Thwacckk! Clingg! Thunkkhh! Bang smack in the middle of a golf course your ears slowly tune in to the sounds of a tee off. Those in the know say they can tell how far a shot will go just by listening to the satisfying whack of a club against the ball. At the recently concluded Marriott Bonvoy Golf Tournament in Bengaluru, Shiv Kapur says how and why he took to the sport.
“Like almost any child growing up in India, I loved cricket — I still do. If there’s golf and cricket on TV, I watch cricket,” Shiv says with candour. “I started playing golf at the age of nine. My father made a small club for me when I was a child and I would hit a ball around while he played at the Delhi Golf Club.
“People would ask, ‘Why don’t you play a real sport?’ especially at that age. Golf always had this tag of being an old man’s game, but thankfully that changed with the entry of popular players such as Tiger Woods. What intrigued me the most was that it is an individual sport. That drew me to the game — you are your own referee, your own judge. It teaches you etiquette and life lessons.”
