Why did you choose to play golf & what do you get out of it most?

[ScienceBoy]

Gave it a go a few times as a kid. Got into it in my early teens, stopped playing it in favour of rugby when I was 15 but dabbled in it for the next 7 years.

Played rugby for a social team at my local club, sadly after two seasons other clubs social teams stopped so we started playing 2nd teams. The hits were too big for a social player so I took up golf again instead... Straight in to a 17 handicap and down to 14 within a year

Short but sweet

 

[kid2]

I wont say that i was forced into it but i always had a slight interest in the game just not enough to get serious about it until 2 years ago...

Im 36 now but 2 years ago while still playing competitive football i had a full rupture to my Achilles Tendon..This put myt life into perspective fairly rapidly as spending 4 months out of work over a game which i played since i was 8 wasnt exactly what i had planned for.

I loved my football.Never drank or smoked and always looked after myself rarely taking time out in the off season...Instaed opting to keep my fitness at a high quality till the start of the following season...

Anyway thats when i took up the golf and initially i threatened to go back playing ball but the words from my physio telling me that the chances of Re-Rupturing the Achilles were even higher than the first time rang through...

So here i am still a Non smoking TEE Totaller (Excuse the Pun) getting frustrated at a smaller white ball but loving every minute of it.

I just wished i had taken up Golf sooner....

 

[Grumps]

i took it up on doctors orders as he told me to get out and do things after a marriage break up .
i now play alot due to works shift patern but its just to stop me lying on sitee being a couch potato but one of these days im going to be more serious and practice instead of just wandering around course on my own .

 

[Deleted member 1740]

Initially to keep me off the ale and out of the bookies but after getting the bug for it, it has now become a challenge to improve and win trophies.

I get quite a bit of exercise and have a good laugh with the lads i play with.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

My dad played and I wanted to so he took me to Sandown Park golf centre as they were doing a week of lessons in the school hols. Basically there was a dustbin full of balls and we could stay until it was empty. The pro showed us the basics and we'd then hit them all. My dad didn't mind as he had time for plenty of beers (not so tough on drink driving in 1976). Showed some aptitude and so got junior membership and progressed to single figures.

I get more out of it now than I did working as an assistant. Then it was about playing the best golf every time and winning was everything. Now I've realised that it is about the company, the enjoyment of the game and only occasionally about the score

 

[stevek1969]

started to play because all my famil play, stopped when i was 13 but started to play again at 26 after giving up football due to injury.

being in the fresh air ,good craic and a sense of enjoyment at times and spending time with my youngest son as he plays as well now.

 

[Mark_G]

Played pitch and putt on holidays a few times, decided that my life needed to change, and I needed to lose weight, Active Norfolk had an introductory offer running with several of the local golf clubs, so I joined, loved it, and am a self confessed golf nut.

 

[One Planer]

Decided to take up golf after my son arrived and spending 4-5 nights in the gym wasn't practical anymore. I'm glad I decided to take up this sport, although it has cost me an arm and a leg on equipment so far.

What do I get out of it. A challange mainly, but the most important thing I get from golf is time with my family.

 

[diesel75]

Watching Greg Norman in the 86 Masters, then being beaten by some old guy called Jack Nicklaus? It had everything that I loved about sport... The more you work at it the more you get out of it, and its a continual learning process.

 

[viscount17]

I didn't choose golf, golf just grabbed hold and won't let go.

what do I get? travelling round the country to other peoples courses to play with bunch of like minded nuts - haven't met a bad one yet.