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I had my own par 3 in my back yard owner and player . Invited neighbors to play matches probably when I was 10-13 . So much fun I learned the shot game and how to break windows and hit trucks! Golf was my passion besides all other sports.

I was probably around 7-8 years old when I would go "caddy" for my dad and grandfather on the weekends when they played. I'd basically walk the tree line looking for balls while they played, and maybe once we were out of sight of the clubhouse and other golfers they'd let me putt a few times. That progressed to them letting me take shots on my own before my dad handed me down a set of his old clubs when I was around 12. I played with them up until I was around 17 then golf suddenly became "not cool" when I was playing in garage bands and gigging on the weekend.
Golf suddenly became "cool" again when I was in my 30's and the doc told me no more hockey or running due to my knee, and all those guys I used to play music with had picked up the game. So I started golfing with them, and the rest as they say is history.

I was 9. In 1977, my dad had a work injury that put him out of work for that summer. He had never played golf before but used it as physical therapy. My Uncle Joe was an avid golfer. He loaned my dad a set of MacGregor clubs and gave him a few quick lessons. Dad wanted a golf buddy so he picked up a garage sale set of clubs that my Uncle cut to fit me. We basically learned the game together. I was gifted my first brand new set of clubs when I was around 12. They were Wilson blades and a 1, 3, 5 wood set that were actually made of wood. Dad also threw in a Bullseye flange putter that I still have. Dad never lost the bug and was an avid golfer until his passing in 2018.  I had a military career and brought clubs with me wherever I could. I've had the opportunity to play in some pretty cool places around the world.

I had my own par 3 in my back yard owner and player . Invited neighbors to play matches probably when I was 10-13 . So much fun I learned the shot game and how to break windows and hit trucks! Golf was my passion besides all other sports.

I had my own par 3 in my back yard owner and player . Invited neighbors to play matches probably when I was 10-13 . So much fun I learned the shot game and how to break windows and hit trucks! Golf was my passion besides all other sports.

I had my own par 3 in my back yard owner and player . Invited neighbors to play matches probably when I was 10-13 . So much fun I learned the shot game and how to break windows and hit trucks! Golf was my passion besides all other sports.

I had my own par 3 in my back yard owner and player . Invited neighbors to play matches probably when I was 10-13 . So much fun I learned the shot game and how to break windows and hit trucks! Golf was my passion besides all other sports.

I had my own par 3 in my back yard owner and player . Invited neighbors to play matches probably when I was 10-13 . So much fun I learned the shot game and how to break windows and hit trucks! Golf was my passion besides all other sports.

For me I was around 10 so around 1966.  Like most boys my age growing up in New England I played Baseball in the Spring, Football in the Fall, basketball and hockey in the winter, rinse and repeat.  While I fancied myself a future pro in three of those four sports (I was never the greatest skater) High school would prove that the only one I was respectable at was baseball - alright I could kick a football well enough to be a high school place kicker and punter - big deal - 40 yard field goal was an absolute bomb and 35 yard punt without a bounce obtainable but not always.  
My best friend's dad was a biology on Yale who had gone to teach at a place called St. Andrews, in Scotland the year prior to that summer.  I knew next to nothing about golf at that time so the location had no meaning for me other than it meant that my friend would be gone and I'd need to make some new ones.
 
When he returned, it was with the golf bug.  Now I was better at every sport than Larry but he had a set of clubs that were made for him and was full of tales about playing golf every week on some old course.  At the time it cost him 2 lbs.  (Two lbs. of what I had no idea.)  We started going to the local school field to hit the clubs that he brought back.  My baseball coach saw us one day and went ballistic on me - "You can't play golf and baseball at the same time, he said."  (It's what people thought back then.)  
 
Larry was a much better player than I - he had played a lot in Scotland, taken lesson there while I was just learning.  Still when I got into one, I was much longer.  And I was hooked.  However the words of my baseball coach stuck and since I was destined for the major leagues there was no way I was putting that in jeopardy.  
 
Throughout the next several years and on into college I would only play golf in August - when baseball was over before school started.  Once I was in college I started to realize two things.  I was really good in baseball, good enough to have a strong throwing arm on a college team and hit college pitching and yet I was still nowhere near good enough to play it professionally, ever.  Still, I clung to the dream until at the start of my junior year I came down with mono.  My doctor determined that it had enlarged my spleen and banned me from contact sports for a year.  Since I was a catcher and that was the only position that I was fit to play (no leg speed) my baseball playing days were done.  Golf however beckoned - I took a young adult membership at the local 9 hole course - it cost $75.  Broke 80 for the first time that summer, par for the first time the next Spring and never looked back. 
 
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Tom for National Golf Czar / Supreme Director of All Domestic Golf Operations & Procedures

Clubs wise, I would say Srixon, everyone only wants to play the big names, but I played with the ZX5 irons when I visited my in-laws and they are really good.
Ball wise, I would say the Inesis Tour 900 (here in South Africa)
100% agree with you @GolfSpy_APH on the L.A.B putters!

I love how that looks at address, the dull carbon reminds me of my King Tec 4 hybrid. 

You are lucky mate! Take care of yourself watch some golf during your recuperation . Glad your ok 

You are lucky mate! Take care of yourself watch some golf during your recuperation . Glad your ok 

You are lucky mate! Take care of yourself watch some golf during your recuperation . Glad your ok 

You are lucky mate! Take care of yourself watch some golf during your recuperation . Glad your ok 

You are lucky mate! Take care of yourself watch some golf during your recuperation . Glad your ok 

Welcome Thomas you will enjoy the forum and all of the areas that are covered by testing and players knowledge! My brother loved playing whistler 

Welcome Thomas you will enjoy the forum and all of the areas that are covered by testing and players knowledge! My brother loved playing whistler 

Congratulations on your selection testers! Great looking clubs and can't wait to hear how they perform for you.

Because I never get chosen and I have told so many of my friends about MGS . 
The testing is a great data device for golfers of all abilities, the thread are so informative and the topics are also funny and timely

Wish I could more but guys I play with ride ? Two new hips and a few Tylenol, I can beat them to my hall but after 12 it gets tougher