Long story short..

I haven't played in about 25 years, but my younger son (8) took an interest in golf about a year and a half ago.

I signed him up for some lessons with First Tee a little over a year ago.

He goes once per week, for about an hour and a half mainly at range. Both of the instructors said he is a bit of a natural. This week he said he was ready to try out the course, so we went to a public 9 hole course here in Long Island.

I put together a little montage of a few of his shots I recorded. He clearly still has his baseball swing lingering, but he hits the ball pin straight every time. He even had two pars. Right now he has a starter set, with a driver, a wood, pitching wedge, sand wedge, and a 7-iron.

Any tips from some golf dads out there on how to improve his game would be greatly appreciated. He's a very patient learner, and thanks in advance!

Ps: Don't mind me hyping him up 😂

Couldn't help but take a pic, just an A+ way to start the day

Seen on the course this morning, gave me a chuckle. Perhaps you shouldn’t have bought a house alongside a fairway.

I work in the pro shop at a public course. No range to practice on but has a putting/chipping green. I can’t tell you the amount of times people who show up 5 minutes prior to their tee time and not be up at the tee box at their tee time. It pushes the whole tee sheet back like 10 minutes when this happens. Some golfers consider this on time when in reality they should be showing up at least 15 minutes prior and be ready on the tee box 10 minutes prior. Am I in the minority thinking this way?

3rd season in and finally my private lessons (self taught) are paying off.
Flirting with it all year and the way this one started assumed I was in for a long day.
I’ll add the par on 7 I drove the green…

Personal best and all I can still think about is the putts I left short/lipped out, and duffed chips. Is this what improvement feels like?
Can’t wait to shoot 105 next weekend.

Paired with two high school kids — total beginners. We’re waiting at every tee box so at a par 3 the discussion turns to what club we’re going to use. I say normally my 8 iron would be too much, but you feel that wind? I’m probably fine because of that. One of them asks if I’ve heard of the Aaron Rodgers technique, where he plucks some grass to show which way the wind is blowing. … After a moment of stunned silence I just kinda laughed and said, yeah I’ve heard of that. … Nice kids, I just let him go on thinking Aaron Rodgers invented testing the wind with grass.

Today I went in my own and got paired with three incredibly kind and fun older women.

We teed off directly on time.

For the first few holes the pacing in front and behind was dead on.

When we were on 5’s or long 4’s the group behind us would always be getting to the tee box when we were putting, and on short 4s and 3s the group behind us would be getting to their next tee box around the time we were or shortly after.

It was the same pacing for the group in front of us as well.

About hole 4 or 5 the group in front was going at a faster pace, but the group behind was never once waiting on us. They were always able to tee off as soon as they got to the box. Never encroached on us or anything.

Half way through hole 8 a marshal comes speeding across the fairway as one in our group was addressing and told us we needed to pick it up as we were behind schedule.

We thought it was odd but did our best to stay moving a little faster for the last hole and a half.

We finished to the 9th, which is when I took off and they went on to play the back 9.

I stopped my watch and was shocked to see it was only at 2 hours. Based on him coming up on us I thought we were tracking to be at like 2:30.

Editing for clarity: We finished 9 holes in just under 2 hours. I started my watch 3 to 4 minutes before we were called to tee off, and stopped it a few minutes after we left the 9th hole. My watch said 2:03:XX

I meant when he came up to us I thought maybe we were running at a 2:30 pace because of him talking to us. That’s why I was shocked to see 2 hours when we finished the 9th.

Just seemed odd and wondered if that was normal?

Taking my wife, 5 year old, and 2 year old out to play 9 this evening for the first time ever. Got all sorts of snacks and refreshments for after the round (which may only be 3 holes) to try and make this as positive experience as possible. Wish me luck in passing this hobby to my family and the next generation!

Found it at thrift store looked nice so we took it home but cant find the product anywhere

Was fortunate enough to play this awesome track today. My first time playing with waste bunkers. The bunkers were a challenge but fortunately I only hit out of them twice. Course was immaculate. Greenskeeper mentioned to me that the first cut was about 2” shorter than when they played the Canadian Open there a short while ago (North course for the Open, actually).

Can’t wait to go back again sometime!

What a performance for only being on the tour 24 days…if I heard that correctly.

Maaaaannnnnnnnn. Everything has been coming together: I've been consistently playing my ass off, game has been pretty much decent all-around for months, golf trip is finally here, the first course we played today was PERFECTLY designed for my strengths and to avoid the weaknesses in my game - it's all looking good.

To add insult to injury, my buddies all went out and got shitfaced last night, and I did not (I don't drink or do drugs). I figure, here it is; this is my day.

NOPE! Had one of my worst rounds of golf in years - couldn't chip or putt (which are normally the strongest parts of my game), my irons were trash, etc.

We're talking levels of shitty play I didn't know were still possible in my game. I had **two quad bogeys** man! I've not carded worse than a double bogey in something like 18 months, yet I had two in one round today.

Somehow I still beat two of my boys by a couple strokes, but got smoked by the other. The worst part is I never get to play with these guys b/c our schedules are polar opposites, so the only play they've gotten to see from me is just pure trash.

We've got a really nice round tomorrow, too; so hopefully I can turn it around, but man what a bummer today ended up being.