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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Dayton, OH
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Golf for beginners
Ok, so I bought a set of clubs and I'm raring to go. Any tips for a beginning golfer?
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High School JV
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Dayton, OH
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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.
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: In the thick of it.
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Watch out for this guy.
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Head Coach
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Hometown of Canada
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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/...highlight=golf |
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Dayton, OH
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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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. |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: sans pants
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These are your first posts on this board? Really? You registered here just to ask these questions?
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High School JV
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Dayton, OH
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: In the thick of it.
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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.
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lolzcat
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: sans pants
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Oh my bad.
Your husband is hot.
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Superman was flying around and saw Wonder Woman getting a tan in the nude on her balcony. Superman said I going to hit that real fast. So he flys down toward Wonder Woman to hit it and their is a loud scream. The Invincible Man scream what just hit me in the ass!!!!! I do shit, I take pictures, I write about it: chrisshue.com |
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High School JV
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Dayton, OH
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So is a glove necessary for golf? What does it do?
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Canada eh
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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.
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Head Coach
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Hometown of Canada
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Who's your husband?
If I don't use a glove, my hand gets red burn marks (like sliding on a rope) after awhile. |
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High School JV
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Dayton, OH
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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?
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Dayton, OH
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Pro Rookie
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Dayton, Ohio
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Yeah. You'll suck. Bad. For the first year probably... Don't give up.
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Head Coach
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Hometown of Canada
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I'll assume your husband is korme, since he's from Ohio too.
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Join Date: May 2004
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Subby thinks everyone's husband is hot.
So eh.. who's your husband again? Last edited by Lorena : 07-09-2008 at 04:18 PM. |
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Location: Dayton, OH
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Hometown of Canada
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I'm just guessing.
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High School JV
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Dayton, OH
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He's a member here but I don't think he posts all that much.
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Mountains
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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.
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Seattle, WA
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Take the clubs and throw them in the nearest lake. You'll save yourself a ton of grief.
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Seattle, WA
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That's not from golfing.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Stuck in Yinzerville, PA
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Keep your head down. Start with half swings. And if that doesn't help this poem might...
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Hometown of Canada
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FOFC - we know this is a lady and yet no one has asked for pixplskthx?
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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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.
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Alabama
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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. |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Keep your driver in the bag until you get good.
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High School JV
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Dayton, OH
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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.
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Coordinator
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Dayton, OH
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I appreciate the compliment. Especially coming, as it does, from a SuperGay.
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lolzcat
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: sans pants
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<--- Very discriminating.
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Superman was flying around and saw Wonder Woman getting a tan in the nude on her balcony. Superman said I going to hit that real fast. So he flys down toward Wonder Woman to hit it and their is a loud scream. The Invincible Man scream what just hit me in the ass!!!!! I do shit, I take pictures, I write about it: chrisshue.com |
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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Tennis? I thought this was a golf thread. And you can stay home to hit some balls too you know. |
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Dayton, OH
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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?
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Talk about pooping and farting...that's what MikeVic knows best. Oh yea I forgot about Saved By the Bell.
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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I can't believe you haven't freaked out already. She's a Clemson fan?!?!?! |
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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Nice.
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#39 |
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Dayton, OH
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Well, I don't think he's been posting a lot lately.
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Arlington, VA
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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. |
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB
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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.
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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....and getting caught in the rain....she likes Pina Colada's....
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High School JV
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Dayton, OH
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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. ![]() 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. Last edited by clemsonfan : 07-13-2008 at 11:55 AM. |
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Dayton, OH
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And she did very well for a beginner too! And even better, I've got her hooked in to go again.
MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
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