Getting into the swing of playing golf | Letters

Readers respond to Adrian Chiles’s article on his antipathy to the game I have some sympathies with Adrian Chiles’s war of attrition with golf ( I hate golf, 14 October ).

I too have suffered with shots to the right followed by shots to the left, and have had rounds with many bad shots, only to then have a perfect drive down the middle, or by sinking a 20-yard putt on the last green that inevitably brought me back the next week thinking that I had finally cracked it. Over the 60 years that I have been playing, I have learned that it is possible to master some…