Swing smooth, shift your weight onto your back foot on the upswing, and forward to your front foot on the downswing.

Don't try to kill the ball, just make contact. If you can't make contact with a full swing, use a 3/4 swing, or even a 1/2 swing.....a solid 1/2 swing shot will go much farther than a full swing whiff.

Also, try to keep your balance.....don't fall over......much easier to swing if you're in balance.

Keep your head down......everybody says this and it's hard to describe exactly 'how' to do it, but if you're right-handed, the best advice I can give is to make sure your eyes SEE the clubhead come through the ball and don't lift your head until your right shoulder hits your chin.....left shoulder if you're a southpaw.

Don't hit a driver off the tee. Hit a fairway wood or even an iron. Hell, tee off with whatever club you prefer and seem to hit the best, as like I said before a newbie flushing a solid 7 iron on the screws will launch way farther than making a hail mary whack with a driver and barely getting the ball off the tee box.

Hope this helps,

Dan

 

In Houston there's just as many women on the course as men. You just have to learn how to get your in sync with your swing.

Very good write up.

 

 

well i survived. didn't lose any *****, didn't break any clubs and i didn't turn the golf cart over so i guess over all i can consider it a victory. i may have hit someone with my very first "official" drive but we're not sure. i tee'd off and it went kinda straight for about 20 yards and then took a massive right turn and disappeared over a hill. right where the ball went over the hill we could see the roof of a golf cart but nobody came to yell at me and i didn't hear any ambulance sirens.

of all the lessons i learned friday i'd have to say that finding out the little white bottles partially filled with sand that were hanging on the side of the golf cart were not little urinals was probably the most important of them all.

 

Some golf stories are better then fishing stories huh?


Sounds like a success, so when you went to hit the ball that you "sliced" on the first hole did you not ask them if you hit them? OR did you just leave it there?

Because if you just left it there then you technically lost a ball.

Are you going to play again? It is a lot more fun then you can imagine if you are playing with a group of people that you can have fun with. My wife and 1 of my daughters play quite a bit. It is good times.

 

my "team" told me not to worry about it and if nobody came over to us by the time we were done teeing off that everything was probably ok. they're official golf types so i figured they knew what they were doing. probably shoulda brought a beer over there anyway.

i don't know if i found "my" ball or not. we played that hole later on so i went to where i thought my ball would be. there were like 3 ***** in that spot so i just grabbed them all since nobody else was looking. i don't know if you're supposed to do that but at the time it seemed like the thing to do.

i don't know if i'll play again or not. the people in my team were pretty serious about their game so it was kinda tough to enjoy myself. they'd get mad when they screwed up a shot. hell, i was just happy if mine went in the general direction of where i was aiming.

i think i summed up my experience pretty good when my boss asked me what i thought about it. i looked over at him and said, " well...this sure as f*** ain't 'golden tee'."

 

Nice, I play with a man that never passes a ball he won't pick up. It pisses me off, every creek, every group of trees he is out of the cart looking for *****. The thing is he is old, rich and has nothing else to do on Mondays but play golf with us boys. So he drags it out as long as he can.

Playing golf with people that get pissed off over an errant shot sucks, they are quick to blame you but if they hit there shot perfect they would not need you to hit yoyrs perfect.