Is cheating the best way to attract new golfers?

What's the best way to attract new golfers to the game? Cheating

golf.com 16 Feb '12, 9pm

Is cheating the best way to attract new golfers?

I've added a deceptively simple element to my game that has me playing more, playing faster and enjoying golf the way the USGA wishes more golfers would. I've begun to cheat. I improve my lie, will on occasion hit two shots if the first's an absurdity, and if I'm faced with a clearly impossible shot I'll do something in my pre-shot routine that will magically render the chances of a successful outcome quite possible. This isn't "Tee It Forward." It's more like "Kick it Forward." It's as heretical as it is liberating. For the past 10 years I could have been described with a term constitutional lawyers apply to no-nonsense Supreme Court candidates: when it came to golf rules, I was a strict constructionist. I'd play every shot down, call double hits and OB penalties on myself when no one was looking and eschew gimme golf as an insidious way to keep handicaps pretentious enou...

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My story about how I'm enjoying golf more now that I'm cheating. Resisting the urge to extend the philosophy to life. [link]
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