rsvman2 Persimmon accused me of being a vanity-capper. LOL
I made my first human contact via FGI in 2001. Prior to that most of my contact was related to club-building and I pretty much stuck to that. Red Dog (Reddog?) Was the guru at the time.
The Northeast corridor group got together a few times in New Jersey at Scotland Run (and there was another smaller gathering at another Jersey course - something related to "horses" as I recall.
The largest gathering at Scotland Run provided for in-person meetings for the first time for many. Persimmon, Cliff, attended. There had been a lot of banter at the time about our respective NFL teams. Cliff gifted me, in front of the whole crew, in the clubhouse, post-round, with a roll of toilet paper with the Eagles logo. In attendance were the likes of JDerion, Mickeygoo, maybe PuttnFool, Weekend Hacker and many others I don't remember. Weekend Hacker was an interesting slightly younger dude. He had an interesting golf "philosophy". He was a big proponent of taking a mulligan on every single shot, if so desired. Yeah, it's a concept but just a little contrary to the rules of golf. LOL