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Do I feel I helped take TGM off, yes I do. And I hope they feel the same. There was 5 of us - there was more I am missing - but we all posted. I am talking way back when the only other forum was David Laville's....I mean, TGM wasnt a pimple on anyones butt.

And I owe a ton to all of them - Chuck, MBC, Ecox, Randy - they were the gateway to my learning. Then, someone else joined the fray on TGM forum - and, you know him - I have spent countless hours with him on the phone - he, in my opinion is one of the 2 most knowledgable people in the world for TGM - then went to I believe 3 AI classes - and saw Lynn in his debut back.

Those were the days, weren't they, Patrick?



You did indeed do much of the 'heavy lifting' during that crucial period when TGM was earning its spurs in cyberspace. Including, I might add, educating me about the 'lay of the land' -- the various sites and posting personalities -- that populated this corner of the world. I had been away from golf for 20 years and knew absolutely nothing of the various golf websites, much less this funky thing called 'posting'. I, for one, am grateful for the many thankless hours you put in establishing the basecamp and keeping things humming along the way.

It's now been four years since my first posts on the old TGM site run by you and Randy. By then, Chuck had already started his own site (with Randy as Admin), and I was to learn of it a couple of weeks later. I posted on both sites until Bagger, Trig and I formed this site almost exactly one year later. By the grace of God, Bambam appeared during that first year, and the rest, as they say, is history.

It was Mike O who called out of the blue in December 2003 and told me about the TGM site. I logged on for the first time (and made my first post) on January 11, 2004. Ironically, I would later discover that this was 22 years to the day from when I stepped off the airplane in Seattle, Washington and came face to face with Homer Kelley.

In one sense, it seems all this happened only yesterday, and in another, a lifetime ago. In fact, for me, it has been a lifetime, because mine has so radically changed since then.

Who'da ever thunk it?