Hobbies & How you spend your time

[BaldRob]

Welcome to GOLF Tyler!  I'm 35 years old and I have been playing since I was 12 and it is a great game.  It requires patience most of all because as long as I have been playing I can still go out and shoot close to 100!!!! LOL!!!!

Thanks Hawk!  I know what you mean about still shooting close to 100.  My dad has been playing for 5 or 6 years now.  There's been a couple times in the past year where I will go out with him and shoot better than he does...LOL!!  Then we'll go out the next day and I don't even come close!

I stopped keeping score in golf a long, long time ago... much more enjoyable that way!   

[Hawk]

Welcome to GOLF Tyler!  I'm 35 years old and I have been playing since I was 12 and it is a great game.  It requires patience most of all because as long as I have been playing I can still go out and shoot close to 100!!!! LOL!!!!

Thanks Hawk!  I know what you mean about still shooting close to 100.  My dad has been playing for 5 or 6 years now.  There's been a couple times in the past year where I will go out with him and shoot better than he does...LOL!!  Then we'll go out the next day and I don't even come close!

You just have to remember when you are having a bad day on the course........It's just a game.  LOL!  I've shot as low as a 68 and then turned around the next day and shot in the mid 90's.  It's crazy.  I have a lot of respect for the pros that can consistantly shoot low.  I scratched one of my "life goals" off the list last year when me and one of my buddies went and played Pebble Beach in California.  Man that was awesome!  This picture is taken on the 18th hole at Pebble Beach.

[schro]

It's called "Golf" because F*CK was already taken.

I'm heading to Bandon Dunes in Oregon next Saturday. Looking forward to some dude time.

[ar3inc]

I alway keep score for golf.  On 18 I'm about a 12.


I'll be so happy when I can only lose a ball at every other hole.

[Medic aka Rocko]

It's called "Golf" because F*CK was already taken.

 :DLMAO!!!  Good one Schro. 

[schro]

Thanks. Someone once said Golf also could stand for, Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden. Personally, I prefer my definition.

Yeah, the cost of golf balls sure can add up. I can't understand people paying upwards of $50 a dozen for Pro V1's. I don't understand that. I have played them and the performance doesn't justify the cost.

By the way, I played my first round yesterday since becoming SLY....a smooth little 76 with a couple of holes where I hit the ball too far and went over the green. Maybe I'm the "anti-Sampson". Ya know, the story where the strong man lost all his strength when someone cut his hair.

'Scuse me while I flex. 
Schro

[Argyle]

For me it has to be rowing, there is nothing like getting a boat moving at real speed with eight guys working as hard as they can, even better at night when all you can hear is the woooosh as eight blades drive through the water.  I also love sports, watching football (or soccer for you guys).  Things are about to change with the impending first child in June, no idea what it is going to be yet, but one thing is for sure, it will be a Plymouth Argyle fan!!  So in anticipation of this I have started indoor rowing, got a rowing machine in my spare room, and race against guys all over the country. 

[Hawk]

Thanks. Someone once said Golf also could stand for, Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden. Personally, I prefer my definition.

Yeah, the cost of golf balls sure can add up. I can't understand people paying upwards of $50 a dozen for Pro V1's. I don't understand that. I have played them and the performance doesn't justify the cost.

By the way, I played my first round yesterday since becoming SLY....a smooth little 76 with a couple of holes where I hit the ball too far and went over the green. Maybe I'm the "anti-Sampson". Ya know, the story where the strong man lost all his strength when someone cut his hair.

'Scuse me while I flex. 
Schro

I buy all my golf balls from this place:  https://www.usedgolfballdeals.com

They have quality BALLS for cheap (MAN o MAN that doesn't sound good!! LOL!!!).

Seriously, they have great prices and I have always been satisfied with the quality.  I like Callaway golf balls and they are the cheapest I have found.  They are used, but you can't tell.

[schro]

Not sure they still have them, but Golfsmith was selling Maxfli Revolution Solids for $10/dz. I still have 5 or 6. Whenever I see my dad, he loads me up with NXT's. He lives on a golf course in Vega$ and is always ball hawking, especially after the course hosts a tournament. Usually, the tourneys are filled with drunken golfers that get a couple of dozen balls as tee prizes. Funny stuff.

[Tyler]

I "won" a sleeve of Pro V1's in Palm Springs over Thanksgiving.  There was a guy setup at one of the par 3's that had a competition for charity.  You had to pay $5 and if you got the ball on the green you got a free sleeve.  If you got the ball within the length of the club you were using to the hole, then you won a Calloway Driver.  I was abou 3 in from winning the driver 

[ar3inc]

I "won" a sleeve of Pro V1's in Palm Springs over Thanksgiving.  There was a guy setup at one of the par 3's that had a competition for charity.  You had to pay $5 and if you got the ball on the green you got a free sleeve.  If you got the ball within the length of the club you were using to the hole, then you won a Calloway Driver.  I was abou 3 in from winning the driver 

One swing?

[Tyler]

Yep, one swing.

[wpruitt]

Yep, one swing.

Sounds like a fishing story

[BigJeffrey]

Ah golf....the one activity that can drive even the most pious of men to profanity.  I love it. 

I decided a while back that golf is more fun when you have to try to hit it around the tree and pray it carries the water.  If it went where you wanted every time, where would the fun be.

It's also been said that there are two things in life you don't have to be good at to enjoy.  Golf is one of them....LOL

Outside of golf I dig movies.  DVD collection stands at around 300 and the folks at Hollywood Video know me by name.  I also enjoy watching boxing and MMA.  A couple of years ago I helped start a boxing website and I got to spend some time getting to know folks I've watched on TV for years.  I did some writing for Showtime too.  That was fun.  Haven't done anything journalistic in a while but I still enjoy watching the fights.

[Robmeister]

Ah golf....the one activity that can drive even the most pious of men to profanity.

LOL!!!