Golf is a funny sport in that it mirrors life on a grand scale. It is a sport in which you will get out exactly what you put into it. It is a game that you can talk about for years and still not cover everything and it is a game that takes years to learn. You can play it for a lifetime and still not be as good as you want to. It forces one to be completely honest with ones self, for at the end of a round nothing can change how you actually did, no matter what you say and it is always only you against the course. A game where you can be as good as you want, you can play it simply to relax on a weekend now and then or you can play it to be the best in the world, most importantly, your world. Hell, you can even make it your religon.
Each time you play whether it is only yourself or you get placed with some people or even playing in a tournament; it always comes down to how well you do against the course and in a tournament the winner is usually the one whoe does best against what the course has to throw at them. This is a game that can be played for a lifetime.