Hello, all!

[RoyalBull]

Hey there, golf nuts. Glad to be here, and hope I will be a good contributor going forward....or, FORE ward.

:)

Tim

[iacas]

Hey there, golf nuts. Glad to be here, and hope I will be a good contributor going forward....or, FORE ward.

Can you tell us more about yourself? Where in NJ?

[RoyalBull]

Thanks, Erik.

I like your Lake View CC site. I'm in Union County, NJ, eastern-central across from NYC. I play the county courses and various other publinx. My son lives in Baltimore (a lefty 7-handicapper who works for Sprint by day, Taylor Made on weekends, and he just got his Realtor license...so he's busy) and I play some courses down there on occasion. I've been out to PA to play, too, a few nice courses...Shawnee, Delaware Water Gap Club, and a few others.

I'm a longtime writer of just about anything--books, corporate communications, marketing, magazine features...right now I'm ghostwriting two books, one is a new book by a big dotcomer about how super tribes on the Internet have reshaped how we see, and don't see, the world. My brain might explode on that one.

Naturally there's more. Later for that.

My golf game: I will add my bag contents to my sig today. I drive it straight and long with a Taylor Made R5 I l just love. My mid-irons are my biggest problem--I always come over the top and it drives me nuts. My short irons are great, and my putting comes and goes...right now I just retired my old Ping Zing: I woke up one morning it felt just horrible in my hands.

20 years ago I won the "Ask Hank Haney's Help" contest sponsored by Golf Illustrated magazine. I wrote a humorous essay on why I needed his help, and won over hundreds of other submissions. I and my then-wife were flown to PGA West and I took lessons from Hank everyday and played many courses in the area...free. It was a dream, and I dropped 12 strokes off my game (and only got a few of them back). Here's a link to my winning entry, if you're interested>>> Here .

I write quite a bit about golf--stories, humor, etc., and I'm trying to find a home for it all. I love Golf in the Kingdom and many other novels and essays, as well as the movies. Okay, there's not much I don't like if it involves either a white ball, a "You da man," or grass.

More later.. Thanks.

[iacas]

You'll want to look up Rafi (Rafcin is his username). He's in your area, I believe. He plays at Skyview, though he lives closer to Bowling Green.

[neudi]

Welcome aboard...good to see the site keeps growing :)