[JLahrman]

Anyone else in the group like me and find it harder and harder to be interested in professional golf.  I honestly would watch a hour long video on Crytsal Downs than watch Tiger Woods play golf in the Middle East.

Professional golf is incredibly boring to watch. I have no idea how so many guys on this website can tolerate it. My golf viewing has declined to the point where I watch the last nine holes of each major. Occasionally I watch an event just to see the course (I watched Golf Channel's APL coverage from Bandon last year).

Anyway, some of interests...none of which I really have time for:

Tennis
I'm a mediocre guitar and banjo player
I like to read, trying to get caught up on 20th century American literature at the moment
I love working with dogs - both my own, and I also volunteer at my local animal shelter. I really enjoy working with pit bulls.
Spending time with my wife and young daughter.
Trying to find time to explore the Bay Area, where I have lived for the past three years.

[Dan Boerger]

Family and Career first, but beyond that and my addiction to golf ...

Curling
Hiking
Cycling (after a long hiatus, due to burnout)
Home Projects (I find this very therapeutic)

[Ross Tuddenham]

Motorsports - F1 mainly
Football (soccer) - manchester united fan and try to play a couple of times a week.
Food, cooking and eating out
Beer and wine, I also recently experimented with making my own cider.
Playing golf

[Garland Bayley]

I grow a few things

[Brett Morris]

Playing what I call my second daughter:



And craft beer.  Heading to Las Vegas for the GCSAA show in 4 weeks.  I'm amazed by the selection in local Ralph's, etc., everytime I travel to the US.

[Phil McDade]

(All these Cleveland sports fans on the Discussion Board -- who knew? )

High school swimming -- probably the best high school sport around for aspiring athletes. I started a blog about it here in Wisconsin, and it's now part of the definitive website for the sport in the state: www.wisca.net

Now actively following collegiate swimming as well, but no plans for a blog....

[Sven Nilsen]

In Chicago, the golf season gets a bit pinched.  To alleviate the inherent boredom of cabin fever, I started playing Paddle Tennis (or Platform Tennis) a few years ago.  Played solely in the cold season, its a combination of tennis and squash.  A doubles format, the main differences are you can play shots off of the screens and you only get one serve.  The video below from the 2010 National Championships will give you a bit of an idea.  If anything, its a great way to get some outside activity during the hibernation months.  On match nights, the home teams are responsible for providing the beer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y661vg0nacM&feature=related

[Bart Bradley]

On page 8, Cary Lichtenstein asked for help to post his paintings.....

So, I present the fabulous Mr. Lichtenstein













I'll let him give you his commentary.

My favorite is the Marbles...but WOW on all of them, seriously WOW.

Happy to be a conduit,

Bart

[Joe Bausch]

I'm starting my 20th year of teaching the same adult Sunday School class.  

Bogey

Did Bruce Pearl ever attend?!

[Sam Morrow]

I'm starting my 20th year of teaching the same adult Sunday School class.  

Bogey

Did Bruce Pearl ever attend?!

I bet a Sunday School with Bruce Pearl would be wild.

[Jeff Taylor]

Photographing my wife's flowers.



and birds too.

[Ben Sims]

Flying.  Yesterday I was line #1 (first takeoff) of the day under a red sky.  Nothing smells like jet fuel at 0630.  Nothing replicates 6 G's.

Hiking.  Can't wait to spend 5 days in Grand Teton NP this summer.  I got a permit for five nights in the backcountry.  Fifth year I've tried.  

Mountain Biking.  Current obsession.  I'm not very good, but I give it a go and pay the price.  It's a hell of a workout too!

College Football.  Interest waning after a couple years of scandal.  But I bleed Red and Black.

EPL.  One Nil to the Arsenal!  Newest obsession.  Watched a match last Sunday and was hooked.  NBA, MLB, and NASCAR are all done for me.

Skiing.  If I'm near a ski area, good luck keeping me off it.  I miss it so much.  Another reason why I'm "over" Texas.

I very much like this thread.  It's hard to "know" people off our our common interest of golf and golf courses.  I wish I knew more about most of you guys outside of golf.  

[cary lichtenstein]

On page 8, Cary Lichtenstein asked for help to post his paintings.....

So, I present the fabulous Mr. Lichtenstein









Much thanks goes to M B Bradley for posting these for me

I injured my back when I was 40 years old and thru anti inflamatories, ice, massage and cortisone, I made it to my 65th birthday before they sliced and diced me. Knowing I couldn't play for 6 months, I found a painting instructor and learnt to paint under his supervision.

The same hand eye coordination found in the short game applies in painting, and a number of my golf friends paint with me.

Most of these take about 50-70 hours except "marbles" which took 300 hours. The medium is oil, the category is hyper photo realistic.

Most of my normal size painting table





I'll let him give you his commentary.

My favorite is the Marbles...but WOW on all of them, seriously WOW.

Happy to be a conduit,

Bart

[Mike_Trenham]

Doing really cool things with Excel at work
Criticizing others
Home improvement projects
Whatever is on my TIVO
Beer
Howard Stern
Geoffshackelford.com
Road Rage
Christopher Buckley's Books
Contemplating where my golf game went...

[Mike Sweeney]

Weekends now are consumed with being a squash Dad for my 16 year old. Here he is in white playing in the Tournament of Champions Junior Division at Grand Central Station in NYC:


In the last month, he has played kids from Japan, Pakistan, Egypt, Canada, England and Brooklyn (!) in New York, Boston, Scotland and England. I kid him that he is LeBron Sweeney on these road trips. I can't play squash with him anymore but I am in very good shape for an "old guy" trying to keep up with him.

