I see lots of people doing just that every time I cover a golf tournament. It’s very simple to just stand there and shoot people doing the same repetitive thing over and over again, pointing a lens at a guy swinging a club and firing off a salvo of motor-driven frames as soon as he wraps the club behind his head. Once you’ve digested that, you’ll be in a better position to take the stuff I can’t give you–your eye and your talent–and apply it to your work out on the course.Īnybody can photograph golf. What I’ve attempted to do below is provide a bit of information that will lay the groundwork for shooting golf–the easy stuff, if you will. Now, I’m not saying that I have all the insight into photographing golf well, nor do I have the market cornered on it. But the very reasons that make it the easiest sport to shoot make it the hardest sport to shoot well. Golf is, in fact, the easiest sport to shoot. And I arrived at the conclusion that I still give people who ask today. It’s all pretty much right there in front of you–player stands there, people get quiet, player hits ball, player walks to ball and does it again.
There’s not really a ball to follow like there is in basketball, and the game isn’t very cerebral (at least for a photographer), like baseball. You don’t have to make any split-second decisions about which player to follow like you might at a football game. I mean, the player isn’t exactly moving very fast, like, say, in hockey. I used to tell people that I thought golf was one of the hardest sports to photograph–but when their laughter got to be too much, I started to ponder their reaction.
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