{"id":490,"date":"2010-05-03T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/?p=490"},"modified":"2015-07-08T16:58:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T20:58:46","slug":"first-time-on-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/first-time-on-golf-course.html","title":{"rendered":"First Time On The Golf Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6703\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/100_02772.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6703\" src=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/100_02772-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Chris Chirico\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/100_02772-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/100_02772-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/100_02772-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/100_02772.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfstinks.com\/blog\/chrischirico\/\">Chris Chirico<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A few months ago, late last golf season, I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/teaching-golf-to-next-generation.html\">teaching the game to my oldest son<\/a>. He purchased his own clubs with his birthday money and we hit the range a few times to get some work in before he hit an actual course. Unfortunately, there just wasn&#8217;t enough time left in last year&#8217;s golf season to ever make it out.So we hit the range a few more times, went to the indoor facility, and worked on our swings over the winter in anticipation of getting out on a course next season. Well, a few days ago, the time finally came.<\/p>\n<p>However, I wondered where and when I was going to take him. Knowing his skill level, it didn&#8217;t seem like a great idea to take him out on a weekend morning where we were going to slow down everyone around us. Also, taking him to play 18 on a course with a few 500 yard holes didn&#8217;t seem wise yet either. I really wanted to avoid a par-3 course because I wanted him to have some variety on the holes and keep him from getting bored with the game. Then it came to me &#8211; an executive course! It&#8217;s perfect! I have one right in town. It&#8217;s nine holes, none longer than 290 yards but much more variety than a par-3 course. But now the question is, when do we go? Again, I&#8217;m trying to avoid slowing down all the golfers around us.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, he&#8217;s not only a pretty good athlete, he&#8217;s also a pretty good student. So after receiving honors at school for the second time this year, I used that to reward him with a day off during the week and a round of golf. His mother wasn&#8217;t too happy about him missing a day of school for golf, but I explained that I&#8217;m taking him out no matter what. I told her the choices were either we golf or go to the &#8220;gentleman&#8217;s club.&#8221; OK, before anyone freaks out, that&#8217;s just a joke. So Friday morning around 11:00, we teed off for the first time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6704\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6704\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/100_02721.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6704\" src=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/100_02721-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Chris Chirico\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/100_02721-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/100_02721.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfstinks.com\/blog\/chrischirico\/\">Chris Chirico<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His opening drive, of course, slices directly into the parallel fairway. We laugh it off and I tell him not to let it bother him &#8211; I promised he&#8217;ll get to see me do that a few times today also. And I delivered on my promise.<\/p>\n<p>It was amazing to see him progress from hole #1 to hole #9. It was like he was improving right before my eyes. By the time we hit the seventh, his slice was almost gone! There wasn&#8217;t much distance to his shots, but they were pretty straight for the most part. His putting left something to be desired, but there&#8217;s plenty of time to work on that.<\/p>\n<p>As the round went on, I made sure to teach him not only the rules of the game, but the unwritten rules of etiquette as well. Not wanting to overwhelm him, I tried to fill him in on as we moved along. Simple things like staying quiet during someones swing, not stepping in someones line, etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the round it was clear this is another sport at which, if he sticks with it, he will excel also. Obviously, I gave him some mulligans and didn&#8217;t count a drop here and there. But nevertheless his final score, not that it matters, wasn&#8217;t too bad. He even managed to beat me on the eighth hole!<\/p>\n<p>The best part about seeing him play, for me anyway, was that he never took it too serious. He didn&#8217;t get upset with himself after a bad shot and he didn&#8217;t let a bad shot affect his next one. He smiled and laughed throughout the round. He played the game exactly as you would expect a kid to play it, while still trying to do well. As a matter of fact, the most serious I saw him the entire day was when I let him drive the cart for two holes!<\/p>\n<p>We wrapped the day up by talking about the round over a large pizza and a few sodas. We both looked forward to playing again and will certainly do so for, hopefully, many more summers to come. Although, I did let him know, I&#8217;m not always going to be easy on him. Mulligans, believe it or not, aren&#8217;t an actual part of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Truth is though, I&#8217;m going to have to be hard on him to keep him from beating me soon. But something tells me there&#8217;s not much I&#8217;m going to be able to do about that.<\/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>A few months ago, late last golf season, I wrote about teaching the game to my oldest son. He purchased his own clubs with his birthday money and we hit the range a few times to get some work in before he hit an actual course. 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