Beginning Golfer Advice

[MikePA]

Well, I'm thinking about taking up golf.

I golfed when I was in high school, but only 2 times since and high school was a long time ago. I don't even have my own set up clubs! Both times I had to borrow someone else's clubs.

I have no idea of what to buy, where or anything else. Dick's Sporting Goods has complete sets, with bag, from $130 up.

Any advice for a beginner? Any good golf sites on the net? I checked, there's no golfbynet.com.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Well, I'm thinking about taking up golf.

I golfed when I was in high school, but only 2 times since and high school was a long time ago. I don't even have my own set up clubs! Both times I had to borrow someone else's clubs.

I have no idea of what to buy, where or anything else. Dick's Sporting Goods has complete sets, with bag, from $130 up.

Any advice for a beginner? Any good golf sites on the net? I checked, there's no golfbynet.com.

Don't buy the kind I have.... They make the ball go out in the woods

I've got H&B's, a set that's a few years "non-current". I got a heck of a deal from a golf Pro SHop at my boss's country club. They were trade-ins. The Pro was willing to make me a deal just to get them out of his closet. For the beginner, it's a good idea to get a proper "fitting" from an experienced Pro. Proper sized clubs help you to develope a fundamentally good swing. But, in spite of what you'll be told by every salesman who's got a club to hawk, golf is more about technique than equipment. Case in point, my game..... I could spend an amount equal to the national debt and still be a hacker.

 

[Bird]

Getting a proper "fitting" sounds like a good idea, although you may be able to just swing some clubs and get a "feel" for them to decide which ones you want. I know you sure can't buy them just by "looks". My grandson bought a set (very cheap, fortunately) at a garage sale. They "look" normal, but are the most awkward feeling things I ever saw to swing. I doubt that I could describe it, but the weight is obviously in the wrong place.

And I agree that technique is more important than the equipment. One of the things I was given as a retirement gift years ago was a set of relatively inexpensive clubs, bag, balls, etc. The set had real wooden woods, which I later traded for some inexpensive metal woods which I liked better, although I can't really say my playing got any better.

Both of my brothers are golfing fanatics; usually play 3 times a week, and they have some expensive equipment. A couple of years ago, they both bought new "woods"; just the 3 clubs (a 1, 3, and 5 wood) cost about $1,100. One of them gave me his set of King Cobra woods that he'd been using, although for such a short time that they still look new. And I haven't hit a golf ball in at least a year and a half now.

 

[mjarrels]

When I use to play the Naval Station Subi Bay GC, If I hit one into the jungle... It stayed in the jungle... bad snakes and monkeys there!

mark

 

[Bird]

When I use to play the Naval Station Subi Bay GC, If I hit one into the jungle... It stayed in the jungle... bad snakes and monkeys there!

mark

The first time I played in Alaska, my brother told me if I hit into the woods, to make plenty of noise when I went after the ball because there were sometimes bears on the course. Like you, I figured those golf balls really weren't worth much.

 

[Egon]

Travell to the Links, rent some clubs, decide on the your future in the sport then be prepared to deplete the budget on equipment, green fees, lesson's and travelling to exotic spots to make use of all the former outlay.

Or --- releive yourself of trying to put the little ball in a hole via a most difficult procedure and engaging in something inane as a tractor project!

Uhh -- can anyone tell I'm not a golfer nor ever will be.

Disclaimer: If it involves business be prepared to go whole hog but keep in mind who should be declared the winner after 18.

 

[RoyJackson]

When I use to play the Naval Station Subic Bay GC, If I hit one into the jungle... It stayed in the jungle... bad snakes and monkeys there!

mark

Jeez...when was that?

 

[mjarrels]

1984 - 1987

mark

 

[Jimbrown]

Stop what you are doing go get a big glass of Jack Daniels on the rocks forget about golf.

 

[pennwalk]

Practice, practice,practice
Quit your job unless you are a stock broker or an investment banker,Oh wait, if you were one of those you would already be playing a lot of golf.
practice, practice, practice


Chris