Golf Smarter number of 576 published on January 24, 2017.

It's always the other guy's fault. Really? Let's start the new season with a golf etiquette

refresher with Rick Pipell. This is Golf Smarter. Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great

golf minds to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ.

Here's your host, Fred Green.

Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Rick.

Hi, Fred.

Glad that you're joining us because I get a lot of emails from people asking about etiquette, asking about rules.

And, you know, there's so much emphasis on education of golf for the swing.

But there's a whole different element to golf that we really don't talk about much.

And that's why I'm so glad that you're here.

Talk about your golf education.

Well, Fred, I noticed the same thing you did, that what people find, if they're looking for education on golf, is all about the mechanics.

And my philosophy changed when I started really seeing that more and more.

And I realized that people need to find a way to learn the on-the-course behavior part of the game,

or, you know, to put it simply, the golf etiquette portion of the game.

And when people don't understand that part of the game,

they won't go out on the course. They're embarrassed, they're intimidated, and they feel like

they don't belong out there, and they're missing something great by not learning that part, which isn't as difficult as they may think.

No, it's really not.

It's actually, it's common sense, and that's the thing that is so fabulous about it,

is that most of it is common sense, but you do need to learn it once.

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