Second Term 2024, Third Lesson, 20th of April
Keeping with our DnA philosophy, Distance and Accuracy, Neil and I gave both classes a lesson on what to do when your ball is on the green, marking the ball, repairing pitch marks and...
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Second Term 2024, Second Lesson, 13th of April
Second Saturday of the school term and the order of the day was chipping or the “bump and run” as it is also called. We also had a new girl join us so we’ve...
Second Term 2024, First Lesson, 6th of April
To be quite honest with all the rain that was forecast Neil and I didn’t think we’d be starting the new term on Saturday, but the weather smiled on us for the morning and...
First Term 2024, Ninth Lesson, 16th of March
Saturday, 16 March was our ninth and final lesson of the First Term and it was Drivers. The excitement on the youngsters faces when we told them we were doing drivers was an absolute...
First Term 2024 Seventh and Eighth Lessons, 2nd and 9th of March
On Saturday, 02 March Neil had friends visiting from overseas so I was sailing solo and opted for a second week of hitting 7 irons. I said to the youngsters we’ll have a double...
First Term 2024 Sixth Lesson 24 February 7 Iron
After two Saturdays of rain and wind we woke up to a beautiful morning and were finally able to get the youngsters hitting 7 irons. The focus was on DnA, Distance and Accuracy, and...
First Term 2024 Fifth Lesson 17 February Chipping
I was up nice and early on Saturday morning for a 05:00 bike ride with my wife Robin and the weather was perfect for riding and golf, nice and cool with no wind. When...
First Term 2024 Fourth Lesson 10 February Putting
Neil and I always look forward to our Saturday mornings helping the 1st2EIGHTEEN youngsters with their golf. This Saturday was no exception except the weather was not kind to us, the wind howled. After...
First Term 2024 Third Lesson 03 February Pitching
It was another beautiful but hot Saturday morning in Durban. After two weeks around the green chipping and putting it was time to move a little further away, about 30 metres, and do pitching....
First Term 2024 Second Lesson 27 January Chipping
It was another beautiful Saturday morning for our second lesson of the year and we were privileged to welcome three new youngsters to 1st2EIGHTEEN. As is the norm for our second lesson we did...
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