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I’m thinking of learning to golf. I can borrow clubs, but not from someone who actually knows golf. What should I know to learn to actually play?
Honestly, head to the driving range once or twice, then grab a friend and just go play. While golf has a very high skill ceiling and is notorious for expensive equipment, a handful of cheap loaner clubs and 15 minutes of youtube videos showing you basic driving form is more than enough to get started. You'll be terrible, but it takes surprisingly little practice to be able to knock a ball around your typical communtiy 3-par course while almost looking like you knoe what you're doing.
Don't bother keeping score, and if you find yourself getting stressed because you're holding other players up, feel free to pull off to the side and let them go ahead of you. This might not work for you if you're super competitive, but for me, golfing occupies the same space as fishing: an excuse to go hang out outside and drink beer with friends on a Sunday morning.
After a couple of months, if you're still into it, book a couple lessons and buy some cheap clubs so you can start getting good.
I'd argue that it's a good idea to go to the driving range a fair bit before playing a round. Having the ball not go where you want isn't very fun, especially when you're making a friend wait for you.
Going to a driving range with a friend is pretty fun as well, so it isn't too bad.
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