First time on golf course!!!!

[Lizzy Lemon]

Our son Ashley (10) has been having golf lessons for a couple of months and took part in a junior competition a couple of weeks ago, just to say he'd been on the course and the fee was only £2. DH and I decided we'd like some clubs to be able to join in with Ashley, and we've been for our first time on the course today. Half way round the 9 hole course a marshall approached us and abruptly told us 3 people can't play with only 2 bags of clubs. Felt about half an inch tall, like a naughty schoolgirl, I appreciate there are rules and they are to be obeyed (I'm a big rule obeyer) but in our ignorance we didn't know and now I don't feel like going back. It was something we were looking forward to doing together when the children are at school so I will have to borrow Ashley clubs because I'm not prepared to buy more clubs unless I know I'm going to keep at it. I was absolutely useless, the men behind us laughed at my first attempt, felt like going and clouting them one!

 

[Minniespal]

Oh Wendy, Poor you Some people are such 'Jobsworths'

Keep at it if you enjoy it. DH got me golf lessons with a pro a few years ago. I didn't like it, doesn't help that i have zero co-ordination

 

[Boss Hogg]

Golf is one of those games which has more rules than you can shake a stick at. How well they are enforced depends on the course in question.

My advice would be to get a cheap bag and split the clubs between them, problem solved. Then no-one would be any the wiser. Then just take the club you need from whichever bag. You could probably play a round with 2 or 3 clubs anyway.

I play pretty badly, and do get first tee jitters, but everyone does. It is not very nice to laugh at someones misfortune though. It might be worth going to a driving range and getting some practice there before going back on the course.

9 or 18 holes of golf can feel like long way if you start getting disheartened, but just keep at it and you will get better (in my case extremely slowly!)

 

[Cyrano]

I'm sure it will get better over time

 

[arieljasmine]

Sorry to hear this, Wendy, some people can be so mean

Hope you can stick it out just to show them

ArielJasmine