I was sitting in the doctor's office the other day, reading Golf Digest and looking at an article that provided 18 ways to enjoy yourself more on the golf course.

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I found that I was already doing two of them -- playing golf by myself and using my iPod to provide a soundtrack of sorts to my round.

One of the other ones seemed interesting, although I seriously wonder if it's something I could ever do.

<em>Don't keep score.</em>

That's a tough one for me, although I could argue that I don't really keep score accurately as it is. At least a couple of times a round, when I've had a shot completely misfire, I allow myself to take the shot over without a penalty. I couldn't do that if I were competing with other people.

The last time I went out, I hit my second shot on the first hole into the sand trap just to the right of the green. It's pretty rare for me to be in that trap, and then it took me three shots to get out. Throw in three putts and I had a rather nasty-looking eight on a hole that I usually score four or five.

I wasn't too terrible for the rest of the nine holes I played. I double-bogeyed one other hole and parred three holes. But that snowman on the first hole meant that I had a 47 where I usually shoot 41 or 42.

So the score -- my worst in at least five months -- was something I couldn't enjoy much. But if I hadn't been keeping score, I might have been satisfied that I played seven of the nine holes either at par or bogey.

It isn't easy to ignore scores. I tend to be very numerically oriented, and even when I'm not writing it down, I usually know in my head what my score is.

But even on days when I don't score particularly well, I'll often take away a really good shot on a difficult hole. I have now parred every hole at Sun City Peachtree at least once, and I have birdied maybe a third of them.

One thing I have really enjoyed is walking the course, but that has been very difficult recently with the weather, Between the heat and the humidity, the air at its worst feels almost soupy. So it seems like the only way to play is to ride, and to carry an awful lot of drinking water along with me.

But it's still fun.

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