a club before the time is right. (You’d learn a few new four letter words). If you’re brave enough to weather the storm of true frustration, however, you might swing by Hickory Hills (a client of ours kind enough to let me plod through their beautiful course)². We’re currently putting a new spin on their site, so it may just be that this grace is a form of premeditated flattery. Time will tell.

So what’s the point of this ramble? Golf is fun, nerds can enjoy the game (not to mention the associated revelry) and we’ll graciously decline any golf invitations until further notice… or we’ll just send Phil. We’d like you to respect us for our creative/nerdy skill sets: we feel that respect would be somewhat diminished if you happened to join our foursomes.

So, until we’re better golfers, we’ll see you on the range.

¹ Contrary to popular belief, some tech people really like the outdoors. Granted, they may be the rarities that fall outside the standard deviation, but they do exist. Statistics tell us that these anomalies are expected – it would actually be weirder if the anomalies did not exist. Someone has to round out the bell curve, right?

Anyway, now that we’ve proven that “athletically-minded” web nerds must exist *cough*, let’s get to the point.

² This links not to their existing website (hickoryhills.com) but to our new concept draft for the site.

Tags: golf, memorial tournament, nerds, statistics

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