Hello from Houston, TX

[msd3075]

Hello everyone!!

Just thought I'd introduce myself on here. I'm a recent college graduate (Hook 'Em) and a drilling engineer here in Houston. I've been playing golf for as long as I can remember but gave up the game for a bit while I was in high school and college. I grew up playing at Champions Golf Club and now am a junior member. When I picked the game up seriously again about 2-3 years ago, I was probably about a 16 to 17 handicap but have now worked myself down to the edge of a single digit handicap. What prevents me from getting any better is inconsistency; I'm either putting for birdie/par or double/triple bogey. There is no in between.

Anyway, just thought I'd introduce myself here. I'm sure I'll learn a lot from everyone here and enjoy all there is to read about.

[txsouthpaw]

Welcome msd so where do you play in houston. Im in corpus so i might get up there one day to play

[Pinseeker81]

Welcome! I'm in the Pasadena area, so if you want to get together some weekend and play a round give me a yell

[rangerkeeper]

I'm new here as well, currently going to school in Austin... still working on the Hook 'em thing. It doesn't quite come naturally yet!

[msd3075]

I'm new here as well, currently going to school in Austin... still working on the Hook 'em thing. It doesn't quite come naturally yet!

I graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UT-Austin in Fall '06. I miss Austin so much, but there were so many more jobs for engineers here in Houston that I couldn't resist the offers to come back home (I'm originally from Houston).

[ShotCaLLa]

Welcome back to the Bayou City! If you are in the energy sector, there is no other place to be.

I am up around the NW side of town all the time, and play quite a bit. Let me know if you want to catch a round sometime.

[twindad9]

I'm new here but have been a golfer since I was old enough to walk. Lucky to have a Dad who was a great golfer and even better coach! I coached HS golf here for many years but was forced to give it up because of my duties at Technology Director for our rural school district. Still bitter about that but I play as often as possible and when you live three blocks from the course it's awfully nice. Only problem I've got is a bad right knee that's going to get replaced the first week in June and I figure I'm going to have to figure out a new way to swing once I've got it rehabbed! I've tried the stack and tilt but so far with little consistent success but I'm a big believer in the one-plane swing that Jim Hardy covers in his Plane Truth for Golfers book which I consider the best instruction book about golf ever written.

Here in central Kansas we've had flood and lots of tornadoes in the last year - we're about an hour from the town that was wiped out and that same night we had one a half mile wide jump about 300 feet over my end of town or we would have looked just like Greensburg! Missed the golf course too thankfully and we had our big Invitational the very next weekend after a lot of hard work to clean up the course.

That's all for now but if you're ever coming through Kansas let me know. Our course's web site is www.groveparkgolf.com and there are lots of pictures on there. I'm looking forward to contributing to this site a lot while I'm rehabbing my new knee this summer!