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Well, this looks like a very nice forum.

Glad to be here. My name is Bryan and I am the owner/creator/designer of Major Championships (see signature). Its not live yet, but it will be in a couple weeks tops.

Anyways, I stumbled across the Sand Trap looking for some other golf blogs/sites.

I immediately became a fan. My site won't have a forum like this :), but its nice to have one to come to.

The golf bug has really been itching my ass this winter and now I am craving it.

Anyways, a little about me.

I am currently about a 3 handicap but thats a little awkward because I didn't get to play many tournaments last year (due to a full time job and getting married) so my handicap didn't really get updated.

Anyways, played all 4 years in high school, helped my team with 2 state championships (1998 - 1999), received a partial scholarship to play at the University of Evansville for 4 years and had a career scoring average of about 77.5. That was in 2003.

Anyways, thats a little bg info on me.

Glad to be here.

Hey, it is good to have you here! I just registered a couple days ago, so I am quite new myself.

I hope to see you around here some.

What golfers do you like?
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Aw geez, I'm gonna get burned on this one, but my fav is still Tiger Woods.

However, I am a big Fred Couples fan and I like Phil Mickelson alot too.

This is a great golf community... we are looking foreword to great things here and we welcome you.

Jeff

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Welcome to the forum Bryan. I live about 100 miles from Indy and have played a few courses in your area. Ironwood, Legends in Franklin, Otter Creek in Columbus..................tried a few times to get on The Brickyard, to no avail. Some good golf around there.......................Tom
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Hey Grip,

thanks . Central Indiana has some wonderful golf courses.

I belong to Harbour Tree's (home of the 2005 IGA Match play Championships this year), but I am going to play in this years Indiana State Amateur Tournament which is held at Otter Creek.

I to, have never played The Brickyard.

Have you heard of The Bridgewater? Pretty new course, I played it when it first opened, but its going to be highly private. Hell, they just made the driving range section private and that was the part I was looking forward to using during this winter. Technically, I don't have many places to hit balls here in Central Indiana.

Our State Championships, when I was in HS, was held at Prestwick GC in Avon, IN. Now the state championship is held at the Legends.

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