Posts by dru925

Great advice, folks -- thank you!

My daughter is wrapping up 6th grade and is interested in getting good enough to play golf in high school.  What specifically can she do now to achieve that goal?  She is a beginner and has taken a few small group lessons and...

Wondering what everyone is doing for sunglasses.  Normally I don't play with anything because I've found for sports/activity I can sometimes get a little bit of pressure headache at my temples from glasses.  (I'm a tennis...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kapanda  The good thing about starting anything up is that there is generally only one way to go! Yup.  This time last year I had not even swung a club (except for mini golf.)...

Been playing 6 mos. I am working on increasing my distance and for now would like a ball that gets me farther.  I'm a small (under 100#) woman, early 40s.  I can go to a store e.g. Golfsmith or just regular sporting goods...

Quote: Originally Posted by Dylanl  Scorecard. I hate using a phone on the course for any reason.  Ditto.  One of the things I love about golf is that I consider it a total cell-phone free zone.  

Funny you should mention grip.  I was at my weekly lesson on Tuesday and saw that my grip is all crazy.  I tend to grip with my entire hands rather than just fingers.  I am sure like most beginners I have the club in a...

My course is the beautiful Temecula Creek Inn in Temecula, CA. 27 holes, some very challenging.  I take a weekly lesson at Redhawk, which is also in Temecula.

Thanks for the input.  I am new (been playing for about 6 mos) and I've stepped it up a lot recently.  I think I have a little bit of the Weekend Warrior thing going on now.   I saw my chiropractor this week (for an...

So true.  As a beginner I tend to get stressed if I feel like the people behind us are breathing down my neck, but then I have to remind myself that the people I need to be watching to maintain good pace of play are the group...