Learning to Golf Successfully with Golf For Sure’s 5 C’s
Golf is a difficult sport to conquer! Why? Because the ability to consistently repeat success with each swing is a challenge without proper ball contact.
Just when you think you are on top of your game, you could have the worst day of your life. The amazing thing about learning to play golf is that a bad day is only as bad as your last several shots. Because as soon as you successfully complete a couple of good shots, you forget all the bad ones.
Golf For Sure has identified the 5 C’s principles for learning to golf. Each of these is important to successful outcomes.
The 5 C’s are an all-around observation training program necessary in your journey to become a successful golfer in the simplest and least complicated way possible.
The ideas put forth here are “Golf for Sure” ideas alone and aren’t intended to impress anyone with proper golf correctness or knowledge.
The intent here is to suggest simple subject matters so that non-golfers and golf beginners will be able to approach a golf learning journey from simple to more complex outcomes at their own pace.
Many leaders, writers, and trainers in the golf world support the idea that learning to swing a golf club and going to the golf course are the most important actions for learning to golf.
Golf For Sure supports a belief that growing the golf game has little to do with swinging a golf club or going to the golf course and has more to do with the 5 C’s (comfort, confidence, consistency, control, and cost).
Using the 5 C’s, you’ll be able to rethink what is important when learning to golf.
- Comfort: Understanding the golf game. A feeling of relief, knowledge, and encouragement.
- Confident: A belief in your ability to control the little white ball. A feeling of self-assurance arising from one’s own abilities and qualities.
- Consistency: To develop the ability to repeat success. The achievement of the level of performance that does not vary greatly in quality over time.
- Control: To develop the ability to keep the ball in play and score. The power to influence or direct one’s behavior, outcome, or course of events.
- Cost: One’s ability to afford to learn the game of golf. Finance or money that must be paid or spent to buy or obtain something required, desired, or of importance.
One of the first things you should do as a beginning golfer on your golf learning journey is to read – a lot.
Find golf instructions online:
You may even consider purchasing a couple of golf books. Our recommended golf book read:
A Women’s Guide to Golf: a Handbook to Beginners
By Kellie Stenzel, PGA member and teaching professional.
Below are areas of golf, important to learning and understanding how to play the game. Research on the web, read, and understand in your leisure time. Our suggested research topics:
- Introduction to Golf
- What golf equipment and accessories you need to play golf
- Golf terminology rules and etiquette
- Golf fundamentals
- Golf swing
- Golf shots
- Guide to driving
- Guide to fairway play
- Guide to Iron Play
- Guide to pitching
- Guide to chipping
- Guide to putting
- Swing analysis
Golf for Beginners
You have followed areas of interest about golf on YouTube, and you have read everything you could get your hands on learning about golf. And now, you are ready to begin training to become the golfer you desire to be.
Great!
Many individuals who want to learn to golf have misconceptions about what is involved. Some believe that they must subject themselves to a great amount of ridicule and embarrassment, which does not have to be the case.
When I decided to golf, I drove around to several yard sales, and I was able to find an incomplete set of golf clubs; however, the set did include what I needed to begin my training.
My used set included:
- Wedge
- 3-9 irons
- 3-5woods
- Putter
- Tees
- Balls
- Bag
After I purchased my partial set of clubs for $20, I drove around the neighborhood where I live, and I came upon an open field near the middle school. The grass was well-groomed, and the field was not being used. I returned home and decided to spend some additional time watching YouTube videos and reading about golf.
After a little more than a week, I decided to return to the open field that I staked out, and I spent the next several months striking golf balls with my short irons and middle irons.
I do not forget to review YouTube videos and read my golf books.
To my amazement, I continued to improve with my golf training, and after more than six months, I decided to schedule a session with a local trainer.
After my session with the trainer, I was surprised that he never let it be known if he recognized that I was a beginning golfer.
After a year, I had one other training session with a trainer. Eventually, I invested in better equipment and golf attire. Also, after training for almost a year, I have played a couple of rounds on a local golf course.
To date, I continue my journey! Without ever being embarrassed, I have had the best time of my life on the golf course.
Planning your first golf course outing requires a bit of preparation.