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re: If I play golf for the first time ever,
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:17 am to baybeefeetz
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:17 am to baybeefeetz
As others said:
-Don't talk once another player adresses the ball.
-Don't get loud and drunk or at least not obnoxious loud and drunk.
-Replace and/or sand your divots.
-Acknowledge faster groups and let them play through (or at least offer)
-If you can't find your ball in a reasonable time, take your drop in the relief area closest to where you saw it and move on.
-If pace of play is being negatively impacted pickup after a snowman (8).
-Know the dress code before you arrive.
-You are either going to suck or play great because you don't know what you are doing wrong. Don't fret over it, or really over anything above it really is easy to be considerate on the course.
-Don't talk once another player adresses the ball.
-Don't get loud and drunk or at least not obnoxious loud and drunk.
-Replace and/or sand your divots.
-Acknowledge faster groups and let them play through (or at least offer)
-If you can't find your ball in a reasonable time, take your drop in the relief area closest to where you saw it and move on.
-If pace of play is being negatively impacted pickup after a snowman (8).
-Know the dress code before you arrive.
-You are either going to suck or play great because you don't know what you are doing wrong. Don't fret over it, or really over anything above it really is easy to be considerate on the course.
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Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:18 am to baybeefeetz
Don’t do it. Best way to beat an addiction is to never start.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:19 am to GumboPot
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Video yourself and post a link here.
I wish I had a digital copy of my "golf video."
I'm at the farm, with Dad watching me swing a golf club sitting in his golf car.
I'm trying to his the ball out straight in front of me (12 o'clock). Dad is too my right at 4 o'clock. I am using an iron and I hit the ball and it strikes Dad's golf car. I hit the shot behind me to the right. This was caught on video.
Dad got out of the cart and took my golf club away LOL.
I enjoy using the putting practice green and I like playing when I'm the only one out on the course.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:19 am to baybeefeetz
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I’m going to suck, but I don’t want to be annoying, also.
Spend some time at a range first. Playing a course will be terrible if you can't make good contact with the ball half the time.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:20 am to baybeefeetz
Like hitting a ball for the first time? Don't play on the course. If you can't consistently hit the ball more forward than sideways, stay off the course. That is the best etiquette.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:20 am to baybeefeetz
The main thing is just don't slow people down too much. Nobody is really going to mind if you're spraying balls all over (assuming you don't hit them). But they'll mind if you slow them down.
You're not a pro, you're playing for the first time, so you have no reason to play by the rules.
You're going to shank the ball almost every time and it will take you 15 minutes to finish a hole 'the real way'.
If you shank your first couple shots and are still only 20 yards from the tee, just pick up and drop next to whoever you are playing with closer to the hole and continue playing from there. This is more fun for you than just taking 6 shots to meet up with your partners then quitting the hole altogether. Kind of like best ball, but you can play your own hole if you happen to string together a few good shots.
Also, "play it as it lies" does not apply to you. Don't be a hero. Set the ball up on nice fluffly grass. Roll it out of dirt and leaves. If a tree is in your way, just move it (the ball, not the tree, trees are heavy). Don't play out of another fairway if someone is on that hole, just move the ball perpendicular into yours.
You're not a pro, you're playing for the first time, so you have no reason to play by the rules.
You're going to shank the ball almost every time and it will take you 15 minutes to finish a hole 'the real way'.
If you shank your first couple shots and are still only 20 yards from the tee, just pick up and drop next to whoever you are playing with closer to the hole and continue playing from there. This is more fun for you than just taking 6 shots to meet up with your partners then quitting the hole altogether. Kind of like best ball, but you can play your own hole if you happen to string together a few good shots.
Also, "play it as it lies" does not apply to you. Don't be a hero. Set the ball up on nice fluffly grass. Roll it out of dirt and leaves. If a tree is in your way, just move it (the ball, not the tree, trees are heavy). Don't play out of another fairway if someone is on that hole, just move the ball perpendicular into yours.
This post was edited on 7/19/24 at 10:24 am
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:21 am to Tigerholic
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Definitely get a nice pair of pressed jeans.
Nah. It's hot out there. Definitely go with cargo shorts and a wife beater.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:22 am to baybeefeetz
Keep the round moving. Don’t hit five or six 50 yard shanks or worm burners all the way to the green unless you are speed playing. Just pick up after the 2nd short advanced ball and drop within 50 yards of the green and practice chipping. Don’t spend 3-6 minutes looking for a ball that is not easily located because you are likely going to hit it bad again if you do find it in the woods line or tall grass. Don’t talk or fidget when someone addresses their ball or is in their backswing. Don’t walk on or across peoples lines on the putting green.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:22 am to baybeefeetz
If you can’t get one in play off the tee, don’t be ashamed to just drop one at one of your buddies down the fairway.
1st time on the course isn’t about pride, or what you shoot. It’s learning to make contact at least.
