How many golfers we got here???

Staredge · Post by **Staredge** » May 24, 2008 7:58 am

I was reading one of the golf rags this month, and they were talking about how to set up a handicap. Now, you have to be a member of a club to estasblish one, but the interesting part was that if you don't have a local club, you can establish a virtual golf club under USGA rules.

Soft Shell Golf & Country Club anyone?????

TommyBahama · Post by **TommyBahama** » May 24, 2008 8:07 am

i play!!!...as for the HC or GHIN card...you don't need to be a member...you pay a fee and they will set it up!!!...give me a minute i may have a site you can use!

http://r.ghinconnect.com:80/gh/iihbp81. ... &g=6988220

Thats mine!!

try this one.......http://www.ghin.com/

SunsetChef · Post by **SunsetChef** » May 24, 2008 8:09 am

I"m in, but I can"t get past that windmill thing!

Staredge · Post by **Staredge** » May 24, 2008 8:14 am

TommyBahama wrote:i play!!!...as for the HC or GHIN card...you don't need to be a member...you pay a fee and they will set it up!!!...give me a minute i may have a site you can use!
http://r.ghinconnect.com:80/gh/iihbp81. ... &g=6988220
Thats mine!!
try this one.......http://www.ghin.com/

Oh, I know they're out there. I just figured it was a decent excuse to start our own club!!!!!!!!!!

Hell, I just started. My handicap would be 3 digits!!!!!

SunsetChef · Post by **SunsetChef** » May 24, 2008 8:18 am

Can you get a DWI in a golfcart?

karat · Post by **karat** » May 24, 2008 8:24 am

I am a Marketing and Membership Director for a Private Country Club. I know there are fees involved and they prefer your records from one club; one that where you have established your skills. Not saying there is a possibility of being at a few clubs. I have only heard of one club.

Some of our members belong to a few clubs.

Staredge · Post by **Staredge** » May 24, 2008 8:27 am

SunsetChef wrote:Can you get a DWI in a golfcart?

Yes.

TommyBahama · Post by **TommyBahama** » May 24, 2008 8:41 am

SunsetChef wrote:Can you get a DWI in a golfcart?

last year...i get a call from the pro shop for some help....a guy who was pretty hammered had just flipped a cart on a turn9paved paths)...they through him off the course...took his beer(actually put it in the bar for us after our round)...i also saw a guy roll a cart down a hill...bodies diving out has it tumbled!!...that was pretty scary!!...and if i'm paying 60-100 bucks to play...i want to enjoy my round and play well...a couple of cocktails...but to get stupid drunk...why play!!

Joetown Parrothead · Post by **Joetown Parrothead** » May 24, 2008 10:08 am

TommyBahama wrote:
SunsetChef wrote:Can you get a DWI in a golfcart?
last year...i get a call from the pro shop for some help....a guy who was pretty hammered had just flipped a cart on a turn9paved paths)...they through him off the course...took his beer(actually put it in the bar for us after our round)...i also saw a guy roll a cart down a hill...bodies diving out has it tumbled!!...that was pretty scary!!...and if i'm paying 60-100 bucks to play...i want to enjoy my round and play well...a couple of cocktails...but to get stupid drunk...why play!!

I agree with Tommy!

SimplyComplicated · Post by **SimplyComplicated** » May 24, 2008 11:25 am

Joetown Parrothead wrote:
TommyBahama wrote:
SunsetChef wrote:Can you get a DWI in a golfcart?
last year...i get a call from the pro shop for some help....a guy who was pretty hammered had just flipped a cart on a turn9paved paths)...they through him off the course...took his beer(actually put it in the bar for us after our round)...i also saw a guy roll a cart down a hill...bodies diving out has it tumbled!!...that was pretty scary!!...and if i'm paying 60-100 bucks to play...i want to enjoy my round and play well...a couple of cocktails...but to get stupid drunk...why play!!
I agree with Tommy!

A couple years ago I was riding the back up beer cart at a charity outing
and I got "bucked off" The guys who was driving had taken the governor
off the cart and was going WAY too fast. Plus we were sitting 3 up on the
front seat. We were on gravel so I ended up with a severe case of road
rash. We probably should have gotten a DUI in the golf cart that day!

jimsig · Post by **jimsig** » May 24, 2008 2:04 pm

SunsetChef wrote:Can you get a DWI in a golfcart?

