Yes,
I do guess there are a few guys who just take commercial flights and go
play..all of my friends who did that used their travel miles and went for
free from all their biz trips. Myself I have played more courses in more
states than I even remember. Championship courses in CA, AZ, FL and even the
Augusta National. But like I said even most avid golfers do not play the
high dollar clubs all the time.
I never paid for a commercial flight, well I was a mech and I traveled
all over this great land..working on planes and playing golf! it was great!
Some of the best courses I have played were some of the cheapest in out of
the way places alot of people have never heard of. And on that note some of
the worse ones were the high dollar ones, go figure huh? You can't lump all
golfers into the throw clubs on a 747 and go play, that is just a small
group.
Kind of like saying all pilots have a Learjet in the hangar! Now we
probably wish we all did, but fact is most of us can't put that kind of
money into a recreation. And if you played golf you also know it is like
wanting to fly two times a week, sometimes you can , others you can't.
Winter golf in Wisconsin would be a bitch!
Golf is not as easy as people think, Iwas not ready for the tour myself!
I avg. low 80's and just could not get it any lower! I'd drive like an old
woman now so Lord only knows how my score would go to 150! HAHA I wouldn't
even attempt it! Bums me out sometimes, but at least I have an aileron in my
shop with my rollaway open for the first time in almost 3 years.

Patrick
student SPL
aircraft structural mech

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Jay as an ex very avid golfer I would say you have not played alot of
golf.

Well, I used to belong to a club in Kenosha, WI. Played 2 or 3 times per
week for a few years.

And I *still* sucked, so I started flying...

:-)

And golf my friend is the most frustrating fun you can have! But
it's just like anything else, it's only as cheap as you are smart. I
would bet alot of you guys spend more in maintinance in a year than I did
playing golf twice a week.

True enough, but I'm not talking about the guys like me (and, apparently,
you) who played the local courses. I'm talking the guys who throw their
clubs on a commercial flight to go play Pebble Beach -- and there are a
surprising number of them out there. I used to work with two of them, yet
they thought that owning a plane was outrageously extravagant.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"