Miss the early days when I was a kid 10yrs old my brother would drop me off at Galloping Hill at 7-8 am every day and my dad would pick me up 8:30 to 9pm every night. Carried my bag 54 holes a day for $4.50 a day I'd pass the pitch and putters who paid like $6 for 1/2hr and laugh as I was on hole 54.
I'd shop up in Jean shorts, tshirt and sneakers and be a single on the 1st tee and all the golfers dressed in their apparel head to toe would talk about me on the 1st tee like they were stuck with Me and this was going to be a horrible day...by the 2nd hole they realized I was better than them as I was out driving them by 40 yrs then I'd hear how great I was for the next 16 holes. Played a few jr amateur tourneys but was married to baseball and didnt make the switch
Wish I had started that young. Played only a bit in HS (due to baseball mostly), but then in college I really fell in love with playing the game. Being an RU student in the 80s, my roommate and I, who were both in the same PhD program in chem eng'g, would often go to the lab very early during the summer and tend to our experiments (some ran around the clock) for an hour or so, then we would get to the RU course early enough to be in the first few groups, and our $4 usually got us 2 rounds, since we were very friendly with Whitey, the starter.
We'd finish playing golf around 3-4 pm, then head back to the lab and work for several hours. Then we'd hit the bars in NB. Was fun for the 3 years or so we were roommates. And for several years in a row on many days near the summer solstice, we'd play continuously from 7 am until 8-9 pm, finishing 3 rounds with all of our meals being hot dogs after each 9 holes. All for $4. That was a long day.
