After taking a decade off...

[StixItClose]

Hello everybody. I'm excited to be joining this great board. After lurking through some of the threads for a while, I think I'll learn a lot.

My name is Scott. I started playing when I was 2, swinging sticks at pine cones in the backyard. I played junior golf in the summers, eventually becoming the #1 player at my high school. I was never going to play in college, but my plan when I enrolled was to get a business degree and eventually become a club pro. I changed my major to English after seeing how much math I would have to take for a business degree. And that is where my game died. Without my dad paying for me to play or working at a course for greens fees, I couldn't afford to get out there but once or twice a year. After college, I focused on my career and my new marriage and still only played sporadically. I went from being a single-digit handicap in my senior year of high school to not being able to break 100.

I've started playing more and practicing harder in the past couple of years now that things have settled down. Being a teacher, I get the summers to work on my game as well (when I'm not hanging out with my 15 month old daughter). I'm back down to a 15 with the goal of single-digit by the time I turn 30 in January. I'm even starting to play competitively in a league that travels around Tampa. I'm learning a lot about myself in this work to get back to what I consider a decent golf game, so I wouldn't trade those 10 years I took off for anything.