골프 수행 경험에 따른 골프 용어의 철학적 해석

초록

This study aimed to explore golf terminology not merely as technical language or game-related rules, but as a philosophical language that reveals the performer’s embodied experience and attitude toward life, and to examine how its meanings are re-conceptualized through the deepening process of golf practice. Based on a hermeneutic autoethnographic approach, this study retrospectively reconstructed and analyzed the researcher’s approximately 30 years of golf performance experiences. The experiential data were interpreted primarily through Zhuangzi’s concepts of Xinzhai (心齋), Pao Ding Jie Niu (庖丁解牛), and Zuowang (坐忘), with phenomenological and hermeneutic perspectives on the body used as complementary frameworks. The findings were as follows. First, the golfer’s embodied experience transformed through three stages: the “alienated and fearful body” in the beginner stage, the “reflective and corrective body” in the intermediate stage, and the “accepting and sublimated body” in the advanced stage. Second, golf terminology was re-conceptualized from technical language into philosophical language that reflects life and existence. Tee-off symbolized the beginning of existence and thrownness; OB and hazards represented boundaries and finitude; slice reflected the discrepancy between intention and outcome; and par and birdie symbolized the balance between desire and restraint. Third, these transformations were interpreted through Zhuangzi’s concepts of Xinzhai (心齋), Pao Ding Jie Niu (庖丁解牛), and Zuowang (坐忘), revealing a process in which golfers move beyond result-oriented artificiality (renwei) toward effortless practice (wuwei). This study is meaningful in that it illuminates the philosophical meanings embedded in golf terminology and reinterprets sport as a philosophical practice through which human beings reflect on existence and attitudes toward life.

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