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Just got my wife into the game as well. Well back into it I guess since she played some when she was little. Her dad, and two brothers play a fair amount and live on a course so golf has always been very prevalent in her family. We talked for a while about getting her a set of clubs and getting started, but it never happened. Then about two weeks ago she won a golf bag in a raffle at a bar, and shortly after that she expressed serious interest(she said "I mean I already have the bag" lol). Her brother remembered he still had his old set of clubs in her parents garage that she could use. They were his HS clubs(orig TM burners) so he had them cut down a bit, which was perfect. We pieced together the rest of her set from the other clubs(a few old Callaway BB's/Steelheads) there. I took her out on the course for her first 18 at a pretty easy, and wide open course. She shot 111, not a bad start for someone just seriously picking up the game. She drained about 4 putts of 15' or more, which was a back breaker for me b/c I couldn't even make anything inside 5' haha.

My only advice is to stress patience. Being around it alot more than most, my wife already knew the basics of the swing. It just took some tinkering to get her hitting the ball decent and we were on the way. We had messed around playing on the little par 3 her dad lives on and I'd seen her get frustrated quickly there, so I did everything I could to stress having patience and not get frustrated b/c it was her first time out. Her biggest issue was from about 50yds in and chipping. At first it was hard for me to teach her the kinds of shots to hit, b/c from those distances it's alot of feel, but I think she started to understand what I was saying after a few holes, and started to understand those feel shots alot better. Patience is definitely the key though, and something you can't stress to your fiance enough.