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Justmy2cents gave me an idea with a thread he had, and someone responded about Tom Weiskopf and his temper. I am looking for responses to the craziest, stupidest and/or funniest response you or another golfer you witnessed or heard about had on the course or soon after ( some of those 19th hole exchanges have been classic).
Got a story to tell? I'll put a couple later in the thread but don't want to over lead the discussion.
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Reputation:94
Level:All-Star
Since:Feb 17, 2008
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About 15 years ago I'm waiting to tee off on the first hole. Numbers one and 18 are side by side. This kid wearing a Metalica tee shirt and sandles is teeing off in the group in front of us. It's obvious he's out of place on the golf course.
Well he proceeds to hit his tee shot..... it's a low hooking squirter heading towards the 18th fairway where two guys are standing. Now this kid actually got into this one so it's screaming towards these guys at Mach 1. The kid knows he's supposed to yell something but he obviously can't remember the universal yell for INCOMING!!! So with a crowd around near the clubhouse he yells at the top of his lungs the first thing that apparently came to mind...... DUCK Mother Fu(&^%*errrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!
Fortunately it missed the guys.... but I'm rolling on the ground laughing as is everyone else with the exception of the group of Baptist ministers waiting near the clubhouse.
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Reputation:81
Level:All-Star
Since:Mar 7, 2007
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I was carrying a bag at the Heritage ProAm 15 years ago. Craig Stadler was the group's pro for the day and wasn't playing particularly well but at that it was still a practice round so no harm no foul right? Craig siddles up to the 14th teebox and proceeds to dump his teeshot into the pond on the par three. Without missing a step he starts beating the piss out of the tee box marker with his 7 iron then onto the post holding the trash can and everything else that was nailed down. His club looked like a shred of aluminum tinsel and he was a bit red in the face from the effort. The rest of the round was played in absolute silence from EVERYBODY. Stadler missed the cut 2 days later and was in a rather foul mood as he was slamming the trunk closed on the rental car as he left according to witnesses that watched him depart.
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Reputation:99
Level:Superstar
Since:Dec 14, 2007
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Great idea for a thread mark!!!
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Reputation:95
Level:Superstar
Since:Mar 12, 2007
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I used to play on a public course called Lake of the Woods. My group was behind another group in which one of the men was having a lousy morning. A pond ran along the left side of #5 off the tee, fronted the green on #6, a fairly long par 5, then along the right side of the 8th fairway.
This golfer hooked 2 shots into the pond off #5, then dumped at least 3 more on his approach to the 6th green. We could hear his screams from 200 yards back up the fairway. They finally cleared the pond so we made our layups and waited. When this guy finally holed out, he walked back to his cart, grabbed his clubs and tossed them into the lake, then stalked angrily toward the clubhouse.
We played 6 and 7 and were on the 8th green when we saw the man walking back toward the pond. We figured he'd cooled off some. Instead he waded into the pond, brought his bag back to shore, pulled out his keys and tossed the bag back into the pond.
Me, I've only smashed one club. My brother slapped me so hard I never even considered losing my temper on the course again.
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Reputation:92
Level:All-Star
Since:Jan 20, 2007
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I was playing golf at Falcons Fire in Orlando with the late Steve Duplantis, a golf pro, & a superintendent. Now I used to have a real bad temper on the course & could put at least a dozen threads all on myself. Now at the time I used to be a +2 handicap and have qualified for the US amateur & played D1 golf. I hit a bad shot on the par 5 #15 or #16 and completely lost it. Instead of breaking one club like I usually did I broke 11 straight clubs over my knee. The only clubs I had left was my driver, fairway wood, & a sand wedge. No idea why I didn't break those. I was riding with Steve who thought he has seen everything on the course that could possibly happen but after look at me and said "that was probablym the funniest thing I've ever seen on the golf course". The other two in the group were basically in aww and started laughing . On 18 with three clubs I holed out from around 70 yards for birdie and tied all my bets. Now, golf isn't very important to me and for the first time ever I didn't break a club all of last year.
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Reputation:38
Level:Rookie
Since:Apr 15, 2008
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I was over at the Bahamas for summer and playing at the golf course in Four Seasons Resort Great Exuma Emerald Bay and i was on the driving range practicing before me and my friends tee off. So i was hitting some driving shots and after that i was hitting my iron shots which im normally good at. But it was very hot and sunny out that my hands was like all slippery and the ppl out in the fields picking the balls out or the driving range in there cart so when i was swinging my iron flew right out of my hands and it the the cartpicking up the balls and like shattered the window to it. I just fell on the floor luaghing and i was worried in the same time.
