Who was the guy in Arizona who loved the Apollo Hump shafts and Ping irons? Jeff @Spuzz I think you crashed at his place at one of the Desert Storm events. 🙂

    MidwayJ

    When I joined up there was a pretty active SoCal crew here and on GEA. DrSpin, RalphMagnus, TonyLee are a few I remember. When Mr. 4GEA Derrick made a trip to SoCal, we actually had a group of 12 meet up to play out here. Ended up being a day with 50 mph winds. Somebody brought out some brand new stuff from Wishon, the 550c forged irons. I was HOOKED!

    That group got together a couple of times after that, but most of them disappeared within a year.

        Sparky I joined GEA about the same time as FGI but wasn't nearly as active. Your post reminds me one time I was browsing GEA and somebody posted a thread about FGI. Can't remember if it was the thread title or in the first post but it said, "They're calling us a$$holes over on FGI." I laughed and had to immediately go find what they were talking about. I don't recall the context, though.

          MidwayJ

          mack (brian)
          I stayed at his place 3 times. Awesome guy and awesome family too.
          He is an engineer type.Semiconductors.
          He also was ahead of the times with spine finding and shaft profiling.
          He also had a huge topic at fgi on centripedal forces and the golf swing. Genius stuff.

              Spuzz Yeah I enjoyed his posts. I remember him posting a story about people staying at his place. It involved severe drunkenness. 🙂

                  CoachSB was a teacher and later social worker in Indiana, CPS if memory serves me correctly. I think he was one of the moderators that got caught with their pants down when their private forum/messages meant for moderators only went public and some disparaging commentary re other members was in those messages. I don't think it was long after that he flew the coup.....someone will have to fill in the blanks, but that is how I remember it.

                  Do you all remember the holiday sales at Goldsmith where things were like 40-50% off.....was that a black Friday thing🤔.....and one year Golfworks also followed suit😳

                    ode Yeah I remembered the incident about the moderator private messages after I posted. I never actually saw any of them. Just heard about it later.

                      ode Do you all remember the holiday sales at Goldsmith where things were like 40-50% off.

                      Friends and family sale. I remember some used to bash it because they excluded or had much smaller discounts on OEM clubs. (The OEMs wouldn't allow it.) Great deals on components and supplies, though.

                        Rickochet I think he ran off with Kosovogolfer who wanted to marry him.

                        LOL!

                          ode I think he was one of the moderators that got caught with their pants down when their private forum/messages meant for moderators only went public and some disparaging commentary re other members was in those messages.

                          That was a hoot!
                          CoachSB was Chris. He has an autistic son and over time, needing to learn more to best love and meet his son's needs, he just naturally followed a path to work in human services. We used to correspond years and years ago.

                              professor CoachSB was Chris.

                              He is Steve Bowers from Carmel, IN. He used to host the Hoosier Daddy Open every year for FGI bud. Lots of fun at his home course north of Indy at Cool Lake.

                                  Eguller FGI was an energetic forum with a lot of characters such as ASKE.

                                  My nemesis, but he did make good on losing a bet and shipped me a dozen Pro VI's (although he papered the box in death metal stuff and then wrapped it in yards and yards of packing tape. He had a Pittsburgh connection because he was teaching at Carnegie Mellon. (His wife got in on the act for a little bit too.)

                                      professor FGI was an energetic forum with a lot of characters such as ASKE.

                                      I remember Aske would always try to run the table by having all the posts on the front page. I think it usually happened on Friday night. 🍺 Justin had to put a gate on it to slow him down. 🤣

                                        professor His wife got in on the act for a little bit too.)

                                        One of our memories isn't top notch - I thought it was his sister posting. 🤔

                                            Rickochet Rory aka Beatfarmer
                                            Tour Swing components.

                                            I never did make it up to his place outside Cedar Rapids.