My high school Golf picture

[motteler621]

Hey guys heres a picture of me out of the yearbook when I played on the golf team my freshman year of high school (1998). Yes that putter was way too long for me, Im pretty sure its 35" and I was only like 5"6 or something, lol. Its a wilson 8802. I actually just traded that thing in like 5 months ago.

this is me draining a putt to win

[kpaulhus]

Thats pretty cool. I love going back and looking at HS pics. Then I wonder how anyone ever took me seriously lol. It was only 5 years ago too.

[xxsoultonesxx]

That pic looks like it could have been taken in the 70's.

[motteler621]

  xxsoultonesxx said:

That pic looks like it could have been taken in the 70's.

yep back then we used drivers this size, lol. I used the original taylormade burner with bubble shaft. Had to walk up to the first tee infront of 100's of people in tournament play and hit the ball from a driver this size below without any warm up from hitting balls, lol. I remember this one tournament 100's of people around the first tee, I had no warmup and I get called to hit, I hit the most perfect pull fade and everyone clapped. I can still see that shot in my mind today, I even remember my approach shot. I hit it perfectly straight but too long and it went over the green, I had some addrenaline running

[CyclistOK]

I remember my big bertha warbird driver that I played in HS. Fun times....

[motteler621]

  CyclistOK said:

I remember my big bertha warbird driver that I played in HS. Fun times....

oh yea, alot of my playing partners used those too.

[xxsoultonesxx]

motteler, you are only a year older than me (unless you were held back in school or something. I just wish I had played golf in high school.

[CyclistOK]

We always got warmup balls though, so I never had to go out cold. I thought they came with the tournament, but maybe our school payed for them :/

[CassinoNorth]

Wish I had the chance to play hs golf but I was a baseball guy so my springs were always on the diamond.

[motteler621]

  xxsoultonesxx said:

motteler, you are only a year older than me (unless you were held back in school or something. I just wish I had played golf in high school.

when did you graduate high school, I did in 02.

  CyclistOK said:

We always got warmup balls though, so I never had to go out cold. I thought they came with the tournament, but maybe our school payed for them :/

yea no warmups for us except for the putting green. I remember only one tournament that had a warmup range before hand and it was so far away from the course

[xxsoultonesxx]

  motteler621 said:

when did you graduate high school, I did in 02.

03. I'm 25.

[motteler621]

  xxsoultonesxx said:

03. I'm 25.

oh ok, yea most people that would of graduated in 02 would be 26. I started school in kindergarden a year late, so Im 27. You would of been in eighth grade when that pic was taken

[mrmiller8]

  CassinoNorth said:

Wish I had the chance to play hs golf but I was a baseball guy so my springs were always on the diamond.

Same here. You can play golf the rest of your life but organized baseball you can't.

[sean_miller]

  mrmiller8 said:

Same here. You can play golf the rest of your life but organized baseball you can't.

That's exactly the reason I'm glad I never played golf until after high school. High school and college is when you have the luxury of playing all kinds of team sports with and against your peers, FOR FREE.

There's plenty of time for golf when you're older.

[motteler621]

you can play organized baseball after high school. My dad plays in leagues every year for softball and baseball, well he use to. They were setup by bars or something

  CassinoNorth said:

Wish I had the chance to play hs golf but I was a baseball guy so my springs were always on the diamond.

h.s golf is in the fall, not the spring. Im not sure when highschool baseball season is though. If its spring you are good to play golf too, which is fall.

Also the golf season is pretty secluded from other sports, meaning if you are playing the golf team you will be able to join other teams. Like I could of played baseball, basketball, swimming or soccer if I wanted. We had some basketball players on the golf team and we are a basketball school. Won state a few times and we had shaun livingston on our teams, the pro basketball player now. I think football is the same time though

[tristanhilton85]

  motteler621 said:

h.s golf is in the fall, not the spring. Im not sure when highschool baseball season is though. If its spring you are good to play golf too, which is fall.

Depending on where you are it must be during different times of year. I played during my junior and senior years and boys golf was (and is) a spring sport out here in SoCal... the girls played during the fall. Also, at my school, there is no way that I could play a different sport at the same time as golf... we practiced 2-3 days per week and had matches once or twice a week.

  sean_miller said:

That's exactly the reason I'm glad I never played golf until after high school. High school and college is when you have the luxury of playing all kinds of team sports with and against your peers, FOR FREE.

True... but like mottler said you can find organized softball/baseball leagues if you want; it does cost a bit, but really isn't too bad (cheaper than what most of us spend on golf). I played golf in high school partly because I got to play all the really nice, expensive golf courses, FOR FREE...

[motteler621]

  tristanhilton85 said:

Depending on where you are it must be during different times of year. I played during my junior and senior years and boys golf was (and is) a spring sport out here in SoCal... the girls played during the fall. Also, at my school, there is no way that I could play a different sport at the same time as golf... we practiced 2-3 days per week and had matches once or twice a week.

yea you cant really play another sport at the same time. At my school there werent any other sports going on at the time tho except for football. We practiced every day after school and had a couple matches during the week then throw in the random tournaments. The golf season was only from the end of august to the 1st or second week of october if your team made that far. Pretty much over at the end of september

[Keep It Simple]

  motteler621 said:

yep back then we used drivers this size, lol. I used the original taylormade burner with bubble shaft. Had to walk up to the first tee infront of 100's of people in tournament play and hit the ball from a driver this size below without any warm up from hitting balls, lol. I remember this one tournament 100's of people around the first tee, I had no warmup and I get called to hit, I hit the most perfect pull fade and everyone clapped. I can still see that shot in my mind today, I even remember my approach shot. I hit it perfectly straight but too long and it went over the green, I had some addrenaline running

I still use the 3 & 5 wood of this model. I'm probably giving up 10 or 15 yards to the new technology but I enjoy hitting them.