Your good friends allow you to tee of first so that they can see what you do and most probably laugh at your first attempt at hitting the ball. Being your first round of golf you don’t know the rules and etiquette of the game so you take your time and fiddle around balancing the ball on the tee before making a big show of selecting a club.

Of course you have no clue as to which club to use so your pals select one for you.

By this time there is a queue starting to form on the tee behind you as you try and set yourself up to play the first golf swing of your life.

You are now ready to play, and, as you have seen on TV, you take a few practice golf swings like the pro’s before stepping up to the ball and hitting it into the distance.

In the meantime comments from those waiting are starting to reach you. Who is this idiot mucking about on the tee? I bet he misses the ball on the first swing! Oh come on! get a move on or move over and let us through. Like a pro you ignore them and step up to the ball placing your club face behind the ball ready to pull it back to make your perfect golf swing. Oh my! you have knocked the ball off the tee as you put your club down behind it.

The growing audience behind you sighs loudly with frustration as another three ball arrives in the queue. Of course your partners who are seasoned golfers offer no help and also start to snigger as you set yourself up again. This time you are exceptionally careful when you step up to the ball and place your club very carefully behind it so as not to knock it off the tee for a second time.

Everybody holds their breath as you pull the club back. By this time your legs are quavering and instead of you swinging the golf club straight and true with a proper golf shot, you lean back like a cricketer and top the ball with the club face which causes it to roll a few metres from the tee to an ominous groan from all those who are standing behind you.

You are now forced to play your second shot before your partners can play their first. Of course you have no clue as to which club to use for your second shot so you walk back to the tee to find out. Another groan from the audience makes you change your mind so you turn to your bag and select the first iron club you see.

It’s at times like these when deeply embarrassed that you decide enough’s enough and decide to give up golf for good after just one shot. You mention this to your partners and the crowd waiting behind the tee applauds your decision. Your partners however persuade you to carry on, so, once again, you step up to the ball and place your club slightly behind it.

End of part 1.

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Geoff Fairman

Its all of 300 metres to the first flag so you want the ball to fly.

This time you pull your club back and once again take a mighty swing. Your heart soars as you hear the lovely thwack of club hitting ball. As you’ve been told, you keep your head down while playing the shot and when you eventually lift it have no idea where the ball has gone.

Your partners, bless their souls have been watching and let you know that your ball has gone all of two hundred metres straight at the flag. With a sigh of relief you step back to watch them play, when they tell you it was the wrong flag.

You have hooked your shot terribly and just about landed on the 18^th green which is not far away.

Your partners who have endured much waiting for you to play decide to let the following players through before continuing their games. You of course need the time to look for your ball which has disappeared into the rough.

Has the above ever happened to you on a golf course? If it has you need to improve your golf swing. On the day I played my one and only round of golf I rectified my pull to the left by changing the angle that I was standing at when addressing the ball. By doing this, although hooking the ball, I managed to hit it in the direction I wanted it to go and finished the round in 113 shots on the hilly and difficult Mossel Bay course.

It is however not necessary for you to follow my example when addressing the ball as I have found an online golf training course which will assist you in correcting your golf swing and bringing down your score. Visit http://cricket07.bizonline.hop.clickbank.net to see how many shots you can improve your round by.

The Mossel Bay golf course is one of many along the Garden Route. To play this course and many others in the vicinity visit http://www.turtlesa.com for tours to the garden route.

We look forward to showing you around.

Enjoy

Geoff Fairman