From J. Michael Vernon’s book The Greatest Course That Never Was :
"Some wag once said that a well-struck golf shot was the ‘second best feeling in the world.’"
I have to agree with that. That' why I'm hooked on the game. And for me, at least, out of all the clubs in my bags there is nothing I like better than absolutely flushing a 3 wood off the deck.
Best: Acing a hole (oops, was that the obvious male answer?)
Second Best: that well struck shot
Third: getting a favorable bounce from a less well struck shot
Revs held at 5.5k....launch with the perfect amount of wheelspin, hitting every shift point, through the traps...best 11.89 seconds of my ....... oh wrong forum. For me, it's watching my little boy hitting balls on the range with me. Something about watching him do something he really enjoys and watching him progressively get better at it (i.e. More I thought about it, best way I could describe it would be fatherhood in general)
Last edited by pgonza2723 : February 1st, 2007 at 06:12 PM.
Actually, now that I think of it, the really "second best feeling" for me is a tie, and has nothing to do with golf.
It's between two things:
- the adrenaline rush and sudden focus you get when a large buck walks out into your field of view, after sitting on the stand waiting for hours through cold and wet.
- the adrenaline rush and sudden focus you get when a large, aggressive fish takes a topwater lure. Could be a bass, a rainbow trout, a king mackerel, barracuda, snook, etc. Just watching that lure disappear into a whirlpool of scaly wrath and knowing what's about to happen next is just hard to beat!
It's not golf related, but in my younger days when I could jump, there is a feeling you get when you are jumping at your best and you kill a volleyball inside the 10 foot line. Hard to explain to anyone who doesn't play volleyball.
It's between two things:
- the adrenaline rush and sudden focus you get when a large buck walks out into your field of view, after sitting on the stand waiting for hours through cold and wet.
The first time I got a deer with my bow, I actually thought my heart was going to beat out of my chest! Greatest "thrill" I've had thus-far (that I can post here )
Scoring a long TD....it's a rush from beginning to end. Nothing I've experienced in golf compares. Football is an "adrelaline rush" game in general though.
I sing in an ensemble at my church - about six of us usually and I am the only one singing bass, or sometimes tenor. Our group is pretty good, and we do some really beautiful and often difficult anthems. It doesn't happen every time we sing, but occasionally we are getting a really good song exactly right and I can feel our pianist/director slowing ever so slightly and savoring the music and the moment - there are few moments as sweet as those.
- the adrenaline rush and sudden focus you get when a large, aggressive fish takes a topwater lure. Could be a bass, a rainbow trout, a king mackerel, barracuda, snook, etc. Just watching that lure disappear into a whirlpool of scaly wrath and knowing what's about to happen next is just hard to beat!
I know exactly what you mean: I had an adrenaline-rush while fishing once that was so strong that I thought I was going to fall into the water (like you imply, it was the aggressiveness of the attack on the bait that caused it): I caught a beautiful pike, one inch under 3 feet, my biggest ever. I didn't feel right for about an hour after the rush!
Nonetheless, my 2nd best feeling is a perfectly executed full-swing, and the sight of the resulting perfect ball-flight. That is a little easier on my system!
February 1st, 2007, 01:23 PM
....... oh wrong forum. For me, it's watching my little boy hitting balls on the range with me. Something about watching him do something he really enjoys and watching him progressively get better at it (i.e. More I thought about it, best way I could describe it would be fatherhood in general)
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