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Hi Traix,

Golf is not easy. And even those who have fantastic physical talent may suffer from mental block, e.g. Charles Barkley.

Relax, and stop telling yourself that because you were great at other sports, you have to do well at golf in a short time as well.

Give yourself the time to learn, and enjoy the journey. Before you know it, your natural athletic ability should kick in and you will start progressing very quickly (e.g. Tian)

Take heart in the fact that you will find lots of support from your fellow addicts here.

Derek

Derek wrote:

Hi Traix,

Golf is not easy. And even those who have fantastic physical talent may suffer from mental block, e.g. Charles Barkley.

Relax, and stop telling yourself that because you were great at other sports, you have to do well at golf in a short time as well.

Give yourself the time to learn, and enjoy the journey. Before you know it, your natural athletic ability should kick in and you will start progressing very quickly (e.g. Tian)

Take heart in the fact that you will find lots of support from your fellow addicts here.

Derek

Barkley was a single handicapper. Slowly but surely, his swing changed for the worse, and became laughing stock....

Yes, golf is not easy. 3 years plus for me, and no sign of improvement

Golf is a Journey with no end-point.

After i start playing golf i think i lost 2kg man. I think it is through all the pratice and stress in trying to get better. Hope the journey will not kill me in the end. hahahaa.

daveaha wrote:

Derek wrote:

Hi Traix,

Golf is not easy. And even those who have fantastic physical talent may suffer from mental block, e.g. Charles Barkley.

Relax, and stop telling yourself that because you were great at other sports, you have to do well at golf in a short time as well.

Give yourself the time to learn, and enjoy the journey. Before you know it, your natural athletic ability should kick in and you will start progressing very quickly (e.g. Tian)

Take heart in the fact that you will find lots of support from your fellow addicts here.

Derek

Barkley was a single handicapper. Slowly but surely, his swing changed for the worse, and became laughing stock....

Yes, golf is not easy. 3 years plus for me, and no sign of improvement

see a coach my dear friend, you will improve for sure.

eiji wrote:

daveaha wrote:

Derek wrote:

Hi Traix,

Golf is not easy. And even those who have fantastic physical talent may suffer from mental block, e.g. Charles Barkley.

Relax, and stop telling yourself that because you were great at other sports, you have to do well at golf in a short time as well.

Give yourself the time to learn, and enjoy the journey. Before you know it, your natural athletic ability should kick in and you will start progressing very quickly (e.g. Tian)

Take heart in the fact that you will find lots of support from your fellow addicts here.

Derek

Barkley was a single handicapper. Slowly but surely, his swing changed for the worse, and became laughing stock....

Yes, golf is not easy. 3 years plus for me, and no sign of improvement

see a coach my dear friend, you will improve for sure.

Okay lah... not really that I don't have improvement... but it's more to my mental block...
6 months of no golf when my kid was born also didn't help to maintain the handicap...

Started with 21.3 hcp, now increased to 24.6... and getting up up upppppppppppp

Nowadays also very hard to go range.... you'll see for yourself once your kid starts to run around and seeking your attention more.. heheeee

daveaha wrote:

eiji wrote:

daveaha wrote:

Derek wrote:

Hi Traix,

Golf is not easy. And even those who have fantastic physical talent may suffer from mental block, e.g. Charles Barkley.

Relax, and stop telling yourself that because you were great at other sports, you have to do well at golf in a short time as well.

Give yourself the time to learn, and enjoy the journey. Before you know it, your natural athletic ability should kick in and you will start progressing very quickly (e.g. Tian)

Take heart in the fact that you will find lots of support from your fellow addicts here.

Derek

Barkley was a single handicapper. Slowly but surely, his swing changed for the worse, and became laughing stock....

Yes, golf is not easy. 3 years plus for me, and no sign of improvement

see a coach my dear friend, you will improve for sure.

Okay lah... not really that I don't have improvement... but it's more to my mental block...
6 months of no golf when my kid was born also didn't help to maintain the handicap...

Started with 21.3 hcp, now increased to 24.6... and getting up up upppppppppppp

Nowadays also very hard to go range.... you'll see for yourself once your kid starts to run around and seeking your attention more.. heheeee

always read this that once a kid is born, the dad have to give up golf for a few months? why is that so? cannot be so busy that cannot sneak a 1/2 day to play golf?

tronos wrote:

daveaha wrote:

eiji wrote:

daveaha wrote:

Derek wrote:

Hi Traix,

Golf is not easy. And even those who have fantastic physical talent may suffer from mental block, e.g. Charles Barkley.

