I bet that does have to feel strange. I grew a beard at the age of seventeen, right out of high school. I have only shaved it off twice in 29 years. Once was right before a tourney at Barkley with the bass club I was with. Even the guys I worked with didn't recognize me the day before the tourney and thought I was gonna have to pay my club dues as a new member again. I even have 5 grandkids that have never seen me without a beard.