Applied Mathematics for Daily Use.
By: Max A. Agostini
Tags: Trading, Dubai, Golf Tips, International, Food And Beverage

Ladies & Gentlemen,

I just played several rounds of the world’s finest golf courses, Yas Links, Abu Dhabi. This well nominated course did not just the golf element of the 2019 Special Olympics World Games, but has also recently been ranked 48th in Golf Digest’s Top 100 courses on planet earth.

While playing this wonderful concentration game, that certainly not only requires consistency, persistence, will-power to make use of applied mathematics during every single strike. This golf-game, an abstract science of number, quantity, and distance, either as long drive / approach to the green (pure mathematics), or let’s just consider it as golf swing applied to other disciplines such as physics and engineering. Physics is the impact of club onto the golf ball, it’s degrees, and that craftsmanship of a quality club, engineering. An iron or driver does not require only research, innovation, development, and engineering that breaks the mold for golf club design, but also the player and his / her body structure. Every single person on this planet is different and we as individuals can swing differently.

Applied mathematics in daily life:

Most of the folks that have just been looking into golf as a “meaningless” sport, where people just hit balls and keep chasing after all the same, or may be looking for it, it is not any much different to soccer or football, or even tennis, keep hitting it and trying to score. What the majority of even players have not been made aware of is how to calculate your handicap. See, the actual meaning of golf is not to just the hit the ball and get it as far as possible “out there”, rather it is the precision and the calculation of the score itself.

The score card, as seen below, what does that actually mean?

Take a quick look at the “Par — Line”, marked in yellow. As you can see, all the way, on each whole it either shows “3” or “4” or “5”, only three types of “Pars” mentioned. Those numbers represent the numbers of shots you are supposed to play on each “hole”, therefore three, four or five strikes. 36 are being recommended for the front nine, this is also counts for the back nine. In theory, if you would follow that path of 36 on each 9 holes or 72 on 18, you would play “handicap 0”.

However, when it comes to the score, everyone has to start somehow and each golfer will get a “starting-score”, which is “45”.

How it all starts, same as a business or relationship:

Everything starts somehow, in this occasion, golf has to start with an individual that is able to play +45 shots over 72, meaning: 117, otherwise you won’t receive a permit to actually play on a course at all. On top of that, you will have to have a “home club” that actually “manages” your score, which based on your “home club score and rating”.

If you could manage to complete a round, during a tournament, with an official rating and score, with for example 112, instead of 117, your HCP (or so called handicap) will be officially reduced from 45 (-5) to 40, next tournament you will have to play 112 (again) just to keep up with your rating, otherwise, play better and lower than 112, let’s say, 110 and your HCP will be reduced to 38 instead.

In a nutshell, what the golf sport is all about:

This particular sport does not work with power, or “the harder you are hitting the ball”, “the further it goes”.

it requires patience, persistence and an applied mathematical understanding instead.

We can have great days in life, and outstanding performance the other day, one day or another we can encounter difficult situations, which we have to manage / usually some Red Bull will definitely leaves for more room for improvement and encourages your brain power to act.

Everyday in life, we get out of bed -hopefully- brush our teeth, get dressed and start with at least “something between” our teeth, so our body gets up and running for our day. This is how we are “getting the ball rolling”, everyday “here I go again”.

Respectfully to the game and our lives, there is simply no such “mulligan”, where we can just get back to bed and get back in time, most of us just have “one shot”, and “one go”, there is simply no second chance at all.

The very first game day in Abu Dhabi, a new course, can be rather challenging. A new encountered territory, with obstacles that have not been clearly defined on the “birdie-map”, could be quite demanding and more effort would have to be put into action instead.

Same as in our current “life”, we will be in extremely tough but inspiring situations, which have to be dealt with, there is simply no turning back.

Act, act, act and don’t look back, keep going and focus on the aim, in this case: it is the flag, with the lowest possible amount of strikes.

What does Applied Science have to do with our Lives?

Frankly speaking, there are plenty of examples, golf-sport just to name a view, by contrasting our real-life-case-scenarios that we will encounter, in the end our life is a journey, no matter how long, or short haul it goes.

Membership card programs:

Apart from science, there are also mathematical formulas we can make money out of. Calculating numbers can actually be a tool, a tool that has been right in front of us, but we have not seen it and did not know how to use it. This is all the same as a racket or club, even a bike or inline-skates, tools we can make use of, but if we are not familiar we need to try to getting familiar first, than we can use it for our own good.

The other day I did write about membership card programs, such as airline-, supermarket-, hotel-credit-card reward programs, with the credit-card as “points-booster”, this can and will be taking you to the next level.

As a landlord of properties, I keep encountering tenants what would be more than willing to extend their stays, somehow, instead of an additional year or two, it can be just for a week or two, and there can be caps between one tenant moving-in / out, where simply staying in hotels can be the very best alternative not being forced to sleep in “work in progress” flat instead, while being able to getting complimentary breakfast, welcome gifts, afternoon-teas, happy-open-bar dinners, as part of their “lounge access” and by still not having to pay a fortune instead.

All you will have to do is to stay loyal, and persistent, to stick with one global brand instead, using their branded credit cards, no matter airlines, hotels, or even supermarkets can let you stay ahead of the rest and remind yourself that there is something that money cannot buy: loyalty.

No matter it is just a sport, life, career, studies, or a membership program (associated with a credit card), it is all about being consistent a loyal. All those are tools that can make life, your life, a better place.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

If there are any questions that may arise in the meantime, please feel so free to contact me directly at (86–21) 6157 4954 or drop me an email to max (at) prscenterprises (dot) com.

Kind regards from the very city centre of Shanghai, The People’s Republic of China,

Max

Maximilian-Alexander Agostini

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