Golf Resume. What's Yours?

[Bucki1968]

Age: 48

Height: 5'10"

Where are you from: Ohio

How Long have you been Playing: 35 years

Best Score: 65

Favorite club in the bag: Driver

Golf Books / DVD's that have helped you: Hogan's 5 Fundamentals.

Where do you play: All over!

Best courses you've played so far: Pebble Beach, St. Andrews, Streamsong (both), various TPC courses.

Things you enjoy most about golf: No cell phones. Peace and quiet. Cold Beer afterwards.

Goals for 2017: Try to play more often.

[Let it Fly]

Age: 32

Height: 6'1"

Where are you from: CT 

How long have you been playing: 5-6 years

Best Score: 78 

Favorite club in the bag: Ping G15 4-wood

Golf Books / DVD's that have helped you: Lowest Score Wins...only one I've read

Where do you play:  CT & MA - Cedar Knob GC, Blackledge CC, Juniper Hill, Wentworth Hills, and the occasional TPC Boston

Best courses you've played so far: The International (Bolton, MA), TPC Boston, Pinehills (Plymouth, MA)

Things you enjoy most about golf:  Like most of us, love the camaraderie and flushed iron shots.  However, what I truly enjoy most is the car ride to the course as the sun is starting to come up on a Saturday morning.  Combining the anticipation & excitement with that serene time of day, work in the rear view for a few hours/days...can't beat it.

Goals for 2017: Improve my swing mechanics to develop a more repeatable/consistent motion that decreases my current reliance on compensations.

[ThreePutt]

Age: 31

Height: 5'10”

Where are you from: North Jersey

How long have you been playing: 20 years (10 seriously)

Best Score: Low 90s

Favorite club in the bag: 4i

Golf Books / DVD's that have helped you: N/A

Where do you play:  NJ & NY - Bergen County municipal courses, Blue Hill GC

Best courses you've played so far: NJ - Scotland Run, Seaview, Knickerbocker; Ireland - Ballybunion, Waterford, Tralee 

Things you enjoy most about golf:  The walk. The satisfaction of a good shot. Being in nature. The challenge. Being able to do it with friends and family of all ages.

Goals for 2019: Break 90

Edited May 16, 2019 by ThreePutt

[NZ Golfer]

Age:  41

 

Height:  5,11

 

Where are you from -Central Otago, New Zealand  

 

How long have you been playing:  10+ years , with more intent the last 6 years on and off

 

Best score:  77 on 117 slope par 72 course

 

Favorite club in the bag:  changes game to game but 60 deg wedge currently

 

Golf books/DVDs that have helped you:  My game and yours-AP  - Game Golf

 

Where do you play:  Cromwell GC

 

Best courses you've played so far: Jacks point Queenstown

 

Things you enjoy most about golf:  the challenge  the exercise the social aspect .. competition  

 

Goals for 2019:  Routinely break 80

[DrMJG]

Age: 68

Height: 5'10”

Where are you from: Wisconsin, now Goodyear, AZ

How long have you been playing: Started 1966, took 20 years off starting mid 90s, back last 2 years

Best Score: 84

Favorite club in the bag: 6i, 5h and putter

Golf Books / DVD's that have helped you: LSW

Where do you play:  Wigwam, CC, Palm Valley

Best courses you've played so far: All Torey Pines courses

Things you enjoy most about golf:  The game, and even practice, brings a calm to me. No longer competitive so all is for true recreation.

Goals for 2019: Remain consistent in my clubs, try to break 90 more often, perhaps improve speeds/

[IowaGreg]

Age: 58

Height: 5'6”

Where are you from: Iowa

How long have you been playing: 6 Yrs

Best Score: 84

Favorite club in the bag: Wedge

Golf Books / DVD's that have helped you:

Where do you play:  Legend Trail, Parkersburg IA / there are over 30 courses within 50 miles I play 1-2x yr

Best courses you've played so far: Beaver Hills Country Club, IA

Things you enjoy most about golf:  Social aspect.  Meeting people.  The challenge of putting that little white ball into a gopher hole with a crooked stick.

Goals for 2019: Break 80

[DrvFrShow]

Age: senior

Height: 6'

Location: Washington

How long have I been playing: 5 yrs as a teen; since 2011

Best score: 86

Favorite club: 6 iron

Golf books/DVDs that have helped me: LSW, Youtube swing videos of Bobby Jones.

Where do I play? Various public courses in the Seattle/Tacoma area

Best course I've played: Some course around Lake Tahoe back in the 1970s.

Things I enjoy about golf: quiet, sunshine, breeze in the trees, challenge.

Goals for 2019: Get out and play more than I did in 2018.

[PipePro]

Age 72

Height 5'10"

Hdcp. 7

Years played 60

Northeast Ohio

Best score 63  I have shot my age dozens of times starting at 68 

Fav club all of them

Best Club ever played Sciota or Canterbury or Firestone

Best thing about golf is beating par anywhere and any tee

 

[onthehunt526]

Age: 32

Height: 6' 5" (you read that correctly)

Handicap: 5.9 (trending 5.3)

Best score: 70 (twice) Even Par at Montpelier Elks in 2007 and (-2) this past Sunday

Favorite Club: 8-iron (it was my first club and can hit just about any shot with it)

Golf Books/DVDs: Lowest Score Wins and AJ's The Truth About Golf

Where I Play: Newman Municipal Golf Course here in Ithaca.

Best Course I've Played: Tie between Conklin Players Club and Bristol Harbour Golf Links

Things I like about golf: The serenity, the challenge, and the difficulty.

Goals for 2019: Get my index down in the 4.x range. Probably going to be there relatively soon.

[Osnola]

Age: 70

Height: 6'1"

Where are you from: Covington LA

How Long have you been Playing: 10 years off and on...more regular the past 4 years 

Best Score: 84 

Favorite club in the bag: 6i and 3W

Golf Books   Short lesson book on Plumb Bobbing and putting by a guy named OnePuttLarry

Where do you play: SE Louisiana and South Mississippi

Best courses you've played so far: Innisbrook, Golden Bear, Trent Jones Course in Auburn AL

Things you enjoy most about golf: It is outside, just play and don't sweat the small things (bad shot/missed putt)

Goals for 2K10: I set a goal at the beginning of the year to break 90 more than once....I did it 3 rounds in a row and then have been stuck at 90-92 since...But I am getting close to another sub 90 round, I can feel it...