1 year of golf

Basically, I have played so much golf so that I did not have enough time to keep my blog going. I hope to have a fair amount of time to write down my thoughts about investments and the game of golf.

By now I have played golf for one year. Over the last twelve months, I have struggled to learn this difficult game. Many friends have helped me over the year in various aspects of my game. Below is the summary of my golf game.

I took my first lesson from Zhen when he brought me to the Chase Oak Golf Course driving range. I bought two clubs at the beginning. Later I bought a whole set from Costco. At the same time, we joint the Ridgeview Golf Club. Since we joined the club, we have played together almost every weekend. Zhen has the most influence in my golf game.

I had taken formal lessens from Heath, a golf professional worked at the Ridgeview Golf club. Recently he moved to work at the Frisco Lake Golf club. He taught me all the basic steps in golf game.

I had also taken Beginner’s Golf at the local community college for one semester. The coach in the class had tried very hard to teach the golf game. I played with several classmates at the Plantation Golf Course.

I have practiced in the driving range and golf courses with many friends. Some of them are Kan, Brian, Guangyan, Lihong, Xiehong, Laozai, Andy, Xiaomin, Francis, Jerry, Norm, and Clark. I have practiced and played a few times with many other friends. Golf is indeed a game of friendship. One possible origin of the word Golf is derived from - the game of loyal friendship.

Basically my game has improved from 144 (I was told this is the possible highest scores) to around 88 over this period as shown in the above figure.

My goal for the next year is to break 80 and to average around low 80s. I am also plannning to take the Intermediate Golf class at the local college in the Spring semester.