The best golf experience begins with the correct etiquette. There is nothing that ruins a game of golf like being embarrassed by not knowing the rules.

You always look smart by stretching before the first hole.

Take advantage of the practice green that is usually located near the clubhouse.

When teeing off, it is always best to have the most accomplished player tee off first. This will set the pace for the game so that everyone else can move up the course towards the green.

If partners that are sharing a cart hit to opposite sides of the fairway, they can either change partners to adapt to their hitting styles.

Take a few clubs with you anytime that you are dropped off. This allows for multiple hits in case you do not get back to the cart. The furthest person from the ball should always be the one to hit and any cart should not move ahead of this player's ball.

The limit to find a ball is 5 minutes and should only be exercised if you let a waiting party play through. Any divots that are made should be replaced by the missing grass and or some sand from the bucket on the cart.

When reaching the green, the pin should remain until all people have also gotten on the green. The furthest from the hole putts until he is not the furthest, and any ball that is potentially in the putter's path should be replaced with a marker.

It is also considered rude to walk in the path of another golfer's putt because it may alter the path of the putt.

You should also be aware of your shadow while another golfer is putting. Make sure that you shadow does not fall in the path of a putt because it is distracting.

You have to know the distances each club will hit the ball when YOU make your golf swing and hit the ball. Not when someone else makes their golf swing, and not what the books say the distance should be. So you have to find these distances out for yourself in a method I will explain to you. Then you have to know the distance from a given point on the course to the middle of the green. Knowing this, you will obviously know which club to use, and you can then make your golf swing and hit the ball with confidence. Your golf swing must be proficient. Every one hits a bad shot sometimes, even the professionals. However, your technique must be such that you can reproduce a good golf swing and make good contact with the ball time after time.

Once you have the golf swing I want you to have, and learn to watch the ball for long enough you will hit wonderful golf shots that will surprise and thrill you. This game of the wealthy can be quite an impending pastime and it can be a bit cash-draining to get started, but I was not going to be deterred. I was near frantic to do something that would let me have more time with my husband and who really cared what we were doing I simply wanted to at least be good enough swinging the clubs that I didn?t embarrass either myself or my partner. So my husband got me started with a set of his old golf clubs that we took to a shop and had cut down to fit my height. That wasn?t an expensive proposition so I was relieved! I absolutely had no desire to spend a small pile of cash particularly since I was a beginning golfer and then decide that I absolutely could not stand the game or worse yet be a total crash-and-burn expirment trying to learn the game of golf.