When did you start Golf?

[Guest]

33, started about a month ago.

[B-17 Pilot]

. . .My very first time playing golf was when I was 23 years old. . .had a wicked hangover and shot a 110! I always had played baseball and just gripped the club like a Louisville Slugger and had a ball! I got the bug bad and played quite a bit for a few years then began playing baseball again and what with a wife and kids, the golf game vanished. I played about 2 or 3 times a year for the last 15 years or so, and only last year decided to get serious about golf again. (as I was too old and had bad knees to continue playing baseball!) I played about 14 times last summer and saw improvement in my game. This year, with new clubs, I am really excited to see what I can do.

Mike

[artfulgolfer]

Started 3 years ago at 46... Down to 3.2 index, playing 2-3 times/week. Caddied when I was 12 or 13 and played weekly that summer. Never broke 100.

[thor]

8-9......started with a 9iron in the back pasture

[bwgolfer]

When I was 10 years old a fellow named Ed Thompson introducted me to the game of golf and I've been a card carrying sicko for 45 years(happily)....bwgolfer

[myk]

I started fourteen months ago. Now the bug has bitten me and I'm starting to get serious about improving my game.


Mike

[DirtCheap]

In 2001 The US Open came to town and my boss had an extra ticket.
He gave it to me and I watched Tiger get his @zz handed to him by Retief Goosen(sp?)

They made it look so easy, I went out and bought a $40 set of clubs from a pawn shop and learned really quickly that its not as easy as they make it look.

I only got serious about it two years ago when I found that its about the only thing I have in common withmy father-in-law. We play every chance we get now!

[Borf]

I started with I was about 10 (i cant remember exactly), I would pull out the big stick on every hole on a par 3 course!

[jm0715]

I took up golf in the summer of 2001 but have had a chronic herniated disk (not related to golfing) that was really bad, constantly bothered me, & completely took me out of the game (& my pool game ) for five &-a-half years till I got tired of it & said to myself that I'm not going to let this thing stop me from playing, & continue to play through it no matter what happens. In fact, it still flares up every once in a while, especially when it's cold, & it limits my play (& improvement), but at least I can still play!

[Dent]

im 15 now, started golfing when i was 5. Played my first regulation Par 72 course when I was 8. Ya i should be a better Handicap than 8, but i dont practise much.

[putterboy]

started at age 11 after being a sudo caddy for a few years. Unfortunately pretty much stopped from age 19 to 22 as I was into other things.....thankfully came to my senses got back into it :D...been solid for the past decade

[Craig Mac]

Took a few lessons as a kid and played a few times with my old man. Then I gave it up until I worked at a CC when I was in my mid 20's from there it slowly grew from just drinking with the guys on our days off hacking around to trying to get out as much as I can.

[atrapasuenos]

When I was like 18 I used to play every 6 months LOL, but the last year I started to play every 8 days and I think I have a good handicap for playing only Saturday's.

Regards.

[Mr Eagle]

When the knees gave way and I couldnt play soccer anymore at 45.If I knew then how much I would enjoy the golf I would have taken it up years before and the knees wouldn't be shot to pieces

[Parker0065]

I started at 9 years old with cut down womens clubs and reading golf magazines for instruction. There was no US Kids clubs back then,,lol!

My son started golf clinics when he was 5 years old and taking lessons from a local pro. He is 10 now and his swing looks like a mini version of a Tour Players! Amazing what good instruction and proper equipment can do!

[Trevor07Silvy]

Started when I was 10, I'm now 20. Off and on of course, now I really plan on year around from now on.

[mrobbie]

I started when I was about 8. 20 years of my life playing a game I love, but have never really got good at. I have friends that I played with regularly as a kid who dropped to low handicaps quickly, but I always remained in the average stakes. Maybe next year...

[Bradenator]

I lucked out...I was on the putting greens at 3...was on the driving range later the same year. When I was 4, we got a house on a golf course, and the practice tee (it was a 130 yard practice hole...no range) was quite literally in my back yard, so spent a lot of time developing what would become my swing. First "set" was a mixed bag of random cutoff clubs. First "real" set was a Chi-Chi Rodriguez getup, with a 3,5,7,9, putter, and a 2 wood. I think I was 6?