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My girlfriend wants to learn how to play golf so she can go with me sometimes. She's never picked up a club before so whats the best way to get her started?

Oh let me be a little more specific. I wouldn't even consider doing that if someone was behind me. That would drive me nuts too.

Most of the courses I play at do not have driving ranges so there is no place to warm up. What I usually do is hit 1 or 2 balls from the first tee before I hit my first real shot. There are times when my practice hits are better than my real one, but I play the one I intended on playing anyway. Anything wrong with this?

My little girl is only 3 days old, but as soon as she can walk I'm getting her some little clubs and we're going to play in the yard.

I think a black glove would go quite nicely with my black golf shoes

Exactly. It drives me nuts when the first thing that gets brought up when there is an arguement is that somebody's racist. You can't have an opinion anymore without being called racist

Thought this was a good threat and just trying to keep it towards the top.

94 today (regular for me). I was all over the place. Only putted 26 times which is by far my best yet, but it took me forever to find the greens. I'm swearing off the course for a while and spending all of my time at the range and practice green.

Count me in as one of the cargo shirts and untucked polo style shirt guys. I wore khaki pants once to play when I went out of town to a nicer course. I was very hot and uncomfortable the whole time. In the shorts I'm much more comfortable and never get any dirty looks. Matter of fact I notice that most people I see on the course are in cargo shorts.

I was reading the breaking 100 thread and saw where someone recommended a book on amazon.com. Of course I've heard of amazon before but I've never browsed the site. After going there I see that you can order used books for very cheap. Does anyone have any experience ordering used books from amazon? I've been on a golf book kick for the past few months... I'd love to be able to save some money and read a lot more if this is legit.

Shot a 93 at Webb Memorial Front = 46 Back = 47 Hit all 7 fairways with my driver on the front, missed 5 on the back 34 total putts 3 3 putts 10 2 putts 5 1 putts Feel like I'll never get in the 80's

Just to add to the post... have you guys found that by keeping up with your stats that it helped improve your game?

Dent: I'm not exactly sure what scrambling is. Can you help me out with that? Kltdefer: Thanks, I'll take a look at that.

I want to start keeping up with some of my stats each round to see where I need the most improvement. Besides fairways hit, GIR, and putting is there anything else I should be looking at?

I'm wondering about some of you guys practice routines. When I started playing a few months ago I spent tons of time at the range. And most of the time I was hitting balls I was hitting my driver because I had such a bad slice I was trying to fix. Then, when I started playing courses I stopped going to the range for the most part. On the 2 days a week that I'm not working I'm on the course. But I notice that my scores are not changing. I'm stuck in that mid 90 range and can't seem to do any better. This is my plan to shave some strokes.. Sundays There is a small 9 hole course (par 31) about 20 miles from my house. They have the best practice facility that I know of in my area. Here's how I'll spend my time... 20-30 min on the putting green 20-30 min chipping 15-20 min in the bunker hitting a large bucket of balls on the range using all my clubs playing a practice 9, taking lots of different shots on each hole Mondays I'll go to my favorite course and see how much the practicing helps. Does anyone have a practice routine they've used to drop your score? I've got to get out of the 90's.

I know there are people on this forum from all over the country. Any of you ever get together to play a round with people from you area you met on this site?

I'm happy to report that I've figured out how I can hit the ball straighter. It's a temporary fix but it's working. I've closed my stance a little and closed my clubface a little and the result is lots of drives right down the middle. My distance isn't consistent. I'm hitting them with my driver anywhere between 250-300 yards. I'm not so much concerned with distance at this point though. I'm concentrating on keeping them in the middle of the fairway.

95 today. Not bad for a newbie. I was able to straighten my slice with my driver some by closing my stance a little. My putter was nowhere to be found. That's where I need the most practice at this point.

I've had my girlfriend record me with the digital camera, but couldn't get it on the computer. I'm going to try again. Went to the range again today. I hit about 35 balls and this time probably 30 of them sliced. I feel like I was swinging the exact same way as before. I would say my clubface can't be opened up b/c I even tried angling it far to the left and it still started straight and sliced hard.

Went to the range today and made one small change that made a huge difference. I moved closer to the ball so that my arms hang straight down. I'd say only about 5 out of 50 balls had the bad slice.

I'm with you guys. I was thinking a few months ago about how I miss competing in sports and decided to pick up the clubs. Now I'm all in. It's a very addicting game.

Well I've decided that I'm going to stop by the range everyday on my way to work and hit a small bucket of balls with my driver until I work this problem out. Thanks for the tips and keep em coming.

While we are on the topic of scorecards could someone explain the slope and rating of the course?

I just wanted to add this. I was reading through some other posts from people who slice and see they were often asked about the flight of their ball. Most of the time mine starts straight gradually fades right. Sometimes is starts straight and immediately turns straight right.

I can hit much better with my irons that than with my driver or woods. I have a bad slice that shows up most of the time and I can't figure out how to get rid of it. Got any good advice or links to articles that can help me get rid of it? I'm going to hit solely with it at the range until I work it out