It's been a month now, since tryouts for the the high school golf team were held. My daughter made the team! (Most made the team - though you did have to show that you could intermittantly get the ball off the ground and keep it on the golf course).
There's quite a jump between whacking balls on a driving range, and actually "playing" golf on a course. There is so much to learn about where to stand, when to hit, what to do when you find your ball in water hazards, bushes and in neighboring yards. There are a LOT of rules!
But when you first start to play, you need a LOT of grace. You can't know, let alone execute, all of the directions in the rules of golf. (Just between you and me, even golfers that have played the game for many many years aren't able to follow the rules as they are written).
So it will take a while for you to have a truly "countable score" in golf. When you first start, you should do what they do on the high school team with the newer players. After 6 shots without being on the putting green, you pick your ball up and place it on the green and start putting! If you have made 10 efforts to get the ball in any given hole, your 11th effort should be picking the ball up and putting it in your pocket. The number that is placed on the scorecard would be a "circle 10," as my daughter puts it.
But stick with it. It is so gratifying to have a "legitimate" score on a hole...and then a "legitimate," countable score for an entire round of golf...either 9 or 18 holes.
Golf is very hard, but like I said in one of my first posts, quoting Tom Hanks' character in the movie, "A League of Their Own," "It's the hard that makes it great!"
Keep swinging and enjoy each new experience with a "Countable Score." Even if it's just one hole.
Fore You, Sue
