On Friday (yesterday) I and a bunch of colleagues (all beginners) from my work place decided to take our first shot at golf, by testing our hitting (not sure if this is the right term) skills with a club at a close-by driving range. I quickly wrapped up my Fri'day-end activities (like filling in time sheets in hundred different applications for zillion different tasks) and reached the driving range. None of us had a "club", and our attire was totally formal... so we weren't really sure whether or not the driving range is going to allow us to hit a few balls. Fortunately, the package also included a golf club along with a basket of balls and most importantly they did not care about our formal attire. They had three different sizes of buckets.. small (50 balls), medium (75 balls) and large(100 balls). So I took a medium basket and a medium size club... for starters, I didn't know how to hold the club... instead of embarrassing myself in front of other pro's there, I quickly approached the person in-charge of collecting the balls from the ground, and asked him for some beginner tips. He was gracious enough to teach me some basics in less than five minutes. Thats it, I then started hitting some balls. It felt really amazing... some of my initial shots were very poor and embarrassing, but after hitting 10-15 balls in different directions, I was able to hit it straight and was on a role. I liked it very much for the first experience.
After hitting 50+ balls, one of my buddy mentioned his week full of frustration at work, kind of started going down. I guess Golf can also be a very good "frustration management" technique.
