[graciegirl]

This morning, Sweetie and I played with a villager golfer and his young grandson of about ten years. He was a great kid, shook our hands and waited his turn and really acted like a grown up all the way around. He was amazing with his woods and really did a good job and we enjoyed his company very much and his grandfathers too.

We had to smile when he teed it up in the fairway, but he isn't the first one I have seen do that here.

Just for fun, what are some other things you have seen that makes you know right away that it is a brand new golfer?

[Bonny]

They pull out the driver for 75 yards

[graciegirl]

Here's another way to spot a group of new golfers. They mess around after they are finished putting and don't drive quickly to the next tee.

Help me here before all of the new golfers think I am mean spirited.

[Bonny]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Here's another way to spot a group of new golfers. They mess around after they are finished putting and don't drive quickly to the next tee.

Help me here before all of the new golfers think I am mean spirited.

I know people here 14 years and still stand there and talk. If I am all ready to hit, sometimes I'll just yell, could you move please.

[justjim]

A new Golfer has an old set of clubs that they bought at a yard sale.

[perrjojo]

They are wearing cute matching golf clothes and and scuff free shoes.

[jebartle]

line up their 7th putt, oh my, that was my last round...Ha!

[SALYBOW]

Originally Posted by Bonny

They pull out the driver for 75 yards

And there is a problem with this how??? Doesn't everyone?

[sharoni]

Thanks for the heads up everyone. My husband and I are new to TV and we are back in MI taking lessons. We didn't want to look like idiots when we come back down in October. So, please post other things us new golfers do, so we can "try" not to do them, lol. A lot to learn that we won't learn from our instructor!

[Bonny]

Originally Posted by SALYBOW

And there is a problem with this how??? Doesn't everyone?

I know someone who uses a driver on 75 yards. Makes it 1/2 way there, tees up in the fairway now 35 yards away and pulls the driver back out. LOL

[steamdogman]

And if I may comment....................On executive golf courses one should not expect either the quality of play or the speed that you would expect on the championship courses. So if I take out a driver on every hole, say at Heron what is wrong with that! Is this not what it is all about here??????

Perhaps you all forget when you were learning how to play. Do you realize how many people here retire than take up golf.........................It is not an easy game and I am saying that from over 60 years of playing.

Give them a BREAK OR GO PLAY ON CHAMPIONSHIP COURSES!

[bluedog103]

Originally Posted by Bonny

I know someone who uses a driver on 75 yards. Makes it 1/2 way there, tees up in the fairway now 35 yards away and pulls the driver back out. LOL

I think I play with the same guy. Then they'll be on the fringe of the green and pull out the pitching wedge. Watching a newbie choose clubs gets comical at times.

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by Bonny

I know someone who uses a driver on 75 yards. Makes it 1/2 way there, tees up in the fairway now 35 yards away and pulls the driver back out.

Obviously you've been watching me golf.
I'm not a new player, but I'm certainly a duffer.

[asianthree]

I like the old guys who grumbles about having to play with a women. They are usually the guys I can out drive from the same tees..and I never ask them if they might want to play from the shoes tees...I just smile

[TheVillageChicken]

Originally Posted by bluedog103

I think I play with the same guy. Then they'll be on the fringe of the green and pull out the pitching wedge. Watching a newbie choose clubs gets comical at times.

I have been at it for 63 years, play off a 7, and I use a wedge from the fringe if I'm facing a long putt. I can control my distance better with backspin than with putter weight.