You know you are addicted to GCA when...

[Keith OHalloran]

When the "Coore Crenshaw Camp" verus "Doak Camp" is the most important conflict in your life.

[Chris Flamion]

When you meet 30+ people for a weekend and all you come home with is a new shirt.

or...

When you go on a GCA trip and your answer to how'd it go is "the course is amazing"

[JNC Lyon]

...you spend four months in London without seeing the Tower of London, but you make sure to see the birthplace of Donald Ross.

[Bill Brightly]

When your wife asks why you are driving four hours to play golf and your answer is "it is soon to be a NLE Doak course.

And your kids ask who you are playing with and you say "some guys I met on the internet.'


While on the way to Saucon Valley, your FBI agent friend asks if he should bring his piece because we are stopping at hotel to pick up some guy from CA you met on the internet (Jed Peters).

[Matt Bosela]

- you get extremely irritated when you mention your admiration for Sand Hills, Ballyneal or National Golf Links of America and your friends say they haven't ever heard of those courses

- you're ready to throw down when you explain that each of those courses is truly special and each ranked in the Top 100 in the world and they respond by saying that they can't be that good because a) they've never heard of them and b) they haven't hosted a PGA event

- you're ready to replace those life-long friends with guys you met on the internet who share the same passion as you do

[Andy Hughes]

When your wife asks why you are driving four hours to play golf and your answer is "it is soon to be a NLE Doak course.

And your kids ask who you are playing with and you say "some guys I met on the internet.'

Ha! I hope you later told the kids the guys you played with were of sterling character and had fabulous golf games  

[Brent Carlson]

When you pore over course guides as reading material before going to sleep....

[Peter Pallotta]

Huh? What?

[Bill_McBride]

When you are completely bored by your same old same old at your home course but can't wait to go to your next GCA.com outing!

[Ben Kodadek]

When you're reading this thread in bed...drinking a glass of wine...with your lovely wife by your side...even though you are leaving for a three day golf outing tomorrow morning.

[Bill_McBride]

When you're reading this thread in bed...drinking a glass of wine...with your lovely wife by your side...even though you are leaving for a three day golf outing tomorrow morning.

iPhone?

That's a completely different addiction!

[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.

[Phil_the_Author]

You participate in a discussion on an internet golf website about who designed the Pitch and Putt golf course at Jones Beach...

[Brett_Morrissy]

 ...when you are able to, with a fast and deft slight of hand, hit the esc key unnoticed and begin to blush when your wfe walks in, because you both know you spend WAY too much time on the GCA board .

...you turn on your new iPhone after jumping into bed (because you now have the capability to read and view websites), "just to check if there are any replies", becuase the guys on the West coast are just getting up and it is important.

[Alex Miller]

you live on the west coast and check the board in the morning for all the replies from the east coasters.

[Rick Shefchik]

...you find yourself playing a course about to be redesigned by Tom Lehman, and wonder how much of the original Tom Bendelow will be left when he's finished.

[Michael Taylor]

golfclubatlas.com is your home page.

[Anthony Gray]

your license plate is GCACOM

  Who told you abpout my plate?

  Anthony

[Anthony Gray]

  when you sent a nomination letter to The Golf Hall of Fame nominating Ran Morrissett as a contributor.

 

[Mac Plumart]

Great idea!

[Carl Nichols]

When you meet a bunch of strangers and everyone knows who Anthony Gray is.

[Bill Brightly]

When your wife asks why you are driving four hours to play golf and your answer is "it is soon to be a NLE Doak course.

And your kids ask who you are playing with and you say "some guys I met on the internet.'

Ha! I hope you later told the kids the guys you played with were of sterling character and had fabulous golf games  

Andy,

No doubt the guys were of sterling character... But when you have a teenage daughter and you read her the riot act about being careful who she talks to on the interenet...and God forbid never go meet someone from the internet...it sort of weakens your position, ya know?

[Tony Weiler]

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

When you tell your friends you'll be playing Ballyneal in Sept., and just might throw in Wild Horse and the PC, too, they have no idea where or what those are!!

When you were in a tournament last weekend and while trying to make birdie, wondered what the heck Hurdzan and Fry were thinking on this hole!@!

[Terry Lavin]

I just read "You might be a purist if..." thread started by Jeff Brauer (http://golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php?topic=16766.0), and thought it would be fun to bring it back, albeit with a slightly different focus.

Please feel free to add your own finish to this phrase; "You know you are addicted GCA when..."

-You have a countdown clock running on your PC for your first tee time at Old Macdonald

-You start having withdrawls if you have not seen a photo of a golf hole in last 24 hours

-You have a picture of Tom Doak as your desktop screen

-There is a faint GCA logo imprint on your monitor

-You miss the old Merion threads

-You schedule out your entire golfing year by going from one GCA event to the next

-Melvyn starts to make sense

-You have no problem sending cash to someone you've never met who lives half way around the world

I'm with Mac on this one: this thread may be the best ever!

[Mike Hendren]

Accompanied by a Southampton dentist, you stand in the rain, staring reverently at the graves of Seth  Raynor and Charles Blair Macdonald.

Mike