In the swing of things

So a couple of my ladies and I have decided that retirement is <hopefully> not that far off and it is time to look towards the future. And what do most people do in retirement? Drink, eat, drive a golf cart/3 wheel bike around parks and golf.

So I guess it is time to take up golf since we know how to do the other pieces. We decided to go to the driving range a couple of times to see if we could actually hit the ball before making complete and utter asses of ourselves. Guess we should have thought about that before standing next to people who could hit the ball. I felt the breeze as my club went over the ball and spent a lot of time swatting away black flies. All in all I actually hit the ball quite a few times, even though some of them only rolled down the hill.

We decided golf lessons were needed. We hooked ourselves up with Don the golf guy. Don has a simple method to teaching golf and basically if you set yourself up right you will hit the ball. In the beginning we thought "easier said than done". After our first lesson we were thinking we had done well. After our second lesson DOGG was ecstatic (his actual word) about our progress.

While we are far from joining the PGA tour we might actually make it to a Par 3 course by Fall.

Some things to remember that we have learnt:
1. You may not need to wear golf shoes at the driving range but cute flip flops don't work either and cause the men folk to roll their eyes
2. You bend over to put the golf on the tee a lot so make sure your sports bra doesn't lift up over "the girls" and that your prosthetic is securely in place.
3. Hitting the ball into someone else's box is not an acceptable practice
4. If you don't practice in between lessons...it shows...!
5. There are a lot of "serious golfers" out there who shun the talk of my friends dating life openly...ahh they just wish she was interested in them
6. Using left handed clubs when you are right handed make things difficult but not impossible
7. Squealing from excitement when you hit the ball right causes you to be the centre of attention
8. WEAR BUG SCREEN...you cannot swat bugs with your irons, well you can you just wont kill anything
9. When it is hot out, a hat is good to avoid heat stroke
10. Always golf with close girl friends as they will laugh with you and at you all at the same time