anyone ever try golf for autistic therapy?

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i'm really serious, lol

i was very lucky to grow up right next to a private country club.......my youth was filled with running through the open fields, fishing in ponds, watching nature and animals, endless sled riding in the winter, skating...etc etc

i started caddying when i was 12 and have been playing golf since i was 8

forget about being any good at the game, the key is enjoying nature

i see autistics have a special relationship with animals and nature...golf is perfect: you do a lot of walking with the sunshine on your face, breeze in your hair and enjoying nature

plus you get to beat the piss out of a little white ball, lol

i'm not kidding you, golf is a great therapy

I played golf once and fucken hated it. Granted, that's not enough to form an opinion, but the bad taste it left me with hasn't motivated me to try since.

I like Churchill's quote on golf: "Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose."

What a great quote!!
My five year old wants to try it but I can see him getting pretty ticked off if he doesn't make the hole.

i believe that was woodrow wilson, lol.

I LOVE NATURE I grew up like the OP near a large woodland and spend a lot of time there walking and exploring my dad tried to get me into it an I kinda like it but then theres my antsy side that though f*** it I can play something else for me I love hiking as I am continually looking at nature but with golf its just the box for the present. I hate most sport tbh I would rather get some facts or something but achknoledge golfers as I could gladly play it annually whether it would open up to a fascinatio I don't know

no it's the opposite. Nature and animals are unpredictable. Breeze and sunshine in my eyes are bad because of sensory issues. Animal fur hurts, animals can bite and hurt you, you don't know how they're going to react, birds especially and dogs hurt ears... ETC.

I have a less expensive alternative. Beat you flesh smartly with a leather belt until the welts come up and you skin gets red. Then stop. Isn't it wonderful how good you feel when you stop?

ruveyn

...nobody take that literally. Please.

For me, I think playing golf would probably take all the fun out of being outdoors.

Nope: http://quotations.about.com/cs/winstonc ... rchill.htm (9th one down)

I did look up Wilson quotes though and this one is awfully similar, except rendered in clunkier prose: "Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose."

hi igni...as president, wilson golfed regularly for excercise on the advice of his doctors, but he took little pleasure in the game, lol

his exact quote to define golf, "an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill-adapted to the purpose".............lol, that sums it up......wilson golfed in the 1910's long before churchill, i think winnie might have plagarized some, lol..............i doubt if he could have walked 3 holes

anyway, go out angd golf again.....enjoty the walk, the birds, fresh air.....who cares what you shoot, lol

wow, golf aint for you, lol

lol, not if you cared what your score was

There's a thread on head banging which would be much the same as golf.