Also, go to the driving range a few times prior, do most of the embarrassing shite there. After a couple hundred balls you’ll at least be able to make contact.
1st time on the course isn’t about pride, or what you shoot. It’s learning to make contact at least.
Also, go to the driving range a few times prior, do most of the embarrassing shite there. After a couple hundred balls you’ll at least be able to make contact.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:24 am to Fe_Mike
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Also, "play it as it lies" does not apply to you. Don't be a hero. Set the ball up on nice fluffly grass. Roll it out of dirt and leaves. If a tree is in your way, just move it (the ball, not the tree, trees are heavy).
This is good advice. Annoying as frick to play with a brand new golfer who just hacks away from godawful positions they can’t get out of.
Just move the ball into the fairway and at least give yourself some small chance of hitting it forward.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:26 am to baybeefeetz
If there are homes on the course...
Don't scream loud profanities every time you whiff a shot.
Don't play obnoxiously loud music from your cart.
If you hit a ball into someone's yard, don't, under any circumstances, let yourself into the yard to retrieve it.
Don't pee in the bushes unless you want to be on everyone's house camera.
Don't scream loud profanities every time you whiff a shot.
Don't play obnoxiously loud music from your cart.
If you hit a ball into someone's yard, don't, under any circumstances, let yourself into the yard to retrieve it.
Don't pee in the bushes unless you want to be on everyone's house camera.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:32 am to baybeefeetz
Play fast. If you do that you will be liked.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:34 am to baybeefeetz
I'm going to be completely honest, if this is truly your first time to ever play golf and you've never been to a driving range and at least tried to hit golf balls, don't go. It will be a humiliating and terrible experience for you and those around you. Your friends might get a kick out of it and laugh their arses off though.
If you're bound a determined to go, play fast, bring a lot of cheap golf balls, you don't need $ 55 per dozen ProV1's, you can buy 18 Top-Flight balls for under $20, don't spend more than a minute looking for your lost golf balls, don't talk loudly when someone is hitting, on the green, don't walk between someone's ball and the hole, fix ball marks on the green and fill divots with sand, rake bunkers and #1 thing to do, pick your ball up for double bogey! Nothings worse than playing with or behind someone who lines up his putt for a quad.
If you're bound a determined to go, play fast, bring a lot of cheap golf balls, you don't need $ 55 per dozen ProV1's, you can buy 18 Top-Flight balls for under $20, don't spend more than a minute looking for your lost golf balls, don't talk loudly when someone is hitting, on the green, don't walk between someone's ball and the hole, fix ball marks on the green and fill divots with sand, rake bunkers and #1 thing to do, pick your ball up for double bogey! Nothings worse than playing with or behind someone who lines up his putt for a quad.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:34 am to baybeefeetz
Don't try to swing like Happy Gilmore for comedy value. You'll miss and it won't be funny.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:35 am to HouseMom
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"Fore!", originally a Scots interjection, is used to warn anyone standing or moving in the flight of a golf ball.
Got hit in the face by a first time golfer who did not know he was supposed to yell FORE if the ball was heading to a golfer in another fairway.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:35 am to baybeefeetz
I assume you’re going out with some acquaintances. Absolute best thing you can do is keep up with pace of play. Hit a bad shot? Drop next to your buddies. Play ready golf, meaning you are always preparing and ready to hit your shot.
Easy game
Easy game
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:38 am to baybeefeetz
I’m not a REAL golfer, and haven’t played in probably 15 years so take this with a grain of salt.
Don’t worry too much about how far you hit the ball.
If you can hit the ball 150 yards straight, that’s way better than 200+ yards in the rough.
One trip to a driving range (hopefully with a friend that plays) might be a pretty big help before your first time on a course.
Don’t worry too much about how far you hit the ball.
If you can hit the ball 150 yards straight, that’s way better than 200+ yards in the rough.
One trip to a driving range (hopefully with a friend that plays) might be a pretty big help before your first time on a course.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:44 am to baybeefeetz
Keep up.
Shut up.
Be still while others are playing.
That’s about it.
Pick up your third putt.
1. Get lessons and work on the range until you can hit drives forward 150-225 yards.
2. Learn to putt and practice putting
3. Of just off the green: putt if you can, chip if you can’t, only pitch if you have to.
4. Don’t stress.
Play the most forward tee. When you break 80, move back 1 tee.
Shut up.
Be still while others are playing.
That’s about it.
Pick up your third putt.
1. Get lessons and work on the range until you can hit drives forward 150-225 yards.
2. Learn to putt and practice putting
3. Of just off the green: putt if you can, chip if you can’t, only pitch if you have to.
4. Don’t stress.
Play the most forward tee. When you break 80, move back 1 tee.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 10:45 am to baybeefeetz
Watch your ball until it stops rolling. If you are going to suck, at least know where your ball is.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 11:24 am to baybeefeetz
Suck fast
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