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EDITOR’S LETTER JUNE 2021 Vol.-XIV, Issue - 6 Editor-in-Chief: Anil Dev Editorial Board: Amit Luthra Col. R. Dewan (Retd.) Contributing Editors: Brandon de Souza Digraj Singh Farzan Heerjee Gaurav Bajaj ROARING 50’s Maj. D.N. Dass Michael Wilson Raja Danish Aman hil Mickelson made history as he Championship held at Muirfi eld Golfl inks in Randy Williams Ridhima Dilawari became the oldest winner of a Major at Scotland. He made history then too as it was 50. Kiawah Island Golf Course in South the fi rst time when anyone had won both the Deputy Editor: Carolina witnessed a battle of nerves as Scottish Open and The Open Championship in Charu Dewan Ferry Monné Mickelson belied his age holding on to the same year. Pthe 54-hole lead at the PGA Championship. He Creative & Newsdesk Team: Phil Mickelson with his latest win has given Deepak, Pushpendra & Akansha pulled of an epic win in front of a roaring hope to the aspirations of those over 50! gallery defeating Brooks Koepka and Louis Place of Publication: Back home, we, it seems are coming out of the Golf Plus: 436, Sector-37, Oosthuizen, not buckling under youthful dire straits as the pandemic is fi nally abating. Noida 201301 (U.P.), India pressure his Tel.: +91-120-4570554 But the same has come at determination forcing Marketing Department a price as this time over his fi nal competitors Shalini Tomar: +91-98114 57878 not a single household E-mail: [email protected] into costly errors. has been spared. A While his mastery of News Desk: number of us have lost a [email protected] the short game came in near and dear one to Subscription: handy it was his belief Covid19. While it seems [email protected] that brought him to the that the worse is over we Printed at: podium. HT Media Limited must be prepared for the Plot No. 8, Udhyog Vihar, Glory did not come third wave as predicted. Greater Noida - 201306, U.P. easy, as it never does. While most of us by now on 1st June, 2021 His fi rst Major Championship title came in Owner, Printer & Publisher: would have received 2nd dose of the vaccine, Anil Dev 2004 after a long thirteen years on the PGA we must ensure the same for all those we know Tour. He had a number of setback, losing a long including the caddies and the staff at the golf term contract with Titleist in the same year for course you frequent, after all it is said that a being indiscreet for his love for Callaway. Golf course is a Golfers second home! Mickelson has had two sports hernia surgeries, ©2010 GolfPlus Article and features, including Happy Golfi ng, Stay safe! illustrations can only be reproduced with the he has gotten in and out of trouble with law for permission of the Editor. We regret we cannot be insider trading and had also supposedly run up liable for the safe custody or return of any solicited or unsolicited material, whether typescripts, a gambling debt! He also suffered a title photographs, transparencies, artwork or computer drought between 1999 and 2003 wherein he discs. Contributors are advised to keep copies of all material submitted. Page Nos. 33 to 39 printed was often referred to as the best player never to under license from Bauer Consumer Media Limited (Todays Golfer/Golf World) win a major. Editor-in-Chief Send address changes to: 436/37 Noida 201301, His fi fth Major title came in 2013 at the Open [email protected] Uttar Pradesh, India 4 GolfPlus JUNE 2021 This Month Mr. JM Arora Noida Golf Course Mr. Yuvraj Mathur Noida Golf Course Mr. Ashok Singh Noida Golf Course Mail in details of your achievement and join the elite GolfPlus Ace Club: [email protected] GOLF DESTINATION QUIZ TOP 5 WINNERS: 1. Maj Gen S Bindra 2. Hassanali Bulsara 3. Supriya Kodikal 4. Shailendra Kumar Hajela 5. Lavanya TOTAL AWARENESS : 211153 TOTAL NO. OF PARTICIPANTS : 829 NO. OF PARTICIPANTS WHO GOT 100% SCORE : 114 GolfPlus JUNE 2021 9 Feature Every human being is capable of love, but has crippled himself with all kinds of stupid belief systems, opinions, philosophies, and ideologies -- everything except life. LOVE IS A HUMAN EMOTION RANKED AMONGST THE FIFTY MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN INDIA, SADHGURU IS A YOGI, MYSTIC, VISIONARY AND A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR SADHGURU HAS BEEN CONFERRED THE PADMA VIBHUSHAN BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA IN 2017, THE HIGHEST ANNUAL CIVILIAN AWARD, ACCORDED FOR EXCEPTIONAL AND DISTINGUISHED SERVICE. SADHGURU ISHA FOUNDATION here is a lot of talk about ‘divine only God can love you. He has to love