Bonding With Your Son Over Golf

First, emphasize accuracy over distance. Don’t get them a top of the line set. You can’t achieve par without accuracy. Juniors will tend to get excited about long, inaccurate drives that leave them just as far from the hole as a much shorter drive would. However, golf isn’t exactly like football or golf where you can bring the child out to the backyard and throw a ball around with them at any age. You should do this towards the child’s game but also towards your own game.

300-yard drives are exciting but you can achieve par without them. The child won’t have the perseverance to improve if he isn’t enjoying it to begin with. If the junior has shown enough interest to warrant purchasing a set of clubs, go ahead and do it. Golf can be a very frustrating game, especially when you begin to take it seriously.

Many a golf career has been cut short because expectations of lower scores never came to fruition or came more slowly than expected, so make sure that the child is having fun first and improving second. Children must be a certain age to learn golf, and by that age you’ll need a little more strategy in teaching them the game than just tossing the ball around. The first important step in teaching the junior in your life golf is to get them excited and maintain that excitement for a period of time. Make sure the child knows that long is good, but straight is better.

Golf can be a great thing for a father and son (or any combination of parent and child) to do together. One of the biggest ways you can do this is encouragement and being positive. Children grow fast and are temperamental in their hobbies; an expensive set could be gathering dust in the garage in a few weeks.

Having their very own set of clubs will often keep children interested in the game long enough to develop some skills. Besides, expensive golf clubs add so little to your game that you may want to consider making an inexpensive purchase on your next set as well. When it comes to the actual instruction, there are a few basic things to keep in mind.

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