ItsIronic - This will make you laugh too - I don't think you should take up golf unless you do it like me. My husband and I went out to Vegas and some older ladies were behind us, it's polite to let more experienced golfers play through (let them go ahead of you). Well they wouldn't, we asked them a couple of times.
So - long story short, by the end of the golf course I saw a couple of them holding their sides laughing and pointing at me (which just made me laugh too!). I spent the whole 9 holes jumping into the water to retreive the balls I hit in there and yelling to my husband, "Hey, there's a boatload of balls in here, what color do ya want?" He laughed and about died of embarassment. I had the best new golfer experience ever. My golfing was not too good, but the point is to have fun, right? My husband could not argue that I definitely had fun .........
P.S. I didn't wear golf shoes and of course, nobody was SMOKING!
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