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Just wanted to introduce myself.

I'm as new to the sport of golf as they come. I started dating a girl a few months back who loves to golf so last saturday when she asked if I wanted to go play I figured what the heck. I've played maybe 3 rounds of golf in my life (I'm 33) and hit balls at the range a couple of times. Well after hitting a couple large buckets of balls on saturday I was ready again to go on Sunday. Now I'm hooked.

I was one of those people who hated the sport and talked badly about it my entire life. Maybe it had to do with my third round of golf I played back in my early twenties. This was a trip to Tustin Ranch golf course in Tustin, CA where I managed to hit a house and then almost killed two guys sitting a cart (evil slice off the tee that went between their heads and under the roof of their cart). So after this trip I was a bit turned off by the sport.

Somehow my outing on sunday I was actually able to consistently drive and hit the ball straight with every club I put my hands on. So I guess not being terrible made me feel a little better and got motivated to give the sport a serious try. Both of us are currently looking into signing up for some lessons now and I'm in the market for a set of clubs. I'm keeping my eyes open for some Demo Days locally so that I can get an opportunity to hit several different clubs.


Again just wanted to introduce myself and I'm sure you'll see me asking a bunch of stupid questions in the very near future. I do promise to give the search feature a try prior to posting something thats been asked a million times before.


Thanks Again

Steve
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LOTS of socal people on the forum. Must be because of the time of year.

Welcome.

Grom stand bag
SQ 5900 - 9.5*
Burner 15* and 18*
MT 20* Hybrid
CG Gold 4-PW CG14 52.10 SM 56.14 IC 20-10a 34" Putter SDF balls (was on sale)

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