Just taken up golf and hooked but problem I have is finding some free time to play. Work 8.30 -5pm then too dark, Kids sport every Saturday and some Sundays. Only another 25 years to retirement I guess.

Took a couple of half day annual leave just to get my fix but cant do that every week.

How do others find the time to play?

I reckon a floodlit golf course would make a killing!

Get kids involved in golf
Get the wife a hobby (golf?)
Semi (or fully) retire
Live right next to a golf course

This has worked for me and I play/practise 5 days per week.

looks like in your case.

YOU DON’T!!!!!!

nah but it what some aussies call a sickie or cut back off a day of work.

sorry i can’t really help im only 13 lol

but you could go to the range durin the night if ya wanted to

Search for a more flexible job !!

Work/Life balance is the BUZZ with large organisations at the moment…

I golf after saturday sport is over, my time is then, and is usually over by lunch.

Otherwise I have big breaks between games,

Nathan

Wait till the kids grow up.

Emerald Lakes on the near Surfers Paradise has 9 holes lit, not the best holes in the world but good fun if you can put up with losing balls….

I work from home and live about a minute away from my club.

Finishing university and getting a real job will be a shock :(

Don’t get a job Finch. You will slowly run out of opportunities to play, your game will go to the pack, and one day you will find yourself throwing clubs and swearing as you hack your way around the course with your ex-dud mates crapping all over you and calling you a has-been.

:)

Just be happy when you get a game. I’d love to play once a week and go to the range once a week but same as you I guess kids come first.

I try to go to the range once a week (it’s been 3 weeks since i’ve been) which I do when my kids go to sleep at lunchtime though i’m thinking at night once there asleep i’ll have more of a chance. The last 2 weekends i’ve been lucky and played a nine hole 20mins from home so i’m only gone 2-3 hours and my BIL’s place is 2 mins from the course so the family dropped me off on the way.

Until my kids are older i’ve just accepted that I won’t get to play every week and aim to play eighteen holes once a month and hopefully squeeze in a range session or 2 or even a quick 9.

With children you make time for them
with golf same same

i work for myself and have a course 5 mins from the office. an understanding wife helps. having said that I am playing today for the first time for 2 – 3 weeks. and it is blowing a gale outside :(

If I didn’t have a flexible job, i’d be asking for every public holiday, extensive play over my real holidays and at least nine holes somewhere every weekend…

Depending on where you live take advantage of the resource boom, get a fly in fly out job, week on week off and play as much as you can on your week off. Another bonus is the money is normally really good as well.

A quick 9 on Sat or Sun after the kids finish their activities is all I can manage at the moment. Not the best but it keep me going. Will try and work in an evening at the range too.

Every day is Sunday for me, I play a minimum twice a week, often three times and sometimes four. A lower back problem slows me up from time to time but I do a lot of stretches to minimise that problem.

Slickone, can I ask what kind of stretches you do? I’m experiencing my first ever lot of persistent lower back pains and dunno what to do!

surely you could drop the kids off to whatever they are doing and squeeze in 18?

I just play and to hell with everyone else :)

Doesn’t win me any ‘best husband and father’ awards but hell I don’t care!

Mr C If you are suffering from persistant lower back pain at your age go to the doctors & try to find out what is causing them. It may be something simple like sitting posture at your desk or similar. You do not want to live the rest of your life with back pain.

surely you could drop the kids off to whatever they are doing and squeeze in 18?

I just play and to hell with everyone else :)

Doesn’t win me any ‘best husband and father’ awards but hell I don’t care!

While I love the game of golf and can’t think of much else I’d like to be doing. My kids come first by a long, long way. Dumping your kids and heading of for golf is along the lines of leaving your kids in the car when you go to the casino – putting yourself in front of them.

It’s parents not giving a shit about their kids that is behind most of the social problems we have today, obesity, violence, binge drinking and low academic achievement.

Golf is a wonderful game, but it is just a game. Don’t put it in front of your kids lives.

My wife and kids are football nuts so i drop them at the game on Friday night or Sat morning, play 18 at a nearby course and then pick them up. As a reward for being such a great husband/father i get to play in my club comp on Sunday morning…......Gold.

Mr.C I have been using a swiss ball for about 6/8 months, usually when you buy one it will have a list of stretch exercises. Also go to a site called AskMen.com, ball exercises,, and you will get an idea of what you have to do. A lot of the exercises are also core strength which we often read about. I have lower back pain, in the middle and in the hip area,which at times.before the ball,was so bad that I could not get out of a lounge chair and walked with a stoop, because I could not straighten up.I went to an Osteopath a few weeks ago just to see what the problem was,and my trouble is, my hips go out of alignment, he puts them back in but because of golf, mainly,the problem persists. They go back in by lying on your belly for about 5 minutes and puting wedges(,cushions), under the hip on the problem side and under the thigh on the other side.I have found that since using the ball the pain is bearable and because I like playing golf, just put up with it. The osteo said hips going out is common and can be caused as well ,by gardening or just bending over at an angle, I think that if I did not play golf, the problem would go away. Hope this helps.

surely you could drop the kids off to whatever they are doing and squeeze in 18?

I just play and to hell with everyone else :)

Doesn’t win me any ‘best husband and father’ awards but hell I don’t care!

While I love the game of golf and can’t think of much else I’d like to be doing. My kids come first by a long, long way. Dumping your kids and heading of for golf is along the lines of leaving your kids in the car when you go to the casino – putting yourself in front of them.

It’s parents not giving a shit about their kids that is behind most of the social problems we have today, obesity, violence, binge drinking and low academic achievement.

Golf is a wonderful game, but it is just a game. Don’t put it in front of your kids lives.

Its not like I’m leaving my daughter alone with plastic bags and matches ;)

I actually disagree with you anyway. My dad played every Saturday while I was growing up and it never harmed me at all.

I get to play golf, my daughter gets to spend time with her grandparents, my wife gets a break from both of us. Everyone’s happy.

It irritates me when people make statements like yours above criticising how I raise my family as if they have perfect lives, children and families themselves!

To say that parents are responsible for every social ill is a ridiculous generalisation in any case.

I’d love to have a battle of wits with you but I’m afraid I refuse to duel with the unarmed.

MrC, Have a look at a web site, Mike Pederson Golf, it is all about flexibility and exercises for golf, plus has a piece on lower back pain.

Make an agreement with your wife that she can sleep in on Sundays if you can go to golf early on Saturdays…....easy

Tell your wife you are going to work, wear your work clothes, but have a change in the boot..along with your sticks.

works all the time