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Does anyone play golf...?

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tomwest19

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I've recently started playing golf, started after lockdown as realised I was spending way to much time in my office and need some good ol fresh air.

I'm completely addicted..don't get me wrong I'm pretty terrible, but slowly each day getting a bit better. Think im at around a handicap of 22. Any fellow golfers here that have the bug?

Also does anyone have any golfing tips or quick ways to get better? Let me know thanks.
 
Take some basic lessons. Find somebody to be your partner. I am not very good either, and haven't played in years, but when I did, all it took was one really good shot to keep you coming back.
 
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tomwest19 said:
I've recently started playing golf, started after lockdown as realised I was spending way to much time in my office and need some good ol fresh air.

I'm completely addicted..don't get me wrong I'm pretty terrible, but slowly each day getting a bit better. Think im at around a handicap of 22. Any fellow golfers here that have the bug?

Also does anyone have any golfing tips or quick ways to get better? Let me know thanks.
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That is not terrible by any means. Many golfers never break 100.

I used to be pretty good. When I was a teenager playing every day. Then you get older and your brain gets in the way and it goes downhill from there.

I used to enjoy it, but it was a 5-6 hour time vampire and no one really ever wants to play just 9. We have an "Executive" course opening up near me by fall. I may give it a try again.
 
Definitely do! Been playing since I was a teenager and on the West Coast of Canada we get the benefit of year round play. Just purchased new irons this year and excited to get out soon and try them!
 
I mean….I like to drive/taxi the golf cart across the course. Does that count for anything?
 
tomwest19 said:
I've recently started playing golf, started after lockdown as realised I was spending way to much time in my office and need some good ol fresh air.

I'm completely addicted..don't get me wrong I'm pretty terrible, but slowly each day getting a bit better. Think im at around a handicap of 22. Any fellow golfers here that have the bug?

Also does anyone have any golfing tips or quick ways to get better? Let me know thanks.
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No, I do not play. It hasn't ever been my thing. But I do get the general gist of it.

I'm replying though to say thank you for playing! It is you and others who have been recently taking up the sport that put food on my table. I'm a graphic designer and I work for a company that provides golf scorecards, yardage books and event books for golf courses worldwide.

Golf is a naturally social distancing sport and it's this fact that allowed a lot of golf courses to remain open during the pandemic - which kept me employed.
 
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I used to go to this conference at The Greenbrier and we would sit in meetings all morning, have a quick lunch and then play golf. Did it for years.

Then one year I had knee surgery a month or so before and the twisting was no-no. So I ventured over to the Gun Club/Skeet Range. Had a blast. The next year, I didn't even bring my sticks to the meeting, just scheduled rounds of skeet. Now one thing about me and skeet, I really press my cheek down on the stock and after 100 rounds of 12ga, I look like I was in a fight. Got more than a few strange looks in the hotel.

And that was around the time I stopped playing.
 
tomwest19 said:
I've recently started playing golf, started after lockdown as realised I was spending way to much time in my office and need some good ol fresh air.

I'm completely addicted..don't get me wrong I'm pretty terrible, but slowly each day getting a bit better. Think im at around a handicap of 22. Any fellow golfers here that have the bug?

Also does anyone have any golfing tips or quick ways to get better? Let me know thanks.
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No, I don't, but my late mother (who excelled at sport at her boarding school - she was Games Captain, - tennis, hockey, etc - and later, played table tennis at just under international level) was an excellent golfer, who derived considerable enjoyment from the game.

One of her sisters also excelled at golf, as did two of her brothers.
 
I took up golf in 1995 and used to play competitively as a teenager. I even won a couple of tournaments in 1998 and 2000. I got down to a decent handicap of 7 but last played in 2011. Life seemed to move in a different direction and getting time to play on a Saturday just became a contentious subject with my wife so I appear to have given it up. I still have a decent set of clubs in my garage attic and I intend to take it up again some day.
 
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