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Saabo Member

Saabo

Just wondered, who got you started, dad, uncle, friend, teacher, .....?
Mine was my 7th grade gym teacher who took a few of use guys out on the softball field and let us hit "at" a golf ball. We did not have a golf team in high school ( plus we are a rural school ) but that was 30+ years. ha ha
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Joeyvee Dedicated Member

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My dad showed me my interlock grip and how to swing a club about 28 years ago ( i was about 5). I didnt stick with it. at about 12 or 13 he took me out on the golf course with his heavy ass leather bag and 14 clubs and whatever the hell else he had in there and taught me how to caddy. I didnt make it a full 18. He had to have his playing partners caddy carry both for the last 6 or so holes. But every round after that I caddied I finished on my own. I still didnt really try and play until about 12 years ago. That lasted a few months. Then just started again about a year ago. If I could surf better I wouldn't golf but last winter the waves were over 20 feet for about 90 days in a row if not longer.

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wrx_junki Great Member

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I went to the golf range with my dad and sister when I was younger but didn't really play then. I picked it up a few years ago on my own for the sake of picking up a new hobby.

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My grandpa when I was 10 (I'm 30 now). He was a die-hard, he and my grandma would take many golfing trips throughout a year - and I plan to do the same when I retire. I thank him every time I tee off on the first hole.

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My dad when I was 14. Went golfing once. I didn't play again until I was 32, last year in August. I've been hooked ever since. What got me started is I picked up Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 for the Wii. I had always enjoyed golf games and I stayed up until 5am playing it the day I bought it. After that I figured, well hell...why don't I just try real golf again? Called up my dad, went golfing with him again. He had just picked up a new set of clubs for himself so he let me keep his old set. I've picked up new clubs since then and I've been playing 2-4 times a week ever since.

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saevel25 Incredible Member

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my dad introduced me to the game, he's played golf since college. Now its an obsession ;)

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Fuel1212 Newbie

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My Grandfather, who is now 94 years old. I started left handed, and he thought it would be better to switch to right. Needless to say, I have been swinging right handed for over 20 years on and off.
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lumpuckeroo Great Member

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My dad did initially, he played a little bit as a young man and I would tag along. Other interest took him away from it, and me also. I picked it back up when several friends at worked played. By then my dad was older and about to retire so he also took it back up, now at the age of 78 he plays over 200 rounds a year and probably close to 300.

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I was an Altar Boy for the church and one of the Priests took three of us up to visit a Seminary. They had a GC on the grounds and we went out with him for a round. Interesting, but I didn't actually start playing until I started my current job. It was peer pressure.

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chrisronline Established Member

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Oddly enough, this kid on my block stole some old golf clubs from a yard sale and put them in my parents garage. I found them and just started messing around. From there, I got my own set and spent nearly every night at the practice green at the local course (since I didn't have enough money to play or even get a range bucket).

So it started for me around the age of 13 (nearly 10 years ago...WOW...)

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3 wiggle Established Member

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Grew up on a private club with my parents house on the 14th hole. Started when i was five playing with my dad and grandfather. I quit for 4 years four and a half years ago and am getting back into it now.

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WUTiger Incredible Member

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I started caddieing in summer after sixth grade. We had a country club about a quarter-mile down the road from our house, and older gradeschoolers suggested I give it a try.

Switched to another club the following spring, and got to go to their rather elaborate on-course caddie school. Learned about playing golf from what caddies did for their golfers.

Only other person in our extended family who was interested in golf was my aunt, an Air Force nurse. She died before I got out of high school, however, and we never got to play together. Years later, one brother and several cousins now play golf.

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jamo Incredible Member

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As a really little kid I would watch my dad go to the range and the putting green. I think I was more fascinated with the fact that the range was two stories tall. When I got a little older I would putt with him then he started letting me hit ball at the range and I later progressed to the par 3 course. After failing to make the 8th grade soccer and baseball teams, I decided that I would practice all summer at golf and try to make the team in the fall. I did, and the rest is history.

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tristanhilton85 Great Member

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A buddy from high school... He was on the golf team and they needed more players... Ended up on the team my junior and senior years even though I sucked.

Tristan Hilton

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Shripe Well Established Member

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Nobody in my family golfs. I started myself.

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My father back in the early 60's. I played jr golf for 4 yrs and quit cuz back then golf was a old mans game. Thru my sports, mainly hard core skiing for 40+ yrs I don't have a lot of cartilage left in my right knee. Couldn't ski, wind surf, rock climb or jog anymore. All I had left was fly fishing; then one day I went to the range with a friend on the goof and hit balls. It felt pretty good, bought a cheap set of knock off clubs and I was hooked.

That was when I was 53, soon to be 62 now. I like golf a lot more now b/c I can control my nasty temper much better now and have learned how to sublimate it constructively.
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