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• TTritt 13 Posts

  Mon, Dec 8 2014 5:50 AM

  Life is great, but it didn't start that way. I'm a personal accountability guy, I don't point fingers (except at WGT sometimes) and place blame. I WANT it to be my fault -- because in my twisted mind, then I can solve it - learn and do better. 

  My parents divorced when I was 4, my stepfather spent the next 12 years or so beating some knowledge into me. I started working when I was 9, after school, on weekends, or during any break from school -- my stepfather had me working. I hated it! I hated him --- until I grew up. Our relationship has never really mended, because I still struggle letting go of some of the physical and emotional pain I felt. I can tell you though, I'm extremely thankful for the work ethic and other things he taught me! Many of the lessons he was attempting to teach me were lost on me as a kid, but have grown ever-clearer as an adult. He was doing the best he could with the tools he had, like all of us. 

  I have 4 children, and I have 4 great relationships with them. I own a couple of businesses, and have a spectacular wife and marriage. I owe much of that to my stepfather. He taught me a lot about what I don't want in life, to go along with the good stuff he was teaching (albeit in the wrong way). My companies are multi-million dollar businesses, but more importantly, my family relationships are multi-billion dollar relationships. We share a lot of love, admiration and respect for one-another, and I work hard to maintain that culture!

  I paid my own way through college, twice. Graduating at the top of my class both times. Don't mistake my post, though -  I'm not here to lavish myself with praise -- I'm here hoping that my story may encourage or motivate someone else. Maybe it's you the reader, or maybe you can share with your children, friends or family. There were many days when I was young that I didn't even know if I would live to adulthood (I contemplated suicide more than once). However, when you finally make a decision stop making excuses or blaming other people or things, and take 100% responsibility for your life -- good things can happen, in fact - great things can happen. If I were forced to make a guess - I'm quite sure that when I was young, not many people would have bet much money that my life would be where it is now, and I'm not referring just to the financials! 

  I enjoy my time on WGT, I'm trying to become a Tour Legend, but haven't made it there yet. I love ECGA country club, it's a great virtual golf home. I appreciate the many games i've had with players from all over, and I appreciate you reading this glimpse into my life. Life is great ...

  Tony

• SteveW65 4,540 Posts

  Mon, Dec 8 2014 9:56 AM

  TTritt:

  Life is great ...

  Certainly is - and enjoyed reading your story.

• TTritt 13 Posts

  Mon, Dec 8 2014 5:37 PM

  SteveW65:

  TTritt:

  Life is great ...

  Certainly is - and enjoyed reading your story.

  Thank You!

• Fernidini 32 Posts

  Mon, Dec 8 2014 7:26 PM

  Hi all my name is AJ. I am 33 years old. My life growing up was not good but not bad. I have many good memories but also went through more than my fair share of physical and mental abuse. I am not mad about anything that happened nor do I hate anyone that put me through it. In fact I believe that everything that happened has made me who I am today.

  I played baseball for 22 years from little league to high school and even after high school. I got to the point that I could see and read every stitch on a 90+ mph fastball. I knew what the hitters could and could not hit by the way he stood in the box. At one point I was being scouted by the reds the astros and the cubs. I was invited to royals camp and tried out for them. I was a catcher for all of my 22 years of playing and I can tell you my body has paid the toll for all those years behind the dish. There is many days that I wake up and I can barely walk. On a good day the pain in my knees is a 5-6 which would keep most people on the couch. On a bad day the pain is worst than 10 on most peoples scale. But if any one asks me if I would do it all over again with out hesitation I simply reply yes. I lived and breathed baseball and that is all I knew. I miss it everyday.

  I used to play a little golf but never got into it hard core. I do like playing when I actually get out and play which is about once a year. I am a horrible golfer but my biggest accomplishment in the golf world is a hole in one. I went out by myself and they paired me up with a three some and I was shooting about 200 on the day got to 17 threw the ball on the ground smacked it of course topped it hit the middle of the fairway the ball rolled up the fairway on the green then disappeared. Got my score card signed by the other 3 guys that couldnt believe it and got my name in the paper. I have the card ball and paper put up in a safe place.

  I have been married for 6 years now and have a 7 year old boy. I have a great wife that keeps me in check most days. she is definitely the glue that holds the family together. My son is way to smart for his own good. He is in the second grade and doing school work on a 4th grade level. He has been tested and placed in gifted classes. I am so proud of him and all the credit has to go to my wife. She is going to school to be a nurse and is almost done. I am very proud of both of them.

