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The Lounge => The Lounge => Topic started by: bo1142 on January 17, 2012, 02:25:21 PM
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I picked up golf about two years ago, around the same time I stopped racing motorcycles. I have completely fallen in love with this game. When I was younger, I would have never thought that I would have been a golfer, but I am glad I am. It is so much more than a game. It is a true test of mental toughness. Are there any other golfers here?
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HECK YES!!! Oh man don't get me started! I bag is a mixed bag:
I'm a lefty... ;D
Driver: 10.5* Cleveland 460 Launcher
3 wood: Callaway Steelhead+
5 wood: Spalding (the best 5 wood I've ever hit)
5-PW: Tommy Armour Evo 31's
GW: Cleveland 53* Gunmetal 588
LW: Titleist Vokey Raw 58*
Putter(s): Scotty Cameron Pro Platinum Newport II, and couple of PING Kushins ;D
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Love my golf, not that I'm any good. I play with Ping G2s and prefer links courses.
Not been able to play for a few months due to tendonitis in the elbow; so my clubs are currently collecting dust.
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I've played golf since I was about 8YO, my dad took me with him when he would go to play. I played in HS and a little in college and I did a stint as an Asst Mgr at a golf course a few years back.
It's a disease, once bitten you cannot shake it. I go hot and cold on it - sometimes I go several years without playing much and then at times I play several times a week. I'm a lefty but golf righty and have a handicap of about 11.
A couple of the more notable courses I've played are Pebble Beach (CA), Old Works (Anaconda, MT), Spearfish Canyon (SD) and several other courses in the Monterey/Carmel Valley CA area.
I play with Callaway irons, Odyssey putter, Cleveland wedges, Titleist driver, and some old Callaway Steelhead woods - planning on upgrading this year as I won't be working so I plan on playing alot more.
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I'm not a golfer, but my dad was so I grew up watching the tournaments while eating dinner from a TV table in the living room! :D So I developed a genuine appreciate for the sport and still enjoy watching it. Miniature golf is more my style! :P
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Miniature golf is more my style! :P
When I was a teen, there used to be a chain of miniature golf places known as Putt-Putt. Typically there were three 18-hole courses at each location. In the summers the one near my house had a play-all-day for $6, or something like that. I and a buddy would go about once a week, so we got to know the courses pretty well. I once shot a 21 on an 18-hole course. ;D That's my claim to golfing fame.
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Not golf, but billiards!
Kinda the same, in a different sorta way!
;)
I'm no Jeanette Lee or Karen Corr (for a number of reasons) but I can hold my own on 6 and 9 footers at the bar.
-K
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I started playing golf when I retired about 4 years ago. My wife told me to get out of the house and find something to do...
I took lessons for a while and still do when I get into a slump. I am currently a marshal at a public course in my subdivision. I work one day a week without pay and I get to play the other six days for free. This is the best job I have ever had and I make $0 money doing it. I am currently a 9 hcp and hope to get better..
Golf has a great big learning curve, but it can be rewarding. Like one of my teachers told me when I started, "its a game of a lifetime".
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I'll be playing at Sawgrass this August, which I'm excited about. I plan on losing a whole sleeve on 17. Then it off to Pinehurst to play #2.
I'm a 12 hcp right now, but I hope to get to single digits this year. If I could dial in my driver, I think I've got a chance.
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Have played since I was a kid. Played in high school and one year in college as a walk-on. Held a +0.2 handicap at one time in my life. I now play to a 6 or so. I have learned so many lessons on the golf course which have taught me much about life. Great sport.
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My dad had a group of golfing buddies who played almost every Saturday and Sunday mornings. One of the guys was a dentist who was not very good. When it came time to write down their scores on some of the holes, quite often the dentist would announce a number that was LOWER than what he really shot. :o None of the other guys liked it (because the loser would spring for the drinks) but they kept quiet.
Have any of you encountered other players like this, and if so, did anyone ever speak up? ???
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Cindy, I usually play for money, so if someone tries to fudge a scorecard, we jump them pretty hard. I have played with some people that have shot a 12 on one hole, and I even lost count of how many swings he took, so i can understand an honest mistake. If I play a practice round, I usually won't keep score. I prefer to play match play when betting because of the fact that people can't change their scores as easily, but it doesn't let you know what you "really" shot that day, either. My uncle taught me the game, and the first thing he told me was to count every strok, every OB and every drop, if not, you don't know how good you actually are. At first it was very hard to write down a 115 and the end of the day, but it made it that much better writing down a 82 last summer. I earned it!
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.........I have played with some people that have shot a 12 on one hole.........
Ha, that was me...... ;D
Seriously, I love the game, you sure have done well only playing for a short time and have a low hcp. This year my main issue was the approach shots, I get off the tee well, usually chip and putt ok, but could not get on the green.
I really like practicing the short game and even took the Dave Pelz course in Boca Raton a few years ago.
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I have played with some people that have shot a 12 on one hole, and I even lost count of how many swings he took, so i can understand an honest mistake.
Let's just say that there was a time when this guy's math was questioned, but he would gruffly brush off the comments and make it clear his score would be noted. It got to the point where none of the other guys liked having him in their group but no one would say anything. I just wondered if anyone else has a somewhat regular player in their group who mars the enjoyment of the game. :o
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I have played with some people that have shot a 12 on one hole, and I even lost count of how many swings he took, so i can understand an honest mistake.