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Reputation:97
Level:Superstar
Since:Jan 10, 2007
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Memt,
Outstanding story!
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Reputation:97
Level:Superstar
Since:Jan 10, 2007
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I've been golfing for many years, but these stories are classic.
The first one I'll tell is about a friend of mine when we were playing what was the WVU home course in Morgantown a number of years ago. My buddy had just returned from Viet nam a few months before and took to golfing a lot to "relieve" tension. We were playing, I believe the 6th hole there, which has a lone tree about 140 yds in the middle of the fairway. I was somewhat tall, and was regularly shaped except for one long, thin limb that came out of the middle of the trunk. (the tree must have been manicured for this). My buddy proceeds to hit a beautiful drive, it goes straight down the middle, hits the lone branch and bounces straight back. Joe looks at me and says some words that would get me warnings here.
He gets his 5 wood out, hits the ball again, and crack, back it bounces off the same limb. He walks to the ball, doesn'y even look at where he's aiming and cracks it off the trees trunk. Joe does up to the tree and begins to jump as high as we can and starts hitting the limb at its point near the trunk. It took me and about 6 other guys to pull Joe from that tree. It was like one of those fights, where a guy calms down, you let him go, and he runs back to his adversary and fights again, only this time is what at this tree. After about 15 minutes of this, someone from the shack that was used to act as the Pro Shop came and asked us to escort Joe off the course. Joe would turn around and swear at the tree as we were leaving.
A number of years after that, I received a letter with a picture from Joe. It was a picture of that tree being knocked down as they cleared the course for what became the new Mountaineer Football Stadium. Joe wrote on the bottom, "F$%^&g tree!"
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Reputation:79
Level:Pro
Since:Mar 28, 2008
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I am a local golf pro at a country club in Kentucky. One day while at work, a man comes in the pro shop with a very distraught look on his face. He approaches me and says he needs help retrieving his golf club. I proceeded to ask him what had happened, and here is story:
"I had been playing like s**t all day! I tee off on 18 and kinda duff one off the tee box. I get to my ball and its buried in the rough. So I just try and punch out with a wedge, and end up skulling it in the water. Well, at that point I was about to lose it, so I take my wedge and give it a good ol' helicopter throw into the woods. After throwing the club I realized what a stupid thing I had done, so I go into the woods to find it. My playing partners and I are searching around, when one of them starts laughing. He is pointing up this tree, laughing like crazy. I look up the tree he is pointing at, and wouldn't you know it, there that S.O.B. is. So, is there anyone here who can help me get it out?"
I wanted to laugh so bad while hearing this man's story, but I didn't think it was a good idea, seeing how was pretty angry while telling it. I did however, end up finding someone from our maintenance area to help him get his club back. I guess he learned his lesson though, I haven't seen him climbing any trees looking for his clubs.
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Reputation:97
Level:Superstar
Since:Jan 10, 2007
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Uk,
Great story.
I was golfing one day with a buddy named Hanley. Hanley was famous for "Hanley Bounces", unbelievably lucky bounces he had when he hit a stray shot. We were playing on a hole along side a road, when Hanley hit a ball that seemed to have hit a car and bounce back toward the green. The three of us started our "Hanley Bounce" chant and went to look for the ball, but didn't see it. I said I bet its up by the green. We hit our shots, Hanley dropped one, and rode our carts up to the green. Low and behold, there was Hanley's ball, right behind the green, unfortunately it was attached to an about a 6'5' state trooper, whose car was sitting by the road with a nice size crack in the window. We couldn't stop laughing, and the cop got this ticked off look, and started talking to Hanley. It seems that A golfer is responsible, according to the officer, for any damage done by a struck ball. Hanley was thoroughly P*ssed, but we laughed the rest of the round.
As an aside, I found out that some Home Owners Insurances cover the damage done by a golf ball (I'm not sure why), and Hanley never paid a thing.
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Reputation:96
Level:Superstar
Since:Dec 31, 2006
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I have a buddy (I was caddying that day) that played in a Pro-Am with Jay Sigel a few years back. He shot 71 - Sigel shot 74! After putting out on 18...Sigel walked right off the green - no words, no handshake, nada. He was so pissed. What an arse!
As far as what I've seen on the PGA Tour...remember when the idiot Woody Austin broke his putter in half during an event - after hitting himself in the head!? Nick Price did the same - although Price later apologized and was totally embarrassed. Austin is just a goof.
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Reputation:92
Level:All-Star
Since:Oct 5, 2007
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