In two and a half years, he will be off to college so golf trips can wait for now as it is really fun for Dad too. Die hard skier too in a past life and that may come back on intermediate style runs down the road.

Also amazed and impressed at Cary's art work.

[Mark Bourgeois]

Mike,

Isn't it funny / cool how you spend time as a parent introducing your kids to your interests and often as not end they end up being the ones who introduce you to theirs? I get that you introduced squash but did you ever play in GC station as a kid? I know, trick question!

Cary, I was expecting landscapes -- that's really impressive! How have you learned and please do tell us more about your subject choices.

[Stewart Abramson]

deleted. Don't want anyone duimbfounded

[Mac Plumart]

Here are some of the kids refurbishing a school that had been hit my rockets...

In all seriousness, this kind of stuff blows my mind.  A school needs refurbishing because it was HIT BY ROCKETS!!!!  That concept is beyond my comprehension.

I'll add another one that left me dumbfounded...

Talking to my buddy, whom I met in the Corps who has been active in the "sanbox" as he puts it since day one of the Afghan/Iraq conflict, said that a friend of his complained about how dangerous being in City X was.  And his response to me was, "That is b..s....  It ain't dangerous there.  All they get is an occassional rocket that will hit a building or something like that."

Huh?  Having an "occasional" rocket randomly hit a building that you may or may not be in, isn't dangerous?!?!?!?  Makes me flat out afraid for him and what he is doing day in and day out, if that isn't dangerous.

I get upset if it is raining too much and I can't play golf on a given day.  How soft have I become?  (Don't answer that!)

Another tid-bit, along those lines...and yeah, I've had too much coffee this morning and I'm rolling...sorry...

I went to the Gulf Coast area after Katrina hit to help rebuild a few homes...I figured it was the least I could do, given how close I lived to the devastated area.  I was, again, dumbfounded and blow away.  Houses, neighborhoods, schools...GONE!!!  Completely blown over and 100% destroyed by wind.  Freakin' wind!!

I snapped a few pictures of homes that were totally blow over and just piles of rubble.  Now these were NICE homes, well build, brick, sturdy, nice...right on the beach.  But they were reduced to piles of rubble in the blink of an eye!

I have these pictures hanging on the wall in my office.  I look over at them for grounding purposes when I "think" I am having a bad day. 

[PThomas]

Here are some of the kids refurbishing a school that had been hit my rockets...

In all seriousness, this kind of stuff blows my mind.  A school needs refurbishing because it was HIT BY ROCKETS!!!!  That concept is beyond my comprehension.

I'll add another one that left me dumbfounded...

Talking to my buddy, whom I met in the Corps who has been active in the "sanbox" as he puts it since day one of the Afghan/Iraq conflict, said that a friend of his complained about how dangerous being in City X was.  And his response to me was, "That is b..s....  It ain't dangerous there.  All they get is an occassional rocket that will hit a building or something like that."

Huh?  Having an "occasional" rocket randomly hit a building that you may or may not be in, isn't dangerous?!?!?!?  Makes me flat out afraid for him and what he is doing day in and day out, if that isn't dangerous.

I get upset if it is raining too much and I can't play golf on a given day.  How soft have I become?  (Don't answer that!)

Another tid-bit, along those lines...and yeah, I've had too much coffee this morning and I'm rolling...sorry...

I went to the Gulf Coast area after Katrina hit to help rebuild a few homes...I figured it was the least I could do, given how close I lived to the devastated area.  I was, again, dumbfounded and blow away.  Houses, neighborhoods, schools...GONE!!!  Completely blown over and 100% destroyed by wind.  Freakin' wind!!

I snapped a few pictures of homes that were totally blow over and just piles of rubble.  Now these were NICE homes, well build, brick, sturdy, nice...right on the beach.  But they were reduced to piles of rubble in the blink of an eye!

I have these pictures hanging on the wall in my office.  I look over at them for grounding purposes when I "think" I am having a bad day. 

well said...it's amazing how many people worry/freak out over unbelievably trivial stuff when others have real problems like rocket attacks to worry about

[George Pazin]

Cary, I'm blown away by your art. Did you dabble when you were younger? It's hard to believe you discovered such a talent later in life, I'm damn impressed. Thanks for sharing.

[Anthony Gray]

  I like a fine cigar, jack Nicholson movies and scrable turnments.



   Anthony

[Dick Kirkpatrick]

Drag racing, I have a Super Stock 55 Chev Belair, 255 h.p. 350 c.i. engine, runs 10.40's in the quarter mile.
Gardening
Still love golf course construction after more than 50 years of doing it.

[Bill Gayne]

Reading and occassionally contributing to OT threads on GCA.COM.

[Marty Bonnar]

fly-fishing from a drifting boat on a remote scottish loch deep in the highlands, mist rolling in off the high tops, only me and my rod and line whishing in the damp morning air. a sudden ripple on the right. cast into the waves. a moment. then. SEIZE. a tug. and a mighty battle ensues. trout leaping, pulling, line running, screaming reel testifies. fifteen heart-stopping minutes later, the quarry lies there. beautiful bar of silvery-brown, thank you salmo trutta, it was an honour to meet and to tempt and deceive you. i promise to honour your memory. my family will know of your life. your energy becomes theirs. scotland forever.
love,
FBD.

[Bill Gayne]

Since this thread is already OT a funny golf you tube video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyDHaKtROZo

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