You know you are addicted to GCA when...

[Anthony Gray]

   when you just found out last week that George Bush is no longer president.

[Phil McDade]

Betty Ford has no chance of curing this one:

...when you're willing to drive 2 1/2 hours from Madison, Wi. to Chicago in early January to play a partially-frozen golf course, just so you can see the Reverse Alps Hole with your own eyes, soaking in the walk through the tunnel under the "El" as if it was Swilcan Bridge itself...

 

Guilty as charged! (And the Reverse Alps was worth every mile of the drive.

I also drove -- in much better weather -- 1 1/2 hours to a train station in Fox Lake, Ill., so I could take a 1 1/2-hour train trip to Chicago, meet up at the Sears Tower with a fellow GCAer WHO I FIRST MET AT the Reverse Jans, take a cab ride to a local restaurant, and have dinner with a bunch of GCA posters and hangers-on I'd never met -- mainly to discuss the maintenance meld at a restored golf course I'd played the summer before.

[Tom Yost]

When you can use the word "fescue" in conversation on a daily basis.

[Steve Wilson]

All your passwords have as a root the names of courses you have played at GCA outings.

[Doug Braunsdorf]

...when...

1.  You spend, or have spent, more time than you'd like to admit reading about the history of this course and that course.  Especially on nice days when you could be out playing.
2.  You could conceivably be up until 5am reading articles, or have been up until 5am reading articles. More than once. 
3.  When the website is down, you call/ask others if the website is down.


I am guilty of all of the above. 

[PThomas]

Betty Ford has no chance of curing this one:

...when you're willing to drive 2 1/2 hours from Madison, Wi. to Chicago in early January to play a partially-frozen golf course, just so you can see the Reverse Alps Hole with your own eyes, soaking in the walk through the tunnel under the "El" as if it was Swilcan Bridge itself...

 

Guilty as charged! (And the Reverse Alps was worth every mile of the drive.

I also drove -- in much better weather -- 1 1/2 hours to a train station in Fox Lake, Ill., so I could take a 1 1/2-hour train trip to Chicago, meet up at the Sears Tower with a fellow GCAer WHO I FIRST MET AT the Reverse Jans, take a cab ride to a local restaurant, and have dinner with a bunch of GCA posters and hangers-on I'd never met -- mainly to discuss the maintenance meld at a restored golf course I'd played the summer before.

you're a good man McDade !

[Kenny Baer]

When...............your summer vacation plans are to visit Mullen, NE, Hutchinson, KS and Hoyloke, CO.  All over a 4 day span, with guys you met over the internet and without your wife.

[John Moore II]

...when...


3.  When the website is down, you call/ask others if the website is down.

I am guilty of all of the above. 
I am guilty of that one as well.

When it's the first site you visit in the am, and the last at night!

Not all the time, but a lot of the time for sure. And most of the time its not the first only because Yahoo is my home page and I might, just might, check my email first.

[Charlie Goerges]

When you have typed out a one paragraph review of every course you have played so that, just in case a thread comes up on the board about it, you don't have to rethink your review/opinion of the course every time.

THAT is a GCA addict!

[Garland Bayley]

All your passwords have as a root the names of courses you have played at GCA outings.

Thanks for exposing all of us to the possibility of being hacked!

[John Moore II]

When you have typed out a one paragraph review of every course you have played so that, just in case a thread comes up on the board about it, you don't have to rethink your review/opinion of the course every time.

THAT is a GCA addict!

Hey, what can I say? Thats why I have close to 3100 posts in less than 3 years. Yeah, I'm probably an addict, but not so bad that I need an intervention just yet. 

[Anthony Gray]

  when Jason Jones starts making cents.

  Anthony

[Tim Nugent]

When Ran is no longer a verb

[Tom Yost]

You notice a matronly woman who maybe is talking a little too much and wonder if it is Anthony's MOM.

[Anthony Gray]

  when you have slept on Garland's portch.

[Sven Nilsen]

you can predict the color Pat Mucci will use in his next reply.

[Bill Brightly]

When you prefer getting your news from a Joe Bausch article rather than your daily paper.

[John Moore II]

you can predict the color Pat Mucci will use in his next reply.

Yeah, but thats too obvious. Its always green. You figure that out without being an addict. Rarely does he have to go past green. Though I have seen him go farther. I'll bookmark this topic and when I have time and a faster connection I'll bring up this old post e and I had that went like 8 colors deep in responses.

[Dustin Knight]

- When you get down on bended knee and propose to your future wife on the 6th at NSW golf club

Yes....  I really did! check out the link below 

http://www.golfcars.com.au/golf-cars-articles/2008/10/28/knight-passionate-for-dream-vocation/

-When she wants the honeymoon in Hawaii, you then immediately organise 10 days at kapalua villas in Maui so you can play the plantation course everyday!!!

[Garland Bayley]

Dustin,

I think we are going to let you get by unscathed as it seems golfcars refers to the Volkswagen Golf.

[Brad Klein]

 .  .  .  when you love walking out onto classic golf courses during torrential downpours just to watch the drainage patterns materialize.

[Mac Plumart]

Brad...seek help immediately!!   

[Steve Lang]

   it doesn't have to be a classic golf course..

[Patrick Hodgdon]

When you "live Tweet" your match against a fellow GCAer... and you have an audience following along.

[Wyatt Halliday]

When you have six active thread notifications. None of which you are participating in.