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That title is probably over the top, but I was very good.

I have also received two lifetime bans from two golf courses.
That title is probably over the top, but I was very good. I have also received two lifetime bans from two golf courses.

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[–] SilverBanana 3 points (+3|-0)

What was the reason behind bans?
[–] PMYA [OP] 3 points (+3|-0)

The first time was my uncle's fault. We stayed out on the course past closing time, and they turned the sprinklers on, but we kept playing. Guy came out to tell us we needed to finish the hole we were playing and then leave. We played the rest of the course, then decided to race the buggies back. I crashed mine into the side of a little wooden bridge, damaged the front of the buggy and tore some of the wooden struts off the bridge.

The second time was my fault. I wasn't even playing golf. Our local course was next to a quarry, and at certain times during the day you had to wait to play the 18th hole because they were blowing shit up with dynamite. The 18th tee was on a kind of raised hill. I was with a couple of friends hiding at the bottom of the hill and we kept waiting for people to tee off, then running up and shouting BANG behind them. Course owners got complaints, came out and we ran away. The next time I tried to play there, they recognised me and told me I was banned for life.
[–] Mastercat 2 points (+2|-0)

Yeah tell us how you copped the bans. Did you take a nap/pass out in a bunker or what?
[–] OeeThaGreat 3 points (+3|-0)

Did you ever get to meet any famous golfers?

[–] PMYA [OP] 3 points (+3|-0)

Yep, I actually took lessons from Graeme Storm for a short while. Outside of that, no.

[–] SilverBanana 3 points (+3|-0)

Golf seems like unchildlike sport. Who got you started?
[–] PMYA [OP] 3 points (+3|-0) Edited

I got one of those putting things for christmas or a birthday, where you get the ball in the hole and it spits it back out.

After that, I kept pestering my dad to take me to a driving range, I got a set of clubs for christmas and started taking lessons.

edit: must have got the putting thing for my birthday if I got clubs at christmas.
[–] boujeebagels 1 points (+1|-0)

What is your fondest memory of golfing? Do you still play, and if so, what made you not pursue it as a career?
[–] PMYA [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

I do still play, but only very occasionally, maybe once or twice a year. When I was a kid, I never saw golfing as a thing I would want to do for a living. I was also way more interested in football. It only occurred to me that I could have had a shot at playing professionally when I was about nineteen, and by that point I wasn't willing to go back and put all the work in again.

My fondest memory is probably my first hole in one. I was about nine or ten and got the ball onto the green on a par 3, and when I got there I couldn't find the ball, so I just dropped one and finished the hole. When I went to get it out of the hole, my first ball was in there too.
[–] boujeebagels 1 points (+1|-0)

First off, holy shit you were way better than I had anticipated getting your first hole-in-one around 9 or 10.

That's cool, that's sort of how I feel about this one instrument I play. As a joke, I auditioned with euphonium (an instrument I had never played before), because it was my senior year of high school and I thought it'd be funny. I practiced for two hours, went into the audition, and found out later that week that I got first chair in the band. Turns out that I had beat our a kid who played in a prestigious youth orchestra for my now university's music program. Which, mind you, is one of the best public music programs in the country.

I debated on continuing playing but then decided to pursue engineering. I ended up hating engineering and three years later realized that I could have actually played professionally.

[–] PMYA [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

First off, holy shit you were way better than I had anticipated getting your first hole-in-one around 9 or 10.

It was a complete fluke. I wasn't getting par on holes consistently until I was around 14.

Which, mind you, is one of the best public music programs in the country.

I wish there wasn't such an emphasis on this. I have been playing musical instruments since I was 5 or 6, and had no lessons at all. With kids, the lessons become a chore. Practicing with instruments becomes synonymous with doing their homework, because it's too structured. I would have never been interested in playing music at all if I didn't have the freedom to do what I wanted.
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