Robobum
Money List Winner
Jammy, we may have locked horns previously!! I played for the RAF and CS from late 1989-2000 and remember many a good battle........literally (might as well have put the ball away some years!!)
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Jammy, we may have locked horns previously!! I played for the RAF and CS from late 1989-2000 and remember many a good battle........literally (might as well have put the ball away some years!!)
Society_Fan
Head Pro
1988 when I was 11. I had never even picked up a golf club, but my mum and sisiters were away and Dad was looking after me (he was actually asleep watching the Masters), so I took the opportunity to stay up after my bed time, but not wanting to wake dad kept the golf on. Well I remember Sandy Lyle slipping back (it must have been the 12th) and thinking this was going to be like watching England football (build you up only to disapoint). How wrong was I... The tee shot on 18 in to the bunker, then just the stuff on dreams...
How could I not then find my dad's clubs in the garage and dig up the back garden. A great start.
How could I not then find my dad's clubs in the garage and dig up the back garden. A great start.
My dad was a keen golfer and I got the bug from him. He took me to Sandown Park in the summer holidays where they were running a week of lessons for juniors (dustbin full of balls and stay until it was empty). Got taught the basics and had a bit of an aptitude. My dad got me into Wimbledon Common and I got better and joined as the assistant pro. Couldn't turn pro so found women beer and sunday morning footie and jacked it in for years. Joined Ascot for a good few years and then jacked it in when my mum was ill. Been back into it for about five years and really enjoying it. Best bit now is meeting new guys from here and playing other courses.
jammydodger
Tour Winner
Jammy, we may have locked horns previously!! I played for the RAF and CS from late 1989-2000 and remember many a good battle........literally (might as well have put the ball away some years!!)
Problem I had was that Micky Cheetham and Guy Whitingham were the 2 strikers ahead of me at the time (1987/8). Both got bought out to play professional and some people will have heard of them. Sandy Carmichael was captain iirc. I bet you remember our keeper though Spider Lomas (same regiment as me for a while ,Royal Engineers). Then I moved to Germany and played lots of BAOR stuff.
We did make the Army cup semi-finals one year but lost to some Jock Regiment I think. Played a big match in the shadows of the Berlin Olympic Stadium , we thought it would be called off cos the snow was several inches thick but we turned up and the pitch had undersoil heating
unbelievable lol
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
As far as I remember I loved pitch'n'putt on holiday as well as the putting green - never any good mind. Then a mate from school said I could tag along with him and his Dad - think they played at Farnham Common - and I had a go with a 9 iron and hit a beutiful shot to about 10 feet. Returned to pitch'n'putt as cricket and fishing got in the way until the late 80's. Fragger had started to play at Wexham Park - Slough - and me and a couple of mates tagged along playing the 9 hole course some evenings. Still didn't really have the bug until I had a tendon problem in my left knee and decided to stop cricket. Said to HID that I had to have some sort of sport to do and decided to give Golf a proper try.
A set of clubs later and I was hooked.
And the rest is definitely hysterics!
A set of clubs later and I was hooked.
And the rest is definitely hysterics!
JustOne
Ryder Cup Winner
I started playing golf at 22 (18 years ago) when my brother asked me if I wanted to play in a golf society match as someone had dropped out. I shot a 99. Everyone told me that was an amazing score for a first time round so I played again the next day - I shot 108. I could NOT believe that I had gotten worse over night, in fact I couldn't figure out that having played 18 holes the previous day why I was not able to score lower! I was hooked... I then played EVERY DAY for 2 years Happy days!
Happy days!
Was bored one day in the summer hols when I was 15, I think. A mate was a golfer, and he was going up to Coulsdon Court to play, so I tagged along.
I was an archetypal hacker swinging it it like an axe until my dad bought me half a dozen lessons, and I joined the junior club there. I came second in my first major comp ( I actually won it on countback, but the guy in charge fiddled it so his son won ), and was hooked - what a great summer sport.
Became an ocasional player once I went to college, and eventually gave it up once I started working in London.
Took it up again in my early 30s, ( in the early '90s )and joined Park Wood in Westerham when it first opened. Stayed there for a few years and got down to my PB handicap of 13, but eventually gave it up because of workload ( again ).
Decided to take it up again a couple of years ago, and have stuttered around for 18 months trying to play enough to get a swing.
But this is the year of the comeback.
I was an archetypal hacker swinging it it like an axe until my dad bought me half a dozen lessons, and I joined the junior club there. I came second in my first major comp ( I actually won it on countback, but the guy in charge fiddled it so his son won ), and was hooked - what a great summer sport.
Became an ocasional player once I went to college, and eventually gave it up once I started working in London.
Took it up again in my early 30s, ( in the early '90s )and joined Park Wood in Westerham when it first opened. Stayed there for a few years and got down to my PB handicap of 13, but eventually gave it up because of workload ( again ).
Decided to take it up again a couple of years ago, and have stuttered around for 18 months trying to play enough to get a swing.
But this is the year of the comeback.
Parmo
Tour Winner
I used to be into all sports when I was a kid and tried golf for a while. I used to sneak on to the private course in Richmond and play. I got back into golf about 2 and a half years ago and it bit me within weeks and played since then.
doc17
Assistant Pro
I didn't know that you could be an assistant pro 'ball boy' at wimbledon!!
