How long have you been playing this game for?

[slugger]

I've been playing for around 18 months...

I did swing a club a few times when i was a lot younger, but not regularly. I remember last hitting a ball when i was 13ish and then picked up a club again 20 years later!

 

[Dodger]

Starting as soon as I could swing a club as my old man took me down to the course and I have been a member since I was 9 so for 25 years now and played competitively for probably 23 of those.

 

[Brendan]

Played for 8 years, then on and off for 10 years and now back rearing to go. and im just 28 so loads of time before i take on tiger.

 

[mono217]

I have been playing for 3 years now

 

[RGDave]

5 years (1992-1997) now 21 months (since late summer) 2007

Almost 7 years then.

 

[Jonny_Stevenson]

32 years!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Started when I was 10 until about 20 and then gave up until late twenties/early thirties and then gave up again for a few years until I was about 39 so I reckon 20 years in total

 

[DCB]

Played my first full round at Silverknowes golf course in Edinburgh during the summer of 1972. Scored 129 with an 11 at the par 5 18th ! Happy days

Never looked back since then. It's a way of life now.

 

[Eejit]

August 09 was my first round and have been hooked ever since, started with a Handicap of 26 and it quickly went up to 27.4, now off 17.5 and hopefully coming down further. ;0)

 

[RichardC]

Started playing about 12 years ago and stopped for about 3-4 years due to work commitments. I am now on that road again, getting back in the groove and hopefully back to my old handicap of 13.

 

[madandra]

I started playing up the park as a kid with my niblick 9 iron. I got my first full set in 1996 and got a cap of 23 and was off 9 in 1999 but work and other commitments have meant golf being a past time rather than an obsession.

 

[Imurg]

First time I swung a club was probably in '89. Dabbled with mates until '93 then full throttle!
So 20 years

 

[Molly]

RichardC - where do you play? I am a member at The Ridge

 

[Thor]

15 years as a club member, a few years prior to that deciding how to fill the gap in my life left by being past it for serious soccer!

 

[Herbie]

Apart from knocking some balls about on the local playing fields as a kid, I seriously started aged 19 and have played on and off for what will be 32 yrs this yr.

 

[John_Findlay]

I started when my annual subs were £35 a year! Can you get a round for that now?

Picked up the game when I moved to Nairn in 1980 as a 13 year old. How can you not? Played regularly until I started work in 1989 getting down to h/cap of 10, lapsed for 14 years and then took it up again seriously 2003, starting off at h/cap 13 again.

I have to say that 14 year gap was a waste of life! What was I thinking?

 

[Smiffy]

First picked up a club in 1986, played regularly from '88 to 2000 when I left my then club and golf took a back seat up until about 8 or 9 months ago when I started to play regularly again.
My handicap was coming down quite nicely just prior to leaving my club and I reckon had I stayed I would be off single figures by now. Bugger...

 

[Brendan]

August 09

At least you picked a good user name

 

[Eejit]

Ha Haaa! I know, i tried to edit it to 2005 but was too late so feck it i will have to leave it on there. Bejayzuss. ;0)

 

[rgs]

Played Pitch & Putt as a young teen. Dabbled with golf from 16 till 32 playing the odd game when my other sporting life allowed.
Joined a society in 1994, joined the club 3 years ago.