Old FGI Memories Thread
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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.
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.
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
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!
KCee My wife said "fine" initially but then realizes I'll be golfing with "random guys from some golf forum" (her words) and shuts me down.
That's the best! My Ex used to go bonkers about what she called "your imaginary friends". That all came to an end when she met some FGI'ers in-person and then was gifted a set of women's clubs, donated and built for her after she'd contracted breast cancer. She even received a brief lesson from gwog in our backyard!
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!
I started out on 4GEA and probably became aware of FGI there. I was mostly looking for parts & info to build & modify golf clubs. Spent most of the time in the buy/sell/trade stuff. I read a lot of the conversations, but didn’t interact in them much, but found the talk entertaining. Somewhere along the way, Spuzz directed me to GB.
professor Three co-worker friends and I went on several annual out of town golf trips during the FGI days. When we went to Myrtle Beach, I arranged to meet up for drinks with an FGIer who lived there. (Can't remember his FGI handle.) My buddies thought it was pretty weird that I agreed to that without ever meeting him in person. One friend seemed to think there was was a 25% chance he hoped we were gay and a 10% chance he would kill us. 
After he showed up one of the things he mentioned was going to Desert Storm, and my buddies were amazed to learn there was an event like that for people who met on the Internet.
d5n03 Spent most of the time in the buy/sell/trade stuff.
I spent most of my early FGI days in the equipment section. I was fascinated by the components I never saw anywhere else (SMT, Bang, Ashton, Alpha, Geek, Nakashima, Infiniti--the list goes on.) and ho'd a lot of stuff, lol. Later I spent more time in The Clubhouse but I missed some of the classic threads posted there.
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MidwayJ I spent most of my early FGI days in the equipment section
As did I.
I was starting to learn about clubmaking and had many conversations with @dyno @Mcburbn , sandbagger and mack, and followed along with the advice from reddog and phineastoad et al.
Forever grateful for their participation in the clubmaking forum.
I did participate in the clubhouse, but mostly to shoot my mouth off. I hardly ever started any topics. Same is true to this day I guess. lol
As for the Secret Society (FGI mods) I learned about them when I went to AZ in 2004. Mack had his computer up and I saw it. Ramers asked me to be a mod and I said no, because that meant I could not be me. For the record, I did not receive any preferential treatment as I was suspended a few times. I am sure the society used up some bandwith discussing me. LOL