  I have worked for a cable company for 7 years. I am now a service tech that fixes issues with tv, phone, and internet. I am really good at what I do and take pride in my work. I am one of just a few guys that can put a cable just about any where I want to. I have the lowest go back rate in the company which means once I come in and fix an issue there is very few times that I or any one else has to go back on my work. My thing is do the job right the first time. The only bad thing about the job is that it takes up so much of my time that I miss a lot of family time and I missed a lot of my son growing up. Which I regret.

  Just a little more about me.

  I am an avid outdoorsman. I hunt and fish pretty much every weekend. My true love is pheasant hunting. I love being in the middle of nowhere with absolutely nothing around me but crops and native prairie grass. I love watching the dogs work the fields and seeing those birds get up underneath their noses. There is no better sight and sound in this world as a pheasant flushing. I have always been a fisherman but the last couple of years I have been in pursuit of big and I mean big catfish. I use fish that most people catch for fun for bait. When I go fishing people ask if I am fishing for whales when they look at the gear that I use. I just laugh and say that is the goal. My biggest fish to date is a 60lb flathead but I have many in the 20's. It is fun catching something that most people think is tall tales. Pound for pound Flatheads are one of the toughest and strongest fish you can catch.

  I play wgt because I can not get out and play real golf with all of my other hobbies and work. I found a home at ECGA and have not looked back. Everyone in the club is great and have huge hearts. I consider everyone there a friend. They are truely like another family.

• renniw52 5,385 Posts

  Wed, Dec 10 2014 3:05 PM

  TT and Fern, awesome posts, now that is why I started this thread to begin with. Great to know something about ya both. To be honest, I am still getting older, blinder, worse at putting and the work I am doing is killing me slowly but surely. Life goes on and we play the hand we're dealt. Good to hear from ya both.

  Rich

• TTritt 13 Posts

  Fri, Dec 12 2014 5:20 AM

  renniw52:

  TT and Fern, awesome posts, now that is why I started this thread to begin with. Great to know something about ya both. To be honest, I am still getting older, blinder, worse at putting and the work I am doing is killing me slowly but surely. Life goes on and we play the hand we're dealt. Good to hear from ya both.

  Rich

  Thanks Rich

• HamdenPro 2,487 Posts

  Tue, Dec 16 2014 5:44 PM

  Think you might have been a little too young for "Nam" if your 57.  Maybe 67.... BTW, my kid got one of those archery sets, shot himself in the foot, now he's 4-F..

• renniw52 5,385 Posts

  Tue, Dec 16 2014 6:09 PM

  My pleasure TT.

• craigswan 31,832 Posts

  Wed, Dec 17 2014 12:00 AM

  A continuation of my earlier post .

  Our son Lee is coming home from saudi for xmas . This is the e-mail i got sent .

  Could you leave your work early and pick me up from the airport at 3pm this friday . I then need dropped off at the car rental place . Can you tell them i don,t want a scabby little putt putt this time i need a bigger engine . Just pay for it and i will see you alright .

  And could you get mum a couple of presents for me . That perfume i got her last year will do [ cannot remember it,s name but it is in a yellow bottle . And anything else you can think of .

  Oh - and get yourself a bottle of something as well .

  You cannot get too drunk on xmas day as on boxing day i need taken back to the airport to catch my plane to boston . I,m meeting my friend there  for the new year  .

  And tell mum not to buy me any crap like last year . The boxes were too big for my suitcase and if you think i,m lugging stuff to boston and then back to saudi arabia - no chance .

  Cannot get a visa this year for mum to visit me in march as she was there last year so my mate james is applying for her visa and saying she is his mum .

  Merry xmas .

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Sat, Dec 20 2014 4:29 AM

  craigswan:

  A continuation of my earlier post .

  Our son Lee is coming home from saudi for xmas . This is the e-mail i got sent .

  Could you leave your work early... I then need... Can you tell them... Just pay for it...

  And could you get...

  Oh - and get yourself...

  You cannot get too drunk on xmas day...  i need ...

  And tell mum not to buy me ....  if you think i,m lugging stuff  - no chance .

  .

  Merry xmas .

  This may be a tad late in the day but worth a try. -