You know when you're an addict (golf)....

PARlance

...When you've been up since 5 for a 7:15 start and you're hanging back in the house waiting for the course to open.

...When you book that early slot so you'll be home to see the final day of the Ladies Masters.

So go on, tales of addiction anyone?

Boskowski

Lol, same here. Waiting for a 7:34 tee off. Was the only tee time I could get on shortish notice and not playing at all is (obviously) not an option. Sign of addiction right there. Will probably catch another couple of hours of sleep after the round. Probably on the couch 'watching' either the ladies or the French Open.

Beautiful out there now. Wet from tonights rain, but morning sun breaking through. In a away the best part of the day. Course will be how I like it most.

You can see I'm not one for much preparation, I'm a last minute man. I'm lucky though as I can make it from this very kitchen stool onto the first tee in about 5 mins if I have to. Good luck with the round.

OffalyMedic

- When you stop wearing normal clothes on your days off cause more than likely at least a few holes of golf will be played

- All of your pants have a tee in the pocket

- You've played in thunder storms cause you know if you didnt it would be 2 full weeks without golf

-your clubs are always in the boot 'just incase'

- your known to start taking practise swings with invisible club at and setting and possibly mid conversation about something not even related to golf

-when 405 is wore off the buttons on your sky remote

- even when not golfing or watching the tour your looking at golf videos on youtube

- checking this forum religiously incase you miss some big golf news

- when you judge distances by golf clubs...its only a SW away

- when you play a round of golf in ypur head as you lie in bed at night

Golfgraffix

You pack in your good job, remortgage your house and live on 50c noodles for 3 years to try and work in the industry !

Do I hear any violins ?

J

Kevinmarkham

Golfgraffix wrote: »

You pack in your good job, remortgage your house and live on 50c noodles for 3 years to try and work in the industry !

Do I hear any violins ?

J

Good things come to those who wait (and put in the hard work), eh, John!

Senna

When you're walking through the office imagining hitting a high draw to the desk at the back left corner.

When the washing machine always gets cloged up with Tees

Kevinmarkham

PARlance wrote: »

...When you've been up since 5 for a 7:15 start and you're hanging back in the house waiting for the course to open.

Boskowski wrote: »

Lol, same here. Waiting for a 7:34 tee off.

Lads, lads, 7.15, 7.34... try 6.35am in the pouring rain for the Captain's Prize (y'day), with an hour's drive to get to the course from home, having got to my bed till after midnight after playing Portmarnock that afternoon.

Got back to the clubhouse in time to wish my mate good luck as he headed for his 10am tee time.

TLOA72

Kevinmarkham wrote: »

Lads, lads, 7.15, 7.34... try 6.35am in the pouring rain for the Captain's Prize (y'day), with an hour's drive to get to the course from home, having got to my bed till after midnight after playing Portmarnock that afternoon.

Got back to the clubhouse in time to wish my mate good luck as he headed for his 10am tee time.

Living the dream kevin.

Tugboats

When you actually bring your golf clubs on the "golf" holiday to Thailand

neckedit

Golfgraffix wrote:

You pack in your good job, remortgage your house and live on 50c noodles for 3 years to try and work in the industry !

^^Absolutely love it^^
Hate noodles though.......

Getting to the course at first light to play a few before work..... maybe 3 holes... as the mornings get brighter getting a full 18 in..... working a 12 hour shift in the industry and playing 9 on the way home.......

Seeing a nice piece of land and constantly thinking how many holes I could squeeze on it if I owned it.

Being brought up on golf courses and worked at nothing else all my life. And not wanting to change a thing.

The buzz you get from hitting "the" shot.... the abject misery from not hitting "the" shot....

The genuine buzz when your nephew text to say he's broken the course record......again.....

That nervous energy standing the first off your favourite course....... and thinking "home".....

Benicetomonty

Spending so much money on ludicrous golfing attire that you start to convince yourself that it's ok to wear it away from the course.

PARlance

When coins stop being coins and become markers.

When you're driving home from your round at half 10 and your mind is trying to come up with excuses/lies to get you out for a second round.

Love the one about the tees in every pocket Shauna

Boskowski

Kevinmarkham wrote: »

Lads, lads, 7.15, 7.34... try 6.35am in the pouring rain for the Captain's Prize (y'day), with an hour's drive to get to the course from home, having got to my bed till after midnight after playing Portmarnock that afternoon.

Got back to the clubhouse in time to wish my mate good luck as he headed for his 10am tee time.

