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When do you forsee yourself giving up golf…?

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Not trying to be morbid, here… but, when do you forsee yourself giving up golf…
• When your health won’t let you
• When your scoring turns awful
• I’m gonna drop dead out on the course - enjoying it to the end!
 
Yeah sad to think. But i've played sports my whole life. I'll only give up golf when i physically can't do it
 
For me it might be a combination of the three… That may be easier than actually giving it up!
 
jpgolf said:
For me it might be a combination of the three… That may be easier than actually giving it up!
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For scoring.....i mean if you're 84, who cares? Are you doing anything well at that age?

There are guys at my club that age, everyone says the same thing---if i'm alive and can still even swing a club when i'm there---i'm gonna be happy
 
When it’s not fun anymore for whatever reason. Age, health…ball rollback. (Yes, I’m talking to you USGA.)
 
When it’s not fun. When it’s a chore
 
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When it’s not fun. When it’s a chore
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^^^This^^^. I hope to have grand kids someday that I can encourage to play golf and that would certainly delay my retirement.

My dad gave it up at age 83, two years before he passed and I’d love to make it that long.
 
I was close. My natural ability with a driver/long wood in my hand peaked at a 17 index, and I was getting tired of the decent/bad/ugly jag. Going irons only from the front tees has brought the joy back. I finally feel like I’m playing the game, even if it’s my own version of it. I’m feel like I can do this for decades to come.
 
For me, it will be whenever I physically can't do it anymore. I enjoy getting out there, good day or bad day, so I don't think that would factor into it.

For my grandfather, it was when he couldn't track the ball anymore. He was in great health physically, but couldn't track. I only got to play with him occasionally and offered to watch his ball for him but he refused. "Nope! If I can't see it myself, I'm done!". It was always a good time when we got to play together and I miss that.
 
As long as I'm physically able. I'll be out there grinding at a par 3 course if that's all I can do eventually.
 
Passion is still burning bright. I'm almost 70 and hope to play a bunch with my grandson in the future (he's 2) so thinking I need to be healthy enough for awhile yet. Ultimately if I die swinging a club down the road someday that would beat the hell out of being hooked up to tubes and machines in a hospital bed.
 
I'm 71 and going strong. I hope to have many more years. I'll only stop when I'm physically unable to have fun.
 
A possible combination of health and ability (or lack of). If I can’t walk from a cart to the green or do it so slowly I should be penalized for undue delay, pull the cord. Same with hitting all my clubs less than 100 yards and maybe 10 feet in the air. If I can’t play golf worth a lick, pull the cord.

We have some guys in our senior club pushing 90 who can’t break 110 on a 5,000 yard course. Bless them for still wanting to be out there but I don’t want to be like them. When I am holding up the course while I read my putt for a “9”, drag me off the course.
 
For me it is less of a quitting golf as it is quitting THP or the like. Golf is fine as long as it is a hobby. The level we are all at is an obsession. I see that happening long before quitting a one or twice a month round of golf.
 
If I physically can’t play is when I will stop.
 
When my body says no mas. I’m trying to fend off a couple surgeries because I’m still relatively young and don’t want the Tiger treatment. Even after I have to get the surgeries I’m gonna be out there until my body quits on me. At some point quality of life will win out over my hobbies. But for now that day ain’t today.
 
My goal is a week or two before I die.
 
When my grandad couldn’t physically play anymore, he still loved going to the course and using the putting green. I plan to do the same and be done when my body doesn’t let me anymore. Stopping because you stopped enjoying it probably means there is something more going on mentally and I hope I never hit that point.
 
I have no later every sport there is. The last sport I can physically play is golf. I will play it until I no longer physically play it.


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When I physically can’t move … will probably be that point … although putt putt golf maybe a option lol
 
This is a very interesting question and one I’ve thought a lot about. It’s gonna get long winded. Sorry.

Started when I was 20, worked on several courses. LOVED golf. Put it down for around 12 years chasing other things. Backpack hunting, competitive shooting, lots of skeet, trap, pistol, bass fishing tournaments, fly fishing, hiking, camping. Then raised my family. Kids are older, one more to finish high school. Not much golf. Life moved on and my thought was “golf is something I can do l when I’m older”. Well, maybe I’m “older” now but all of those young man pursuits are by the wayside. All the “stuff” is gone (some still going). My wife and I have mapped our golden years (God willing) and we just want a simple lifestyle. No need for nothing. A little golf, a little fishing on the beach, play with the dogs, hopefully some grandkids, a little wine and a little dance. Golf is outside, it’s moving, it’s never solved, it’s social, it’s “there”. I’ll end up a grumpy old man on the gold tees one day. Who cares? When I can’t, I’ll be a par 3 guy, maybe just putz around. Maybe just putt and fart.

Dunno, weird. I have kind of a simple philosophy:

“Life can’t take from me what I’ve given away”

It’ll end. That’s fine.
 
I think I will play golf until I die, unless a doctor says that I can’t. I envision my wife burying me with my MC and GD bags…
 
If golf is your hobby it doesn't have to mean giving up golf if you don't play.
 
When I physically am unable to play.
 
How can anyone truly know? One never knows what tomorrow brings nor how nor can one ever know how they will feel about anything tomorrow that they do now including golf.?
One can easily say they will play as long as physically possible because its how most of us likely feel right now. this holds true for anything (not just our golf) and it holds true that we can never say for certain what changes in our heads next week or month or year and thats even true if our physical ability is not an issue.
 
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