Why did you, or what made you…

[One Planer]

When my son was born in 2010, I couldn't devote the time needed to personal training and gym work, as, uite frankly, spending time with him and my wife was more improtant.

My dad played, as did a few collegues from work. My dad brought me a starter set and took me to, what is now, my regular course.

First hole is a 360 yards par 4. I think I took 11 from memory.

Next hole used to be a 190 yard par 3 (Downhill). Smashed a 4 iron to about 6ft and decided I actually quite like the game.

Been hooked (..... And broke) ever since :thup:

 

[Robobum]

........Checking all my comp scores from last year I managed to be under 80.

All comp scores under 80 for the year!!??

That's quality going there Tommo - good arrows sir!!

 

[GreiginFife]

Started playing when I was 8. Just something my dad asked if I would be interested in and I, with a couple of friends, joined the closest club to us and the rest is history. Although of the 3 of us that started I am the only one left still playing on a regular basis.
26 years has just flown by...

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Fourth generation member of a golfing family with a garden gate leading onto a championship golf course.

 

[cookelad]

Granddad took it up when I was about 10 and used to take to me the driving range when I went to visit them during school holidays and got bit by the bug straight away!

 

[Whee]

I was invited along to play with 10 or 11 regulars out in Saudi, when I first arrived. Over the few years, most have moved on or stopped playing, but i'm in the small handful that are left playing.

I went along as I was on my own at the time and it was either do nothing for the day, go to the gym, or give something new a go. Pretty much been every weekend since! Well and truly bitten by the bug, bloody thing.

 

[patricks148]

I used to play a lot of Cricket and was quite good at one time, so used to get asked by some evening 20 over friendly teams to be a ringer for them and at one time did it for 4 teams. One lot used to gave a golf day which I was invited to every year, but didn’t really have any interest tbh. The Captain of said team bullied me into going in Sept 2005 and I really enjoyed it. A mate from Uni played a bit and I tagged along with him when he joined Redbourn golf club at the start of 2006. I got a cheap set of Dunlop clubs and took it up from about Feb onwards. The wife wanted to move back to Inverness and there is not much in the way of Cricket up here. Once we moved, I gave up Cricket and joined a golf club up here.

 

[BoadieBroadus]

it ran in my family with my mum, uncle & grandad all being pretty good - i played a little bit as a teenager and while I had an ability to hit the ball, didn't have the temperment to play at that age.

decided to take it up again at about 30 after giving up triathlon (no one would ever try and run me down on a golf course) - got the bug really badly, really quickly and now its taken over...

as a father now, trying to think of how to encourage my boy to the game more effectively than my parents did with me...

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I had relatives who lived in Ainsdale - my uncle was a member of Southport and Ainsdale - or at least used to play there a fair bit. When we visited from Scotland we used to play the pitch and putt on the front at Southport - then when I got a bit older (11-12ish I'm guessing) he'd take me onto Ainsdale Sands and I'd play iron shots off the hard sand and 'bunker' shots in the sand dunes.

My dad had a few hickories and steel shafts kicking about so I then started trying to hit balls in the school playing field across from home (it was 112 paces top to bottom if I recall correctly). One day when 13yrs old I phoned my best mate Alan but he had gone to play golf with another of our mates - Crawford. Hmm - I thought to myself - don't want to get left out here so best start playing myself. And that was that.

We played at local muni (Rouken Glen on Glasgow Southside). It was maybe 3 miles from home. Sometimes I'd decide to play myself so would walk there - play my round - and walk home. Used to talk to some old blokes (in their 70s) before playing (changing shoes in the 'clubhouse' which was an old farm building) and occasionally played with them. As I'm thinking back to the very early 1970s these fellas would have been born round turn of century and could well have started playing in 1910s/1920s. Mind you municipal golf even back in the 1970s was pretty basic - and I soon learned my golf etiquette And the rest - as they say - is fluffs, scuffs and duffs.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Cripes - just Googled Rouken Glen Golf Club to discover it is a James Braid course. Always thought it was a neat little layout with some really good holes - now I know why.

 

[Grogger]

I used to smoke and wanted a way to help me stop smoking. I'd wanted to learn how to play golf for a while so thought the money I spent on cigarettes could be put to better use on a new pastime.

The money I saved on cigarettes I've used to spend on golf lessons instead. 8 months later I've still not had a cigarette and still carrying on with my lessons every weekend

 

[HomerJSimpson]

My dad played. I was already playing the local pitch and putt with my mates and wanted to join my dad. He bought me a course of lessons in the summer holidays at Sandown Park Golf Centre and I was hooked. 35+ years later I still am

 

[bladeplayer]

Use to do kickboxing & played soccer had a bad leg break at 28/29 was in a cast for 10 weeks or so , was out for a long time , piled on the pounds , went back to play for a while but didnt enjoy it though as i was never realy fit again ..

Was playing a bit of P&P & par 3 at the time so progressed on to the real thing .. still miss the football tho ..

 

[Yerman]

Knocked off my bicycle once too often golf looked safer.