I'm Mr. Green, for example. I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.

And when I find my ball in a Friday egg. Friday. The dreaded Friday. Friday. Friday. Friday. Friday. Friday. Friday. Friday. Friday.

Friday. Friday. I'm about ready to run off the golf course.

Welcome to the Friday podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison. And today we're talking about the hidden reasons the golf is so appealing.

My guest is Bob Cohen, who tackled this very question in a book called Why Golf?

This is one of my favorite golf books. It touches on evolutionary psychology, philosophy, design, and many other subjects.

And its basic purpose is to explain why certain people not only play golf, but become absolutely obsessed with it.

Bob's book Why Golf came out in 2000. So there was no particular occasion for us to talk about it other than the fact that we wanted to.

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All right. So Bob, when we were talking about you coming on the podcast a while back, you responded.

I'd love to come on. I'd love to talk about my book Why Golf. But I do have one request. And that is that we discuss the concept of the groundy.

And so I've been curious for months now. I have resisted the temptation of asking you straight up. But what is a groundy?

Well, the truth is that when you get to be my age and golf, you can't look forward to sort of Jack Nichol style.

Pars and birdies the way once in a while you might have been able to in the past.

So in my case, getting the ball in the air sometimes is a little problematic. So a groundy is a birdie that you make probably on a par three without the ball ever leaving the ground.

And I've had one of those. You scull the ball off the tee, but it rolls and rolls and rolls hits the green. And then you make the button.

It's second in my steam only to the aqua sandy, which I managed in Florida last winter, which is when you scull the ball off the tee through a water hazard and it skips off the hazard.

And then lands in a bunker and you put the bunker shot on the green and make the putt. And that is called the aqua sandy.

I can't ever, I can't expect anymore to have a good round in the seventies, but I can occasionally pick up a groundy or an aqua sandy or something like that and and take some pleasure from those.

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