DCB
Well-known member
Like most boys growing up in Scotland, I hacked a ball up and down the local football & rugby pitches. I had a junior Slazenger 5 iron that was my pride & joy. I eventually managed to aquire a leather bag with an assortment of clubs, at leat two irons were hickory shafted ! The putter was of course the old style bladed hickory shafted jobbie. Scored 129 on my first full round at Silverknowes golf course in Edinburgh. Played regularly until my late teens, then diversified into climbing & mountaineering for a while. Golf came back to the fore quite quickly as it was less dangerous. Been a member of three clubs over the past 30 years, been at my current one for 25 years now.
Great game, I love it.
Great game, I love it.
Toad
Tour Rookie
I started playing at the local pitch and putt with my mates and we just progressed from there.
We spent years as nomad golfers and have played well over 100 courses in Scotland using the 2-4-1 vouchers, this got us hooked and we joined our first course 4 years ago.
We spent years as nomad golfers and have played well over 100 courses in Scotland using the 2-4-1 vouchers, this got us hooked and we joined our first course 4 years ago.
John_Findlay
Tour Winner
I moved to Nairn from Glasgow when I was 13.
On my first day at my new school I got chatting to two English lads who had moved there at the same time & had joined Nairn Dunbar GC over the summer. They asked me along for a game. That was it. I was hooked and joined soon afterwards too.
Literally everyone in the town plays the game, being either members at Nairn, Nairn Dunbar or both. Most of my school mates played off 5 or better by that age so that spurred me on to get better fast (lessons). We were totally spoiled with long summer nights and two championship courses and they became our second homes.
On my first day at my new school I got chatting to two English lads who had moved there at the same time & had joined Nairn Dunbar GC over the summer. They asked me along for a game. That was it. I was hooked and joined soon afterwards too.
Literally everyone in the town plays the game, being either members at Nairn, Nairn Dunbar or both. Most of my school mates played off 5 or better by that age so that spurred me on to get better fast (lessons). We were totally spoiled with long summer nights and two championship courses and they became our second homes.
doc17
Assistant Pro
I've always been mad on sport. My first recollection of golf was watching Seve sink that putt to win The Open. My school mate lived next to a 9 hole course that had to shut every Sunday at 12:30 as it was common land and we used to sneak on with his dads clubs (some of them Hickory Shafted). My dad took the game up as a pastime and i remember hiding in his car when he went for a lesson and he was both angry and pleased to see me behind him as he sculled one 20 yards. The pro then gave me a wedge and let me hit balls whilst my dad had a lesson. I always played with mates as a laugh but never took it up seriously until i snapped my cruciate ligament and retired from football at 28. I joined my 1st and only club in 2000 and it's taken my life over. It was 6 months after we moved to our house 5 years ago that the Mrs said to me....'i realise it is not a coincidence that we bought this house and it's opposite a pub and 200 yards from your golf course!!'
bobmac
Major Champion
I was born 20 minutes from St.Andrews, both parents played golf. My dad got me and my brother custom fitted for a 5 iron and a putter each (1970 ish just in case some folk think C/F is new). I still have them to this day.
My brother didn't take to it but I loved it.
I loved the fact that if you loose, you cant blame anyone else as in team sports and if you win, no-one else can take the credit.
My brother didn't take to it but I loved it.
I loved the fact that if you loose, you cant blame anyone else as in team sports and if you win, no-one else can take the credit.
rickg
Money List Winner
It was 6 months after we moved to our house 5 years ago that the Mrs said to me....'i realise it is not a coincidence that we bought this house and it's opposite a pub and 200 yards from your golf course!!'
Have you got room for a lodger??
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I didn't know that you could be an assistant pro 'ball boy' at wimbledon!!
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I was a ball boy at the tennis. 1981. My mum still has the shirt somewhere. A lot of the kids from Merton who were good at sports got put forward and it gets whittled down to about 180 to start with and a second cut is made at the end of the first week. Like my golf I missed the cut
I didn't know that you could be an assistant pro 'ball boy' at wimbledon!!
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I was a ball boy at the tennis. 1981. My mum still has the shirt somewhere. A lot of the kids from Merton who were good at sports got put forward and it gets whittled down to about 180 to start with and a second cut is made at the end of the first week. Like my golf I missed the cut
roccokj
Head Pro
I guess I've been whacking a ball around the garden and through windows since I was two and then once i was about five or six I started playing pitch & putt about once a month. I didnt really 'love' golf until I watched the British Open in 2007 and after it I thought i must start playing proper golf!
RGDave
Money List Winner
Ryder Cup and SEGA MegaDrive....c.1991
addictive...?...
RGDave
Money List Winner
You are SO lacking in talent....
I managed a 98 first time out.
par 32, 9 hole
doc17
Assistant Pro
I didn't know that you could be an assistant pro 'ball boy' at wimbledon!!
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I was a ball boy at the tennis. 1981. My mum still has the shirt somewhere. A lot of the kids from Merton who were good at sports got put forward and it gets whittled down to about 180 to start with and a second cut is made at the end of the first week. Like my golf I missed the cut
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LMAO I sense a familiar thread with you Homer! have you tried tiddleywinks?! 
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I was a ball boy at the tennis. 1981. My mum still has the shirt somewhere. A lot of the kids from Merton who were good at sports got put forward and it gets whittled down to about 180 to start with and a second cut is made at the end of the first week. Like my golf I missed the cut
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LMAO
I sense a familiar thread with you Homer! have you tried tiddleywinks?! 
