Date: 1/1/2022
It’s not lost on me that it’s 2023 (December, to boot) and I’m nearly a full two years behind in blogging about my journey to play all of the public golf courses in New Jersey. It’s also not lost on me that blogs really aren’t a thing anymore.
Nevertheless, I committed to chronicling my quest here on this site, and though many of you likely landed here by way of my social media accounts – and therefore, have already seen how this plays out – I’m doing my best impression of a writer trying to tell a story to the broadest potential audience.
Wrapping up 2021, I felt something I hadn’t felt the entire time I’ve tracked this quest around the state. As I recounted in my first blog post, the man that inspired my journey said that he was doing it with “no timeline” in mind. I felt the same way for the next six years as I trekked around New Jersey. I was in no rush to finish. But in December of 2021, I felt differently.
I wanted to complete the mission as soon as possible.
In some ways, I could describe it as “wanting to get it over with,” but that has far too negative a connotation. This wasn’t something I hated. It’s been a passion project. However, there was one element of it that I was no longer crazy about: being committed to a list of courses to play meant that playing golf with friends became something of a scheduling nightmare, especially if you usually decide to play golf on a whim like I do.
I wanted to get back to playing golf any and everywhere. I wanted to be able to check with friends throughout the week by sending a text message that says something like, “golf this weekend?” and then sorting out the details of where to play and not worry about my being beholden to the remaining courses on the list.
Therefore, as 2021 closed out, I decided to commit to finishing the journey in 2022. Much in the same way I made that commitment, I am also committing to finishing this blog in 2024. Well, at least the journey part of it. Where I go from there with this site is anyone’s guess, but I leave open all possibilities.
So, here’s to 2022! (… in December of 2023)
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