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...

Weirfan

Giphy - let it go GIF

johnnydoom

Weirfan Not me. I purge the bad memories (as much as I can) and keep the good. FGI was good for me. So is GolfBuzz.

LogicalOne

darpar

Good people and fellow Vikings fans! Torp commented on one of my facebook posts a couple of years ago and I was super excited to see he ‘lurks’.
😊

LogicalOne

Lots of good memories. I remember Christian (can’t remember his username) and he started a golf company. Can’t remember if he broke off from Bryant (sp) or something? 🤔

Par4QC

LogicalOne I remember Christian (can’t remember his username) and he started a golf company.

Didn't he handle a lot of Infiniti products? I do remember buying quite a bit from his place.
User name and co. also escapes me.
It's hell getting old, isn't it? 😅

@LBlack14 might remember.

MidwayJ

LogicalOne Memories are getting triggered for me by these posts, lol. Like people getting confused by his name thinking the company was owned by brothers. Also, what did he call his own component driver head?

Spuzz

LogicalOne Can’t remember if he broke off from Bryant (sp) or something?

I believed so but apparently he was with Jody and Accuflex.
I also recall he was religious (Catholic) and his company name was Mission golf or something like that. Not sure.

gene1963

LogicalOne
That was Ken Husvar who was with Bryant and then opened Victory Custom Golf.

Spuzz

MidwayJ I remember him posting a story about people staying at his place. It involved severe drunkenness.

At one of the Desert Storm .5, mack had a party at his place Sat night.
I spent half the night in the kitchen with Rick Hicks who did not stray far from his margarita blender. I spent the other half of the night enjoying rums with "non-drinker" Genikoptki who was Ramers' girfriend at the time. There were quite a few people there that night.
I believe Baab and/or Sandbagger also stayed that weekend.

Spuzz

MidwayJ Was he one of the ones who started that other site (golfhos)?

Correct.
gwog was an active poster there too, after he left FGI.
http://www.golfhos.com/

Supp

This is a great thread, lots of memories.

Spuzz
I don't think Gwog posted at golfhos. I believe it was at http://golfdope.com/

Spuzz

MidwayJ And seemed like Puttinfool got under everyone's skin at one time or another.

He and Spuzz were close

Non-drinker vs. rumaholic didn't mix well
LOL
He also bragged about his free shipping perk due to the military.
He took a lot of flak for that for that too.
@PA-PLAYA has a good story about him from the Melee outings,IIRC.

Spuzz

Par4QC Doesn't anyone miss this type of thing

My fav, and I used it a lot, was 🐔
and this one:

Rickochet

Spuzz My fav, and I used it a lot, was 🐔

I miss the bag over the head embarrassed emogi. I used it alot.

Par4QC

MidwayJ what did he call his own component driver head?

Wasn't that the White Lightning?

MidwayJ

Par4QC Wasn't that the White Lightning?

I remember the white lightning but it's not what I was thinking of. Maybe he came out with another one after the white lightning?

Spuzz

Par4QC White Lightning?

White Lightening
Took a lot of flack for that "typo" LOL

MidwayJ

Par4QC Wasn't that the White Lightning?

I just realized what I was thinking of was the BWL. The Black White Lightning, lol.

darpar

Remember when jramers tried to have a couple moderators run FGI for him?
And they tried to have a closed door online meeting, but left the portal access OPEN,
and some of us got to hear/read who and what they were talking about! LOL
That mods experiment didn't last too long.🤣

MidwayJ

darpar but left the portal access OPEN,
and some of us got to hear/read who and what they were talking about! LOL

Yeah Ode mentioned that before. CoachSB apparently got caught with his pants down when that happened.

Spuzz

FGI Chatroom was also a riot, especially in the winter months (for me) and late Friday nights when the AZ Mafia joined in. Had 20+ guys posting comments that scrolled down the screen.
It was hard to keep up with all the conversations, especially after having a few rums. lol

KCee

Spuzz It was hard to keep up with all the conversations,

It was hard to keep up if you didn't log in for a few days. I was so inconsistent it took me years to reach HOF status and then when I finally did the site shut down!

darpar

MidwayJ CoachSB apparently got caught with his pants down

That's who it was, and he made the 'list' after that!🤔

professor

MidwayJ Yeah Ode mentioned that before. CoachSB apparently got caught with his pants down when that happened.

Although, their frank discussion pretty much accurately covered their assessment of several members, myself included. They were accurate and the faux pas was really funny!

professor

Par4QC I always missed Persimmon after he left.....for unknown reasons/causes.

He, along with a number of prior members, including JDerion and Blader got a little fed-up with the P&R sub-forum. All intelligent "liberals", they grew frustrated with some less than flexible conservatives. Fortunate for them they've been gone pre-2016!

MidwayJ

professor He, along with a number of prior members, including JDerion and Blader got a little fed-up with the P&R sub-forum.

I intentionally avoided the P&R area.

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