The Reason – Golf Poetry

THE REASON 
You are old, Father William," the young man said. 
"And your swing has become very fiat, 
And yet you incessantly lay the ball dead. 
Pray what is the reason for that?" 
"In my youth," Father William replied, "it is that 
I studied and practised and swore; 
But now I just step up and give it a swat — 
What reason for anything more?" 
- Anonymous, Lyrics of the Links, published in 1921