Old FGI Memories Thread

MidwayJ · 2024-01-04T20:44:15+00:00

Recent reminiscing by a few of us about the "Top Flite Tour OMG" thread and the unfortunate passing of Steve Almo got me thinking about the old FGI days. Let...

ode

scotts33 👍

I still have the Purefit sterling ag putter I bought from him. Best feeling putter I've ever used!

MidwayJ

ode Purefit 400cc driver I built for my daughter when she was 14-15. She's 30 now and it's never been hit, lol.

scotts33

ode I still have the Purefit sterling ag putter I bought from him. Best feeling putter I've ever used!

Chad, I think you got it from me but my memory is way foggy might be wrong. 😁

MidwayJ

ode Daryl loved playing the components that almost nobody else over there had. Maybe his FGI name will come to me eventually.

ode

MidwayJ yeah I sent him a ton of gear over the years......I think he was Daryl McGuire from Dublin......I just went to the old FGI page where the goodbyes are still there and one of them is from graz .... I think that was him🤔.....but I could be wrong on all accounts (last name and.city)

MidwayJ

I've played golf with @ode and @scotts33 on trips to Wisconsin. Coincidentally, most of my wife's family lives where Chad does and my parents live where Scott does.

The last time I played with Chad it seemed like he was hitting his drive 40 yards longer than the time before. I knew I was probably losing distance with age, but I wondered if he was on the juice. 😉 Didn't look like he had bulked up, though. 😀

ode

MidwayJ we went to Quit Qui Oc and played the original 18 or since have learned the front 9 is the only original holes and the original back was let go during/after WWII......back 9 as is now, was later added on, as was the Glacier 9 (newest with separate clubhouse) which is a real treat. I played it for the first time this year and have since went back several times. It's quite the course with lots of elevation change and cool land movement. Tom Bendelow did the original holes....and Art Johnson the Glacial. A shame the the original back Bendelow back 9 is not around as that piece of the property is where it really starts have some roller coaster like land movement, as does the glacial 9. Good clean fun we had that day👍

LogicalOne

scotts33

Didn’t Tim have a bunch of other good data/information posted as well? Maybe one could even access it using the Wayback Machine! 😊

https://web.archive.org/

scotts33

LogicalOne Yep on that golfshaftprofile dot com site that Tim H built. There was room for Deflection profiles and frequency shaft profiling but most 11" measurements were iffy mostly because of frequency meters and clamps mostly 5". The Kaufman slip clutches seemed good. John Kaufman Waukesha, WI ClubScout built me a hydraulic clamp so clamp pressure could be the same every time. Tim Hewitt put a lot of time into the clubmaking industry. ICG, PCS before that.

If you are in Ohio, KY that area of the USA and looking to be correctly fit Jim McCleery is your guy! Jim puts a lot of effort in the ICG.

Par4QC

ode graz

That is correct.
No matter what anyone here may think of it, I can go back and find PayPal transactions I did with him, having all the printouts from such things. 😲

The only time in my shipping life, I have ever had a lost or damaged package, was a lost box to Daryl. It was a La Jolla driver head iirc. Never found, never received by him. I had a whole case of them so I just sent him another, which he did get.....in 3 days.

MidwayJ

ode Yep, that refreshed the memory. It was graz.

MidwayJ

ode I just went to the old FGI page where the goodbyes are still there

I had no idea it was still there!

Par4QC

https://web.archive.org/web/20050210012045/http://www.myostrichgolf.com/clubmakers/index.php

ode

MidwayJ I would have never guessed it otherwise.....good thread to assist us geezers to pool the brain cells together 😁

ode

scotts33 no, it was from them direct, as they originally sent me the updated version of the putter vs. the one I ordered #9 style. The updated one was a modified 9 style but without the cavity showing......could.be wrong but.im.orwtry sure as that was the only time I ordered from them prior to them closing up shop. Carbon Steel and a beautiful finish which was not very durable, but still looked good with finish wearing.offas what was underneath also looked good!

Supp

Walterjn

Well, I've never been one to turn down a good meal.😁

Supp

MidwayJ

At the time, my wife was starting a yoga studio/yoga teacher training school. However she had to get trained herself and had to take several modules to complete her training. Most of the training was in the U.S., and whenever she'd go for a training session, I'd go along a take my clubs. I'd post on FGI that I'd be in that particular city. There were always some local FGIers in that particular city to hook up with for a couple of rounds.

Also, when I went on some trips for conferences, I'd take my clubs along for a round or two with the locals.

scotts33

ode I had one also wonder where I got that. Hmmm. I'm losing it.☺

pike51

Who was the really hot chick that used to post on FGI? I think she was also a model or stripper or something? She came to one of the events and provided free entertainment... no... wait. Wrong site. NM, carry on.

Par4QC

pike51 Wait.....is she still available??

😲

Spuzz

pike51 Who was the really hot chick that used to post on FGI?

Miss Atomic was supposedly hot.

professor

pike51 Who was the really hot chick that used to post on FGI? I think she was also a model or stripper or something?

That was Golfer Lady and she was not a stripper. She was quite well-informed and for a middle-aged woman she was also quite attractive. A real classy lady!

mulegolf

I was mostly a lurker on FGI but post some towards the last. I always enjoyed FGI and was sad when it disappeared.
I got lucky finding this place though and I don't remember how I found it anymore.

ode

mulegolf I can't remember but someone either found me.on WRX or emailed me direct.....maybe Landon or Rex🤔

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