I am 66 and have been trying to play golf for 16 years. I am terrible. Yesterday I shot maybe 140. I stopped keeping score as it was depressing me.
After many lessons with the best teachers around here, I still sometimes mis-hit half my shots (meaning dribbled off the club for one errant reason or another), cannot drive over 150 (and itis rare to hit 150), cannot putt well and have a short iron game which can work briefly, but often does not. I do not keep a handicap but it would be 36 if I did. It has never moved. On an excellent day, I can get to 110 from the senior tees (5500 yards) on my flat and open course. Add anything tricky and 120 becomes a challenge.
I am big and strong and in good shape but with a frozen left shoulder. I play left handed so it is not too bad.
I cannot believe it is the norm to remain this bad while continuing to play, join country clubs and take lessons. I feel genuinely ashamed of my game and do not like better golfers to see it. (I once had a golfer ask me if I was embarrassed to play).
I like playing when I can at least get the club on the ball (I can even mis-hit putts and short chips). But when it is bad, I get totally depressed, which slops on to other things in my life, and I just want to go home and sulk.
Silly story for sure - it is just a game. But as a guy this is the only thing I do in my life that I do so badly. Anything else I would have improved (practicing law; running; bicycling; weight lifting) or moved on (skiing).
Isnt 16 years too long to still be unable to get the club on the ball on a regular basis? Should I finally say enough or stick to it.
One last point DW is terrible too but just does not care. And she likes playing with me. Indeed but for DW I would never had taken it up at all.
Thanks for reading!
After many lessons with the best teachers around here, I still sometimes mis-hit half my shots (meaning dribbled off the club for one errant reason or another), cannot drive over 150 (and itis rare to hit 150), cannot putt well and have a short iron game which can work briefly, but often does not. I do not keep a handicap but it would be 36 if I did. It has never moved. On an excellent day, I can get to 110 from the senior tees (5500 yards) on my flat and open course. Add anything tricky and 120 becomes a challenge.
I am big and strong and in good shape but with a frozen left shoulder. I play left handed so it is not too bad.
I cannot believe it is the norm to remain this bad while continuing to play, join country clubs and take lessons. I feel genuinely ashamed of my game and do not like better golfers to see it. (I once had a golfer ask me if I was embarrassed to play).
I like playing when I can at least get the club on the ball (I can even mis-hit putts and short chips). But when it is bad, I get totally depressed, which slops on to other things in my life, and I just want to go home and sulk.
Silly story for sure - it is just a game. But as a guy this is the only thing I do in my life that I do so badly. Anything else I would have improved (practicing law; running; bicycling; weight lifting) or moved on (skiing).
Isnt 16 years too long to still be unable to get the club on the ball on a regular basis? Should I finally say enough or stick to it.
One last point DW is terrible too but just does not care. And she likes playing with me. Indeed but for DW I would never had taken it up at all.
Thanks for reading!
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