Watson’s Glen golf course, Pickering
GOLF, LIKE BRIDGE AND LEAFS FANDOM,
occupies a place in the pantheon of perverse human pastimes, offering those who love it equal parts joy and torment. It is a “game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose,” Winston Churchill said. He loved golf. The opening of courses in Ontario, expected in the coming weeks, will, for eager golfers, bring back familiar misery. But how much sweeter to be kept up at night by an errant wedge than, say, a pandemic. Leafs fans will have to wait their turn.