The biggest Missed opportunity in your golfing life
Alright I was just wondering what you guys consider the biggest missed opportunity of your golfing life. I don't really have one yet but my dad most certainly does. Back when he was being accepted to colleges, he received a letter in the mail from the University of Arizona to play golf. However, he never personally received the letter. Instead my grandmother found it and opened it first. She took it upon herself not to tell my father or give him the letter until years later after he was finished with college. Her reason being she didn't want him to leave and go so far away. He ended up going to a local school and playing golf for them. It doesn't seem to bother him that much but I'm sure in the back of his mind he has to think of what if. And I have to believe thats the reason he wants to see me become a better player, even though I decided not to play college golf. Has anyone else encountered this situation or other regrettable ones?
I also would echo the sentiments of card and longfellow.....and have started when I was very young and made an attempt to play on tour, oh well can't sit around and worry about what may have been.
I played golf for 3 years before taking lessons over the past year. I imagine I would be scratch or better had I started taking lessons sometime in the first year
Not putting more effort into golf when I was younger. I was better at basketball and track in High School, so I put more effort there than anything else.
It seems like most of the regrets have to do with not starting younger. Well, you can add me to the bunch. I actually took lessons when I was in elementary but didn't like the sport much. My instructor would only let me hit short irons (and rightfully so) and I got frustrated that I couldn't hit it anywhere. I kept asking for the driver because I swore I could hit it further but he just wouldn't let me. I think I was one lesson and done.
This really cute girl, who was the grandaughter of the course owner, worked in the refreshment stand and played golf when I was there every day. I missed the opportunity to ask her out.
It`s probably for the best Valeogut that you didn`t get together with that cute girl. I`d have hated to have seen such a thing of beauty ruined...oh I`m not talking about the girl...I mean if you`d got to own that golf course, all those extra huge divots, damaged trees and sandless bunkers...
DITTO THAT! My first golfing experience was when I was about 7-8 years old, my mother's co-worker gave me an old iron and a few golf balls.
Since I grew up in a rural environment, I remember bashing away in the arroyo "creek" behind our house in the sand. Every now and then, I'd hit one pure, and WOW! that was my first introduction to a schweetly hit shot!
But.........we were dead broke, and golf was not very popular whatsoever in my hometown area. There was only one golf course in my area, and it was private. I wish I has stuck with it, and continued to learn the game from my youth.
Think of what a ballstriker I could have been - practicing full shots out of the sand all those early years! :nodsmiley
No regrets, golfwise. I never had any illusions of making a living at it. It would be nice to be able to play more. Actually, I do have 1 and that's taking about 5 years off a few years back. After years of shooting in the 80s, going through a couple of years where I struggled to get into the 90s was very difficult.
A freind of mine from my olf school who is pretty well to do played a lot of Golf with his dad... one day he asked me if I wanted to join him his dad and his cousin (he knew I was a golf nut) for a round at a course in the midlands (he couldent remeber the name). I said no thanks because I had made plans with my girlfriend for the same day.
Turns out the course was the Belfry. I missed it to watch X Men 2 with a girl who I split up with about 2 weeks later.
Few years ago, spent a weekend in the Hamptons with some college friends. Arranged a Sunday round of golf for 6 of us at a local public course (Cherry Creek in Riverhead). On the way there, one of the guys noticed a sign for Shinnecock and said, "Oh -- my sister the event coordinator does a ton of events with that course -- we could have played there." Ouch.
Of course, DEFINITELY agree with the rest that I wish I'd started sooner.
And one more: wish I hadn't been so busy planning my October wedding one summer that I let my game go to %$#@*& before our honeymoon, which included surprise rounds at Pebble and Kapalua. Oh well -- I'll get back there someday!
Definately starting earlier. Not to be a better golfer, but what golf has done for me in other aspect :nodsmiley s. Most of you know what I am talking about!!!
January 4th, 2005, 10:13 PM
that was my first introduction to a schweetly hit shot!
There was only one golf course in my area, and it was private. I wish I has stuck with it, and continued to learn the game from my youth.
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