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Addiction

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  • #32
    Dolph Starbeam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,536 ✭✭✭Dolph Starbeam


    I am so happy I am not the only one who thinks like this.

    Wherever I am I am looking at fields designing a hole in my head, same when walking on the street I am constantly figuring out what club to get to a building and what shot shape would be best.

    I'm Yaya and I am a golfaholic.


  • #33
    Kevinmarkham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭Kevinmarkham


    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    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:

    Yea, been thinking it was times to get my balls branded.


  • #34
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,015 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    When we start up our clinic to help people.

    There will obviously be a putting green out the back.

    wp-content-uploads-2011-06-help-us-drive-away-addiction.jpg


  • #35
    PARlance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    What level is it when you read other addicts posts and say.... Jez he doesn't have it bad at all :)
    :(

    I have to go to a golf course to stop thinking about the bloody thing!!!


  • #36
    alxmorgan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭alxmorgan


    Forgot one....moved house last year and golf was a major factor in choice.

    How was garden for chipping practice ?

    Was there anywhere indoors allowing a full swing ?

    We had two kinds of house....1 had a garage with a v shaped roof so perfect for an indoor practice area. The other had a small garage with no chance to create one.

    Broke my heart to buy the latter even though it was a far far far superior house :(:D


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  • #37
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,015 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    alxmorgan wrote: »
    Forgot one....moved house last year and golf was a major factor in choice.

    How was garden for chipping practice ?

    Was there anywhere indoors allowing a full swing ?

    We had two kinds of house....1 had a garage with a v shaped roof so perfect for an indoor practice area. The other had a small garage with no chance to create one.

    Broke my heart to buy the latter even though it was a far far far superior house :(:D

    :D

    Did you mention any of this to her alx. ?


  • #38
    SEORG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 894 ✭✭✭SEORG


    I don't want help for my addiction


  • #39
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,015 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    SEORG wrote: »
    I don't want help for my addiction

    Stage 3


  • #40
    SEORG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 894 ✭✭✭SEORG


    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    Stage 3

    Is it wrong that I'm disappointed?


  • #41
    Finlay Harp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭Finlay Harp


    I am thinking of carpeting a room in the house just to putt on! Wooden floors throughout.


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  • #42
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,015 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    SEORG wrote: »
    Is it wrong that I'm disappointed?

    no - you should be happy.

    Stage 3 - is a time of love and peace. You are at one with your self and the game - all your balls are in play.

    Rough times start at 4 and get worse at 5 - you lie at 5 and question why your kids graduation at 5 years of age is that important.

    At stage 6 - my daughter cutiest little thing ever pointed at the golf on tv - she said - Daddy there is your work :eek::o:p:D

    Stage 6 , your dad says "how are you and the wife getting on"

    Don't go there - we can help.


  • #43
    alxmorgan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭alxmorgan


    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    :D

    Did you mention any of this to her alx. ?

    Stop will ya. Ever see that film True Lies ? Only 5% of my golf is on show. The rest is treated like being in the CIA :D


  • #44
    PARlance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    I got a text from my wife a few weeks back.
    She wanted to know if I wanted a cup of tea.

    She was sitting beside me at the time....

    I was watching the EuroPro tour on TV and on boards on the phone...... She had asked me a minute before but I was in golf mood and hadn't heard her :(

    "No, I'll make it" I said

    (Putting mat in kitchen, normally sink a few before the kettle is boiled)


  • #45
    BorderGap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 ✭BorderGap


    I’m addicted, each time I go to the bathroom after washing my hands I watch myself in the mirror perform imaginary, face on and down the line practice swings. Indeed if I see a mirror anywhere I’m in it practicing.


  • #46
    GreeBo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,518 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    I convinced my partner to buy our first house mainly because it was 2 mins to the course...I have since moved and am now 15....its not easy, but I think I'm starting to cope.

    Luckily work is 10 mins away so I get my fix in that way.


  • #47
    PARlance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    BorderGap wrote: »
    I’m addicted, each time I go to the bathroom after washing my hands I watch myself in the mirror perform imaginary, face on and down the line practice swings. Indeed if I see a mirror anywhere I’m in it practicing.

    Better than getting caught in the empty canteen in work practicing :).... Was practicing a drill where you stand near a wall and try to get your left arse cheek to brush the wall on the follow through.

