Post by johntyPost by Loudon BriggsCLIP
Post by JPWDoesn't time pass by quickly? Six weeks and I'm 80!!!!!! God forbid.
(One consolation is that I will then be an honorary member with no
fees to pay.
I still play four times a week with a 13 handicap but this frozen
period has made it more than unpleasant.
Don't suppose that the old uk sport golf will ever function again.
Nice if a new one commenced.
Regards to all
Pat Williams
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Hello Pat...
From Arizona, an ocean and a continent away, I do look in here often.
Johnty is about the only one I know... he drops in on us over here on
occassion.
I envy you to still be playing... I was still at it til I was 82, but
had to quit to care for my life's love. I was your age when I stopped
but was shooting my age fairly often. Never played again, and now the
body just can't hack it. Played for 75 years and I'll always miss the
game and the wonderful fraternizing that was part it.
You played for 75 years? Wow! that's some record.
Hey there Johnty... yeah, my Scottish grandfather was a fine amateur
golfer, but had started late in life. He had won a couple of hundred
Sterling trophies, all but 4 or 5 were destroyed by fire when our home
burned in '31. He was close enough to the game that he knew several
celebrities... Chick Evans was a good friend of his. I knew him too,
but later in life. He used to send me a postcard from the Nat'l
Amateur every year.
We moved to Central Florida in '25 and all of those courses were like
7th heaven for him. He had already determined that I wasn't going to
wait that long... took me to a local course and began my education.
He would instruct me on the proper swing, and HOW to achieve it. He
broke the swing down into six or seven segments (not 12 or 15 like
they do now.) His instructions included the premise, "if you;re having
a problem, choose ANY of those segments and work on perfecting it.
When you are satisfied, you'll get a surprise. The rest of the
segments will fall in line. Worked for me!
Believe it or not, during that first year, I never hit a ball, at
least not while he was present. :) He gave me his time for about an
hour and then... he sent me out on the course and I had to shag balls
for him, but it was worth it.
Had my lowest round ever in 1938, a 67 on a short course up in N.
Carolina. However, "golf" as an integral part of my life, changed with
the WWII. I continued to play but, the love of my life and four
marvelous children became my focus, and being basically, a lazy bum,
had to concentrate on providing for them. I still played but, never
with the effort it took to be GOOD! I first shot my age in '78 and did
it with some regularity until I quit for good in 2001. The love of my
life became terminally ill, and one son and I cared for her for the
balance of her life, 2008... with minor bumps now and then, 65 years
with that beautiful lady!
That's way too much chatter for one day, or maybe a week, or...
Be good to yourselves,
Loudon
Have a son-in-law and a grandson who play, and ask for help now and
then... have a fairly extensive collection of "golf" memorabilia...
watch some on TV and that's it, except for lookin' in on these
newsgroups now and then.
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Loudon Briggs ***@bbz.net Phoenix, Arizona, USA)