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Hey everyone.  After a 30 year hiatus, I've come back to golf.  My wife and I decided to start playing together.  While I did play a little in my 20's, I'm essentially starting all over (not that I had much foundation to begin with).

I've for sure got the bug, but I have to take things slow.  I'm not nearly as flexible and fit as I once was.  I haven't even play a full 18 yet.  We go out and do nine and call it good.  I've also been hitting up the range to work on my drives and there are a good number of par 3 courses in the area that are cheap enough I can go frequently and work on my shorter game.

I bought two used sets of clubs off Craigslist to put together a decent beginning set.  I'm 6'2" and have slightly shorter arms, so I feel like I'm really leaning over for those shorter shots.  Next year I figure to buy a fitted set.  

I don't shoot far, at least not yet.  I'm trying to develop a good swing and hoping speed will come once I get form down.  Even if I can only drive it 200, I'd be happy with that as long as it went somewhere close to where I wanted it to go.  Currently I've driving about 175 and thats with a .75 swing

Anyway, I wanted to find a place to read about golf stuff and maybe learn some stuff.  I already noticed a section for posting swing video's, so I'm looking forward to taking advantage of that 

talk to you all later

- Brad

 


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Huh, where does this site pick up the avatar pictures from?  I didn't set an avatar, yet that dog with his tongue out does belong to me (well, until he passed).

 


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Welcome. Great to see another fellow PNW'ner on here.

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On August 3, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Brad W said:

Huh, where does this site pick up the avatar pictures from?  I didn't set an avatar, yet that dog with his tongue out does belong to me (well, until he passed).

Gravatar.

You can change your avatar by visiting your profile.

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6 hours ago, iacas said:

Gravatar.

You can change your avatar by visiting your profile.

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Hi. Yeah, I know that. I was just curious where the initial picture came from as  I didn't set that up, it was just there


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11 hours ago, Brad W said:

Hi. Yeah, I know that. I was just curious where the initial picture came from as  I didn't set that up, it was just there

Just go into your profile and change it when you have a chance.

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I know how to change the picture.  I'm just curious where the original picture came from as I didn't set it up


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11 hours ago, Brad W said:

I know how to change the picture.  I'm just curious where the original picture came from as I didn't set it up

That's why I answered: gravatar.

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7 minutes ago, iacas said:

That's why I answered: gravatar.

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Doh!  I didn't see that. Sorry. 

 

Ok, well, I don't remember ever setting that up, but it explains how my picture showed up automatically 

 

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