Relax, and stop telling yourself that because you were great at other sports, you have to do well at golf in a short time as well.

Give yourself the time to learn, and enjoy the journey. Before you know it, your natural athletic ability should kick in and you will start progressing very quickly (e.g. Tian)

Take heart in the fact that you will find lots of support from your fellow addicts here.

Derek

Barkley was a single handicapper. Slowly but surely, his swing changed for the worse, and became laughing stock....

Yes, golf is not easy. 3 years plus for me, and no sign of improvement

see a coach my dear friend, you will improve for sure.

Okay lah... not really that I don't have improvement... but it's more to my mental block...
6 months of no golf when my kid was born also didn't help to maintain the handicap...

Started with 21.3 hcp, now increased to 24.6... and getting up up upppppppppppp

Nowadays also very hard to go range.... you'll see for yourself once your kid starts to run around and seeking your attention more.. heheeee

always read this that once a kid is born, the dad have to give up golf for a few months? why is that so? cannot be so busy that cannot sneak a 1/2 day to play golf?

Depends.

If you have so many helpers, all your parents, in laws, cousins, sisters, brothers, maids, nanny, chauffer, grandparents, etc etc etc that you can rely on - of course you can sneak out once in a while.

For me. Me and my wife are on our own. And to be honest, even if I have some times to sneak out, I want to spend time with my family back then as probably that's the toughest time for the wifey.

Difficult ? Understatement

BTW, you're still single ?

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U know, the luckiest daddy I came across is....... Eiji....

The rest ah.....quite pitiful

nientsu wrote:

U know, the luckiest daddy I came across is....... Eiji....

The rest ah.....quite pitiful

I should say, that 'pitiful' is a strong word here

I enjoyed every single minute of my fatherhood that I've experienced. I wouldn't sacrifice it or my time for/with my kid, even for golf....

Well, even sometimes I missed golf, but it's all worthed it.

Anyway, I'm playing quite often again now, eventhough only got visa for overseas trip (once a month), and local game, once a week... and some bargaining needed to have range session too... haha.. .(subjected to work also)... lol

Yea..... after looking at my post.....I agree with you.

Was in 2 minds working on UAT projs while posting this.

I think parenthood is a labour of love which requires sacrifices and asking nothing in return. And u will know its worth it when ur kid first call u daddy or mommy....

nientsu wrote:

U know, the luckiest daddy I came across is....... Eiji....

The rest ah.....quite pitiful

i dont think the rest are pitiful, i just thank god that i am lucky that my wife enables me without spoiling me and I in turn try not to take things for granted.

life's always about compromise, giving and taking.

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When our baby was born my wife would order me out of the house to go practice, else we have no money for milk and nappies.... we had no helpers either.....

i got 3 sons... and i still golf...

luckily my second one likes golf (the one in the middle of the photo), i go range when he go for his golf lesson.

shorthitter wrote:

When our baby was born my wife would order me out of the house to go practice, else we have no money for milk and nappies.... we had no helpers either.....

Paul,
That's totally the different side of the coin from us...

daveaha wrote:

shorthitter wrote:

When our baby was born my wife would order me out of the house to go practice, else we have no money for milk and nappies.... we had no helpers either.....

Paul,
That's totally the different side of the coin from us...

Paul?????????????

shorthitter wrote:

daveaha wrote:

shorthitter wrote:

When our baby was born my wife would order me out of the house to go practice, else we have no money for milk and nappies.... we had no helpers either.....

Paul,
That's totally the different side of the coin from us...

Paul?????????????

hahahaha...... seems like he has a black label one too many

slinger wrote:

shorthitter wrote:

daveaha wrote:

shorthitter wrote:

When our baby was born my wife would order me out of the house to go practice, else we have no money for milk and nappies.... we had no helpers either.....

Paul,
That's totally the different side of the coin from us...

Paul?????????????

hahahaha...... seems like he has a black label one too many

Oopss...
I was reading "Singapore Amateur Championship" on one window, and this on another...
Confused.

So sorry...

daveaha wrote:

slinger wrote:

shorthitter wrote:

daveaha wrote:

shorthitter wrote:

When our baby was born my wife would order me out of the house to go practice, else we have no money for milk and nappies.... we had no helpers either.....

Paul,
That's totally the different side of the coin from us...

Paul?????????????

hahahaha...... seems like he has a black label one too many

Oopss...
I was reading "Singapore Amateur Championship" on one window, and this on another...
Confused.

So sorry...

And I did this mistake quite a number of times liao..... have to stop reading this forum in multiple windows...