First thing to learn about golf

What do you think is the first thing that a person should learn about golf other than the terms or equipment?

From my perspective: keep your head down (or eye on the ball).

Hmm.... Relax and enjoy the game and feel and not focus too much on technicalities?

Of course, the usual: Keep the head down.

In order of sequence: learn chipping, pitching, full iron swing, wood swing, driver swing, putting, etiquette, rules, play exec course, 9-hole course, 18 hole course, how to break 100, break 90, how to negotiate strokes, bet small stakes, shot shaping, break 85, bet big stakes, break 80, hitch a bunker babe, retire...

Know where are the pretty caddies...

Bro, I think you're missing something. I'll help fill in the blanks.

pushslice wrote:

In order of sequence: learn chipping, ask for strokes, pitching, ask for strokes, full iron swing, ask for strokes, wood swing, ask for strokes, driver swing, ask for strokes, putting, ask for strokes, etiquette, ask for strokes, rules, ask for strokes, play exec course, ask for strokes, 9-hole course, ask for strokes, 18 hole course, ask for strokes, how to break 100, ask for strokes, break 90, ask for strokes, how to negotiate strokes, ask for strokes, bet small stakes, ask for strokes, shot shaping, ask for strokes, break 85, ask for strokes, bet big stakes, ask for strokes, break 80, ask for strokes, hitch a bunker babe, ask to be stroked, retire...

i personally think that golf should start from putting.

the greatest squash player that ever played the game, spent a year pushing the squash ball round the court. when he was taught how to hit the ball with a racquet, he was beating everyone because he knew how the ball will react when it hit the front wall.

so why putting. all the lessons you want to teach...

keep head down, keep hands soft, accelerate not decelerate, tempo and rhythm and many many more...its all there.

DGman

proper gripping...

Etiquette.

Respect for the game.

Respect for the course.

weesern wrote:

What do you think is the first thing that a person should learn about golf other than the terms or equipment?

the rules?

When I am ready to really learn how to golf, I will learn first learn 2 lessons:

#1 ' ACCEPTANCE'.......no point forcing.....if std can only do bogey....then do bogey...leave to fight for par another hole.

#2 Good or bad game......SMILE and say thank you to flt mates for tolerating my std of play.

if u are playing golf with ZX for the 1st time, its important that u need to know....

1) cutthroat
2) sixers
3) vegas
4) auto-press
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99) SADDAM

alvin7379 wrote:

Know where are the pretty caddies...

Or where the pretty golfers are.

when i started playing, i had no lessons, just followed whatever my dad did.
hit the ground a couple hundred times (maybe more) till i had blisters on almost every part of my hands and badly aching joints.
that put me off the game for a pretty long time.
decided to start again a couple months back and realised that the best shots i've hit so far
are the ones where i didn't force the club to smash the ball. plus i engaged the help of a pro. heh.

learning that a relaxed swing was essential to hitting it generally straight and resonably long was the most valuable lesson for myself so far.

"Confidence"

weesern wrote:

What do you think is the first thing that a person should learn about golf other than the terms or equipment?

The swing and an appreciation of the sport.

The swing is because whatever clubs we use, if we understand the mechanics of the swing our body will adjust accordingly to the club we use.

An appreciation of the sport is because it is a competition against oneself to do better (for the social golfers), and one can enjoy the game more on the course.

To me, it'll be setup. Be natural and don't be bogged down by too many swing thoughts which will lead to 'not too tense'.

The latter is my biggest problem.

*I'm playing at 100, so reader beware

daveaha wrote:

"Confidence"

Indeed... It was an almost complete whitewash of the 2nd 9 yesterday. I bet you were very confident then

But I agree with Duval. Accept... there are some limitations in the game and play within those limits. The more you try to be aggressive beyond those limits, the greater the chance of pain. I'm not saying don't take risks. Rather, learn to know when to take calculated risks.

I would say the spirit of the game