Only if you golf..

If you golf, you know this feeling all too well...

Nice idea... seems as if you have a front focus issue.
Ron

I'm kinda new (actually very new) to photography. Could you elaborate and perchance give me some pointers. I was going for just the focus on the ball, not the cup.

I think you have the ball completely in focus and the hole not in focus as desired. My only nit, is that the hole, which takes up most of the image, is out of focus. I'm not sure how to make this particular photo work. It's bothersome for most of the photo to be out of focus. BTW, I'm a golfer

actually the ball isn't the focus point. As Highpixel pointed out the focus is actually a little bit too far in the front. If you look at the grass right in front of the ball that is what is in focus. I think it would be a great image if you get the ball in focus correctly.

Ah gotcha. I will have to recreate the shot and try again with the focus. Like I said I'm still brand new (about a month) into photography and that was with my Rebel XS. Not too bad of a camera but I have (in the mail) a T1i heading my way. Very excited about that.

According to EXIF:

First, if you're in sunlight, iso 1600 is too high. Keep it between 100-400 depending on how bright it is. You have a stationary object, so you could also get away w/ a shutter speed slower than 1/4000th, which will correct itself w/ a lower iso. I would close the aperture a bit, say f/8 - f/11, so that you can get the ball and cup in focus.

I also agree that there's a bit of front-focusing. You'll see that the grass about 1-2" in front of the ball is sharper (more in focus) than Titleist on the ball.

Yes, I am a golfer and yes, I have been in this situation more than once.

Thanks I'm still learning the different ropes around the camera, just picked up a nice 40D today and a Sigma 28-70 2.8 so I'm gonna go and have fun. When I took that shot I had zero clue as to how ISO effected things and all the other sorts. Now that I've got some knowledge I can recreate better shots (hopefully)

I agree with most of what Kevin says, but I would say keep the f-stop as open as you can 5.6 or lower if your lense allows. By lower I mean f-4 and so on. If 5.6 is the best you got keep it there. The image will be stronger with part of the hole out of focus.