Golf With Ostomy Care?

Contrary to what many people may think, I didn’t start becoming an average sportsman until I had an ostomy procedure done. As I previously mentioned in a previous article, I had to cut my golf swing in half after my procedure. That was because my body had in fact changed.  I also had to keep my right arm closer to my side so that the ostomy supplies I was using stayed in place during my backswing. 

Like in all things you have to adapt but In golf, the more you can control your swing and stay on the same plane that you started on when taking the club back, the more balls you will be able to square up and hit flush off the sweet spot of the club. The pros are the pros because they can stay on a plane while taking a huge backswing. This is why they hit it so far. But things ended up changing for me.

Believe it or not.  Although I didn’t need my ostomy supplies for the long haul, the swing I developed while using them stuck around long after my ostomy care. Therefore, I am now what is called a “bogey golfer”. Now, most people don’t think much of someone that is a “bogey golfer” unless they’ve ever played the game of golf (which happens to be the hardest game in the world).

A bogey golfer means that you were able to put the golf ball in the hole in one more shot than you’re allowed on that given hole, which is called PAR (professional average result). A bogey golfer means you’re slightly below average. In my case now that is pretty darn good.  It takes a lot of skill to get that good.

So what does that really mean.  Now, anyone that shoots even PAR is said to be a really good golfer. But, by the definition, they’re really just average. And they’re especially average if they’re shooting PAR on courses that aren’t near the type of courses the professionals play on every week. And these professionals are shooting anywhere from 15 to 30 under PAR over the course of a four-day tournament. This means they are really above average, and by really I mean way above average. But being a professional is not really my long term gameplay.

The amount of feel and precision that the professional golfer must have in order to shoot such scores is out of this world. Their skill level is truly insane. They have truly been blessed with a gift to do such things. The crazy thing is, there’s no cookie-cutter “fit” for what the best golfer looks like physically speaking. The body of an athlete is different than a regular person’s.  They simply are made differently.

There are golfers that are very much overweight, and there are golfers that look malnourished. Both can hit the ball the same distance and both can win the same tournament on any given day.  That is a wild thing, but there is something in teh way they think, feel, and understand the game that goes beyond the normal human being.  I am simply happy to be able to keep up with them with my ostomy and regular average bogey golf game. So keep your spirits up and your golf game strong.