Fore!

Four is my lucky number. It's also what golfers holler when an errant shot threatens to disrupt the serenity of other golfers on the course. Yesterday I bet myself $500 that I could play enough golf in 2012 to make a Monday through Thursday membership at Buffalo Peak Golf Course in Union pay for itself. I need to golf at least once a week through October to win the bet.

The hard part is not the golf, however. It's keeping up my six day a week, an hour a day Younger Next Year exercise routine. Golf is fun, a great social activity, and the walking, carrying of a bag and swinging the club is good exercise. But it's not aerobics. As Dr. Henry S. Lodge and Chris Crowley make clear, even if you golf, you still need to get your aerobics.

It's going to be one busy summer. But losing a spouse at age 48 to complications of diabetes and a dad at age 70 to bone cancer, I know that I won't live forever. If a window of opportunity opens, I need to climb through it and get all the Vitamin D I can. Watch out, birdies!