You Always Remember Your First
If your mind is in the rough...you're in the right place.
Mine was Mother’s Day. A Sunday with absolutely stunning weather, a light breeze, and 2.5 hours at the Winter Park 9 golf course all to myself with Ken (my husband.)
This was maybe the 4th or 5th time I had ever played on a golf course and I was at the stage where I was always frustrated with myself and beating myself up on every hole that I just couldn’t master.
But on hole 7, a par 3, I whacked the ever loving shit out of that ball and absolutely NAILED the sweet spot.
So much so that it landed on the green ultimately giving me my first par.
I FINALLY felt that feeling of hitting a “pure” shot that everyone talks about.
That sound and that feeling that travels up the shaft and through your whole body (yes, I’m still talking about golf…stay with me) will keep me coming back for as long as I can squeeze into a golf skirt and continue to ask, “Where’s the cart girl?”
That moment, my friends, is when I knew that I was hooked on this game and I was gonna chase that feeling until you pry my overused 7-iron from my cold dead hands. (Feel free to leave that glove on though.)
So, if you’re still in the thick of learning this beautiful game and you have yet to hit that one shot that keeps you coming back, just know that the second it does, it’s going to ruin you in the best way possible.
Now, if you’re a newbie reading this story, you might still be at the point where other people watching you matters. Your limiting beliefs hold you back because the majority of every shot you take isn’t “the one” or you feel like you just can’t get it right.
But here’s where I need to have a massive reality check with you.
Even when you do finally hit that one amazing shot, your next one, and the one after that might be shit.
I know, I know, so positive of me to say, right?
Well. Golf is hard. But it’s worth it.
When you finally let go of the “omg this is so hard” and “I’ll never get it” thoughts, not only will you have more fun, I’m telling you right now, your golf game will improve.
I don’t know the science behind it, but it just will.
The bad rounds don’t mean you’re bad. And the good rounds don’t mean you’re on your way to the pros. Golf just does what it wants and your only job is to keep showing up until the good ones start outnumbering the chaos. Which they will. Eventually. Probably. 🤷
But none of that matters as much as the first time. Because once you know what it feels like to hit it right…like, really right, you’ll never “unknow” that feeling.
It lives in your hands. And every time you step up to the ball there’s some part of you that knows it’s possible because you’ve felt it before.
So if you haven’t had your first yet…it’s coming. And when it does, you’re going to want to tell someone immediately.
That’s literally what this newsletter is for.
— Delaina
Founder of 1930Fore & The Golf Tea
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