Golf lessons
It all depends on the teacher. I have seen many a good pro charge anywhere from 75.00 hr to 600.00Hr. It sounds like you are a beginner, so i think that would be about right. Everthing else depends on you, how much time you spend practicing, playing, etc. I would imagine that you are getting a pkg deal that would show you the fundamentals, grip , stance , alighnment, etc. Lessons definetly help, but the real sucess will depend on you. I t will sure get your mind off the scores for a while. I go out every day just to practice and get my mind clear.
It all depends on the teacher. I have seen many a good pro charge anywhere from 75.00 hr to 600.00Hr. It sounds like you are a beginner, so i think that would be about right. Everthing else depends on you, how much time you spend practicing, playing, etc. I would imagine that you are getting a pkg deal that would show you the fundamentals, grip , stance , alighnment, etc. Lessons definetly help, but the real sucess will depend on you. I t will sure get your mind off the scores for a while. I go out every day just to practice and get my mind clear.
Kiss
I agree with Buddy, the price is in the ballpark but if you look around try and find something around $60 for 1/2hr because you dont need major work on changing things now, get them to teach you the fundamentals, grip , stance , alignment. After that practice practice practice.
My Biggest tip would be when at the range, work on the short irons 8-PW 70% of the time, get them short irons dialed in and the rest will follow.
Remember Drive for show, Chip and Putt for Dough
Coop :toast:
I agree with Buddy, the price is in the ballpark but if you look around try and find something around $60 for 1/2hr because you dont need major work on changing things now, get them to teach you the fundamentals, grip , stance , alignment. After that practice practice practice.
My Biggest tip would be when at the range, work on the short irons 8-PW 70% of the time, get them short irons dialed in and the rest will follow.
Remember Drive for show, Chip and Putt for Dough
Coop :toast:
I bought my 4 1 hr lessons from the club pro. A bit less as it was many moons ago. I sucked less after the lessons, but that was easy, since I was pathetic to start with. I played every sport fairly well, especially football and bases. Big and atheletic, still, it never translated to golf. Sad, because I like the outdoors, the ponds full of FROGS. Many of my friends are good, and I am always the worst of the foursome, everytime. Worse yet, they like to gamble. Great, let's take FROG's money he sucks. The entertainment value just vanishes when you get your ass kicked everytime. Sounds reasonable, I think if I had to do it over again, I would have redoubled my efforts and practice constantly. But I fish, so that is where my relaxation time goes. If we ever meet on the course, I will make you feel like the Tiger.
Best Wishes...OF :howdy:
Best Wishes...OF :howdy:
Golf is the cruelest of sports. Like life, it's unfair. It's a harlot. A trollop. It leads you on. It never lives up to it's promises. It's not a sport, it's bondage. An obsession. A boulevard of broken dreams. It plays with men. And runs off with the butcher.
Jim Murray, legendary sports writer....
Jim Murray, legendary sports writer....
Actually that is quite profound. I found the game a tease, quite unfulfilling. I spent a dime on clubs, dust collectors, and squandered more on lessons, fees, betting. I see many people get addicted. It actually has their lives revolving around tee times. The country club. The fees. You mean I have to pay $100. to knock this little white ball in 18 holes? What? The cart is extra?
Also, my friends Dads all played, mine, went fishing. I tried to fit, do something with the guys. Half of them, dentists, doctors fill up the ice chest with beer, and are staggering by 18. All the efforts to seduce this game, one I was not brought up on scrounging sodi pop bottles, were for nothing. This is the date you spend the most on, and she lets herself out of the car and says, you are not good enough for me. Not a kiss, just a slap in the face. I never got good at golf.
Other sports I have such a low level of proficiency I am embarrassed to participate in. Snow skiing, polo, tennis and fox hunting. The way I view it, I am commoner. I grew up playing stickball, whiffle ball, baseball, football and basketball. If we did not have a time for a game we would simply play catch or shootaround some horse. Take some bp. Even play a form of rugby, smear the queer. Probably a name change today in these lifestyle choices times. The different lifestyle person would pick up the ball, and we would all attack him. Strip the ball, or get him tackled. I estimate these commoner sports are ill suited to advance to a golf or polo match. I must admit during high school people in the golf club did not fare well in smear the different lifestyle person game.
