At The Turn: Parkinson Project explores elusiveness of lasting golf improvement
KING CITY, Ont. — It’s the most inspiring week on the recreational golf calendar, with the snow slowly receding, the Masters heralding the approach of another season and the impulse to get out and knock the rust off the swing proving almost impossible to resist.
But for many, another reality also dawns: the start of April can’t stop the march of time.
Career and family priorities are always demanding, and once-supple bodies age. Despite fervent hope and desire, most of us aren’t becoming better golfers. Indeed, we’re getting worse.
Matt Parkinson, for one, is determined to prove it doesn’t have to be that way.