6.35 sounds awfully early. OK, Captains Prize is different I guess, but there's no way you'd get our green keeping staff to sort out the course (greens, tees, flags, bunkers) ready for 6.35.

FixdePitchmark

I think I've done all above except the remortgage the house.

I think everyone knows how it done me in. Know, too much, too much.

To be honest, loved every minute and don't regret taking the game on - full on. A mate was home from London last night - told him I had a par round and he was delighted for me. Delighted is an understatement , a serious golfer ("off 18") himself. He could easily be single figures, he was giving me back our friends' golf society trophy he won last year, to be engraved for next year.

But it is all a bit sad isn't it, it is just a game - for all the effort that has gone into our games. The best times for me, was just standing on a high Tee Box, looking at the sea and laughing with my playing partners at the ridiculousness of it all.

No matter how you are playing, you are "playing" - imagine that. People are off working , worry about spreadsheets and graphs and kpis - or worse, have issues with health or family or life or death.

Golf for me is an escape - an idyllic escape from politics and ISIS and Greece and the vicissitudes of life.

Boards has been a crazy part of it - but for all the ills of an online existence, I've met fantastic people, the solidarity of craziness has been addictive. Was laughing with a lad from here the other day - we were paying last winter in "Feels Like" -3 degrees , there was full on ICE on the green . And after, in car park we would try to convince ourselves it was a great day (lol) . But you know what , it was still a golfing experience.

I've played wonderful courses and seen fabulous golfers - If you play this game enough , you see all the ways people play, you see something in everyone. I've seen people do things with a ball, I know I could never ever do. It has been such a joy of discovery , anger and life.

Anyway - won't get too/more "sentimental" , but has been a blast. Thanks lads and girls for all the help I got around here. The laughs too.

What next.

Not sure - a rest to start.

slave1

When you B&B it because you want to be fresh for that special course

When you sit on the YR website to get the first glimpse of next weeks weather

When you keep a spreadsheet of your scores

When you have the 'golf press' in the shed

When you've a shoe box full to the brim with found tees

When you've buckets of sh1te finds at home because you can't bear to throw them away

When you try over and over again to test the water with your daughter about getting an early round in the day of her Communion especially when YR is positive

When you're on family holidays and seek out a golf or sporting shop to get a putt in or better still hit an iron in the driving bay

Shauna, I thought that replaying your round was the only way to get to sleep

Keano

When you judge a car by how many sets of golf clubs it can fit in the boot

dines08

Cleaning the clubs on a Friday night before a competition on Saturday morning, PGA tour on the TV and the wife is on the couch with a marker drawing a putting line and signing your Pro v's becomes a tradition in your house

slave1

As you're driving by fields you picture a lovely par 3

FixdePitchmark

I got an awful condition at one stage, I basically would bring up golf in the most inappropriate conversations and context.

People in work would ask me - "any golf today" , I had to start telling white lies.

Em, no - "What do you think of last quarters figures".

redzerdrog

when you can't get out for a game so you play a quick 9 on WGT

Seve OB

Kevinmarkham wrote: »

Lads, lads, 7.15, 7.34... try 6.35am in the pouring rain for the Captain's Prize (y'day), with an hour's drive to get to the course from home, having got to my bed till after midnight after playing Portmarnock that afternoon.

Got back to the clubhouse in time to wish my mate good luck as he headed for his 10am tee time.

How did you get on?
It was there for the taking, 38 points won :eek:
I shouldn't have bothered getting out of bed :rolleyes:

tonc76

when you're left hand is white but right hand is tanned (the Michael Jackson look)

Wichita Lineman

When your Mrs asks you to book two weeks off work for the summer and you check your club fixtures schedule before your work schedule just in case you might be unavailable for the Captains prize or something.

Rikand

Wichita Lineman wrote: »

When your Mrs asks you to book two weeks off work for the summer and you check your club fixtures schedule before your work schedule just in case you might be unavailable for the Captains prize or something.

I did that this year. Convinced the wife we needed to book our holiday for the middle of June instead of the beginning or end of it. Barton Shield was at the beginning of June.... Senior Cup at the end of it

zuutroy

you measure wind speed in 'clubs'.

Wichita Lineman

I could also add when I'm at club committee meetings Wednesday & Thursday, on volunteer shop duty Sunday morning, playing Sunday afternoon and later that night then spending 2 hours or so on weekly notes, pics etc as I'm the Club P.R.O - which happens from time to time!

charlieIRL

Rikand wrote: »

I did that this year. Convinced the wife we needed to book our holiday for the middle of June instead of the beginning or end of it. Barton Shield was at the beginning of June.... Senior Cup at the end of it

Same here, booked ours so it wouldn't clash with the society outing in Carton House!!!