My reasons for abandoning it altogether? The costs. Join the club, you pay, just to golf you pay fees. You always have to upgrade clubs. Gotta get that graphite titanium boron super club. The time, man does that game sponge some time or what? Long course 18 take you all day. Especially if you are hoofin it. And if you play fast you are cheating yourself. My time is limited, and an entire day is costly. The knuckleheads on the course. Have you been hit by someone behind you? Seriously injured? Not me, but let me tell you, that is just luck. I had my share within a yard, most times I could turnaround and see the person. No four? I would yell. What these fools do not know, or don't care is I have the geriatric foursome in front of me. These guys make sloths look like cheetahs. You ever seen the type? One guy had a walker, would put it on and off the cart. Needless to say with the jackrabbits behind me and the slugs in front of me I was pinned, and the gap closed. And this is relaxation?
Best Wishes...OF:howdy:
Also, my friends Dads all played, mine, went fishing. I tried to fit, do something with the guys. Half of them, dentists, doctors fill up the ice chest with beer, and are staggering by 18. All the efforts to seduce this game, one I was not brought up on scrounging sodi pop bottles, were for nothing. This is the date you spend the most on, and she lets herself out of the car and says, you are not good enough for me. Not a kiss, just a slap in the face. I never got good at golf.
Other sports I have such a low level of proficiency I am embarrassed to participate in. Snow skiing, polo, tennis and fox hunting. The way I view it, I am commoner. I grew up playing stickball, whiffle ball, baseball, football and basketball. If we did not have a time for a game we would simply play catch or shootaround some horse. Take some bp. Even play a form of rugby, smear the queer. Probably a name change today in these lifestyle choices times. The different lifestyle person would pick up the ball, and we would all attack him. Strip the ball, or get him tackled. I estimate these commoner sports are ill suited to advance to a golf or polo match. I must admit during high school people in the golf club did not fare well in smear the different lifestyle person game.
My reasons for abandoning it altogether? The costs. Join the club, you pay, just to golf you pay fees. You always have to upgrade clubs. Gotta get that graphite titanium boron super club. The time, man does that game sponge some time or what? Long course 18 take you all day. Especially if you are hoofin it. And if you play fast you are cheating yourself. My time is limited, and an entire day is costly. The knuckleheads on the course. Have you been hit by someone behind you? Seriously injured? Not me, but let me tell you, that is just luck. I had my share within a yard, most times I could turnaround and see the person. No four? I would yell. What these fools do not know, or don't care is I have the geriatric foursome in front of me. These guys make sloths look like cheetahs. You ever seen the type? One guy had a walker, would put it on and off the cart. Needless to say with the jackrabbits behind me and the slugs in front of me I was pinned, and the gap closed. And this is relaxation?
Best Wishes...OF:howdy:
On the other hand
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. Any single round of it is full of unexpected triumphs and perfect shots that end in diaster. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle without an answer. It is gratifying and tantalising, precise and unpredictabe; it requires complete concentration and total relaxation. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
Arnold Palmer...
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. Any single round of it is full of unexpected triumphs and perfect shots that end in diaster. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle without an answer. It is gratifying and tantalising, precise and unpredictabe; it requires complete concentration and total relaxation. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
Arnold Palmer...
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Thanks for the the input guys. I actually have played golf at almost every course in San Diego. My best friend there was seriously addicted to the game but I had a MAJOR problem ... not being able to effectively launch the damn ball, hit some killer line drives everywhere but straight ahead. Very flustrating, like froggie I also was an excellent football and baseball player in my day, even a decent bowler and a very good dart player. So the golf mishaps finally got me so fuggin crazy I deposited my entire bag into a lake at Chula Vista Muni and never looked back.
I live in a golf course community here in Vegas and would like to do some stuff with wifey as we are both getting old and fat hence the new interest in golf. Plus Vegas ain't the big city and if your not into Casino or bar hopping there isn't much to do here as least compared to San Diego where something is always rocking.
I'll keep you posted on my new money burner ... hey, I had a 28' Bayliner so blowing some money on golf is going to nothing compared to my old money pit.
-K1
I live in a golf course community here in Vegas and would like to do some stuff with wifey as we are both getting old and fat hence the new interest in golf. Plus Vegas ain't the big city and if your not into Casino or bar hopping there isn't much to do here as least compared to San Diego where something is always rocking.
I'll keep you posted on my new money burner ... hey, I had a 28' Bayliner so blowing some money on golf is going to nothing compared to my old money pit.
-K1
Was looking at lots at those Summerlin places before they were built. I am thinking the year Motown won it all, with Zeke and Dumars, the bad boys. Looked like a very good community plan, just wondering how they came out. Was two or three golf courses. Decent start in Doggers ov 7 1/2. I think that is a great idea, good cardio work, and quality time with your wife. No Molly? I like your line, you are always in my face.
Best Wishes...oF:howdy:
Best Wishes...oF:howdy:
