Addiction

Was reading a thread and I saw mystiroakey had posted that he twice played 72 holes in a day. I replied that I once played 54 holes. Now this is definitely bordering on addiction if not full blown dependency. Is there any other ways to tell you are completely addicted to golf?

Here is a couple to get us started

1) Your last 20 quid goes on a round of golf.
2) An 80 mile round trip to play golf on a scooter with your golf bag perched across the back seat.
3) The first thing your thinking about buying your unborn child is a driver.
4) You own more golf shoes than you do work shoes.
5) The only thing you ever clean are your golf clubs.

Any more??

Number,
A couple of summers ago I used to putt for an hour before work in the summer. Left the house at 5:30am.

Did you putt any better??

came home from a night out drunk as a phart and decided to have the taxi stop off at home to collect theclubs and went straight up for a quick 18 at 430am as it was getting bright

Some good signs of addiction there hacker. Not sure I qualify anymore but there have been times when I did.

How about: spending too many waking hours on golf discussion forums etc?

How about you have been caught practising your swing in lifts more than once.

I do like NBS's point too.

If you are laying in bed and can't just drift off to sleep, you imagine playing perfect shots at each hole on your usual course.

I regularly get myself to sleep by counting putts, greens in regulation and fairways hit. If this doesn't work I remember every shot and decide whether I was pleased, disappointed or just satisfied with it. If I stay awake to the end then I'll work out whether I'm up, down or level!

Incidentally can other people still remember every shot from both their round and those of their playing partners a couple of days later?

I have friends who can't even remember their shots on the previous hole let alone those of the people they're playing with/against (I don't mean they're cheating they just can't remember).

When you turn down a date with an attractive lady because you want to keep a clear head for golf the next day or when someone you start seeing says its not working as your more committed to playing golf than making time for them! Both have happened to me recently the latter one coming as a result of the first!

Hibbz your not alone with the one you mention that's something I've started doing recently, and I'm always amazed when people can't recall their rounds of previous holes. A regular partner of mine has to be asked his score the moment he leaves the green or he simply cannot recall it. Not cheating he literally has the capacity to remember naff all, hence we call him Fish!

Thinking about buying a new car and the main criteria is how may golf bags you can fit in the boot..

I decided to buy a new car a few years ago and thought that the clubs wouldn't get in the boot of the one I wanted so started looking on the Internet for a protective bag to put my golf bag into while it was on the passenger seat and came across a video on YouTube that showed how to fit them in the boot. I cannot tell you how happy that made me. I was 50/50 and knew that not being able to leave my clubs in the car would have probably meant hating the car. As it was I loved it.

It always surprises me that some people who are the keenest golfers buy cars that don't have big enough boots to fit clubs into.

Having your clubs on display on the back seat is an open invitation for someone to break in to the car.

Not that I'm obsessed by car boots mind.

When you have six, no make that seven, posts on v2 without reply.

Make it 6 now mac

On the point of cars and clubs, I'm looking to replace my dagenham dustbin or dare I say Ford Mondeo, had it 4 years from new and looking to buy a new diesel car simply as I now have the 4/5 x yearly round trip to Chester to visit the apples of my eye.

Main criteria, fit clubs in boot and as well as 2 kids and their stuff they need for a 2 week stay as I'll likely play down in chester as a stop over when collecting them.

Like the Audis but can't justify the cost, have look at the Ford S-max and C-max, C-max more favourable on price but S-max on style though I don't really need 7 seats but the space would be handy. I toyed with going environmental an looked at a prius then gave myself a slap and decided I'd look like a ponce.

But seriously no idea what to get as cars are becoming more and more "samey" no matter what you get.

Surely a golfer has to buy a VW golf.

I would be happy if I could buy any car.

Audi 4 and BMW 3 diesels have decent boot space, good performance, retain their value reasonably well, and go fast.

Tradesales in Slough is selling low mileage BMW 2.0 diesels, 10 plate for £16K.

You'd think a VW Golf would be the car, but the boot is too small for a bag of clubs. The new VW Sirocco looks brilliant, but again, I don't know if it's practical for carting clubs about.

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We just purchased a 1990 BMW 316 tourer,black leather,metallic green,alloys,MOT 9 months,body in really good nick ,engine purrs,previous owner left about a 1000 golf tees in the boot.princely sum of £395.
For my son but I cannot resist driving it.If I had to buy a new motor for private use long term Id go Focus deisel or golf.

The bus has plenty of room for clubs.

Can get four carry bags in the back of my beemer tourer no problem, although its a bit small for tour bags and trolleys.

Super

It is not surprise you are a BMW driver, in fact the only surprise is that you dont drive an audi?

Anyway, why has a single bloke got such a large car? surely you almost always travel alone?

Why is it no surprise Mac, its not new, in fact its eight years old, besides what is wrong with driving a car from a decent marque? It's going to give me less trouble than a cheaper make and the engine is very robust and long lived.

Do socialists drive less aspirational or proletarian cars?

It's not that big, but as I'm always up and down from Edinburgh to st.andrews its a comfortable, very efficient car. I can't see the argument for not having a decent motor, in fact I'm considering upgrading to a 5 series tourer once I start my new job.

I'd rather have a beemer that was four or five years old than a brand new fiesta.

Super

I did not pick the car I drive as it is not really mine, but when I do buy a car I will be looking for something that has a co2 emissions rating that means I pay little or no road tax. The only other consideration will be the safety rating.

