{"id":489,"date":"2010-05-05T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2015-07-08T16:58:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T20:58:14","slug":"remember-when-you-were-golf-newbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/remember-when-you-were-golf-newbie.html","title":{"rendered":"Remember When You Were A Golf Newbie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6707\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6707\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/golfthumbs2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6707\" src=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/golfthumbs2-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"Know when to say when at the driving range...\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/golfthumbs2-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/golfthumbs2-600x440.jpg 600w, https:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/golfthumbs2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Know when to say when at the driving range&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There comes a point in your golfing life when you forget what it&#8217;s like to be a &#8220;newbie&#8221; at this game. Last week I received a text from a buddy whom I&#8217;ve never known to play golf. He had just come from the driving range and was asking me a few questions (I should have known right then and there he wasn&#8217;t sure what he was doing).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, he&#8217;s texting me about this terrible slice he has and proceeds to explain he hit 3 large buckets of balls but was unable to correct the problem. Suddenly I could care less about his slice. This guy &#8211; who hasn&#8217;t swung a club in who knows how long &#8211; just hit three large buckets of balls! If I hit three large buckets of range balls in one sitting, my spine would fall out.<\/p>\n<p>Look, there&#8217;s only two types of people who hit that many practice balls at once: Tour Pros and Newbies. I rarely hit range balls before a round, but even if I do, it&#8217;s usually one small bucket. When I go to the range, maybe I hit one large bucket (and usually don&#8217;t finish it). But three? Newbie.<\/p>\n<p>My buddy&#8217;s text conversation, coupled with Stinky Golfer Chris&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/first-time-on-golf-course.html\">post the other day<\/a> about taking his son out on the course for the first time, got me thinking about other new golfer traits. One is not using a tee on a par three. Remember doing this? The logic here is since you don&#8217;t tee-it-up when you use an iron in the fairway, why can&#8217;t you hit-it-off the deck on a par three? This is totally a newbie trait. Once you do that a few times, you&#8217;ll inevitably get paired with someone who will tell you there&#8217;s always an advantage to using a tee &#8211; so you should use one whenever you can. Even after I learned this information, it was still hard for me to start using a tee on a par 3 &#8211; it was like I felt special since I was doing something no one else did&#8230;of course, no one else did it because it&#8217;s a dumb idea.<\/p>\n<p>Remember when you didn&#8217;t know what a slope rating was (if you still don&#8217;t know, click <a href=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/what-crap-is-slope-rating.html\">HERE<\/a>)? How about a course rating? You&#8217;d see these strange numbers on the scorecard and think: A 69.7, what the hell does that mean? Is that what I&#8217;m supposed to shoot here? I&#8217;m a newbie, how can I shoot&#8230;Oh wait, there&#8217;s also a 129 listed &#8211; yeah, that&#8217;s more like it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How about this one; I&#8217;ve actually seen newbies tee-up their ball outside of the tee-markers&#8230;like it doesn&#8217;t matter where you put the ball, as long as it&#8217;s close to either of those big white blocks of wood. Sometimes they will put it about 4 or 5 yards in front of where the ball markers are. Funny, you&#8217;d think this would be the first thing they are taught &#8211; that your ball goes in between these markers.<\/p>\n<p>OK, this may not just be a newbie trait, but what about the people that will walk into all types of thickets, thorns, poison ivy, etc., just to retrieve their ball. If you&#8217;re a newbie, not going though lengths to find a lost ball is a hard thing to deal with &#8211; after all, you know how much each of those balls costs and after only one drive, you can&#8217;t imagine parting with it. Heck, that&#8217;s why you purchased that ball retriever (which seems to find its way out of your bag more times than the 6-iron).<\/p>\n<p>This is one of my personal favorites because my father (who took-up the game after I had already been playing for a few years) was guilty of this: Some newbie&#8217;s develop an affinity for certain clubs, while at the same time they begin to shy-away from other clubs. My dad loved his 8-iron. He would (and still does sometimes) hit that iron from almost anywhere within 150 yards. Contrary to the love for his 8-iron, he despised his 9-iron. I know it doesn&#8217;t make any logical sense, but I&#8217;ll be damned if every time I convinced him to hit that club, he would shank the ball into the next fairway. To this day, my dad still won&#8217;t use his nine &#8211; at this point, he should just take it out of his bag and lighten his load.<\/p>\n<p>Not don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I love golf newbies &#8211; they are the future of the game and as veteran players, we should be obliged to take one under our wing (even if it&#8217;s just to point out all the silly things they do on the course). In fact, I promised my three-bucket buddy I&#8217;m ready to hit the course with him ASAP (well, as soon as his blisters heal &#8211; see photo).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There comes a point in your golfing life when you forget what it&#8217;s like to be a &#8220;newbie&#8221; at this game. Last week I received a text from a buddy whom I&#8217;ve never known to play golf. 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