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Old 09-12-2024, 12:15 AM
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Default Are golfers snobby?

[QUOTE= ... about 10% will be pretty good, 40% will be decent golfers, and 50% will be bad golfers. I am surprised at how many people never played golf until they got to the Villages....
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Can you define "decent," and "bad?" I've been worrying about this quite a bit. I first swung a golf club as a teenager, and don't think I am any better now than then. I worry about how a golfer as bad as me will be accepted in TV. I have seldom played long courses, and I've certainly never broken a hundred, or come close. One summer I got out regularly to a driving range, and saw no improvement. And with the stiffness and infirmity of a ~70 yo body, my swing is terrible, and not getting better. (And I bet a lot of residents are like me.)
Your post characterizes 90% of golfers in TV as less than good. Hence, the average golfer must be poor.