Golf is played on an uneven terrain designed to surprise. Good and bad bounces are built into the essence of the game. And the reason golf is so much like life is that the game — like life — is all about how you react to those good and bad bounces. Do you blame your caddy? Do you cheat? Do you throw your clubs? Or do you accept it all with dignity and grace and move on...
To read Friedman's entire op-ed, see 59 is the New 30, at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/opinion/29friedman.html?em