Do you really have to play golf as a kid to be really good?

[jbrunk]

Cool. I am 32 been playing since '01. 4.8 handicap, have broken 80 in tournaments a bunch, nearly every time I tee it up, but never broke par in a tournament and broke par for the 1st time this year.

How did you get to the "really good" level?

Bigwill, I know totally where you are coming from. How can we just learn to be satisfied with our swings and "get it in the hole", but still satisfy our natural curiosities?

GL,

For the most part, I was being facetious. I am not "really good" (6.5 currently). I have never had a formal lesson, I just figured I was a good enough athlete to teach myself by researching different sources and practicing. In 2005, I got down to a 4, and that is the best I have been able to do on my own, and most of that is due to my short game being pretty handy. I hope to be on my way to really good in mid october after Brian shows me how to hit the ball the right way.

JB

 

[Bigwill]

Cool. I am 32 been playing since '01. 4.8 handicap, have broken 80 in tournaments a bunch, nearly every time I tee it up, but never broke par in a tournament and broke par for the 1st time this year.

About the same age, started playing about the same time, and haven't broken 100 yet. I'm so depressed...

Bigwill, I know totally where you are coming from. How can we just learn to be satisfied with our swings and "get it in the hole", but still satisfy our natural curiosities?

I dunno, man. Maybe by directing those curiosities toward creating shots instead of tinkering with the swing?