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Browsing: Beginner Golf
Every golfer starts somewhere. If you have just picked up a club for the first time, or you are thinking about getting into the game and have no idea where to begin, you are in the right place.
Starting golf is genuinely confusing. There are fourteen clubs in a bag and nobody tells you which ones you actually need to begin with. The rules fill an entire book. The etiquette is unwritten but apparently everyone else already knows it. We have been there and we built this section of the site so you do not have to figure it all out on your own.
Our beginner guides cover everything in plain language: how to choose your first set of clubs without overspending, the basic rules you need to know before your first round, how the golf swing works and how to start building one, what to expect on a golf course for the first time, and how to book a tee time. No jargon. No assumptions about what you already know.
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