Kenny Perry: My greatest regret

Golfer Kenny Perry has revealed that he was a slow learner when he started his career and regrets that he should have been a better player, earlier. What's your biggest regret? Is it golf-related or just in life? Time to share your experiences. We're listening...ED
Posted: 30/06/2009 10:55

Biggest regret - not taking out lessons at an early age. At a time when I played golf every week, I didn't improve because my techique was awful. Now I understand it better, but play less and so have no consistency.

Posted: 30/06/2009 11:02

My biggest regret was not taking Golf up at school, where it was part of the Sports Curriculum we even had the Pro from Highgate Golf course come in to the skool (sic) and give 2 free lessons every week!  DOH!
Posted: 30/06/2009 11:07

Mine is stopping playing when i was about 17, my handicap was 6 and i could have got somewhere if i had carried on.

I mean, i have been playing again for about a month and I shot 1 over par for 18 holes last night, and tbh it should have been 3 or 4 under. 

I'm going to try and keep playing and get down to about 4 so i can possibly take my test to do some teaching.

Posted: 30/06/2009 11:12

I'm too busy to read the article, did he show any regret for his blatant cheating or snubbing the Open Championship?
Posted: 30/06/2009 11:44

Didn't take up golf till I was 40 - don't regret it as it would have impinged on the lifestyle that I had with my wife and kids prior to that.

Just wish I didn't listen to the voices in my head when I'm playing

... you know the ones - "mind the bunker" "watch the water" "you can carry the ditch" "It's a seven iron in this wind" "hit this with a bit of fade back into the fairway" "definately a right to left break" "just splash this out over the lip" "3 up five to play - you've won this" "You prat!!!"

Posted: 30/06/2009 11:54

My biggest regret is dumping football and tennis (two sports I can play) for this ridiculous game!  But really I can't think of a regret in golf. If I'd taken up the sport earlier, my other sports would have suffered. If anything, I regret there was no Internet when I did dally with the game as a teenager - it wasn't easy learning the game from people whose best advice was "don't move your head".
Posted: 30/06/2009 12:10

My biggest golfing regret is that in the two years where I was trying my hand as a writer, with no kids, I didn't join a golf club and make the most of all the time flexibility I had.

My biggest regret of all? I'm not telling you!

Posted: 30/06/2009 12:22

I wish I hadnt been such a stubborn bloke, full of macho pride, keeping a stiff upper lip when Tracey Candlish rang me up just before Xmas in 1985 to see if was "OK" after splitting up a few days earlier.

I should have told her I was hurting like hell and wanted to try and rekindle our relationship.

 Muppet.

Posted: 30/06/2009 12:57

So, she got her Christmas Box somewhere else eh?

Yeah, agreed ... muppet

Posted: 30/06/2009 13:23

Oh, I do have another regret - also from around 1985/86. Through my "arm hospital", I was offered a chance to feature in a BBC WWI drama - they needed some limbless people for a number of hospital scenes. I said "no", as I didn't fancy a WWI style haircut (I had a lovely mullet in them days) - but it could have been a launchpad to international stardom.

Posted: 30/06/2009 13:30

No regrets, grateful to have the oppurtunity.........
Posted: 30/06/2009 13:48

Being born. Although I suppose the regret is more on my parents than me!!!
Posted: 30/06/2009 15:40

Slayer wrote (see)

Being born. Although I suppose the regret is more on my parents than me!!!

You might be surprised at the length of queue behind them 
Posted: 30/06/2009 16:39

Regrets?  I've had a few....

k

Starting to smoke is probably the most obvious one i can think of.

Posted: 30/06/2009 16:51

Played contact sports untill I was 45 Seemed like a good idea at the time and though I must say I wouldnt change a thing I do wish I had found Golf before my body was shot to pieces.

If there is a god please give me one round ,where nothing hurts, nothing aches no pulls no cramps,just nice and easy. (ps and let all my drives go straight cheers)

Posted: 30/06/2009 19:42

Wish I'd looked after my teeth better, and not tried to jump a 15 foot stream with rucksack on my back 15 years ago.
Posted: 30/06/2009 20:38

My biggest Golfing regrets are starting in my 30's, wish I started playing when I was in my teens and my second is taking that damned 8 iron for the final hole in a matchplay final when i should of gone for an easy 7 iron! Duffed my ball into a lake along with my chances of winning!
Posted: 30/06/2009 20:43

My main sporting regret is not finding golf earlier, I spent many a day dismissing it as an old mans sport.

Now I have to either admit that I was wrong or concede that I am in fact an old man waaayyy before my time!

Posted: 30/06/2009 20:51

Creosote wrote (see)

Wish I'd looked after my teeth better, and not tried to jump a 15 foot stream with rucksack on my back 15 years ago.

Yea teeth too!

Born 10 to 15 years to soon to take advantage of Fluoride!

Never tried to jump a stream with a rucksack, but did try to play (Foxhills) after badly twisting my ankle in a rabbit hole on the second hole. I limped around and visting the out patients the next day was informed that I probably had chronic damage, and to this day know I put my foot in a rabbit hole.

Moral. Know when to quit.

Posted: 30/06/2009 21:32

My biggest regret???

Went on a football tour of Holland a long time ago. Some of the lads took their girlfriends, and one of them brought along a mate. She was absolutely stunning. Gorgeous. I was dribbling from the moment I clapped eyes on her.

We got on really well the first night, chatting away like we'd known each other for years. I was smitten. Nothing happened. We just chatted, had a laugh and I walked her back to the hotel. But in my mind.....what I wanted to do to her!!

Following day I felt really rough. I mean dog rough. Had gone down with a really bad bug. All the lads and lasses went out that night on the razz. Me? I had a pint or two and went to my room (which I was sharing with my brother Richard). I felt absolutely terrible.

Just after midnight, I heard the bedroom door open, thought it was my brother coming back from the pub. I turned over, opened my eyes and this girl (can't even remember her name now..) had come to see how I was, and give me a "nightcap"...

I said "Hi!" and turned over and went back to sleep.....

What an absolute knob

Posted: 01/07/2009 06:41

Saving your energy for the game the next day Smurfter.

Very noble and Team-minded.

Posted: 01/07/2009 06:57

Paul L 12! wrote (see)

Saving your energy for the game the next day Smurfter.

Very noble and Team-minded.

Was I feck....
Posted: 01/07/2009 07:00