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Due to the fact that I live in Minnesota, my typical layoff can be anywhere from 4-6 months. Usually, a couple of buckets and a round or two where I don't really keep score and I manage to knock most of the rust off.... Short game usually takes a little longer, especially since they really don't cut the greens to normal speed until mid-May.....

10 years. From 1997-2007. I played all through H.S., 3 years of college and all the way up till the time I joined the Marine Corps. For some reason once I joined I never picked up a club again. Guess I was to busy running the streets, bar hopping, and raising hell with the rest of the jarheads to worry about it. It wasn't till I got divorced from my daughter's mother that I started to gain interest in it again. I needed something to take up my free time so I didn't go back to the streets and bar hopping again. Plus I now had a child to take care of and wanted to do something that both of us could enjoy, and YES it greatly impacted my game. I was a low handicapper in H.S. I averaged a 40.5 per 9 holes, was voted our H.S. teams MVP by my team and coach. Then I was also only 5' 8" 115 lbs. Couldn't hit the ball 225 yards, but was straight as an arrow every shot. OH I ALMOST FORGOT, I COULD PUTT THEN ALSO!!!! Now I'm 6' even 200 and something lbs. (cant give all details). Can hit a 300 yard drive but I'm all over the place when I'm not clicking, and I putt like a bull in a china cabinet. I would trade the distance any day to be able to hit the ball like I did 18-20 years ago. I think I have developed to many bad habits. This is why I get so upset at myself sometimes because I know I can do it, and I have done it, it just frustrates the hell out of me once in awhile.

When I was in the Navy I would go 6 months without playing when I was deployed. Sea duty really put a crimp in your game! I actually would play very little when I was on sea duty but when my shore tours would come around, I was on the course a lot. Since I've retired from the Navy I've had 2 lower back surgeries which forced me to no play for about 5-6 months after each one and I had shoulder surgery on my right shoulder and had to lay off for 3-4 months. So in the last 10 years I've been forced to the sidelines for a little over a year total. In retrospect I think the layoffs helped my game as I had to change a few things to accommodate my physical limitations and actually shortened my swing and brought things more under control.

From about when I was 11 or 12 until my mid-20s and even when I started playing again... for several years, it was only 2 or 3 9-hole rounds a year... it's only been the past 3-4 years that I have really started to play again...

It would be two months for me. Had alot to do at work with little time off. My brother on the other hand took two years off and started back just a few months ago and he is just as bad now as he was then.

This winter is the longest layoff, I'm at 4 months and counting. If the snow here ever goes away I'll be able to see what kind of impact it has had on my game. My talent is so immense I've probably gotten better while not playing. I'm only a million bucks shy of being a millionaire and 16 strokes a round from being scratch.

About 13 years, from the time I got married until I moved to the great Commonwealth of Virginia. Didnt affect my game (which I was playing wrong anyway) but taking lessons did...........

Probably a month because of weather. Didn't hurt me too much with the exception of rust.

20 years, i now golf like a drunken monkey

8 month after double knee surgery last year, with Tax Season in between

6 months...mostly cause of a shoulder injury and so far it really hasn't impacted my game, I still stink lol

I quit from june '89 till early '92 because my father died, he taught me the game. I went from mid-70s to mid-90s the first couple of times I played. Then I got my game back to the low 80s fairly quickly with occasional round in the low 70s.

I played when I was in my teens to 23, after we had kids the clubs were put away until my youngest son asked me to start playing with him, He was 17. It was like starting over. Now each year I take off about 5 to 6 months off. To much hunting and bad weather to play much. It takes a bout 6 weeks to get any kind of game back.