Why?

well I was attempting some kind of irony there. It was in front of my nose as I lived right next to it, but failed to even think of swinging a club.

AliB
 
Yeah just pullin your leg...

I started out messing about with golf clubs when I went and played a round with my uncle, dad and bruvver on the golf course in white river, where my uncle has a house.
 
One of my earliest memories is being at the park and watching what to me was "the golf" at the public putting course there. I must have been about 3 years old on a toddlers trike which my Dad used to push uphill with a stick. I was smitten and it became a regular visit until I was old enough to play.......now, if only my Dad had turned left instead of right that day ........ it may have been tennis !
 
I started playing when I was 14 and although a lot of my friends played I had no interest at all. One summer holidays my Mum told me that she had got me a junior membership and that my uncle was going to take me out. I relecutantly went along and was hooked immediately and have remained so.
 
My local course, East Sussex National, held an open academy day where kids could come and hit some balls and a quick lesson with a pro. I nailed my first swing with a 9 iron to the 100 yard marker and was hooked. I starting caddying and picking the range there as I found my paper round boring. It gave me the chance to use the range and academy course for free. I bought my first full set of irons with my earnings from picking the range at the second European Open there and got to go out on the course for a few holes on the evening it finished to try them out, which was a great experience. I learnt so much just by observing peoples games during caddying and eventually became a junior member. Going to uni killed off my time to play golf and I've only had a few chances to play each year since. Next year I hope to join a club again.
 
We all know this game is stupid so why do we play it and why did you start.
Some play because they saw it on the TV
Some play because friends or family play
Some play because work colleagues play
Why did you start?

For me, I was born in Dunfermline where golf is everywhere and both my parents played so I gave it a go. Still trying after 40 years :D
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A few years ago I was in deepest, darkest China - Chong Phang and I stumbled across an old temple. I entered this old temple and was overcome by an all encompassing cloud of clarity. With my eyes I could see - visions of spectacular beauty, my mind was resolute and forthright. I knew who I was, where I had been and where I was going! My life's journey had begun........

In the corner I made out a person's outline. Who was this person? Why were they there? I wandered over - full of trepadation. The person looked up at me. He was old - very old (a couple of years younger than Leftie though....). I sat with this man. I wanted to learn of his life. We spoke for many hours. During this collision of intellectual greatness he told me of an ever older man who could bend metal with his bare hands. Such was the mastery of his art, he could fashion this bent metal into golfing aids - chipping and putting to be more precise.

How do I meet this Yuri Gellaresque being, I asked.

Take up this strange sport called golf the old man muttered, and embrace the Golf Monthly forum he added.

So, here I am........ :cool:
 
I was playing rugby , basketball and cricket at 18 but could not see me still playing those when I was older, so, I decided I needed a game that I would play once in a while to prepare for retirement. I did not want to have no knowledge when I got there. I am still playing cricket at 50 and it is getting in the way of my golf really. I keep saying I will retire from cricket, but don't.
 
I used to hit balls with friends in the fields near home when I was young, then never bothered til I was 26 and my shin broke into 4 bits and a few nice injurys playing football. I needed something to do, and liked golf, gave it a go and have been hooked since.......
 
A few years ago I was in deepest, darkest China - Chong Phang and I stumbled across an old temple. I entered this old temple and was overcome by an all encompassing cloud of clarity. With my eyes I could see - visions of spectacular beauty, my mind was resolute and forthright. I knew who I was, where I had been and where I was going! My life's journey had begun........

In the corner I made out a person's outline. Who was this person? Why were they there? I wandered over - full of trepadation. The person looked up at me. He was old - very old (a couple of years younger than Leftie though....). I sat with this man. I wanted to learn of his life. We spoke for many hours. During this collision of intellectual greatness he told me of an ever older man who could bend metal with his bare hands. Such was the mastery of his art, he could fashion this bent metal into golfing aids - chipping and putting to be more precise.

How do I meet this Yuri Gellaresque being, I asked.

Take up this strange sport called golf the old man muttered, and embrace the Golf Monthly forum he added.

So, here I am........ :cool:
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You been reading Homer's blog again?? :o :D
 
TReally all started with trips to the putting green on holidays. Graduated to pitch'n'putt after that but I guess it wae Fragger's fault! He'd started playing and a few mates from the cricket club played so I began to join in. When I retired from cricket with a gammy knee I decided to do it properly and the rest is hysterics!!
 
