telrod11

I'm not a local, but when I go down for business, I have played Carolina Club in Margate. Maybe 15 miles or so from Ft Lauderdale. It's a pretty good track....

I would say that even if you are athletic, this is one of teh hardest sports that you will try to learn. I played BB in HS, and this is *much* harder than BB. Follow the advice above: Take at least one lesson (so you have good habits to start) Watch all the instructional stuff you can get your hands on (to start, anyway) Then when you play with your friends: If you get three or four strokes over on a hole, pick it up. Don't slow done the pace of your friends, or you won't be getting the calls to play very often. Don't take it WAY too seriously to start; Just get out there and enjoy it, and it will come..... Welcome to the most addictive sport in the world!

I'd get some of those "squeezie" things and start excercising my hands / forearms. I have never had any trouble and I sit behind a desk most of the day... (Although, I did change the brakes on teh car Saturday, so I am not totally allergic to physical labor... )

Seems like i read something about the "positive" that has to be *spun* by the caddies to their pro. If there is water right, they never say "Look out for the water right", but they phrase it "look like we have a lot of room left, boss". I probably have a poor mental grasp of teh game, because I will always ask (if I don't knw the course) "Where is my miss?" Now I know that this is a negative thought, but it kinda settles me to know that if I don't hit the perfect shot, I missed on the correct side. Should we change our thinking to remove that thought, and only have positives?

Background: Playing a friendly brother-brother match with a couple of good friends. The stakes are dinner (roughly $12 max). My brother is about a 30 handicap, and the two guys we play are both 12-15 handicaps. (I'm about a twelve) My brother is given 12 strokes on the 12 hardest holes, and we play for two dots a hole - low score and low team total. We go out and go 6 dots up after 3 holes; At hole 4, I suggest that we wipe out the strokes that we give my bro, to try and even things up. One of the other guys gets *really* upset with me for suggesting we change things, to the point of taking his clubs off the cart and announcing he is going back to the clubhouse. We send his brother after him, and he comes back and we finish, but it put a real downer on the rest of the day. What would you have done? It really hacked me off, but I wasn't going to let him ruin my day, so I played on. (We wound up winning, with it not being close)

Dude, you guys aren't playing golf - It's MATH class!!

On a putt that winds up woefully short (as the guy walks up to his next putt) You dropped something back there (they will usually turn and look) - Your lipstick... After a really short drive..... I think I see what is wrong with your swing - You're standing too close to the ball -- after you hit it

Thanks to all that commented. Thought I would follow up on what I did in the situation.... We were playing .50 / hole, and I did not give him the hole, and since I had no idea how the ruling should have gone, we wound up going in to 18 playing for three. I would like to blame me being pi**ed off with the guy as the reason I pulled my drive, but anyway, I went ahead and paid him 1.50 for the skins..... (We have played again since, and I took 5.50 from him, so I feel a bit better about the whole thing....)

I will one on one, but usually about 75% of the handicap difference, especially when it's a skins game. When playing with 4 people, we usually will not give more than 25% of teh handicap; We have found if we give the full handicap, teh high handicapper always finds a way to win....

OK, messing around playing skins with a guy from work, and we are on 17 with two skins on the line. I am 6" from the hole (would have to stand in his line to finish) , and he is 4' with a sidehill downhill lie. We both lie 4. I ask him if mine is good- he answers no. I ask him if he wants me to finish- he says no. (Note: I'm not in his line). I ask him if he wants me to mark- he says no. I ask again, are you sure - he says no. Most of you see where this is going - he deliberately aims his putt at my ball, and hits it 10' away. He says I can replace it, but I get a 2 stroke penalty, and he claims the hole. Gotta be something here, but for the life of me, all I can think of is that I got suckered, and it WAS my responsibility to mark, no matter what he said. Thoughts?

Apologies........ Thanks for being gentle with me... :)

No, I think you will see pretty much everywhere in these scrambles varying levels of experience. The scrambles are for team-building / customer / fund-raising, and I doubt any course would try to "police" them as they are big money makers for them.... JMHO

OK, I'll start.... Couple of weeks ago we are playing a par 3 slighly uphill 165yd hole, and my buddy pushes his shot right just a bit and hits the cart path. I start counting the bounces, and get up to about 15 when we lose sight of the ball. We start pulling up to the hole, and I see this slow moving / bouncing white object, and it rolls miraculously all the way past the tee box. After my buddy takes relief from teh cart path, he has 201 to teh hole. We were in stitches!! He winds up with a double, which we thought was pretty good after all the ribbing he got. First time I have ever seen a drive go backwards!

I know you feel you aren't doing anything, but would one of them say that you are? Not picking on you, but are you trying to "help" them or anything that you do that would be great if they were playing well, but not taken as well when someone is struggling? Just asking, because I will play with anyone lower or higher, with only three stipulations: Keep it moving Keep your temper in check Don't help me - no swing tips, even if I am struggling If none of these ar ethe case, then I agree with some of teh above advice. Play some sort of a game and have a different parner for each six holes; That should bring some of teh fun back in to it....

It would be interesting to hold you guys to this bet! I always figured mine would be off a tree, cart, or something insane lik ethat, but it was clean..... Mark my words, you guys won't quit!

No, but my F-I-L got me about ten yrs ago. He has about 150 across a lake to an uphill green, and I am well to his right. You guessed it; he hits a severe hosel rocket and catches me right in the kneecap. I go down like a ton of bricks, and he and his friends are worried that I am really hurt. After a coupe of minutes, when they see I am not dying, he asked me if I knew where his ball went, since I was the last one to see it.... (It had ricocheted off my knee in to the lake.....)

I've seen two and had one myself. Mine was 151y 7i, and was a disappointment, because teh hole was a little uphill, and we saw it bounce and head *toward* the hole, but we couldn't see for sure that it was in till we got there..... (The disppointment didn't last long; I wouldn't take it back.... )

Depends on whether I'm walking or riding... If walking, maybe 8 (just in case) Normal cart golf - may bag is a repository for balls; There may be 35 in there at one time....

I'm in sales, so I try to schedule my appt's so I can play a couple of times a week! :)

Don't have one; Play everywhere I can, but it the metro Atlanta area, this is one of my fav's.... www.golfthefrog.com/ Fav in NC is Tobacco Road....

Love to see them play each other in Jack's Prime.....