GOLF FOR WELLBEING

I’ve been told that golf is a game for masochists, for those who like punishing themselves. While it is absolutely true that this is a game where we manage our expectations, along with our shortcomings, it is also an activity where we learn more about ourselves, and how to be the best version of us we can be. This comes to light in our cover story on actress and influencer Julie Tan this month. The flip side of being a celebrity is, well, being a celebrity. Their lives often cease becoming their own, and every step they take is there for all to see. Much more so today with social media and the 24/7 surveillance in their lives. Julie took a step back from the limelight, and found golf to be just the thing to help her return to the path of personal fulfilment. We all can take a leaf off that playbook and look a little closer at how hitting that small dimpled ball all over 60-plus hectares of grassland can help with our wellbeing.

Wellbeing is also the main theme at Camiral Golf & Wellness ess Resort in Spain. Our story on that country’s top golf resort shows that there is demand mand in the personal wellness industry. People, it seems, like to combine bine the self-discovering pursuit that golf provides with a series of physical ysical and mental programmes to help them deal with the challenges es of mode modern life. This exquisite haven aven in Ca Catalunya clearly shows that hat b both can exist in harmony. ny. If all else fails, go shopping. This time of year sees more launches than an North Korea’s ballistic missile testing in the Sea ea of Japan. New equipment ent Callaway, C ll Cobra Golf, adidas, Honma and Cleveland – among others – give ve us few excuses not to improve our games, which plays nicely to the Singaporean golfer’s r’s hands. After all, many would contend that the he best therapy is that of the retail kind.