Roundup: My First Round of “Real” Golf
A few weeks ago I decided I’d like to pick up golf. Since then I’ve been practicing on my back deck hitting balls into a net from my little path of artificial turf heaven. My father had given me his old set of clubs, which were in great condition, and so I pretty started up on the habit on the cheap. Well today I played my first round of “real” golf at Gunpowder Falls Golf Course in Kingsville, MD, a little par-64 3100+ yard executive golf course. It was a great afternoon for it though the winds were a bit blustery. I have to say that my afternoon wasn’t bad considering we didn’t have a chance to warm up and I was able to hit one par-4 for par and only get bogey and double bogey on all but another four or five holes (which max’d out at double-par). It was definitely a fun afternoon and fed my desire to keep playing and improving.
This week, the Fitness Health Network offered up a nice helping of health/fitness posts:
- Weight Loss Journal featured a guest post that discussed six ways to beat fatigue.
- Obviously given the choice between fresh and canned or frozen fruits and veggies, you go for the fresh because of flavor. However, if you are choosing between frozen and canned, go with frozen because canned veggies have been shown the least nutritional value. I didn’t know that!
- Need some ideas about creating a food budget? NCN shares some of his tips and none of them have to do with $$$.
- When you are working towards a goal, occasionally you get knocked off track. Well Israel at Fat Man Unleashed has been knocked off the last few weeks and posts this weight loss confession. Stuff happens, things don’t always go as you plan, but it’s how you respond and recover that decides how dedicated you are.
- Lazy Man offers up six cancer-fighting superfoods I didn’t know where cancer-fighting superfoods. Oddly enough, I eat all of them, so double win for me!
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Jul 14, 2008 - 02:07:32Golf’s a lot of fun once you get into it. It’s hard to balance that early, fairly naive expectation of just ‘having a laugh’ with what will later turn out to be a frustrating addiction if you engage often enough. It’s a strange sport as even a casual player will hit a world-class short once in a while, even if it’s every 100-200 strokes (i.e., draining a 20-foot putt or lofting a beautiful 100-yard pitching wedge to within a couple of yards of the pin). It’s those shots that keep weekend warriors coming back for more - they’re like crack cocaine, and you conveniently forget about the other 99-199 duffers you hit along the way.
And why not?
My tip: if you’re going to play even semi-regularly, get a set of cheap clubs that are more suitable to your height and frame. Playing with someone else clubs is fine for a trial but you won’t be doing yourself any favours in the long run.
Im trying to get that desire (my husband would love it!) but I dont have it yet.
I think it’s the heat…Ill try in the fall (or so I always say :))