I played pool for many years, I'm 38, the very first table in cue sports I was exposed to was a 6x12 snooker table in the basement of the fire station on 3rd ave in Worthington,MN, its still there to this day, but its in the basement of the fire station so it would do no good to ad to the list unless you live there and know someone in the fire dept. So in the winter time it was Hockey and snooker. I have a handmade cue ( ebony & ash 3/4, 9-10mm, 57 5/8" ) that was givin to me by one of the fire guys that went to England and got it 22 years ago, theres just a burn-in stamp that says 17.4 above the the splice. I played snooker through high school and a few years after, and since then just where theres a table. I still oil and wax it prob every 3-5 years when I can feel it starting to dry out, and have been through just a handfull of tips, still cant find one like the first one so I use standard BD's. So yes, I don't like switching between pool cues and snook cues, snooks are cone shaped from the register to the tip and once adjusted with your strike its much more refined than a pool strike wich can be sloppy and all over the field and still pot the ball, and pools are allways different with the taper. Golf is a game where you push a ball around until your in potting position, the only thing you can learn from it is angles & doubles wich may help with playing a snooker, most snooker players dont play golf and most golfers dont play snook because you cant play snook on a golf table, its a very non-offensive non-forward thinking game. I offered the the old regular golf guy at Bogies in Houston to a $200.00 game of 5 frames, he said no how bout 50 cents a point with american pool rules. So needless to say thats gonna be your typical golf mentality. I went there to play snooker not knowing the table was similar to golf but not cut as tight. I just wanted his game, wasnt even worried about the money. Theres a lot of tough guy pool players out there that are easy to call out
cheers.
