The views of a High Handicapper

[The SG]

But how good were you at football at 12 years of age? And you'd probably be playing for about 4 yrs competitively at that point. By the time you get to mid 20's you will have played and practiced for almost 20 years.

Thinking you're going to be a good golfer inside a year, fitting it around work and life, is a little naïve. Competent, yes, good single figures, unlikely.

Its a great journey, especially in the early years when the improvements are rapid.

Good luck and enjoy.

Put it this way I was a better footballer at 12 than I am golfer at 32 haha, I take your point though and I'm very much enjoying the golf journey

 

[kid2]

Put it this way I was a better footballer at 12 than I am golfer at 32 haha, I take your point though and I'm very much enjoying the golf journey

It's after taking me 6 years to get from a 21 handicap to where I am now with a ton of practice and playing and an unbelievable amount of soul searching and questioning of my ability.
Has it been worth it? All day long. Would I change some things given the chance before I started out? Definitely.
But it's not an easy journey and it's also not a journey if you can't win the mental challenges before the physical ones.

I think the biggest hurdle for me to overcome was having to break away from my brother, my Dad and my cousin who I played nearly every weekend with.

To get better at this game you need to start playing with better players to see what they do and learn from them. In no way do I say this with disrespect for higher handicappers. But to become a good player you'll at some stage face this also.

I still play with them the odd time and all of them are full of support for me even though I get a slagging at times saying I'm too good to play with the peasants anymore😀.
But they took the game up at the same time I did and are all pretty much still playing off the same handicaps that were given 6 years ago also.
I can see in their games that the brother and cousin are plenty good enough to get to single figures but are still making the same mistakes I was making at that level.
But I wanted to get better and so had to make the choice. That's probably the hardest thing I had to do.

 

[The SG]

It's after taking me 6 years to get from a 21 handicap to where I am now with a ton of practice and playing and an unbelievable amount of soul searching and questioning of my ability.
Has it been worth it? All day long. Would I change some things given the chance before I started out? Definitely.
But it's not an easy journey and it's also not a journey if you can't win the mental challenges before the physical ones.

I think the biggest hurdle for me to overcome was having to break away from my brother, my Dad and my cousin who I played nearly every weekend with.

To get better at this game you need to start playing with better players to see what they do and learn from them. In no way do I say this with disrespect for higher handicappers. But to become a good player you'll at some stage face this also.

I still play with them the odd time and all of them are full of support for me even though I get a slagging at times saying I'm too good to play with the peasants anymore😀.
But they took the game up at the same time I did and are all pretty much still playing off the same handicaps that were given 6 years ago also.
I can see in their games that the brother and cousin are plenty good enough to get to single figures but are still making the same mistakes I was making at that level.
But I wanted to get better and so had to make the choice. That's probably the hardest thing I had to do.

I agree with your comments about better players, I've improved dramatically since I have started playing comps and members rollups