Golf for beginners

[clemsonfan]

Ok, so I bought a set of clubs and I'm raring to go. Any tips for a beginning golfer?

[clemsonfan]

I'm also thinking of taking up tennis. I've never really played before but my husband is pretty good. Any beginning tennis tips would be appreciated as well.

[Sun Tzu]

Watch out for this guy.

http://www.s101195169.onlinehome.us/eastendgolfouting/images/caddyshack_gopher.jpg

[MikeVic]

Advice: golf is a very frustrating sport. Watch some Youtube training videos, and take maybe one lesson. Hit the range often.

http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=60449&highlight=golf

[clemsonfan]

Watch out for this guy.

http://www.s101195169.onlinehome.us/eastendgolfouting/images/caddyshack_gopher.jpg

You know, I've never seen that movie. I keep meaning to watch it, but I've never gotten around to it.

[Young Drachma]

I'm also thinking of taking up tennis. I've never really played before but my husband is pretty good. Any beginning tennis tips would be appreciated as well.

Look in your town and see if they have lessons at a public facility. Can be a lot cheaper than going straight to a club and getting lessons. Plus, doing that will get you in touch with lots of other beginners who you can begin to network with. You can also get plugged into local leagues and other things to keep you busy.

[Subby]

These are your first posts on this board? Really? You registered here just to ask these questions?

[clemsonfan]

These are your first posts on this board? Really? You registered here just to ask these questions?


No, I've actually lurked here for a few months. I just felt like posting today and this is what's on my mind.

[Sun Tzu]

I was thinking she was a longtime lurker first time poster. As long as she doesn't start coming off as both cocky and funny, I think she's ok.

[Subby]

Oh my bad.

Your husband is hot.

[clemsonfan]

So is a glove necessary for golf? What does it do?

[Travis]

I'll ++ the recommendation to get lessons before you do too much. Better to build good habits from the start than to try figuring it out on the driving range then going for lessons.

[MikeVic]

Who's your husband?

If I don't use a glove, my hand gets red burn marks (like sliding on a rope) after awhile.

[clemsonfan]

I think I'll look into taking lessons soonish. I'm going to Hilton Head in mid-August and was thinking about playing a round there. In fact, that's what started the whole me thinking about playing golf thing. Has anyone played at Hilton Head? Can anyone recommend a good course there for a beginner?

[clemsonfan]

Who's your husband?

If I don't use a glove, my hand gets red burn marks (like sliding on a rope) after awhile.

I'm not sure how Subby knows my husband's hot. My husband is not anyone famous or anything.

I was thinking that that was probably what the glove is for.

[Scoobz0202]

Yeah. You'll suck. Bad. For the first year probably... Don't give up.

[MikeVic]

I'll assume your husband is korme, since he's from Ohio too.

[Lorena]

Subby thinks everyone's husband is hot.

So eh.. who's your husband again?

[clemsonfan]

I'll assume your husband is korme, since he's from Ohio too.

No. I'm not sure who that is. Why do you think my husband is on the boards here?

[MikeVic]

I'm just guessing.

[clemsonfan]

He's a member here but I don't think he posts all that much.

[molson]

I'd love to go to an abandoned golf course somewhere, bring some clubs, and without any training or lessons, just finish the thing. Maybe it would take 300 strokes. Then I'd shoot for 275. And so forth. I feel like this isn't practical, and I have no interest in taking lessons or playing like shit for years and holding up other people on the course.

[path12]

Ok, so I bought a set of clubs and I'm raring to go. Any tips for a beginning golfer?

Take the clubs and throw them in the nearest lake. You'll save yourself a ton of grief.

[path12]

If I don't use a glove, my hand gets red burn marks (like sliding on a rope) after awhile.

That's not from golfing.

[MikeVic]

That's not from golfing.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/DCMann2/oh_snap.jpg

[Dr. Sak]

Keep your head down. Start with half swings. And if that doesn't help this poem might...

The critical opening phrase of this poem will always be the grip. Which the hands unite to form a single unit by the simple overlap of the little finger. Lowly and slowly the clubhead is led back. Pulled into position not by the hands, but by the body which turns away from the target shifting weight to the right side without shifting balance. Tempo is everything; perfection unobtainable as the body coils down at the top of the swing. Theres a slight hesitation. A little nod to the gods.

That he is fallible. That perfection is unobtainable. And now the weight begins shifting back to the left pulled by the powers inside the earth. It's alive, this swing! A living sculpture and down through contact, always down, striking the ball crisply, with character. A tuning fork goes off in your heart and your balls. Such a pure feeling is the well-struck golf shot. Now the follow through to finish. Always on line. The reverse C of the Golden Bear! The steel workers' power and brawn of Carl Sandburg's. Arnold Palmer!

