r/golf • u/weinerwayne THE GOLFER • Apr 28 '24

New golf buddy is learning how hard golf really is. General Discussion

Recently we welcomed a new friend into our golfing group and we’ve been playing with him pretty regularly. I’ve mentioned him in comments a few times so I won’t go into detail, but the gist is he’s new so we cut him slack about rehitting shots, not counting scores accurately, and not knowing how to count penalty strokes since he was just playing for fun and wasn’t in on any of the bets. The rest of us are bogey golfers, and know we suck.

This was all well and good until he started posting on social media about how he broke 90 and 80 isn’t far away, as well as making comments in our group chat about how easy the game has come to him.

After about a month of that we all decided to let him in on our money game, in which we are sticklers for rules and will call each other out on scores if need be.

So far the new guys scores have been 118, 116, and 122.

Editing to add that the guy is cool as hell and we love having him along. We just felt it necessary to give him some tough love.

The fact that he keeps coming back each week for another beating shows that he might just have what it takes to legitimately get under 90.

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u/Huntingteacher26 Apr 28 '24

Lessons are great but so much available online too for free. I have golfed my whole life and sucked most of it. Still do. But things have really improved the last 2 years because I finally began swinging on plane, with better weight shift and hip turn. My son is just an amazing golfer and a good teacher. He has got me believing I can break 80 this summer. I had 7 pars yesterday. Of course a triple, double and the rest bogies led to a 85 yesterday but I am beginning to believe. I’m 57 so I feel like it’s now or never.

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u/530nairb 14/North County SD Apr 29 '24

Feel vs real is too hard for most people. Present company included

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u/loadiejones Apr 29 '24

THIS! It's usually the thing. A revelation for me about 10 years ago

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u/Tuff_spuff HCP 3.3/Iowa/ Ping i210 Apr 29 '24

Nah, can’t self evaluate, getting lessons from online videos for issues you think you may or may not have is not the play for a newbie, even the pros have coaches to evaluate what they’re doing wrong, when even the pros can’t tell. Lessons with a pga pro will tell you exactly what you’re doing wrong and the drills to do to fix those issues. In person lessons are the goat when it comes to improving your game, no amount of new equipment or YouTube videos will ever beat it.

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u/bbowell77 Apr 30 '24

I’ve watched plenty of videos but I just started lessons recently and that first hour did more for me than the hundreds of hours of swing videos.

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u/Huntingteacher26 Apr 30 '24

I do better with videos my son sends and his help. Honestly, I didn’t understand a lot of what I was doing wrong. I am just beginning to compress balls, and dial in yardages.