The biggest thing I miss is the Paws and Balls tournament. It seemed like it always got a great FGI turnout and it was 3-5 days of great golf and golf courses. I met many of you there, including Phileo who I actually still talk to everyday and play with at least twice a month.
Old FGI Memories Thread
The other one had to be Phileo... or whatever his name was before that. He used to post here as 4GSwag but hasn't been around for a bit.
I remember years back my family was headed to Scottsdale for a week to visit my inlaws. I think Ramers had an office in Old Town so I messaged him to see if he wanted to grab a beer. He says we can do better than that and lines up a round of golf...maybe with some of the old AZ mafia? 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. Wife: "you can golf once with my dad and that's it". Yes Typhoons' wife and mine are somehow not too distantly related at least in personality 
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.
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’.
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? 
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.
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/
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.
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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.
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?
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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