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Where in the World are you from? (Poll inside)


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Poll: Where in the World are you from? (Poll inside) (348 member(s) have cast votes)

Where in the world are you from?

  1. Canada (40 votes [11.49%])

    Percentage of vote: 11.49%

  2. USA (225 votes [64.66%])

    Percentage of vote: 64.66%

  3. Mexico (1 votes [0.29%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.29%

  4. Central America (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  5. South America (2 votes [0.57%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.57%

  6. Caribbean (1 votes [0.29%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.29%

  7. Greenland (1 votes [0.29%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.29%

  8. Ireland (3 votes [0.86%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.86%

  9. United Kingdom (23 votes [6.61%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.61%

  10. Northern Europe (8 votes [2.30%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.30%

  11. Europe (9 votes [2.59%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.59%

  12. Russia (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  13. China (1 votes [0.29%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.29%

  14. India (1 votes [0.29%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.29%

  15. Middle East (2 votes [0.57%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.57%

  16. Africa (4 votes [1.15%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.15%

  17. Indonesia (Or there-abouts) (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  18. Malaysia (Or there-abouts) (3 votes [0.86%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.86%

  19. Korea (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  20. Japan (1 votes [0.29%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.29%

  21. Philippines (3 votes [0.86%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.86%

  22. New Zealand (5 votes [1.44%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.44%

  23. Fiji (Or other South Pacific Islands) (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  24. Australia (15 votes [4.31%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.31%

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#1 Steve Ryan

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 11:59 AM

Just curious as to where most of ya are from.

There are continents and countries on the list.

If you don't find your region, just click the one that's closest!

Edited by Steve Ryan, 05 July 2012 - 03:54 PM.


#2 Steve Ryan

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 01:05 PM

That's two for the USA!

Keep em coming guys.

Remember, it's totally anonymous.

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 01:28 PM

USA! We didn't invent golf, we just perfected it ;)
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Posted 05 July 2012 - 03:40 PM

View PostShipwreck, on 05 July 2012 - 01:28 PM, said:

USA! We didn't invent golf, we just perfected it ;)

That's right!

Nice to see more votes coming in. Keep em comin!

#5 Steve Ryan

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 03:53 PM

50 views and 11 votes??

come on guys....


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Posted 05 July 2012 - 05:05 PM

Northern Europe for me. To be a bit more specific, Sweden :D

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 05:14 PM

View Posttjockisolle, on 05 July 2012 - 05:05 PM, said:

Northern Europe for me. To be a bit more specific, Sweden :D

Thanks for loaning Lidstrom to us for all those years!

#8 Steve Ryan

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 11:09 PM

Looks like mostly Americans in here....I find that hard to believe.

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 01:44 AM

Man I can't stand all those Russian golfwrx members. Still, I like em better than all of those uppity Greenlanders ;)

Edited by Thrillhouse, 06 July 2012 - 01:46 AM.

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 04:45 AM

UK

The inventors of the game, and home of the most important and prestigious major.

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 06:31 AM

Canada EHHH

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 11:28 AM

Wow! Didn't expect to see Malaysia!

Thought there would be more UK guys for sure.

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 11:34 AM

View PostSonny217, on 05 July 2012 - 05:14 PM, said:

View Posttjockisolle, on 05 July 2012 - 05:05 PM, said:

Northern Europe for me. To be a bit more specific, Sweden :D

Thanks for loaning Lidstrom to us for all those years!

No problem! I was glad to see him in that beautiful red shirt :)

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 11:49 AM

View PostMarkFromTheUK, on 06 July 2012 - 04:45 AM, said:

UK

The inventors of the game, and home of the most important and prestigious major.

The British Open?
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Posted 06 July 2012 - 12:09 PM

View PostMarkFromTheUK, on 06 July 2012 - 04:45 AM, said:

UK

The inventors of the game, and home of the most important and prestigious major.

Please correct me if I am wrong but didn't golf originate in Scotland?

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 12:26 PM

View PostShipwreck, on 06 July 2012 - 12:09 PM, said:

View PostMarkFromTheUK, on 06 July 2012 - 04:45 AM, said:

UK

The inventors of the game, and home of the most important and prestigious major.

Please correct me if I am wrong but didn't golf originate in Scotland?

From my understanding, nobody really knows who invented golf.

A few years ago, somebody found some ancient Chinese drawing depicting people with small wooden clubs, a ball and a hole.

http://multipletext....cky-to-golf.htm

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 12:28 PM

Ah the crafty Chinamen. Go figure. Everything is Made in China!
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Posted 06 July 2012 - 12:35 PM

View PostSteve Ryan, on 06 July 2012 - 12:26 PM, said:

View PostShipwreck, on 06 July 2012 - 12:09 PM, said:

View PostMarkFromTheUK, on 06 July 2012 - 04:45 AM, said:

UK

The inventors of the game, and home of the most important and prestigious major.

Please correct me if I am wrong but didn't golf originate in Scotland?

From my understanding, nobody really knows who invented golf.

A few years ago, somebody found some ancient Chinese drawing depicting people with small wooden clubs, a ball and a hole.

http://multipletext....cky-to-golf.htm

"While many Scots firmly maintain that golf evolved from a family of stick-and-ball games widely practiced throughout the British Isles during the Middle Ages, considerable evidence suggests that the game derived from stick-and-ball games that were played in France, Germany and the Low Countries." - Source: USGA Museum
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Posted 06 July 2012 - 12:48 PM

Wales.... God's country :-)

But currently living in England ..... God's arsehole :-(
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Posted 06 July 2012 - 01:38 PM

Ireland........dont think much else needs to be said

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 03:22 PM

British Virgin Islands, Caribbean.

Probably the only person who lives in a country that doesnt have a golf course

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 03:46 PM

View PostTee Time!, on 06 July 2012 - 12:35 PM, said:


"While many Scots firmly maintain that golf evolved from a family of stick-and-ball games widely practiced throughout the British Isles during the Middle Ages, considerable evidence suggests that the game derived from stick-and-ball games that were played in France, Germany and the Low Countries." - Source: USGA Museum

I like this explanation better than the Chinese one :)

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Posted 07 July 2012 - 11:23 AM

Mostly Americans then I guess.

That makes sense because we really are the best golfers anyway....hehe

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Posted 07 July 2012 - 11:51 AM

USA! USA! USA!
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 05:24 PM

I wonder if this will end up being one of those epic threads that gets bumped a couple times a week forever.


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Posted 09 July 2012 - 08:39 AM

Belgium present, the rulers of europe :pimp:
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 09:22 AM

View PostMarkFromTheUK, on 06 July 2012 - 04:45 AM, said:

UK

home of the most important and prestigious major.

i didn't know "UK" was short for "augusta"
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 11:15 AM

View Posthebron1427, on 09 July 2012 - 09:22 AM, said:

View PostMarkFromTheUK, on 06 July 2012 - 04:45 AM, said:

UK

home of the most important and prestigious major.

i didn't know "UK" was short for "augusta"

LOL! Good one.

If asked, I think most pros would rather win the masters than the open championship.

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Posted 09 July 2012 - 04:14 PM

Here in Australia, the land of all year round golf
Must suck loosing months of golf to snow and ice

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Posted 09 July 2012 - 04:23 PM

View PostGutz_it, on 09 July 2012 - 04:14 PM, said:

Here in Australia, the land of all year round golf
Must suck loosing months of golf to snow and ice

Not as a much as having a dingo eat your... just kidding.





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