[MikeVic]

FOFC - we know this is a lady and yet no one has asked for pixplskthx?

[RomaGoth]

Ok, so I bought a set of clubs and I'm raring to go. Any tips for a beginning golfer?

I have never golfed and I am not a woman, but my advice is to be wary of those "golf-pros" we always see lurking around the clubs (a.k.a. Tim "Dorf" Conway).

Beware the golf pros. That is all.

[Greyroofoo]

No Glove, No Love


I generally get blisters on my hand when I don't wear a glove playing golf. I highly recommend gloves also.

[rowech]

Keep your driver in the bag until you get good.

[clemsonfan]

Ok, my husband and I went out on the court to hit a few balls last night. Although I've improved since the last time I did this, I'm still wretched at tennis. Hopefully we can go out again tonight and practice. I've never had very good hand eye coordination so it's going to take a while before I get decent at this.

[Butter]

Oh my bad.

Your husband is hot.

I appreciate the compliment. Especially coming, as it does, from a SuperGay.

[Subby]

<--- Very discriminating.

[MikeVic]

Ok, my husband and I went out on the court to hit a few balls last night. Although I've improved since the last time I did this, I'm still wretched at tennis. Hopefully we can go out again tonight and practice. I've never had very good hand eye coordination so it's going to take a while before I get decent at this.

Tennis? I thought this was a golf thread. And you can stay home to hit some balls too you know.

[Butter]

I guess it morphed into being about both. You got a problem with that? Don't talk to my wife that way, prick!

Would I get some kind of record for the earliest SO related freakout if I went postal in this thread?

[Dr. Sak]

Talk about pooping and farting...that's what MikeVic knows best. Oh yea I forgot about Saved By the Bell.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

I guess it morphed into being about both. You got a problem with that? Don't talk to my wife that way, prick!

Would I get some kind of record for the earliest SO related freakout if I went postal in this thread?

I can't believe you haven't freaked out already. She's a Clemson fan?!?!?!

[Huckleberry]

He's a member here but I don't think he posts all that much.


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I guess it morphed into being about both. You got a problem with that? Don't talk to my wife that way, prick!

Would I get some kind of record for the earliest SO related freakout if I went postal in this thread?

Nice.

[clemsonfan]

Well, I don't think he's been posting a lot lately.

[MikeVic]

Talk about pooping and farting...that's what MikeVic knows best. Oh yea I forgot about Saved By the Bell.

I also like Seinfeld, Ellen Page, and long walks on the beach.

[chesapeake]

Golf is a great game. But it takes a l-o-n-g time to learn enough to play competently. Be patient.

+1 on lessons. I recommend a series of inexpensive group lessons at a local municipal course to start. The very basics of the swing are not hard to learn and do not take intensive teaching. They do take lots of repetition to build muscle memory so you can replicate something consistently.

As to the golf glove, if you need to wear one to keep from getting red marks or burns on your hand, you are gripping the club too tightly. Relax! The glove is intended to keep the grip of the club from slipping in your hand, especially if you happen to be perspiring from the heat or if your hands get slick when it is cool out.

[Fidatelo]

I say just grip it and rip it. Life is too short to spend 8 billion hours trying to get good at smacking a ball around a rich guy's lawn.

[RomaGoth]

I also like Seinfeld, Ellen Page, and long walks on the beach.

....and getting caught in the rain....she likes Pina Colada's....

[MikeVic]

I guess it morphed into being about both. You got a problem with that? Don't talk to my wife that way, prick!

Would I get some kind of record for the earliest SO related freakout if I went postal in this thread?

No, this thread can be about anything!

[clemsonfan]

Ok, so yesterday Butter and I went golfing. He gave me some lessons and I watched a few online videos about grip, stance, and swing.

Off we went to a driving range near our house.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/agprice98/IMG_1883-1.jpg (Here I am geared up and ready to go!)

At the driving range I wasn't having too much luck. I tend to swing above the ball instead of keeping down.

After we polished off a jumbo basket of balls (153 of them), we headed out to the course. It's a small, mostly PAR 3 course, so it's a good beginner's course. I had way more fun on the course than on the range. I didn't do as bad as I thought I would do, but I still stunk.

It was really fun and I can't wait to do it again. In fact, I dreamt about golf last night.

[Butter]

And she did very well for a beginner too! And even better, I've got her hooked in to go again.

MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!