Golf

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 1:42 pm

Anyone here golf?? My wife has for years, and I've always played bass. She's always wanted me to go golfing with her, and my reply was always, "I've got my expensive hobby, and you've got your's".

Makes sense right???

Well,,,since I've retired from live playing with the band, I've went out a few times and actually really like it. But WOW!!! I couldnt believe how good my wife was. She'd been playing all these years, and had really gotten good. She tells me that on the flipside, Im a good bass guitarist. Go figure...But I really want to get into this game. I'm a big guy, 6'4 255 lbs. Anybody got any suggestions as far as clubs, balls, graphite, steel, loft, custom fit ect.....

Suggestion to John and Ben Hall, develope a line of golf clubs! I'd buy fireglo set in a minute.

beatlefan · Post by **beatlefan** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 1:53 pm

I'll e-mail you offline....

marc61 · Post by **marc61** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:00 pm

I've gotten heavy into golf the past two years. Lots of fun and frustration. Great way to make business friends

rob · Post by **rob** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:28 pm

I have never golfed, but occasionally I like to take my driver to whack a few golf balls at a driving range. I haven't done this in a while.

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:58 am

I've golfed occasionally with my dad and bro. Once, at a driving range I was whacking a few. I had an ancient set of clubs my dad handed down, cause I wasn't too serious. Anyway, I whacked a ball with my driver, and something felt odd after. I looked at the driver and the head was gone! Had gone flying with the ball, I assume! I kept looking for injuries, but I guess it didn't land on anyone!

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 8:08 am

I caddied for my dad when I was a kid...the U.S Army has golf courses on most of their Posts worldwide. He learned the game caddying in Depression-era Tulsa; a good way out of the ghetto at the time. I'd never really played as an adult...then my Balinese music teacher was introduced to the game and became a fanatic, so now I routinely get the call, and I go play when I can spare the time/green fees...So I've come to the ancient game of the Scots by way of Indonesia...the modern world's an interesting place.

My house is a block from the Denver City Park public golf course...a couple of years ago, Tiger Woods did a clinic there for the neighborhood kids. Some suburban fatcats tried to to throw their weight around and get their kids in, but Tiger politely told them he was doing it strictly for the inner-city. Thanks, Tiger...

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 10:33 am

I played at least twice a week between 1968 and 1973. My dad bought me a set of clubs and junior membership at a club for my 18th birthday. I got my handicap down to 16 but then marriage, etc. put paid to it!

I still play half a dozen times a year or so - mostly junior football club golf days and the annual boys' weekend away in October.

I played at Jefferson Park in Seattle when I was there in 2002. Had to dodge the squirrels or chipmunks or whatever they were. There are many courses here where you have to dodge the kangaroos and wallabies!!

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 11:07 am

Sounds a lot 'dodgier' than squirrels...

BTW, Howard...when the Vietnamese began taking up residence in San Francisco in large numbers in the '70's, the city experienced the bizarre happenstance of the squirrels disappearing out of the City's parks...finally, an official representative was sent to meet with the VN community to inform them that "We don't eat our squirrels here"...

Must have seemed awfully picky to them...

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:57 pm

So it was back to cats and dogs, then, eh?

Actually, the "boys' weekend away" is a lot dodgier!!

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:11 pm

I saw a Red Panda on the menu (and in a cage awaiting it's fate) in China. An endangered species!
'Twas delicious! (no, I didn't)

wmthor · Post by **wmthor** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:16 am

Houston National Golf Club is my home course.

jamesvwaal · Post by **jamesvwaal** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:36 pm

Well, Dane, if you came upon golf through an Indonesian then surely you know that the acronymn GOLF in Bahasa Indonesia (Malay here in Malaysia) is "Gila Orang Lupakan Famili", literally, "Crazy person forgetting his family".

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:46 am

Originally "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden", no?

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:56 am

Terimah kasih banyak, Pak James...Saya mengerti sekarang.

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:53 pm

this golf thread will morph into a Ric thread sooner or later... I just KNOW it.