Ask Billy Murray.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wir ... id=3555102

popcornjack · Post by **popcornjack** » May 24, 2008 2:11 pm

Staredge wrote:
TommyBahama wrote:i play!!!...as for the HC or GHIN card...you don't need to be a member...you pay a fee and they will set it up!!!...give me a minute i may have a site you can use!
http://r.ghinconnect.com:80/gh/iihbp81. ... &g=6988220
Thats mine!!
try this one.......http://www.ghin.com/

Oh, I know they're out there. I just figured it was a decent excuse to start our own club!!!!!!!!!!

Hell, I just started. My handicap would be 3 digits!!!!!

My handicap is my delusional belief that I can play.

My nickname isn't "El Ocho, the Fall Apart Kid" for nothing.

chrisintampa · Post by **chrisintampa** » May 24, 2008 9:05 pm

SunsetChef wrote:Can you get a DWI in a golfcart?

i hope not

chrisintampa · Post by **chrisintampa** » May 24, 2008 9:07 pm

TommyBahama wrote:
SunsetChef wrote:Can you get a DWI in a golfcart?
last year...i get a call from the pro shop for some help....a guy who was pretty hammered had just flipped a cart on a turn9paved paths)...they through him off the course...took his beer(actually put it in the bar for us after our round)...i also saw a guy roll a cart down a hill...bodies diving out has it tumbled!!...that was pretty scary!!...and if i'm paying 60-100 bucks to play...i want to enjoy my round and play well...a couple of cocktails...but to get stupid drunk...why play!!

i agree not to get stupid drunk but i will play golf/drive a golf cart with a nice buzz on, which i would never do in a car

Lightning Bolt · Post by **Lightning Bolt** » May 24, 2008 9:21 pm

I've found that I enjoy my golf a LOT MORE since I QUIT drinking on the course.
I used to shoot in the low, mid-80's and while "enjoying" a few pops
out there I would get more and more PI$$ED off at my "errors",
even occasionally throwing my clubs back at my bag.
On one particular instance, I heaved my 7-iron in disgust, and it hit the golf cart and snapped it off at graphite midshaft.
The golfhead end goes off like a tomahawk, stabbing into the turf right behind my buddy!

He never saw it, but I was pretty shaken... and I've given up beer ON the course ever since.

...now, the 19TH HOLE is a whole other story!!

conched · Post by **conched** » May 24, 2008 9:44 pm

The system our club uses is the GHIN system, like Tommy's.

It doesn't matter where you play, you turn in your score to your club and there is a slope and adjustment built in to get a handicap index.

WE pay a $2.00/month fee and our club posts the scores for us and we are not allowed to. WE can check all the scores a club turns in for a player though through the handicap lookup. http://www.ghin.com/lookups/main.asp

http://www.ghin.com/solutions.shtml

I'm not proud of my 26!! That's gotta come down some day.

Long gone are the days of SWEET 16.

I usually don't drink when I play. It usually makes me play worse than usual and is too hard on the body in hot Texas weather.

Calypso Poet 99 · Post by **Calypso Poet 99** » May 24, 2008 10:21 pm

I'm not a great golfer by any means but I have been getting better.

Yesterday I missed getting a hole in one twice by the smallest of margins. The first one was a 150 yard par 3 and left it short by about 12 inches and the next one was a 192 yeard par 3 and rolled it an inch to the left the pin and then rolled a few feet past.

Ugh

UpstateNYPH · Post by **UpstateNYPH** » May 24, 2008 10:23 pm

I try to golf but it's disastrous. I like it a lot, but I s u c k

Joetown Parrothead · Post by **Joetown Parrothead** » May 24, 2008 10:33 pm

I play at lot for my my job, all my customers love to golf! I shoot 77-85 most days, but when I am with customers they always win by at least one stroke!

Staredge · Post by **Staredge** » May 25, 2008 12:29 am

I've just started, so I haven't even played a round yet. Been spending my time working on my short, medium, and long game.

Figured I'd rather get the basics down than going out & flailing around the links getting frustrated. I have a 18 hole par 3 course nearby (90-130 yds/hole) & I'll probably start playing this week. Got my shots pretty straight, just need to dial in my distance for each club and work on not topping the ball.