I definitely agree that it shouldn't be loud enough that it can be heard by anybody outside your own group on the golf course. If people can hear your music from two holes away, you need to turn that s**t down. I keep mine at a volume where I can hear it in the cart while sitting still, can barely hear it over the wind/cart noise while the cart is moving, and can't hear it standing on the green from where the cart is parked on the cart path. We'll get a little looser with the volume if we're playing in something like a charity scramble, which are usually a drunkfest party atmosphere anyway - but for everyday rounds with friends, I like to keep it discreet and mellow. No need to turn the golf course into an outside concert venue.
That’s hilarious. Both that you think this is “self congratulation” and that you belittle the congnitive and social capabilities of high schoolers.
I'd consider earbuds if I was playing solo and the course wasn't crowded. But I'm very rarely out alone and wearing earbuds/phones would cut me out of the socialization with the rest of the group, so I save the earbuds for the gym - where I don't want to talk to anybody else anyway.
I’m sure it irks some of the “traditionalists” that I let my HS kids play music while they practice, eh?
Former (until just this year) HS teacher here.
Former (until just this year) HS teacher here.
I let my kids listen to music in class because I was one growing up whom it allowed to focus in, and school isn’t a job interview as imo that’s a very old school thought process. I’d rather a kid be able to lock in and do work than be distracted by his or her neighbors. Plus, it’s fact that “giving” them something like that makes 90% work harder for you and listen more when you’re speaking. As with anything, it has its rules and limitations and when they feel they’re getting a reward, they have no issue following.
On course, I want my kids to WANT to be there. I want to actually grow the game rather than just talking about it as most of the world does. The music sets the hook, it makes the struggle more bearable and it leads them to pass way more time on the course than they otherwise would. It’s also a hell of a lot more productive than a coach just yelling at them they have to stay until whatever o’clock. As with in the classroom, they have rules, they have rules of volume and music selection, they have rules of turning it off when groups come to play through, and if they don’t follow the rules they lose the right, which teaches them way more than comparing it to a job interview, imo.
Like kids have to adapt to the world, so too should teachers and coaches.
JMO of course, and we are all entitled to our own for sure!
And by the way, my golfers do well. I have two college golfers with two more going to sign this year in just 5 years running the program. Not to mention multiple all staters and teams that qualify regularly for state. So don’t judge seriousness based on your preconceptions
The world evolves, doing things the same way they’ve been done forever just because that’s they way they were is crazy to me. The world we live in now and that these kids are going to live in is different than ours was, and no amount of crying “back in my day!” Is going to change that.
