Addiction

FixdePitchmark · 01-08-2014 01:02AM #1

I guess it is time for us to stand up - like an AA meeting.

My name is "Fix" - I

Ok - joke, but - at what stage do you think you went - ok, this is actually a bit mental.

For me it was trying to fit a driving range sessions in a time you shouldn't. You knew setting out, it was not going to work.
Watching Shell Wonderful world of golf.
Joining Boards - just for golf.
Buying casual golf shoes - wearing them to work.
Booking a holiday - looking for golf courses.
Speaking to my wife about golf - poor girl.
Buying a new wedge, because of the groves

Not playing another sport because I could get injured for golf.
Buying a push trolley.
Getting an annual subscription for a mag.

I seen a father with a six to nine month old at the range - mental , but for all the crazy **** that goes on here - only we could understand.

So - I'm Fix - I'm addicted - do you want to talk about it..

When or what did you do.

Be honest ?

scrubber72 · 01-08-2014 06:05AM

I am scrubber and i am posting here at 6 am. Not playing until 11. Enough said.

GreeBo · 01-08-2014 07:21AM

I've been locked into my club several times for to playing in the dark, I get hit by sprinklers, a lot. I've used my car headlights to practice when it's too dark.
My name is GreeBo and I've a problem.

The problem is the days are too damn short!

the lawman · 01-08-2014 07:27AM

My name is Lawman.

I'm an addict. I have been an addict since 2010.

After a round I use my little girls chalk board to analyse the holes I've played.
I fill every shot into a spreadsheet in work.
I don't drink because it affects golf time.

I don't want help.

cairny · 01-08-2014 07:28AM

So far this year I've let two concert tickets go unused cos I got invites to play team events, one of them was for The Pixies, my teenage heroes.

Low point was last week though when I found myself telling friends that I couldn't go to Cork - Tipp AI semi because it's the same day as the Club's swop day with Killarney.

dar_cool · 01-08-2014 07:52AM

My name is Dar, I'm an addict, I play after night shifts with no sleep, played a few times on honeymoon, I'm always thinking of when ill play next, organising my day around golf, madness

alxmorgan · 01-08-2014 07:57AM

This is a great thread. Making me feel a lot better.

dan_ep82 · 01-08-2014 08:08AM

When I started explaining things with golf analogies

"Its like when your on the first tee box..."

Dealerz · 01-08-2014 08:27AM

I'm dealerz and I'm an addict.

I've gone to the driving range during my one hour lunch break- the range is a 30 min round trip- but I just needed to "work" on something.

At Xmas i was holding my 7 month old girl and practicing swinging her side to side- thinking she was a golf club!

ssbob · 01-08-2014 08:38AM

Hi I'm an addict, I make 14 hour round trips regularly just to play golf in a golf crazy society................

alxmorgan · 01-08-2014 09:46AM

Hi, my name is alx and I'm a golf addict.....

* I regularly work through lunch to grab 20 mins in the range on the way home to "iron something out".
* I do not need to change anything in my bag but still find myself regularly trawling adverts
* I get an indescribable buzz from preparing my golf bag for the following mornings golf...two bananas in this pocket etc etc
* I get up earlier to play golf every w/e then I ever do for work
* I haven't had a sleep in in an age as I play golf on my "day"
* When we decided where we are going on holidays my first stop is google maps to check nearby courses
* My first day off in 7 months was to go play the Atlantic Coast Challenge
* I have watched and read hours of material on trackman and flightscope even though I own neither and can't afford lessons on either
* I once stood on the grass range on my own in the pissing range, full wet gear on, as I wanted the more authentic practice from real grass rather than the covered bays with their mats

I don't see any of this as an issue

benny79 · 01-08-2014 09:59AM

Hi I'm benny Im 35 and a addict!

I realized my problem when I started getting up a 6 AM to play golf on days off.
Going on a golfing holiday with a load of 55+ year old's when I was 30.

Getting upset if I'm not playing the weekend even if I'm going away with the Misses.

Spending vasts amount of money on golf stuff.

Watching golf for 4 days solid when the Majors etc are on.

Not having sex with the misses the Nite before a round

Which I still do, she thinks its hilarious!

Johnny_Fontane · 01-08-2014 10:05AM

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Not playing another sport because I could get injured for golf.

My running career has taken a nosedive because of this.

snaphook · 01-08-2014 10:06AM

As we approach the entrance to the local driving range, the gate is hidden on the right.

I am enveloped for a split second with sheer terror in case I see a sign saying 'CLOSED'.

the lawman · 01-08-2014 10:20AM

When I'm driving I look at grass verges, gardens, fields or any grass surface that's green and ask myself how hard to would be to find a nice clean lie to hit some balls.

I'm sorry but never ashamed.

alxmorgan · 01-08-2014 10:27AM

the lawman wrote: »

When I'm driving I look at grass verges, gardens, fields or any grass surface that's green and ask myself how hard to would be to find a nice clean lie to hit some balls.

I'm sorry but never ashamed.

This....very much this

Danny dyers double · 01-08-2014 10:31AM

the lawman wrote: »

When I'm driving I look at grass verges, gardens, fields or any grass surface that's green and ask myself how hard to would be to find a nice clean lie to hit some balls.

I'm sorry but never ashamed.