the scripture. You don’t need any God looking love’ everywhere. The assumption mistakes he’s made!” down upon you. is that love is a quality that needs Every human being is capable of love, but We don’t know if there is love in Heaven, to be imported from Heaven. has crippled himself with all kinds of stupid but we defi nitely know that human beings People either profess to love God belief systems, opinions, philosophies, and are capable of it. If you haven’t found a Tor believe God loves them. I am often told, ideologies -- everything except life. If you human being who loves you, I recommend a very emphatically, by people, “God loves are life, it is very natural to love. You don’t dog. Human beings can sometimes be fi ckle, us.” I tell them, “The way you’re made, need any teaching. You don’t need any but a dog is a 12-year guaranteed love affair! 10 GolfPlus JUNE 2021 Feature Love is self-annihilation. It essentially means someone else has become far more important than yourself. That is why we talk of ‘falling’ in love. If not the whole of you, at least a part of you should collapse, should die. We need to keep our love for this planet; deceive ourselves by believing this is love. man or woman, ant or elephant or tree, is here is where it’s needed. Two thousand So, what is love? Love is a human emotion. irrelevant; everything that you behold, you years ago, when Jesus said, ‘Love thy It means that on an emotional plane, you feel a certain pleasantness towards it. That neighbour’, he meant accepting whoever is are longing to become one with something. is love. This is an intelligent way to exist. beside you at this very moment, accepting It is a natural desire. Whether you desire Once you know that pleasantness within them fully. Everyone can love God because food or sex or love or God or heaven, it is a you every moment of your life, you can fall He’s not even around! Besides, if God is desire. The fundamental desire is to expand in love with everything. an embodiment of love, why would He and include something else as a part of Most people seek love because they have need your love? Leave God alone. Let Him yourself. This longing to become one with still not reached the point where they are do His job; you do yours. But people are something is happening on all levels. If it simply at ease by themselves -- with life communicating with Krishna, Rama, Jesus, fi nds expression in a very basic physical itself. Because they are unable to totally without even being on talking terms with way, we call this either hunger or sexuality. relax with the million manifestations of their neighbours! If the longing to become one fi nds mental life around them, they seek it with at least What most people call love is just a mutual expression, this is generally labeled greed one person. The idea of forming the unit of benefi t scheme. You have your needs to or ambition. When it fi nds emotional family and larger identities of community fulfi ll, so you made an arrangement with expression, it gets labeled as love. and nation is for the same reason: simply somebody: ‘you give me this, I’ll give A certain part of the human being is to create a space where you can lay your you that’. You have physical, emotional, emotion; this cannot be denied. A certain defense mechanisms down for a while. psychological, social, economic needs, and amount of your life energies are allotted Love is self-annihilation. It essentially so many others. To fulfi ll all these you have to your emotion. You have to expend that. means someone else has become far more formed various relationships. But tomorrow Otherwise it will sit in your belly like a important than yourself. That is why we if you withdraw from your part of the deal, stone. talk of ‘falling’ in love. If not the whole of the other person will do the same. Yoga means ‘to become one’. So, in a you, at least a part of you should collapse, That’s the reason why relationships are small way, when you seek love, you are should die. If this doesn’t happen, there is always on the edge. This is simply because attempting yoga, using the path of emotion. no love, only calculation. When there is two people are trying to extract happiness, Most religions cranked this up to the next no love, people are rigid. Suddenly when or life, from each other. As long as you level and called it ‘devotion’. What you they fall in love, they’re willing to bend and are trying to fulfi ll your needs through call devotion is essentially unreasonable twist themselves any which way; this can somebody, this struggle will go on.