A few years ago I was in deepest, darkest China - Chong Phang and I stumbled across an old temple. I entered this old temple and was overcome by an all encompassing cloud of clarity. With my eyes I could see - visions of spectacular beauty, my mind was resolute and forthright. I knew who I was, where I had been and where I was going! My life's journey had begun........

In the corner I made out a person's outline. Who was this person? Why were they there? I wandered over - full of trepadation. The person looked up at me. He was old - very old (a couple of years younger than Leftie though....). I sat with this man. I wanted to learn of his life. We spoke for many hours. During this collision of intellectual greatness he told me of an ever older man who could bend metal with his bare hands. Such was the mastery of his art, he could fashion this bent metal into golfing aids - chipping and putting to be more precise.

How do I meet this Yuri Gellaresque being, I asked.

Take up this strange sport called golf the old man muttered, and embrace the Golf Monthly forum he added.

So, here I am........ :cool:
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You been reading Homer's blog again?? :o :D
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I was thinking the same thing! Sounds like he needs to get out more

Best Regards,
Yuri.

:p :p :p
 
I took the game up 9 months ago regularly after retiring frrom playing football.....My dad had introduced me to it about 4 years ago but i was in my prime years playing ball and so i hadnt really got the time to play with so much on my plate.....
Last year i had a bad leg injury that saw me in a cast for 4 months and out of work without pay with a mortgage and a young family to support.
Cue my introduction to the regular games of golf every weekend.....
I needed an outlet after the football and this is filling the gap perfectly....
Its also nice to spend time alone with my dad as even though he's only 60 he's not getting any younger and i feel that in some ways its repaying him for spending time with me growing up and moulding me into the person i am today.....
Its just a pity im struggling with parts of my game.......
Time sorts everything out though :D :D :D
 
well I was attempting some kind of irony there. It was in front of my nose as I lived right next to it, but failed to even think of swinging a club.

AliB
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we all do that AliB. I lived in Cornwall but never went surfing because there was always next week - suddenly no more next weeks as I got drafted to the middle of Somerset.
 
In the corner I made out a person's outline. Who was this person? Why were they there?
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.... this person.... they there.... :D :D

Understandable confusion though. It was Robin Wilson, your dearly loved headmaster now a member, I believe, of The Addington GC. At least you took notice of something you learned at school.
 
Living just down the road from a course I was introduced to the game at about 10 years old through caddying by a couple of older lads who told me the Nottingham Forest players and staff played yearly at the club and asked if I wanted to come and meet them. For the next couple of years I went to see them play, being lucky enough to meet the legend Brian Clough(RIP), amongst others who's signitures I treasure to this day. Eventually I started caddying myself, every saturday morning, which as well as a bit of extra pocket money, I absolutely loved. I did this for the same golfer for around 2 years but somehow I never started playing besides the usual pitching wedge on the school field. Then last year my brother gave me a couple of old clubs which I started to knock some balls around with and decided to arrange a game with a couple of golfing friends. This February on my 30th birthday I played my first ever round of golf(shooting 90) and have played about once a month since. Next year i'm hoping to join my local club and play alot more.
 
It's something I always fancied playing for a long time. Never really watched much golf before I started playing.

My Dad used to take me to pitch and putt when I was about 9 or 10, but none of my immediate family played and none of my friends did either so I never really had a 'in' to the sport really.

It wasn't until I was 40 I got talking to the husband of one of my girlfriends friends about it and he offered to take me out for a round. That was about 2 years ago now and I've been addicted ever since.

tbh, I'd have loved to have taken it up 20 years ago but with all the other sports I played, and other non-sport related activities (Drink and Women mainly) I doubt golf would have got much of a look-in.

Now I'm over 40 I've got nothing better to do ;)
 
My first time on a golf course was when I was a student about 18 years ago. Exams had finished and there was a municipal course near to my halls of residence.

I got invited to some corporate days when I started work, but never really appreciated them as I didn't play golf regularly as rugby was my main sport.

I had to give rugby up about 9 years ago because of one too many injuries and decided that I needed something else to do on a Saturday afternoon, and that's when the golf bug bit.
 
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