    I was checking out my arse when the laughter started... The lads had seen the whole swing... Which given my finishing position... Was a good thing.

    Another lad I worked with (smoke break colleague) eventually asked me (on a work night out, as booze helps these things) if I had a nervous problem or some "condition".

    "You rock from side to side quite a bit when we're smoking"

    How else am I meant to practice my weight transfer.........


  • #48
    alxmorgan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭alxmorgan


    Said it before and will say it again - great thread.

    And i think Fix is right. Guys on here are not your avg Irish golfer !!


  • #49
    Dealerz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭Dealerz


    BorderGap wrote: »
    I’m addicted, each time I go to the bathroom after washing my hands I watch myself in the mirror perform imaginary, face on and down the line practice swings. Indeed if I see a mirror anywhere I’m in it practicing.

    I did this one night, but I hit the bloody child's toilet trainer seat hanging from the door on my imaginary back swing - it crashed to floor and woke the kids up! Wife screams "what happened?" - I said "no idea- you must not have hung it up properly!!"


  • #50
    alxmorgan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭alxmorgan


    Oh ya.....practicing my takeaway with another boardie at 1:30am after a feed of pints. One of us nearly taking the mirror off the wall :D


  • #51
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,015 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    GreeBo wrote: »
    I convinced my partner to buy our first house mainly because it was 2 mins to the course...I have since moved and am now 15....its not easy, but I think I'm starting to cope.

    Luckily work is 10 mins away so I get my fix in that way.

    Did you give her the Red Greb.

    Joking .

    Enjoying the posts my fellow stage 6 man.

    Think alx PARlance and a few others are almost stage 6.

    You have to jump in a smelly van and play every course , or a similar extreme action to be a 7

    Hoping to get back to 3 with help.


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  • #52
    Dealerz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭Dealerz


    Jaysus, I completely forgot about converting my back garden from grass to artificial grass plus putting green- the grass was put in so the kids could play and to have a no maintenance garden....ahem!


    It was funded from my wife's redundancy money.


  • #53
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,015 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    Dealerz wrote: »
    Jaysus, I completely forgot about converting my back garden from grass to artificial grass plus putting green- the grass was put in so the kids could play and to have a no maintenance garden....ahem!


    It was funded from my wife's redundancy money.

    Stage six confirmed . Golf tees in washing machine. Double lined trousers for winter.


  • #54
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,015 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    I meet strangers in petrol stations from online to play golf.
    It scares me and excites.

    I haven't told my friends.

    "Who are you meeting"
    "A bloke for golf"
    "Who is he"
    "I don't know his real name"
    "What"
    "Nice car that"


  • #55
    cjfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭cjfitz


    I think I qualify because I have spent more time on the golf course this summer than I have spent doing my masters thesis which is due 2 wks today. I am hoping for solid rain until its done but not until after the exchange day with Tralee on Sunday :)


  • #56
    Slicemeister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭Slicemeister


    Took a second weeks holidays after last week's foreign family holiday "to get a few bits around the house done in peace and quiet".
    Golf all week and nothing done. Simmering nicely here.


  • #57
    Dealerz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭Dealerz


    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    I meet strangers in petrol stations from online to play golf.
    It scares me and excites.

    I haven't told my friends.

    "Who are you meeting"
    "A bloke for golf"
    "Who is he"
    "I don't know his real name"
    "What"
    "Nice car that"

    My wife asked who I was meeting.... Eh the room wrecker? Or eh road runner?


  • #58
    m r c
    Closed Accounts Posts: 802 ✭✭✭m r c


    benny79 wrote: »
    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!
    If I could thank this twice I would. Not having sex the night before is absolutely hilarious.


  • #59
    GreeBo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,518 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    m r c wrote: »
    If I could thank this twice I would. Not having sex the night before is absolutely hilarious.

    Especially if it's by choice!


  • #60
    The Big Easy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,637 ✭✭✭The Big Easy


    I'm watching mass on RTE 1 hoping to catch a glimpse of Rosses Point, what stage does that make me :pac:

    By the way I'm an atheist (well agnostic really)


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  • #61
    Kevinmarkham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭Kevinmarkham


    Reading the newspaper and seeing that McDowell's ripping in to the Department of Justice... and thinking thatta boy, GMac.


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