How many times have I stood on the first tee with a bunch of gawking onlookers, and I said to myself, 'this is gonna be ugly'. Too many times to count. For some reason, I imagine the onlookers are perfect golfers who will just bust out in laughter when my ball dribbles down the hill, a few yards, after a massive swing by me.
How do you get over the first tee jitters?
Well, the obvious thing is to relax. But that is no small thing. I'm not sure how we all get wired like we are, but for some reason we are built with this desire to "impress" complete strangers. All I can say is , it does get better with time. I think this may be more isolated to older people learning to play. It seems like the older you are, the more fear a person has of "doing something dumb" in public.
One piece of advice that has helped me some, is to just use a 3 wood or something that you can hit fairly consistently. You have to resign yourself to the fact that if you are playing with others that have a handicap of 30 or less, you are not likely to hit as far or as straight as they do off the tee. Add in the "first Tee Jitters" and you get what I mean.
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