Rooter
Money List Winner
We have the what tips to give a newbie, but what would you go back and tell yourself when you first started golf knowing what you know now?
What one thing would you go back and tell yourself to do?
- Thread starter Rooter
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Take lessons more often. Don't put them off thinking you can work out your faults on your own.
chrisd
Major Champion
Don't listen to everyone who suggests a better way to swing the club - they can't all be right!
User 105
Journeyman Pro
Opposite for me.
Have less lessons. Try and work with what you have rather than build that perfect swing. You'll enjoy the game much more.
jdpjamesp
Q-School Graduate
Take lessons as soon as I decided to take up the game. Then go and enjoy it.
WillC
Assistant Pro
Play more regularly when you have nothing stopping you from playing.
CliveW
Tour Winner
Don't get married. I played loads before getting wed, but hardly lifted a club until after my divorce!
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Guest
Do not get technical, feel the swing and shot. Use your mind and let your body flow, the force is strong.
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Deleted member 16999
Guest
Stick to Golf, drop the other interests.
jamielaing
Q-School Graduate
Hitting a long ball is great but work out what to do on and around the greens now and the game will be so much easier!
Tarkus1212
Challenge Tour Pro
Start younger and spend ten times longer practicing your short game than you do hitting balls on the range.
I know technically that's two things but the first one may not be possible.
I know technically that's two things but the first one may not be possible.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Taking the question literally - I don't think I could have done anything differently. At 13yrs old and 2/- a week pocket money we couldn't have afforded lessons for me never mind have me joining a golf club. I just played at the local muni with my mates Alan and Crawford - bashed whatever balls I found around the place using my dad's mixed bag of hickorys and old 1950s brown painted steel shafted clubs - and we picked the game up as we went along.
I did practice - hitting balls up and down the private school playing fields across the road from our house (119 paces if I recall) - and I would sometimes create a little five hole course with one of the 'greens' between the long jump and high jump pits so they would be greenside bunkers. But I couldn't always practice there as the kids in the road used to play football there most evenings.
Kids these days - don't know they are born.
Maybe I should have challenged the auld blokes about their mandating I stand in the HNSP as that wouldn't have got me into bother in later life...
I did practice - hitting balls up and down the private school playing fields across the road from our house (119 paces if I recall) - and I would sometimes create a little five hole course with one of the 'greens' between the long jump and high jump pits so they would be greenside bunkers. But I couldn't always practice there as the kids in the road used to play football there most evenings.
Kids these days - don't know they are born.
Maybe I should have challenged the auld blokes about their mandating I stand in the HNSP as that wouldn't have got me into bother in later life...
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Three
Tour Rookie
Swing plane, face aim.
Swing plane, face aim.
Swing plane, face aim.
Etc etc etc etc......
Pitching, chipping putting
Pitching, chipping, putting
Pitching, chipping, putting
Etc etc etc etc....
That's it.
golfcitydweller
Q-School Graduate
have a short game lesson with putter fitting included ..
Being 57 years old when I started, and full of wisdom, it's difficult. As much as love playing, it's knackering my shoulders and elbows. Possibly it would be, ensure you do the necessary exercises before you start whacking balls.
Ross61
Challenge Tour Pro
Stop playing rugby for the school as it will knacker your back and knees enough to stop you playing golf for long periods.
The advice I would like to go back and give would be to get individual lessons, but as someone else said that was financially not an option for my parents in the early 1970's
The advice I would like to go back and give would be to get individual lessons, but as someone else said that was financially not an option for my parents in the early 1970's
SaintHacker
Journeyman Pro
Stick to cycling, you're (were) quite good at that!
MashieNiblick
Tour Winner
I started as a kid and had lessons and practised. I think I actually might have been better off playing more as although the legacy is I have good technique, I am also very nervy and easy prey to messing up on the course due to self imposed pressure. I think getting more used to executing shots in a competitive context would have helped me.
ScienceBoy
Money List Winner
Don't let golf get in the way of life, have them compliment instead of battle each other.
