I Bombed. And Gouged.

Taking Your Game From The Range To The Course Can Be Humbling Even For The Pros, But For A Newbie Like Me? Humiliating. Devastating. Sod But True.

- Will Leitch

THE FIRST THING I LEARNED, mere seconds after arriving at the Country Club of the South in Johns Creek, Ga., is that this luxe enclave, where I’m playing my first holes of actual golf in more than a decade, is where the late Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes burned down the house of former Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Andre Rison back in 1994. My intrepid instructor, Jon Tattersall, who at last got me out on the course to see how much consequence his training had mustered, told me this after my first swing on the practice range. After that, it took me a while to take my second one.