
Most of the rest of us did not start playing golf when we were five. I picked up my first club when I was 15 years old and actually played my 1st round of golf when I was 19 and in college. I didn't start playing seriously until a couple of years after that. Golf was something learned through golf magazines and hitting buckets of balls at the range. When I started, I had no idea what I looked like, I just knew that it "felt" right and if I really concentrated, it worked.
Over the next 35 years, I learned some better ways to hit a golf ball and eventually got my handicap down in single digits and was a fairly decent club golfer.
I then got really lucky.
My wife and I became friends with Billy and Shirley Casper. It wasn't a business or golf relationship. It was personal and as a result, I was able to have long, rambling conversations with Billy on every subject imaginable. Billy Casper would have been a fascinating friend even if he had never picked up a golf club. Because we are friends, Billy is willing to put up with my questions about golf and how to play the game. It was while we were discussing how to handle certain shots that it became obvious to both of us that most golfers have no idea how to change their swing in order to change the flight of the golf ball. We decided that learning how to hit all of the shots would drastically change the games of most amateur golfers.
Thus, the launch of BillyCasperOnline.com.