Geoff Ogilvy… Surfing? Another Matthew McConaughey? 0
FORT WORTH – Golfing and surfing don’t have too much in common.
Golf, as they say, is a gentlemen’s game dominated by clean-cut players. Surfing is a sport for free-spirits often with shaggy hair and laidback attitudes.
But that doesn’t mean golfers can’t take up surfing. Just ask the Australians on the PGA Tour, who say it’s as common there as it is riding a horse in Texas.
“Whether you do it or you don’t, it’s just kind of what you do,” said Geoff Ogilvy, who’s No. 6 in the World Golf Ranking.
Ogilvy, 31, started surfing about a year ago, when he spent the summer in San Diego. This year, Ogilvy has even caught some waves with fellow Aussie Adam Scott, when the tour stops in beach towns.
Ogilvy said his surfing handicap, if there were such a thing, would be an 18; Scott is a 12.
“[Ogilvy] is getting heaps better,” Scott said. “I think he’s improving quick.”
Not quick enough, though, to quit his day job.
Ogilvy, the 2006 U.S. Open champion, has won two tournaments this season, is second on the money list with more than $3.15 million and has made the cut in all 10 tournaments he’s played.
“The art of golf is knowing yourself and how to get you to play the best,” Ogilvy said. “There are thousands of cases of guys that tried to get better and got worse. I see golf, though, as the sport doesn’t change. You are not trying to work golf out; you are trying to work yourself out.”
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