Teeing Off
Well it finally happened. Nick joined the real golfing world, and not just the Tiger Woods game I usually play on Playstation.
Several of my friends on the softball team are avid players. One of the guys, RJ, offered to take me and let me use his clubs because he had scheduled a tee time and couldn't think of anyone else that wanted to go. He later found one more that was new to the game too so we were good to go.
Saturday morning we set off to the closest 9 hole course to the base. Oh and let me point out now that the weather here is beautiful right now, 60-70 degrees and no wind. RJ showed me the rope as we warmed up and described the clubs and their different uses and then we set out. After a quick brief on 'golf etiquette" we teed off.
The first nine we did we played best ball where we all hit and the next shot comes from the best ball that was hit. This way I wasn't getting scored for my first round of golf. The second 9 we played for individual score. I reached the maximum number of strokes for every hole except three, which I think is pretty good for my first time. The ones I didn't RJ was there to beat me by one stroke just to take away any hope for winning a hole. He did help out alot and encouraged me alot.
He talked about how quickly he had gotten addicted and it was likely to happen to me. I soon realized what he meant. As we were walking back to the club house once we had completed I was already thinking about the next time we would be coming out and remembering the clubs I used for certain shot and the clubs I should of used on the bad ones.
All in all I had a blast and am already looking into buying my own set of clubs. I've came along way from using dad's old set to hit balls into the neighbors field in just one game and hope to play enough to where I can actually say "I'm ok"
Several of my friends on the softball team are avid players. One of the guys, RJ, offered to take me and let me use his clubs because he had scheduled a tee time and couldn't think of anyone else that wanted to go. He later found one more that was new to the game too so we were good to go.
Saturday morning we set off to the closest 9 hole course to the base. Oh and let me point out now that the weather here is beautiful right now, 60-70 degrees and no wind. RJ showed me the rope as we warmed up and described the clubs and their different uses and then we set out. After a quick brief on 'golf etiquette" we teed off.
The first nine we did we played best ball where we all hit and the next shot comes from the best ball that was hit. This way I wasn't getting scored for my first round of golf. The second 9 we played for individual score. I reached the maximum number of strokes for every hole except three, which I think is pretty good for my first time. The ones I didn't RJ was there to beat me by one stroke just to take away any hope for winning a hole. He did help out alot and encouraged me alot.
He talked about how quickly he had gotten addicted and it was likely to happen to me. I soon realized what he meant. As we were walking back to the club house once we had completed I was already thinking about the next time we would be coming out and remembering the clubs I used for certain shot and the clubs I should of used on the bad ones.
All in all I had a blast and am already looking into buying my own set of clubs. I've came along way from using dad's old set to hit balls into the neighbors field in just one game and hope to play enough to where I can actually say "I'm ok"
posted by Nickolaus Kersting at 8:47 AM
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