LBussy

Just a quick update ... I decided this morning that if nothing else my irons NEED re-gripped so I went and bought some today at lunch and will have some fun doing that this evening. They only had 7/9 that I needed so that's a good excuse to leave the 2 & 3 irons home.

I've got the page marked to read with my coffee this morning, thanks. The premise is indeed something I've been looking for.

Here's a couple pics. Real hard to take a picture of a polished object I found out ... harder still with a camera on your phone. I think you can make these out though: I didn't know that driving ranges had pros (as someone else recommended) so I'll at least give that a go. I also need to find out if there's a community course here that may help me extend my golfing budget. The wife is "okay" with me giving this a go but saving some money as I go along will help later on should the clubs find their way back into the closet again if you know what I mean. Ah ... sort of like me wanting to learn on a steel string acoustic guitar when I was learning ... not the most forgiving guitar, wider, less forgiving on the fretboard, but if you can play that you can make noise on any electric.

Nice to be here. I'm 42 years old and for the past 20 years have golfed on average once a year. That's not exactly an avid golfer now is it? Last year I was presented with an opportunity to play more frequently and I picked up a "used" set off the local Crag's List for $100. They are in what is very likely poor shape, some of the grips feel "bad" (old/dry rot?) and are pretty dinged up. They say 'RAM" and "Fastback" on them. I get the feeling I may want "more" ... not sure what that means though. I have no idea whether these clubs are worth new grips, hell, they may not even be worth giving to someone just starting out. I don't even know what sort of grips to ask for. I'm pretty sure people look at these clubs and realize that I'm no threat and maybe they feel a little bad for me. I believe that the box of balls I just bought are probably worth more than the whole set. If these are not even worth brushing the mud out of, what should a guy like me do? I see sets like this Tiger Shark Golf- TS960 Complete Set With Bag for $149 and you know from the outside that looks like a better deal than what I have ... but I'm not sure if I have decent clubs that have been mistreated, or if they are Walmart brand clubs that never should have been shown the light of day. For that matter, are those Tiger Shark clubs worth my time? I realize there's a certain amount of "get out there and play, then figure out what you want" to all of this, but I don't know enough to know if these clubs are just plain crap (either set). I'd also not like to look like an @$$hat at the course my first day for a lesson - picture Randy Quaid in "Vacation". I don't want to be him. I've been reading here the past hour or so after doing my obligatory three newbie posts and am even more confused than when I got here. Blades, Irons, what the hell are those? I thought they were all "clubs"? I know what Irons are but then "blades" were used as as some alternative and I was lost all over again. So please, picture me as your younger/older (whatever) brother who might be interested in golf. You don't want me to go overboard but don't want me to become discouraged either ... which direction do you point me? (the door maybe?)

Can't take ANYTHING away from Tiger Woods ... but how long has he been a pro? The Golden Bear did 25 years in the majors before starting in the Champions Tour ... Tiger has a ways to go before that. He may get there (and I hope he does) but being a bright new star is not the same as being a classic.

Well I'm so new I don't really have a home course. Here's where I played growing up Jones Beach in Wantaugh New York . Actually I used to play the par three there but that's the only link I could find. Moila Shrine and Country Club is a course available to me that's not terribly far away that I intend to play soon.

Hi there. I'm an IT manager for a company that touches 60% of the households in the US - or so our statistics say. The chances are also very good that you've never heard of us which I find cool and a little scary all at the same time. I've been in IT since IT was just a bunch of nerds with soldering irons and Heathkit parts. The most disturbing thing about all of that is the longer I am in, the less I realize I know. Presently I manage a geographically diverse group of database administrators, Oracle being the current flavor of database preferred by our company. Our parent company however prefers DB2 so it's only a matter of time. A previous position with the same company had me managing the system administrators so I'm as comfortable sipping wine as playing paintball. I'll leave it to the reader to decide which is which. Nice to meet everyone here ... of course this is a post spawned by the Newbie User thread so I'm off to do more newbie things now.