Mac, I used to be the same as you in dislike of makes like BMW, however I drove to Austria in one last year and it was amazing.
Fuel economy is easily 50 mpg on the motorway and road tax is a piffling 160 a year.
A price worth paying not to have to drive a rattly women's shopping car like a micra or fiat 500, which are probably fine if all you want to do is drive around town.
Plus the beemer is really safe but has enough poke to overtake safely and quickly.
Easy to slag them off for the people that drive them but hard to beat in reality.

i used to drive an aygo .could fit about 6 golf bags but only 2 people

I tend not to overtake super, I have long since learned it makes no difference.

Of course it does, the roads are full of people travelling at a pointlessly slow speed, like tractors, lorries, old people and nervous people.
If you didn't overtake you'd be behind them all day and you just contribute to long queues.

I usually just stick the cruise on at 70 though, but overtake when necessary

I can fit a couple of golf bags and a powakaddy in the back of my BMW3. It's very practical as well as being reliable and fast.

If you travel regularly between South East Scotland and North East England then overtaking is essential - you'd never get there otherwise. Anyone who doesn't believe that government spending decreases the further you get from Westminster has never driven up the A1.

Looked at the new Sciroco lovely car but can only get a carry bag in boot bith the Woods on the back seat so no good.

I am toying with the idea of the 3 series tourer as it gives me boot space and comfort, but will see what else is a viable option before deciding. I'm going to be doing a lot of long distance driving this year and from now on so comfort is key.

I think you guys should check out a Skoda Superb. Huge boot and it's really a VW Passat. Not sure how golfing snobs would view a Skoda badge in the car park though.

Enough about the cars! What if you were buying a new carpet? It would have to run at least 9 on the stimp...

Why not go further and create a slope on the floor that the carpet is laid on?

I would love to get a garage so I could put one of those artificial putting greens in it.

Ever heard the saying'putting down stairs and trying to stop it on the bottom step'now thats quick

McLaren wrote:I would love to get a garage so I could put one of those artificial putting greens in it.

A friend of mine has, not in the garage though. It's the size of an average green but you can only use 3/4 of it, the other 1/4 has the flight scope sim set up. Addiction at it's finest!!

Putting on carpets is both good and bad.

It's great for practising your short putting.

It's terrible for practising your long putting because (unless you have a serious shagpile carpet) your carpet will be about 15 stimps. So you'll go out on the course and leave every putt from further than 10 feet short of the hole.

I spent most of Dec 2010 practising putting on the carpet because the course was under snow. It was March 2011 before I got a putt up to the hole.

George some of those 1970 shag piles can have serious nap.
We must have been poor because the carpet was worn and when dad knocked out the wall between lounge and dining I could practice the 20 footers into a circle of wool about 12 in diameter.Hour after hour probably did me no harm

1st Round of the club champs this week @ St.Andrews. Thank heavens for all this rain, greens were like linoleum last week.

McLaren wrote:I would love to get a garage so I could put one of those artificial putting greens in it.

thinking about knocking our garage down and re-building with enough height to have a practice net bay

George1507 wrote:You'd think a VW Golf would be the car, but the boot is too small for a bag of clubs. The new VW Sirocco looks brilliant, but again, I don't know if it's practical for carting clubs about.

I've had 3 golfs, mark 2, 3, 4 and all had a big enough boot for 2 bags of clubs (only just). It was noticeable that the boot was progressively smaller with each model, so maybe the current mark 5 no longer passes the test.

I was in the audi showroom a couple of days ago, looking at boot capacity. The sales guy must have thought I was strange, but I noticed that the new A7 comes with a free Audi golf bag.

This thread was about addiction, and I have a classic example of devoting too much time to golf...

A few years ago, I met two lovely Venezuelan girls when out drinking after work on a Friday night. As they always say in the dear Deidre column, one thing led to another and I found myself back at their flat near Hyde Park. After we had had a lot of fun, the girls said that I wouldn't be able to stay over night as the flat belonged to the uncle of one of the girls, who might come back and would go beserk if he found me there, but that they would really like me to come back the following afternoon and carry on where we left off.

I went home buzzing, and eagerly looking forward to round 2 the next day, but Saturday morning was a beautiful hot summer day and my thoughts turned to the round of golf I had planned with two of my mates. In the end I played golf, choosing one threesome over another, and I never saw the girls again. I told my mates half way round, and they just looked confused, and looking back I think what the hell was I doing? It wasn't even a competition, just a round at the local muni!

Well firstly 2 turning down 2 Venezuelans beauties for a game of golf is not addiction its damn foolish! Just think how much more fun holing out with those 2 would've been compared to a round of golf.

Ok Secondly, I today have invested and bought a new car with the main criteria being how much golf gear I can fit into the boot, comfort and decent ride for long journeys. I will look seriously uncool in the eyes of many at the club and in the other thirtysomethings I know.

I bought a................. New Skoda Octavia vRS estate, yep uncool name but as mentioned by previous poster its a Passat, I have tested the car and I can fit 4 tour bags in the boot and a trolley or 2 tour bags, 2 trolleys and a couple holdalls. Room is to die for in a sense plus the ride was really good. I also second what was said beofore the Skoda Superb has the most room I've seen in a car, but that was a bit to uncool!

i used to play so much and yes it was my life for a few years lol- i lived and breathed golf!

i would even play in the snow

Fader - agree on the size of the Octavia/Passat. I've got a Passat estate as a company car and it's big enough for me to moonlight as an undertaker at the weekends!!

Incidentally, noticed you will be travelling up to Chester fairly regularly and playing while there - I'm based there so if you know when you are coming up I'd be more than happy to sign you on at my place if you fancy...

Thanks BoyHyde sounds like a plan, will PM when I come up that way, I'm up there next friday but that's a fleeting pick up and come staright back, when I do the return leg I'll be up for a game.