Former #1 Golfer Goes Snowboarding

If golf is the sport to take up in retirement, what do golfers do when they leave the scene?

Ride snowboards.

Well, perhaps not, but David Duval, the guy who was the #1 in the world before Tiger, is a snowboarder. I’ve known this for a while, and came across it again in the Whittier Daily News. (It’s a reprint from the Denver Post, which notes that Duval lives in the Denver metro.)

According to the article “Patient Duval Ready to Rise Again,” the 34-year old Duval, just might be making a comeback on the golf circuit.

The article’s mention of his snowboarding ventures is short, fluffy, and without much substance:

To truly appreciate how high golfer David Duval sits these days on life’s leaderboard, it may be helpful to turn away from his chosen profession and instead focus on one of his passions, snowboarding. More precisely, in the moment when he hits a jump on a ski run and bounds from the earth into the sky.

“It’s just wonderful,” he said. “Because that’s when it just goes completely quiet. There’s no sound. You’re right in the air and it’s quiet.”

Catching air? He’s more daring that most old guys on board. Then again the part about bounding “into the sky” is merely literary license.

Some may say that taking up the snowboard caused Duval’s career to tank. I hope not. Even so, it sounds like he thinks it may be satisfied with it all the same.