What age did you start golfing & How long have you golfed?

[viking]

Hello everyone.

1. How old were you when you started golfing?

2. How long have you been golfing?

[LeftyRM7]

Interesting topic, I like it...

I was pretty late to the party, started playing the summer of 2017 at 31 and have been hooked ever since.


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[bens197]

My grandpa built me my first set of Golfsmith irons with TT Lite green shafts at age 7. I’m turning 39 next month and love it just as much today as I did when I first began to play. I’ve worked nearly every job in the golf business and played competitively in college and as a professional. I could stop playing today and be satisfied with every opportunity golf has given me.

[viking]

1. 8

2. 50

[Kenny B]

1.  45

2.  28

[Middler]

Started 55 years ago age 10. I’ve played for 40 years. Huh?

I returned to golf about 4 years ago after a 15 year hiatus where I did not play at all.

[tony@CIC]

Started at 65 and have been playing 8 years. Wish I started at 6. 

[Kenny B]

10 minutes ago, tony@CIC said:

Started at 65 and have been playing 8 years. Wish I started at 6. 

Why did you start and why did you wait so long?

I thought I was late to the party.

[Miketheripper]

I started playing golf when I was 35, so I've been playing for about 23 years, although I missed a couple of years due to a bad back and spinal fusion surgery.

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[Phazoni]

I started at 56 and have been playing for about 7 months.

[RetiredBoomer]

I started at fourteen and this would have been my sixtieth season (1961-2020). 

I've only belonged to my club since the 2002 season, however. That and retirement increased my frequency of play...until this year.

[tony@CIC]

Why did you start and why did you wait so long?
I thought I was late to the party.

My wife and I were pretty active sailors - we would typically take 4-6 weeks every summer and sail the Great Lakes. Plus racing every Sunday. Sailing and golf compete for the season/weather.

Then about 8 years ago we decided to sell our sailboat since we just weren't using it as much and had already moved to the Lake. Prior to taking up golf I had a pretty simplistic view of the game - I never understood how complex it was or the strategy involved. Since then I've become obsessive about it.


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[Middler]

30 minutes ago, tony@CIC said:

My wife and I were pretty active sailors - we would typically take 4-6 weeks every summer and sail the Great Lakes. Plus racing every Sunday. Sailing and golf compete for the season/weather.

Then about 8 years ago we decided to sell our sailboat since we just weren't using it as much and had already moved to the Lake. Prior to taking up golf I had a pretty simplistic view of the game - I never understood how complex it was or the strategy involved. Since then I've become obsessive about it.


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Small world. My 15 year hiatus from golf was for hardcore sail racing on Lake Michigan. We kept a boat in Port Clinton for a year late 80’s, sailed out to Put-in-Bay several times, and Pelee and Kelleys once each. We also sold our fifth and last boat in 2017, now we just daysail/casual race OPB occasionally.

2 hours ago, Middler said:

Started 55 years ago age 10. I’ve played for 40 years. Huh?

I returned to golf about 4 years ago after a 15 year hiatus where I did not play at all.

 

[Camille Bissarro]

I started at the Willimantic Country Club (I think it has a different name now) in 1985 at ~10 years old.  But owing to an overabundance of teen angst gave it up around 1991. I started playing again in 2015, so I'd say I've been playing about eleven years now all told.

[Camille Bissarro]

48 minutes ago, tony@CIC said:

Then about 8 years ago we decided to sell our sailboat since we just weren't using it as much and had already moved to the Lake. Prior to taking up golf I had a pretty simplistic view of the game - I never understood how complex it was or the strategy involved. Since then I've become obsessive about it.
 

I've heard people say you can either be a golfer or a boater, but not both. Since I started playing again I barely have time for a job, a family, or even sleep, never mind a boat...

[Jmikecpa]

Started at age 2 and have been playing for the last 41 years.


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[cnosil]

I think I was about 12 when I started.  stopped when I was 16,  started again when I was about 25 and have played for the last 29 years.  

[tony@CIC]

 

Yup small world. We started sailing when we lived in Chicago. Sailed out of Burham Harbor. Lots of sail racing still goes on here. But in terms of use/activity we now golf a lot more than then we could ever sail. Plus we also enjoy OPB (other people's boats for you non boaters). We live on Catawba Island adjacent to Catawba Island Club.

[ZenGolfer]

1.)  19

2.)  21 years

[robertson153]

1. 28
2. Going on 5 years.


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[GB13]

1. 5

2. 12

[DiscipleofPenick]

Started at 65 and have been playing 8 years. Wish I started at 6. 

So that's how you get to play so much. I saw an earlier post of yours and I was wondering how you posted 5x the rounds as I did..

Take Dead Aim

[DiscipleofPenick]

Started when I was 12 or so. 35 and still playing every week.

Take Dead Aim

[tony@CIC]

10 hours ago, Tsmithjr9 said:

So that's how you get to play so much. I saw an earlier post of yours and I was wondering how you posted 5x the rounds as I did..

Take Dead Aim
 

I've got a bad case of OCD and it applies to everything I do. I think my wife secretly enjoys it because it gets me out of her hair for several hours a day 

[DiscipleofPenick]

I've got a bad case of OCD and it applies to everything I do. I think my wife secretly enjoys it because it gets me out of her hair for several hours a day 

This sounds familiar, maybe I'm seeing the future


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[deauxrite]

I started at the Lighted Nine golf course and driving range in 1960 at the ripe old age of 10.  Picked balls by hand on the driving range in exchange for golf privileges and a penny a ball.  My dad cut some of his old clubs down for me and showed me how to hold the club..go get em tiger.  I guess that means that I have been playing for 60 years..minus a couple of tours in places where they either did not have golf courses or I did not have clubs.  Like one of the other posters..I am satisfied with my game and the opportunities that golf has provided.  I might add that many golfing partners have come and gone..but none of them is forgotten and they are all appreciated.

[Kenny B]

20 hours ago, tony@CIC said:

My wife and I were pretty active sailors - we would typically take 4-6 weeks every summer and sail the Great Lakes. Plus racing every Sunday. Sailing and golf compete for the season/weather.

Then about 8 years ago we decided to sell our sailboat since we just weren't using it as much and had already moved to the Lake. Prior to taking up golf I had a pretty simplistic view of the game - I never understood how complex it was or the strategy involved. Since then I've become obsessive about it.
 

20 hours ago, Middler said:

Small world. My 15 year hiatus from golf was for hardcore sail racing on Lake Michigan. We kept a boat in Port Clinton for a year late 80’s, sailed out to Put-in-Bay several times, and Pelee and Kelleys once each. We also sold our fifth and last boat in 2017, now we just daysail/casual race OPB occasionally.

 

 

In the mid 1980's I sailed a Macgregor 25' behind the locks on the Snake and Columbia Rivers.  No racing, just cruising.  Then interests changed in the 1990's which is when took up golf.

I did go out on a powerboat from Put-in-Bay in the 90's a couple of times.  I think it was a Sea Ray, maybe 34 feet.

[CarlH]

It was somewhere in my 30s when I bought a set of clubs and played "some" golf, but not much.  When I retired from the service at age 38, I found the passion to play and began regularly.  I'm 68 now, so playing the game for 30 years, but fiddled around with it for more like 35.

[DaveP043]

13

51 years

[NRJyzr]

Started around my 35th birthday.  

21 years and counting.