[speaker001:] um do you golf yourself or are you a spectator
[speaker002:] well no I I try
[speaker001:] you try
[speaker002:] my husband and I uh took it up last year last summer so
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh
[speaker002:] we try and it it we really enjoy it we're having a having a good time although can be rather frustrating how about you
[speaker001:] do you did you take a class or did you just start
[speaker002:] um we took a golf clinic there was about I don't know twelve fifteen people in it
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh
[speaker002:] and we took lessons for about seven weeks we went once a week and and that's how we got started
[speaker001:] oh that oh that probably helped a lot I'm more of a spectator I I have been a couple of times with my husband but I
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] um I'm more of a spectator my relatives have a cabin and it's right on the fifteenth hole of a golf course
[speaker002:] oh how nice
[speaker001:] it is and we just love to sit and watch the the people golf it's it's fun to see them I I enjoy looking at
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] noticing different golf courses and the way they're set out you know the the layout and are some of them harder than others or
[speaker002:] yeah oh yeah definitely
[speaker001:] they're do they have so they do they name the golf courses like this is a you know beginning one intermediate or
[speaker002:] you know I've never really heard of it but they do something called the slope rating
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I'm not into it that much to really know but I think that has something to do with how easy or how hard the course is
[speaker001:] oh oh
[speaker002:] um uh my dad has talked about it and I'm just kind of like okay whatever so I'm not really sure or not but I think that's how they rate the the different courses
[speaker001:] oh so now when you go do you take a caddy or do you just go yourself or
[speaker002:] oh no we go ourselves a lot of time we'll walk just to get in the exercise uh depending on how the weather is if it's too hot or something then we'll then we'll ride but we we just like you know getting outdoors and
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] and walking around and playing and
[speaker001:] spending the time together probably
[speaker002:] yes and that's something that that's a sport that a husband and wife could do together
[speaker001:] oh yeah do you
[speaker002:] so we we you ought to take it up it really is a lot of fun
[speaker001:] it looks fun and it doesn't look that difficult I mean I'm sure that's what everybody says that hasn't tried it
[speaker002:] yeah well you know you sit there and watch the pros on TV and it's like oh they make it look so easy and you're going oh I can go out and do that and then you get out there and it's kind of a different story
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh oh well that's what I I noticed uh the golf course that we watch most the times they have you know the sand traps and the little lakes and there's a a river going through the middle of it and the trees and
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I think boy I in fact we do find a lot of golf balls off to the side of the road that have been hit off you know and and that's fun we enjoy walking looking for the golf
[speaker002:] oh yeah yeah
[speaker001:] golf balls now how long does it take to to to play a round of golf
[speaker002:] usually if you're gonna play eighteen holes it usually takes about four hours
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] a lot of times um you know you've got groups in front of you and sometimes you have to wait and and that kind of thing so it you know it can take take a long time
[speaker001:] um-hum do you usually play the full eighteen rounds or do you just do the nine or
[speaker002:] sometimes we do nine it just kind of depends if we decide to go out you know in the afternoon and just want to go and play nine then we'll do that but usually we play eighteen
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh so would you recommend taking a class before you just go out on the course and try and try and start golfing
[speaker002:] yeah probably so just so that you know you know the courtesy and and get at least the basics down so you feel a little bit confident because I know the first time I went out to play I waited until I took all the lessons
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I was I was so embarrassed because I thought oh I'm gonna be holding people up behind me and they're gonna be laughing and
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] you know you just I guess you just get nervous and then after you've been out a few times you just say
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] oh well you kind of get used to it
[speaker001:] uh so do you have your own clubs or do you you each have your own set of clubs
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah we each have our own clubs when we took our lessons the instructor provided clubs for us because which was really good
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] because you know when you're just starting out you don't know what type of clubs to use you know what's the best for you and so there's no sense in buying a set and then finding out later that you really should be using something else
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah no uh-huh well that's my husband he took a class in college and he really enjoyed it and
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] I've since thought about buying him some clubs but I don't know the first thing about it you know and I wouldn't even know where to begin whether
[speaker002:] yeah well you can go to you know a golf shop or something that's what we did when we went to go look for them and they helped us out a lot
[speaker001:] oh oh to tell you the lengths to get and
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and the different type of oh well that's interesting huh
[speaker002:] yeah so that that helps
[speaker001:] boy I'll say yeah because I like I say I don't even know where to where to start what to do but I guess that's I'm sure there's books and on on golf that you could read too so
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] so do you have a favorite course that you usually go to or do you
[speaker002:] well we have we have one that it's not our favorite one but it