To anyone who has played this great game for more than ten years (I've played more than 30!) if you had the chance, knowing what you know now, and you could go back to when you started playing golf, would you do anything differently?
...if you could start again.....
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Slime
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Bobirdie
Journeyman Pro
Definatley. Never took it serious as a junior then chucked it when i was 16 for 6 years. :s
LUFC 1972
Head Pro
1. Had some lessons straight away.
2. Married someone who has an interest in golf !
3. Bought a house with a smaller garage so my accumulation of stuff could be curtailed
2. Married someone who has an interest in golf !
3. Bought a house with a smaller garage so my accumulation of stuff could be curtailed
Tab373
Q-School Graduate
I would like to give left handed golf a try. I play golf r/h I write left handed I kick a ball left footed but anything with a bat in hand I play r/h but as I broke my left wrist years ago I had to write right handed for 6 months so pretty good with both hands. Left handed golfers swings look so good and as I tend to get a bit laid off at top of my swing. l/h could cure that.
In_The_Rough
Tour Winner
Yes start playing 15 years earlier than I did
JustOne
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Leftie
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BTatHome
Tour Winner
Joined a club ... And I wouldn't have stopped playing for 13 years.
Andy808
Tour Winner
Ooh er missus!
I'm nearly the same. Left handed, left footed, although you really don't want to see me kick a ball but I can play most sports with a bat right or left handed except golf which I play right handed only.
If I could go back then I would have given golf a proper go when I was 10 and first shown the game.
Fader
Tour Winner
I'd have tried harder at getting into the game when my old man introduced me and my brother to it as kids. I thought it was naff and didn't show any interest after that 1 range session and ended up taking up the game 20 years later (3 years ago) aged 30 and struggle with this poxy game. Whereas my brother stuck at it after that and now plays off 1!
Well either that or at 30 when I eventually started i'd have decided to take up baseball instead
Well either that or at 30 when I eventually started i'd have decided to take up baseball instead
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
I would have kept a blank score card for every course (no matter how *****) that I have ever visited.
I'd love to build up a list of all the courses I've ever played.
I'd love to build up a list of all the courses I've ever played.
dotty001
Challenge Tour Pro
bought a house on a golf course
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
I was brought up on a golf course and started playing before primary school..........so apart from playing aged 3.......no.
duncan mackie
Money List Winner
on the learning, starting etc nope, nothing - it's a handicap sport not my profession.
what I would have changed were the early years of playing in the same game with the same 3 people at the same time every Saturday - my enjoyment of the wider aspects of the game 'took off' when I started playing golf with people I'd never met before on a regular basis.
what I would have changed were the early years of playing in the same game with the same 3 people at the same time every Saturday - my enjoyment of the wider aspects of the game 'took off' when I started playing golf with people I'd never met before on a regular basis.
Tough question...
I've played the golf I wanted to play, i.e. knockabout amatuer club golf. But at 18yrs old, 37yrs ago, I turned down a 2yr sponsorship deal - I sometimes wonder but I don't regret the choice I made.
I've played the golf I wanted to play, i.e. knockabout amatuer club golf. But at 18yrs old, 37yrs ago, I turned down a 2yr sponsorship deal - I sometimes wonder but I don't regret the choice I made.
john0
Journeyman Pro
drs1878
Head Pro
I would have started playing much earlier..... Only picked up a club 2 years ago aged 31.... I am miles behind others but well and truly hooked......
I played football, cricket and did a lot of fishing in my youth... So wasn't much time!!! I used to say the game ruined a good walk..... How very wrong.....
I played football, cricket and did a lot of fishing in my youth... So wasn't much time!!! I used to say the game ruined a good walk..... How very wrong.....
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Yes. Wish I'd got some better advice as a teenager when I could play to a decent standard
davidg2010uk
Assistant Pro
Practice chipping and putting more as essentially this is the main area that determines my score.
Now I don’t really have the time and prefer to get out on the course when I can rather than the practice green. This will change next season though!
Now I don’t really have the time and prefer to get out on the course when I can rather than the practice green. This will change next season though!
