BrizoH71
Tour Rookie
It's been a long time since I last graced this place, but I'm hoping by doing so will help in some small way of facilitating my return to playing golf as just one small facet of the old golf habits I once employed.
Brief background, I stopped playing in 2018 after around 9 years playing which saw me get down to 10, win a few comps and meet a few GM forumites throughout that time. I loved the game then, played as often as time and money allowed at my own club and at courses across the central belt until things in life changed.
I moved abroad and where I was there no appetitite for the game so not envisaging I'd be back in the UK anytime soon I sold everything related to golf I had to help fund the living pot over there. A couple of years later, Covid forced my return to the UK for financial reasons, but I've had limited opportunity until recently to even consider start playing again. I worked two jobs when I came back, trying to replenish the savings pot in a bid to return to my foreign home while also providing care for my elderly parents. Mum passed in 2023 and with it my foreign return as I couldn't leave my dad on his own so I left job 2 to provide him additional care. He passed away in September 2025 and using a small chunk of his inheritance I decided on a whim to rebuild my golf bag with a view to restarting playing as I'd have a bit more time on my hands now I wasn't killing myself working and my folks were no longer around.
However, having bought everything I needed (or thought I needed) I'm really struggling to recapture the previous bug I once had and I just don't feel the same motivation I held before. The clubs I bought have hit around 300 range balls in the time I've had them, they've never seen the golf course yet and instead sit in the corner of my hallway taunting me everytime I look at them. The balls I've bought haven't even been out of the packaging, never even rolled along the carpet off the putter face.
The current crappy weather perhaps isn't helping my motivation or lack thereof, or maybe I'm expecting too much of myself as I'm not hitting the ball anywhere near the level how I did before and in my mind I don't want to go back until I feel happier in my swing. All this has left me currently feeling that buying the clubs was perhaps a waste of money and its' maybe for the best that I didn't lay out cash for a membership at any of my local clubs as I'd probably be regretting it.
The thought of selling on again has crossed my mind more than once, but I know if I did that I'd probably regret that too... plus I'd rather avoid an earful from the wife if I went down that road.
How do i find that appetite, that motivation to play again?
Brief background, I stopped playing in 2018 after around 9 years playing which saw me get down to 10, win a few comps and meet a few GM forumites throughout that time. I loved the game then, played as often as time and money allowed at my own club and at courses across the central belt until things in life changed.
I moved abroad and where I was there no appetitite for the game so not envisaging I'd be back in the UK anytime soon I sold everything related to golf I had to help fund the living pot over there. A couple of years later, Covid forced my return to the UK for financial reasons, but I've had limited opportunity until recently to even consider start playing again. I worked two jobs when I came back, trying to replenish the savings pot in a bid to return to my foreign home while also providing care for my elderly parents. Mum passed in 2023 and with it my foreign return as I couldn't leave my dad on his own so I left job 2 to provide him additional care. He passed away in September 2025 and using a small chunk of his inheritance I decided on a whim to rebuild my golf bag with a view to restarting playing as I'd have a bit more time on my hands now I wasn't killing myself working and my folks were no longer around.
However, having bought everything I needed (or thought I needed) I'm really struggling to recapture the previous bug I once had and I just don't feel the same motivation I held before. The clubs I bought have hit around 300 range balls in the time I've had them, they've never seen the golf course yet and instead sit in the corner of my hallway taunting me everytime I look at them. The balls I've bought haven't even been out of the packaging, never even rolled along the carpet off the putter face.
The current crappy weather perhaps isn't helping my motivation or lack thereof, or maybe I'm expecting too much of myself as I'm not hitting the ball anywhere near the level how I did before and in my mind I don't want to go back until I feel happier in my swing. All this has left me currently feeling that buying the clubs was perhaps a waste of money and its' maybe for the best that I didn't lay out cash for a membership at any of my local clubs as I'd probably be regretting it.
The thought of selling on again has crossed my mind more than once, but I know if I did that I'd probably regret that too... plus I'd rather avoid an earful from the wife if I went down that road.
How do i find that appetite, that motivation to play again?
) and be patient!
I wouldn't sell the clubs, just keep them there in case you want them. If you just hit balls on the range and never go to the course then that's fine.
