{"id":212,"date":"2019-02-27T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2020-04-27T14:59:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T18:59:38","slug":"my-beginning-guide-to-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/27\/my-beginning-guide-to-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"My Beginning Guide to Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yeah, I know right. For about 32 years, everytime I heard that word, I thought eww boring. Who wants to play that? Or worse, who wants to watch it. I have become one of those people. Yep, you read that right. I am now a golfer. An avid golfer, at that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It all started when I was in Puerto Rico on vacation with my godfather. I went with (keep up) him, one of his sons, his son’s girlfriend, his son’s best friend, godfather’s girlfriend, and her entire family, including her ex-husband’s daughter. I mean alot of people. I think I counted 37 people, including myself and we came from all over the globe. Italy, New York, NC, and DC to name just a few. Crazy. While in Puerto Rico, my godfather went off to play with some family members. Afterwards, he recommended I learn to play so that we could play and bond. I thought about it and decided yeah, why not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I do what I always do, I do my research. I searched used golf clubs on craigslist, Facebook marketplace, ebay. You name it, I’ve searched it. My only problem was figuring out if i was right handed or left handed. I’m left-handed. I can hear you now saying “if your left-handed, then you need left-handed.” But alas, that’s not always true. Phil Mickelson is right-handed, however he plays with left-handed clubs. Yep. He grew up mirroring his father’s right-handed swing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After doing my research, I knew exactly what clubs I wanted. They were available in both left and right hand and they were brand new. The day after I arrived back in NC, I went to Golf Galaxy and got a helpful person who helped me figure out that I needed left-handed clubs. Its a funny story actually. I go in and say that I want to purchase some golf clubs but that I was unsure of the hand orientation I needed. He handed me a right-handed putter and told me to putt the ball in a way that was most comfortable to me. I putted backwards. So left-handed it is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I decided on the Top-Flite XL Women’s Set in Pink and Grey. Its a complete 12 piece golf set. The set was the previous years set, so I got it for a steal. It was on sale for $89.00. I also got 20% off since I was a first time shopper and free shipping. I got it all for less than $90. And they said golf is expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The set comes with 12 pieces. Its engineered to outfit us female golfers with everything needed for us to have on course success. The driver is a 460 Ti composite driver. It features a low Center of Gravity. It allows for maximum distance and forgiveness, something us beginning women need. It also has a low profile 3 wood, and a 5 hybrid. The set comes with 4 irons 6-9, a pitching wedge, and a putter. To round out the set, is a stand bag and two headcovers for the driver and the 3 wood. The shafts of each club is made of graphite, which allows for more forgiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I first received the box, I was like a kid at Christmas. I was so ready to open the box, but I just let the box sit there as I looked at it and studied it for a few days. I finally opened the box and marveled at the set. It was time to break the set in. I did a bit more research and found a driving range close to my house that was cheap and convenient. 180 balls for $10. Umm yeah. I went with a coworker and a family friend. We were there for 2.5 hours and hit over 700 balls between the 3 of us. Crazy. My co-worker and I were garbage. The family friend was smashing bombs. I was trying to hit decent shots, but was failing miserably. After the outing, I vowed to get better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next day, Sunday, was a different story. My body was screaming for mercy. For 4 days, I alternated between taking Aleve and ibuprofen. Nothing worked. I see now that golf is going to be a brutal sport on my muscles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My thoughts so far, Golf is not easy. It is a mental clusterf**k. Neither my mind nor my body was prepared for this. My goal: to get better. To be specific, my goal is to be consistent with my hitting, starting with my driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More to come. Stay Tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I know right. For about 32 years, everytime I heard that word, I thought eww boring. Who wants to play that? Or worse, who wants to watch it. I have become one of those people. Yep, you read that right. I am now a golfer. An avid golfer, at that. It all started when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,43],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericasjourney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}