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Greetings from South Dakota

Grew up playing golf for fun all thru college and shortly there after. Got married, had kids and the golf game was put on the back burner a bit......relocated to South Dakota for work with the family and lost my golfing buddies.

In the last year, my son became actively involved with the First Tee of South Dakota program and has fell in love with the sport. I have a golf buddy again. A fair bit of changes in the equipment portion of the game. Look forward to the knowledge updating not only my own equipment, but also my son's as he continues to grow.

Steve


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Welcome to TST and Welcome back to Golf.  It is great your son is into golf as this is a fantastic family sport and can really strengthen the bond between parent & child.

 

Stuart M.
 

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Welcome to TST Steve.   It's fantastic that you and your son can spend special time together learning and enjoying the game of golf.

Again, Welcome

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Much appreciated and thank you. It has been fun getting out with him either to the range or play a few short rounds. Courses haven't opened here but we did sneak out Monday as the kids were off school for a couple of hours at Great Shots (just like Top Golf)

Glad I found this forum....have a few "questions" as I jump with both feet back into this endeavor which I'll post up when I have time. This seems like it has a "laid back" attitude....glad I found it in my google search....initially joined another forum (the last half of the name shares it name with a VERY FAMOUS Subaru model) and seemed more "PGA type questions".....here I won't feel quite as bad asking about old irons angle vs new (trying to understand this) or with the addition of new irons and a mix of some old...what do I need in my bag now.

Grip it and rip it!

Steve

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