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I decided to go out to the driving range today during my lunch hour and I was treated to watching one of my biggest pet peeves. A father / husband / boyfriend trying to teach the golf swing to a daughter / son / girlfriend / wife. You will notice that it is always a male inflicting this damage upon some form of a significant other. For some reason, women do not do this, only the men. And there is no way they will listen to any advice about the damage they are doing. They always know better.
Today’s victim was a boy of about 6 years old with what I will assume to be his father. It wasn’t the worst case of “teaching” that I have ever seen, but it was definitely a typical case of golf lessons by someone who has no business doing this.
The way these lessons typically go is that the “teacher” gives about 10-20 pieces of horrible advice in the span of 30 minutes and gets very angry when their victim cannot execute all of the conflicting swing tips that they have just received. And the worst part is that they are always missing the most obvious things that their victim should be working on. They start focusing on all of these weird positions that they think their victim should be getting their body and golf club into and don’t realize that no human alive can do what they are asking (or should try and do).
This past weekend I bought a pair of tickets to the 2012 US Open at Olympic Club in Daly City, California. I had tried to get tickets to previous US Opens but had never been selected in the drawing. This year the USGA switched to a first come first serve system so I was finally able to secure the tickets to my first US Open.
I also may have the opportunity to attend the 2012 Masters as well, so I thought it would be funny to check and see if the PGA Championship was nearby and maybe I could hit 3 out of 4 majors in the same year. Sadly the 2011 PGA Championship is at the Atlantic Athletic Club so I think one trip to Georgia in a year is enough for me (I will probably have just gotten rid of the cockroaches that hitched a ride back from the first trip so I don't want to return and bring back more). So I investigated further to see when the next PGA Championship would be on the west coast.
2012 it is in South Carolina at Kiawah Island Resort.
2013 is at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York.
2014 returns to Valhalla in Kentucky.
2015 heads back to Whistling Straights in Kohler, Wisconsin for the third time in 11 years (I have actually played this golf course and it was nice, but am really surprised that the PGA keeps returning as often as they are).
2016 is at Baltrustrol in Springfield, New Jersey.
2017 heads to North Carolina to Quail Hollow club
2018 is at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Missouri.
So the next eight PGA championships don't come anywhere near my side of the country..................
I didn't grow up as a golfer. In fact, I never played golf until after the age of 21. I did play other sports as a kid though. Baseball, Basketball, Football, Soccer and a little Wrestling mixed in for a few years (without a doubt my least favorite sport that I played and I am not sure why I did it). With the exception of the Wrestling, all of these sports were team activities. Golf is most definitely an individual sport. While it can be played as a team game, it is just not the same as the other team sports I played in my past. There was always something missing but I could just not put my hand on what that was.
I recently read a blog and I started to ask myself, why is there not more butt slapping in golf? There are plenty of opportunities for it. Nailing a birdie putt. Crushing a drive. Making a great par save. Any one of these events say "smack my ***", but it never happens. You only get knuckle bumps or high fives. Why not a friendly pat on the bottom instead?
Imagine this scenario. Tiger Woods at the 2005 Masters, hole number 16.
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