Friday, June 12, 2009

First Golf Lesson


Golf Center, close to our house, bordering a farm
Angel trying to golf right-handed, because bad mama forgot she's not!




definition of a rough


cute miniature golf course; fun place, not part of the class:)


ahhhhh, now she's golfing left-handed (thankfully they had one club, but two lefties had to share)


The class started with the kids doing some running and stretching, and then moved onto practicing their "elephant" arm swings; while teaching them to keep their feet in place. This was followed by the anatomy of a golf-club. Next the kids learned how to hold their clubs, showing proper hand positioning, teaching them where they should stand (they told the kids their belly buttons should be in front of the ball.) It was time for the kids to practice hitting their bucket of balls--this week they started with big wiffle balls; next week they'll try smaller ones, and by the last week, they'll get to try real golf balls. After they were all done hitting their balls, they took their buckets and were each responsible for collecting five balls so the next group of kids could practice.

After their driving lessons, the kids got to take a little "field trip" to learn a little bit about golf courses, including some proper etiquette. As the golf pro described to the kids, the pretty short grass is called the fairway, the really short grass is called the green; and then they walked over to this rock with a little bit of long grass around it--the really long grass is the rough. I thought his descriptions were cute and age appropriate.

All in all, his goal for the kids was that they just have fun! I should note that two little girls showed up with their Barbie golf bags and Barbie clubs, so you know who thinks she should have the same (yes, yours truly, me wants a Barbie bag now:) And finally, I will admit, I was in a hurry to get the girls off their bikes and into the car for the lessons, and when we got there I realized I still had her in her sandals---bad mama:)

She had a lot of fun and did a good job. It was really nice and peaceful for my little Fairy Girl and me to watch (who was a good sport about being too young to participate in class, although she's so well--coordinated, I think she'd have done really well).

1 comment:

Julie said...

Looks like she is going to be a pro!