Barnaboy

Rikand wrote: »

I did that this year. Convinced the wife we needed to book our holiday for the middle of June instead of the beginning or end of it. Barton Shield was at the beginning of June.... Senior Cup at the end of it

Forgot to do this and now I'm going to miss the captain's prize. Again. :mad:

ForeRight

I went on holiday last year with the wife and daughter.
I ended up bringing the two of them to the driving range but it wasn't long before I sent them off back to the hotel while I jumped out for a round with a German bloke called Axel and his wife

JIdontknow

shaunac93 wrote: »

- When you stop wearing normal clothes on your days off cause more than likely at least a few holes of golf will be played

- All of your pants have a tee in the pocket

- You've played in thunder storms cause you know if you didnt it would be 2 full weeks without golf

-your clubs are always in the boot 'just incase'

- your known to start taking practise swings with invisible club at and setting and possibly mid conversation about something not even related to golf

-when 405 is wore off the buttons on your sky remote

- even when not golfing or watching the tour your looking at golf videos on youtube

- checking this forum religiously incase you miss some big golf news

- when you judge distances by golf clubs...its only a SW away

- when you play a round of golf in ypur head as you lie in bed at night

This is all actually scarily accurate lol!

DJ90

When nearly everything posted in this thread applies in someway to myself

Sean_pop

when your in the middle of a round of golf and thinking of where you could play next or if anyone your playing with would play another 18 holes

dball

went to a wedding in Killaney a few years ago - late late night.....
Convinced myself i could get up at 6.30 & drive home collect my clubs and drive back at Killarney for a teetime at 10.00
Made it and didn't embarrass myself too much:)
Forgot to eat and when my playing partner produced ham sandwiches on the 8th hole i begged him as I was starving - neither of us knew about the cafe between the 9th and 10th hole, I bought him another sandwich and a beer and we had a good laugh about how hungover everyone was

The joys

PARlance

ForeRight wrote: »

I went on holiday last year with the wife and daughter.
I ended up bringing the two of them to the driving range but it wasn't long before I sent them off back to the hotel while I jumped out for a round with a German bloke called Axel and his wife

Sounds like there could be more to that story than just the golf....

Rikand

I'm away with work for the next couple of days. The first thing I did was throw the clubs into the company car.

For the evenings obviously

slave1

Can't understand the comments re holidays outside outings as this is a given surely, currently sunning it in Orlando avoiding my least favourite outing of the year

TLOA72

When you start to feel sad cause you've te'ed off on the 16th and you know there's only 3 holes left to play.
Always happens to me when I play especially in belmullet.

idle

When I get a €200 phone bill and presume it's because of the golf holiday in Portugal but on inspection realise it's because I watched most of the US Open on my phone at work. Worth every cent

OffalyMedic

We you drive 30mins to a course to find out its closed, ring ever course in a 20mins radius, all closed so drive 1hr 10mins from home just to play 9 holes in 4degree cold and a small bit of rain #ILoveGolf

Dayor Knight

When you play your favourite, or latest, course in your head to get to sleep. No need for any sheep around here. Problem is, I rarely make it to the second green......

Tom.D.BJJ

slave1 wrote: »

When you sit on the YR website to get the first glimpse of next weeks weather

Or as they're known in my house, "My Norwegian friends"

Paulzx

When at the same time every week you're sitting at a computer constantly refreshing the page whilst waiting for the weekend timesheet to open and hoping the club slowcoach doesn't jump on the sheet with you.


You know your obsessed when you're willing to play the full 18 and need to empty the water out of the bottom of you're bag afterwards

fearruanua

Dayor Knight wrote: »

When you play your favourite, or latest, course in your head to get to sleep. No need for any sheep around here. Problem is, I rarely make it to the second green......

I am not alone!!!!!

dan_ep82

When your checking localised weather to see how far you have to travel for a game on your day off

valoren

When a new Protracer compilation video is posted on Youtube

Jawgap

.....when you organise a half day because you know the course will be closed tomorrow and you'll likely not get a game, and then play 14 holes, 10 of which with a numb face from the breeze off the sea!

Great to get the fresh air though!

Montgolfier

When you go curtain shopping with your wife, just to make sure she picks good heavy drapes for hitting balls into.