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ForeOnRoad · #1 (**permalink**) April 12th, 2005, 01:57 AM

Hello. I just found the board and signed up.

I live in Salt Lake City and spend a lot of time playing golf. I started when I was seven. I'm 38. I have a 5.3 handicap now, but the season here is just starting and it's time to learn how to play again

. It looks like I have some work to do to start shooting in the 70's again. I had the great privilege of being unemployed for a year a couple of years ago, played plenty of golf, and got my handicap down to 3.9. I aspire to be in that situation again by choice.

I like to play in a couple of men's associations during the week (Valley View and Bountiful Ridge) and usually play in a tournament Saturday. There is usually a UGA or men's association tournament somewhere

.

My "day job" has been as a software developer since I was 20. I was programming PC's starting at about age 12 (1980 or so). I had an Atari 400 back then (with a membrane keyboard). I stayed with Atari computers for several years. My last was an ST which was an absolute joke, but Atari was pretty much "done" by then. I did manage to write a large commercial quality application in C that got published by STart magazine, but settled for that because of a lack of market for any software then. Over the past 12 years or so I have been an Oracle developer and have been focusing on Web development with Oracle databases the past few years.

I was a Shareware author in the early 90's. I wrote VB Icon Browser, VB Icon Extractor, and LAN/BBS Tournament Golf. The first two were Windows programs. The latter was a multi-user tournament oriented golf game

that was played on BBS's and local networks. This was long before the Internet became popular. VB Icon Browser was sold as a commercial product in retail stores. My company name was Valley Programming.

After the early 90's I pretty much gave up writing software on my own time. However, for some weird reason

I recently developed some unique web-based golf software. So far, I have spent about 700 hours of my own time on it

. I hope it catches on, but software development is always a risk for individuals. The time and effort is usually completely lost.

I also do some fly fishing and snow boarding. We don't get much of a chance to play golf in the winters here

. I picked up snow boarding a few years ago after trying skiing for a couple of years. I love to snow board. Like golf, the scenery can be spectacular. This is also the case with fly fishing. There is plenty of great scenery in the Salt Lake area. I'll probably post some pictures here.

I'm looking forward to being a member here. If you are interested in fly fishing, I recommend this forum: http://www.utahonthefly.com.

Fore! Fore Left! Fore on Road! (mostly a Bountiful Ridge reference

)

***victory*** · #2 (**permalink**) April 12th, 2005, 02:59 AM

Welcome to Golf Rewind, ForeOnRoad! I checked out your Web site www.mygolfdomain.com and found it interesting. My enjoyment of the game of golf led me to start this forum. Anyway, I'm looking forward to hearing more from you soon and seeing your pictures of the Salt Lake area.