Yes this made me laugh . Brilliant ðŸ˜႒

SEORG · 01-08-2014 10:42AM

I'm getting married later this year, the last monthly medal of the year is the previous weekend & open singles finishes the week before. Coincidence....I think not!!

Dealerz · 01-08-2014 10:48AM

SEORG wrote: »

I'm getting married later this year, the last monthly medal of the year is the previous weekend & open singles finishes the week before. Coincidence....I think not!!

Excellent manipulation/persuasion!

Dealerz · 01-08-2014 10:50AM

When I'm driving or on a train or even on a fcuking plane I'm constantly scanning the horizon to see if I can see a golf course!

A part of our honeymoon was a helicopter trip over the niagra falls, I was more interested in looking at the golf course beside the falls than one of the 7 wonders of the world!

ForeRight · 01-08-2014 11:02AM

Hi,

My name is foreright and I'm a golfaholic

snaphook · 01-08-2014 11:20AM

Dealerz wrote: »

When I'm driving or on a train or even on a fcuking plane I'm constantly scanning the horizon to see if I can see a golf course!

A part of our honeymoon was a helicopter trip over the niagra falls, I was more interested in looking at the golf course beside the falls than one of the 7 wonders of the world!

When I'm travelling, I would see a piece of land and think to myself, "That would make a lovely Par 4"

Whyner · 01-08-2014 11:56AM

I give directions according to my yardage

Drive and a 5 iron past the junction then a flick of the wedge and you're there

Dayor Knight · 01-08-2014 12:06PM

alxmorgan wrote: »

Hi, my name is alx and I'm a golf addict.....

* I regularly work through lunch to grab 20 mins in the range on the way home to "iron something out".
* I do not need to change anything in my bag but still find myself regularly trawling adverts
* I get an indescribable buzz from preparing my golf bag for the following mornings golf...two bananas in this pocket etc etc
* I get up earlier to play golf every w/e then I ever do for work
* I haven't had a sleep in in an age as I play golf on my "day"
* When we decided where we are going on holidays my first stop is google maps to check nearby courses
* My first day off in 7 months was to go play the Atlantic Coast Challenge
* I have watched and read hours of material on trackman and flightscope even though I own neither and can't afford lessons on either
* I once stood on the grass range on my own in the pissing range, full wet gear on, as I wanted the more authentic practice from real grass rather than the covered bays with their mats

I don't see any of this as an issue

I've never been to a pissing range but it sounds interesting. Just as well you has the wet gear on!

alxmorgan · 01-08-2014 12:10PM

Dayor Knight wrote: »

I've never been to a pissing range but it sounds interesting. Just as well you has the wet gear on!

Ha even my Freudian slips are golf related

shaneon77 · 01-08-2014 12:14PM

I played 18 holes of golf on the morning of my wedding.
My Wife went into labour on my first child after going around on a buggy with me a few hours before.
Said child started swinging a soup ladle at 1 1/2 years of age after watching golf constantly on the TV with me.
It upsets me greatly if he prefers playing with his friends than hitting the practice area with me.
I am annoyed right now as there is a charity event on in my club and i'm on a half day.
All my nice clothes have a golf related logo on them somewhere.
A swing fault affects my performance in work.
I have missed work due to swing faults.
You could say I'm an addict.

Kevinmarkham · 01-08-2014 12:40PM

Definitely an addict... and proud of it.

Every time I see a hole in the road or the pavement I look around for somewhere I could chip from.
Every time I stay at a hotel I look out at buildings nearby and try to figure out what iron I'd need to reach it... or, in the case of the Atlantic Coast Challenge and the Diamond Coast Hotel, what kind of shot I'd need to reach my car.
Every time I see fields or dunes I'm designing a golf hole in my head.
Every time I have a terrible round of golf, I'm looking for a river to toss my clubs into... but I never do.

As someone put it:
I hate golf, I hate golf, I hate golf... good shot... I love golf, I love golf...

Arsenium · 01-08-2014 12:50PM

Just on a call at work here and a software developer mentioned "chunking" the pieces of work.

Immediately thought of a heavily hit wedge shot, with a huge divot landing in front of me !!

ssbob · 01-08-2014 12:58PM

My Mrs constantly says I am like a 2 year old when I don't get a game, snappy, sulking, talking about golf, putting golf on tv...............

Another thing she kills me for is staying up late on a Thurs/Sun night watching PGA tour golf for PGA Tour classic when there is no golf on and then giving out the following morning when she is pulling me out of bed for work:P

lowelife · 01-08-2014 01:41PM

Upon driving to the course in the pissing rain, you drive past a couple of sports field to see people playing soccer, football, hurling, running etc and think to yourself, mad barstools for doing that in this weather.

Arrive at the course and pretty much waterproof yourself head to foot, walk about in the pissing rain for 4 hours and then sit in the bar in ringing wet clothes afterwards as you forgot a spare set.

Mad bastards we all are but we wont ever admit it.

FixdePitchmark · 01-08-2014 02:06PM

Lads of the 7 stages -

Most lads here are at stage 5.

Myself and GreeBo stage 6 - was almost a stage 7 , but GreeBo pulled me back with a few cards - thanks man.

Kevin, there are rumours you are a stage 7 - say it ain't so - I hear a part of your lower anatomy starts to go round with dimples :eek:

We need to start lobbying the minister for help.

Think of the children - think of the families.

A Golf "Tee" Shirt campaign to start ?

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