New Year’s Greetings to My Readers

“Golf Course of Rhymes” began in December of 2009, when I decided to share what I was learning about the history of golf poetry and to publish my golf poems on the Internet. I had no idea if the poems would attract readers. Now as the Blog begins its 18th year, I can report the following: The Blog has had more than 59,000 visitors from 164 countries. It has also led me to write and publish two books, Golf Course of Rhymes – Links Between Golf and Poetry Through the Ages and If Golf Ball Could Talk - Collected Golf Poems. 

New Year’s Greetings to My Readers in 164 Countries

Thank you all for stopping by
To read a poem or two;
Among each country’s visitors
More than 30 from Peru.

The United States is first in line 
While only one from Granada;
And one as well from Kyrgyzstan 
Cape Verde and Rwanda.

Moving farther up in numbers
There are golfers who let fly
From countries that you might not guess
Djibouti and Brunei.

Other countries, Germany, France,
Belgium, Italy, Spain, 
Russia, Poland, Serbia,
Venezuela and Ukraine.

Uganda, Bermuda, Denmark,
Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan;
The Isle of Man, Angola
China and Japan.

Of course, the U.K.’s golfers come
They hardly miss a day;
And Canada’s, Australia’s, and India’s,
For sure some from Bombay.

If your country is among the many
That I just could not include;
All poems have their limits,
Please do not think me rude.

The total one hundred and sixty-four 
I never would have guessed;
Golf poetry lives because of you,
Happy New Year, all the best.

Leon S White, PhD