Let's just say that there was a time when this guy's math was questioned, but he would gruffly brush off the comments and make it clear his score would be noted. It got to the point where none of the other guys liked having him in their group but no one would say anything. I just wondered if anyone else has a somewhat regular player in their group who mars the enjoyment of the game. :o
Yes, unfortunately there are people that no matter what you shoot they beat you by a stroke, I generally don't bet so for me it's not an issue. The issue for me tho' is sandbaggers (cheaters who post higher scores than they shoot in order to get a higher hcp for tournaments), they frustrate me to no end and make it difficult to compete on even ground in tournaments. I don't play in many tournaments anymore BC of that.
I have played in events where I had to birdie a hole just to tie and that's not right.
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you sure have done well only playing for a short time and have a low hcp
My uncle is a scratch golfer and we're both members at the local club, so everytime I play with him, it's like having a coach with me. I worked really hard last year on short game, which shaved the strokes off my score. My biggest problem now is the mental game and course management. My ego will tell me I should try a shot that my brain knows is a low percentage of success. That's the bad part about testosterone; it clouds your judgement. I've always been athletic, which most people I play with say it really helps out, but we'll see what this year holds after the surgery I just had.
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It is nice to play with someone like that and for sure the short game is the key. I got so I could chip in on a regular basis which is always fun to show off. You are so right about course management - too many times I stood in the treeline and thought "of course I can split those trees at 150 with this hooded 4 iron.....just like Tiger would" ;D When I began to think about how to play the hole from the green back I got much lower scores, I discovered I was pretty good at 100yds so I learned to play to that spot rather than just "gripping and ripping" my way down the hole.
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Yes, I am a golfer... and my first post on this forum! HAD to answer the golf topic before introducing myself, formally!
I started playing in the early 60's, when my folks got divorced and my Mom re-married; we moved to 80 yards from the 10th green at one of the (then) Top 20 Toughest courses in California, Yorba Linda Country Club... at first, golf was a way for me to get out of the house, get away from my EVIL STEP FATHER - of course, he wasn't evil at all, just in love with my Mother!
I was fat when I was a kid, and too slow for basketball or even running the bases in baseball... so when I found golf, I thought "Cool! I just hit it hard and don't have to run!". I was naturally adept at the game, if that's possible; broke 100 the first time I played (fudged a couple of shots), then broke 80 the first MONTH I played (again with the fudged shots...). It didn't take long for me to realize that keeping accurate account of one's score was simply the WAY IT IS in golf... good rule for life, too!
Although I have found that music and golf share so much in common with one another, it was actually my decision to play music for my life's path that separated me from the game. I walked away at 15 years old, in 1966, having Varsity lettered on the High School team for 2 years running; I shot a 67 in a high school match, when I was 14, and the only thing I got for that accomplishment was a lot of ribbing from my friends for "playing a girl's game"!!! Junior Golf is MUCH more widely supported now...
Came back to the game in 1987, thanks to a few good friends - they said they were going to play, and I said "I used to be pretty good at that game..." - being men, they immediately said "Oh Yeah? Let's just SEE how good you are!" I fell back in love with the game, much more than when I was a kid... a lot of the game that I didn't care for became the very things I LOVED about the game... the walk, the time between shots, the seemingly paradoxical nature of the game itself (Want to hit it far? Swing Easy!), the short game, golf course design...
I had just inherited a little bit of money, and I bought a great set of sticks; athe very ones I would have bought, back in the day, had I the money... and I set about making up for lost time. I lived in the SF Bay Area, and quickly played darn near every course within 100 miles! Northern California is chock full of wonderful courses to play that are affordable...
Handicap quickly got down where it was when I was a kid, a 4 or 5... and I hit the SAME WALL that had partially stopped me, way back when... which got me into sports psychology, and Dr. Bob Rotella. I can not tell you how important his book, "Golf is NOT a Game of Perfect" was, and is to me... all of the troubles I had just went away, because I WAS THE ONE IN CHARGE of how I reacted to any of the "disasters" that can befall the player during a round of golf...
Handicap down to a .7 index, I started thinking of the Champion's Tour (then the Senior Tour), and began to prepare to play in some official tournaments... then I was in a car accident, hit by another driver... and all of a sudden, I could barely play 18 holes, let alone the "dawn to dark" regimen I had previously employed... but I kept playing because I just LOVE THE GAME!
In 1999, I moved down to the Monterey Peninsula, lost some steady music jobs and needed to find another way to make money; a friend told me I should call the Cypress Point Club and see if they needed any help... I was stunned that I could just CALL THEM! (For those unaware, Cypress Point is a bit of a "Sistine Chapel" to golfers; VERY hard to get to play and one of, if not THE world's best golf course...). I began to caddie at Cypress, part-time, but stayed there for a decade and took time off of playing in bars and restaurants...
I still play, although infrequently, handicap is up to a 6; I've had some physical issues with my hands swelling up and blistering after just a few holes, so I haven't been out much, of late. I am, however, in the midst of attending to that problem, and my fond hope is to be playing a couple times a week very soon...
Golf is just THE BEST GAME EVER INVENTED BY MAN!!!
play on.....................................................................>
John Seth Sherman
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I have been playing at the game of golf for a while. I haven't seemed to master the swing. Biggest problem is that I coach Baseball in the summer and hitting fly balls to the outfield totally messes up my golf swing. But i enjoy playing.