my step-father got a family membership at the country club when i was 10 yrs old......at first i was just excited about the swimming pool, and being able to fish the ponds....but he took me golfing w/ him one day, and i've loved the game ever since.
I have been wanting to learn to play golf most of my teenage and adult life. It was something all of the men in my family did after family gatherings and such. I always went along for the ride, and would try to hit a few but was always told to get back in the cart. I always wanted to take lessons but I always had too much to do. In High School there was Football, Band, ROTC, Rifle Team, Orienteering. Then off to college, and football, band, ROTC, Fratenity, Girls, Booze. After I got married and graduated there was never anytime because I worked on the road all of the time.
My father and brother-in-law play golf whenever both of them are in town, and one Easter weekend they asked me if I wanted to come. I told them I did not want to slow them down, I did not know how to play, did not want to embarass myself, and all of that but they insisted. I hacked away all day everyonce in awhile getting ahold of the ball but nothing spectacular. Until the 18th hole that is. A 514y Par 5, plays down hill to a pond that cuts the fairway about 280 from the tees, then back up hill to the green. Tight fairway woods to the right and a cliff to the left. My Father in law teed up his driver and laid up in front of the water, My brother-in-law teed up and a 3 wood and laid up in front of the water. I pulled driver and ripped it barely clearing the water and barely landing on the other side. High-fives all around. My father in law pulls 3 wood and lays up in front of the green, my brother in law pulls 3 wood and hooks it into the side of the cliff about 90 out from the hole. I pull 5 wood and run it up on the green. I am beginning to think I have this golf thing all figured out and will be playing with Tiger in no time. then I 3 putt for par (my lowest hole all day), and figure I still have it beat and will just need some work.
I have been trying to work it out ever since and still haven't figured it our. I have also played that course 30 times since then and have never carried the water again. But I was hooked, 2 weeks later I was taking lessons with clubs from my family and my brother-in-law, now I am building clubs for them.
Funny how one hole on one day could make you sicker than any drug addict.
me and 3 friends were drunk and we joined a nighttime golf tournament in a spur of the moment decision. After that I was hooked although I think I did better when I had trouble seeing the ball in the dark.
I started golfing....hmmm lets see. I was pretty down in the dumps in my life, i lost my sister and she was only 22. It was a eally hard time for me. I had a friend ask me to play 18. I didnt even have any clubs, so i borrowed my fathers. After we played i probably shot a 120. I loved how hard the game was. I made it a point to myself that i was goign to get better. Now 2 years later i have a 15 handicap. I play all the time. I spend way to much money on it. I would rather pay a greens fee than to have money for lunch. This is a true story!
I started playing golf at age 12 while I was a caddie at Moraine Country Club and everytime I would tell people where I worked there response was always "man I would kill to play that course". After hearing that about 25 times I realized how lucky I was to even walk on the course, so every Monday for the next 10 years I played out there greens fee free. That ladies and gentelmen is why I started playing golf.
It just happend one day. I always would watch it on tv from time to time, and had the Tiger Woods video game, but I never really wanted to go. Plus I was scared to go, knowing that I didn't really know how to play the " Actual " game. One day my brother and I decided to go to the driving range and see how we hit the ball. Slice, hook, hook, straight, slice....even though we were not any good, we still had a blast. Once we actually played a round,....well,... we were hooked for life. Of course it always takes a couple of beers before we get any kind of rythm going. LOL!!
Never had any interest in the game and probably safe to say I just didn't find it interesting. Over the years heard more about it, put teams together for tournaments, and threatened to start playing. Finally did. Started when I was 43 and will turn 46 in a few weeks. It has proved to be a most enjoyable game from pure entertainment, social, and business reasons. While no regrets, I wish I would have started earlier.
i started golf mainly from the first tee. Since the tour professional saw potential from me, and since i was african american and being mocked from other african americans for playing a "white sport" along with stares from other people on the golf course, i was fueled from the beggining to excel at this sport. now only 2 years later, i think i have advanced quite reasonbly considering the time, and hope to get better. Also, Tiger Woods also helped me because if he can make it, so can i.
We were going up to the lake and I'm not a big fan of swiming, I saw that there was a free sand green course, bought some clubs at a thrift shop and learned to golf.
I took up the game from my fatherwhen i was 16, it was he that thought me to play golf, because he was playing it for 20+ years before i was born, and in his prime was a +4 handicapper at the local corse. He tought me all the basics at first and we did the same practice routine, that some of the pros do and that is, start with hitting a couple wedges and work you way through your bag.
I started golf after tearing my rotator cuff in AA baseball. Not that i was some baseball stud. But i needed a not so shoulder strenuous sport to pick up
May 21st, 2007, 10:12 PM
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