It is a mark of golf’s long-established role as a perfectly adequate substitute for life that, like life, it comes fully armed with its own set of major illnesses. While other major sports have mere injuries, it has enough fully fledged diseases to make any hypchondriac happy.
QUOTE – Most common in – but not exclusive to – men over the age of 47, particularly those who have been through expensive divorces. Frequently compared to ME: partly because it can be such an energy-drainer, and also because there are some schools of medical thought that still believe it is an entirely make-believe affliction. ENDQUOTE
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