[speaker001:] in the evening back there now isn't it
[speaker002:] pardon
[speaker001:] what time is it back there right now
[speaker002:] it's uh about seven thirty
[speaker001:] oh okay
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so have you been golfing yet this year
[speaker002:] uh no actually I'm uh quite a beginner I'm very green I just got my first set of clubs this year for Christmas but I have uh gone out to the driving range once or twice
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] to uh see if I can work on my swing a little bit
[speaker001:] oh good yeah I'm not that much I've gone about I guess about twenty twenty five times
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] no I'm not a beginner but I'm not a novice either
[speaker002:] little bit more experience though
[speaker001:] yeah yeah it takes quite a bit I used to go just about every day during this one summer and I did really good and then the more I practiced the worse I got
[speaker002:] really
[speaker001:] so I got frustrated but I heard that happens to everyone
[speaker002:] now how how much out of the year or how long out of the year can you play where you live
[speaker001:] um we couldn't start playing right now there's a few courses open
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] um pretty much until end of probably October and if it snows or not
[speaker002:] oh that's not bad uh-huh
[speaker001:] so it is a quite a long season
[speaker002:] I would have thought that uh this time of the year here I might be able to get out a little bit but uh Winter seems to be dragging on up here and we have snow right now
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] but uh I noticed a lot of the driving ranges outdoor driving ranges do um if if you want to play outside in the cold you can you can sweep the snow off the uh tees and and play from there but we also have a lot of indoor driving ranges and and that's a little bit strange getting used to swinging the club inside and and uh hitting the ball into a net instead of letting it fly
[speaker001:] yeah because you don't know for sure can you tell if you're slice much on those
[speaker002:] um I can tell I can because I slice so terribly bad I'm still trying to work on that
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but uh I don't know I've noticed that it's mostly the real beginners like myself that that will do that it seems like the real experienced people'll wait um until they can play outside and really hit the ball
[speaker001:] uh-huh do you use your own balls on those on the net
[speaker002:] I I'm sorry using own balls my own balls
[speaker001:] yeah when you hit against a net and indoor
[speaker002:] you can get a bucket of balls like you would on an outdoor we're going to try something new we haven't done this yet a a few of us are going to go to a place where they have big uh video screens
[speaker001:] oh they okay provide
[speaker002:] and they advertise courses like Pebble Beach and a few others
[speaker001:] yeah I played that once Pebble Beach I played
[speaker002:] did you do that once oh really the real Pebble Beach
[speaker001:] um no no I wish the the screen one
[speaker002:] yeah oh okay you did that so that must be fairly common
[speaker001:] yeah well they were trying it out here is I did it about gee six or seven years ago
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and so I don't how much more advanced they got when I tried it it was all right
[speaker002:] was it is it like fairly realistic or
[speaker001:] yeah maybe they improved on that because when I did it it was all right but it wasn't that impressive
[speaker002:] no well we haven't done it yet but uh it it sounds like fun and it looked like fun so we figure we'd just go do it once to see what it's like
[speaker001:] yeah I kind of experienced it once
[speaker002:] but I'm getting kind of antsy to to really polish my stroke up a little bit more my father-in-law's a real avid golfer he plays six days a week three hundred and sixty five days out of the year
[speaker001:] oh really retired
[speaker002:] yeah yeah he's retired and living out on the west coast where it's warm enough that he can play outside all year round
[speaker001:] you imagine doing that
[speaker002:] no I don't think I can it's funny because he uh his his knees are shot from uh he was a surgeon and his knees are shot from being on his feet all day everyday
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] and uh he has artificial knees he doesn't get around to well but he still plays eighteen holes of golf everyday
[speaker001:] wow I didn't know that would hurt hurt hurt you standing all the time
[speaker002:] evidently yeah so he uh I don't know he's got his own little golf cart that he putts over to the country club in and
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] and he gets around okay in fact I did go out with him when we were out there for Christmas and went right after I got my clubs I did go out with him once and we uh knocked the ball right it was pretty dull for him seeing how I had to hit it about twenty times before I got onto the green
[speaker001:] that's why I've never chored so much in my life until I went golfing
[speaker002:] yeah uh do you you belong to a club or anything
[speaker001:] no it's just just once in but I'll probably go about three or four times during the summer I don't even have my own clubs
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I usually get a hold of someone that lets me use them I really enjoy the game
[speaker002:] well I'm left handed and I found that I couldn't always get a hold of good left handed clubs or any left handed clubs whatsoever really
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] and I did try it once I'm hopeless I'm not even I can't do anything with my right hand but I did try using right handed clubs once and it it was so awkward for me so I I figured it it might be a good investment I I better be sure and serious about getting into it or else the uh the investment isn't very good
[speaker001:] uh-huh has your wife golfed
[speaker002:] um a little bit here and there not a whole lot she's uh she used to play more but um her shoulders started bothering her