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12 piece bucket 02-02-2006 02:54 PM

What is the Most Bizarre/Strange/Craziest thing you have done/seen on a golf course?
 
I got some . . .

But I'll let y'all start.

Fred Brattain 02-02-2006 03:11 PM

not the strangest
 
However, I caught a couple at our Resort course two weeks ago doin' the nasty in a cart up on the top of one of the hills overlooking the 6th tee....

Obi WunPutt

ps. I let them get on with whatever they wanted to (seemed like the diplomatic thing to do :cool: )

12 piece bucket 02-02-2006 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fred Brattain
However, I caught a couple at our Resort course two weeks ago doin' the nasty in a cart up on the top of one of the hills overlooking the 6th tee....

Obi WunPutt

ps. I let them get on with whatever they wanted to (seemed like the diplomatic thing to do :cool: )

You didn't film it? You should have offered to capture the moment like people getting their picture taken infront of the Lincoln Memorial or something.

Fred . . . you gotta stop thinking of yourself so much. You are NOT the center of the universe. Get out there and HELP some people man!

I hope you at least cheered?

YodasLuke 02-02-2006 03:34 PM

my keys??!!!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by 12 piece bucket
I got some . . .

But I'll let y'all start.

At my old club, we had a guy that threw his whole set of clubs in the lake on 18. That was funny, but watching him go in the water to get his wallet and keys was the best part. After getting his items out of the bag, he got to throw it in again. It really happened, and he never played golf again. He had to keep his membership, because his kids love to play.
Somebody got a good set of clubs out of the water, after he burnt the tires off the car leaving the parking lot.

hcw 02-02-2006 03:48 PM

more club action
 
at the end of a sweltering july day when my 6-iron slipped out of my hands in the follow-thru on the tee of a par 3 and DISAPPEARED into thin air!...i finally spied it about 10-feet up in branches of a pine tree next to the tee box…I almost got another club stuck up there tossing it to knock the first one down…the ball actually landed on the green, but as it was actually the third extra hole i was playing in the evening I just picked it up and went home…

-hcw

bambam 02-02-2006 04:44 PM

Besides "shenanigans" with golf carts?
 
I've seen some pretty interesting characters at some of the muni's out in the country around here. My brother and I played w/ a couple guys on a fluke, 60 degree day in February. They came drunk, then each of them drank enough by about the third hole that we had a contact-high just from lookin' at 'em, and after the turn they broke out the weed and hit that pretty hard the whole back nine. Normally, if it's really bad we'd ditch them at the turn, but these guys were hilarious. One of the guys carried around a really long driver that he usually missed the ball with, and he had a little piece of green indoor/outdoor carpet that he would put under his ball before every shot. There was too much to list here, and I don't remember a lot of the day because we were practically in tears from laughing so hard....thank you for starting this thread, because I'd almost forgotten about this.

12 piece bucket 02-02-2006 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by bambam
I've seen some pretty interesting characters at some of the muni's out in the country around here. My brother and I played w/ a couple guys on a fluke, 60 degree day in February. They came drunk, then each of them drank enough by about the third hole that we had a contact-high just from lookin' at 'em, and after the turn they broke out the weed and hit that pretty hard the whole back nine. Normally, if it's really bad we'd ditch them at the turn, but these guys were hilarious. One of the guys carried around a really long driver that he usually missed the ball with, and he had a little piece of green indoor/outdoor carpet that he would put under his ball before every shot. There was too much to list here, and I don't remember a lot of the day because we were practically in tears from laughing so hard....thank you for starting this thread, because I'd almost forgotten about this.

Wow! You met my dad! Hope he didn't soil himself. . . pops is a piece of work.

12 piece bucket 02-02-2006 05:14 PM

Lost toofus
 
Well me and my dorky buddies were waiting about 6 groups deep about 8 am on a Saturday at Oak Hollow in beautiful High Point NC home of the World Famous Tiki. On deck are these foreigners in for the furniture market. Obviously these dudes have watched a lot of golf on tv. They had on really nice expensive clothes but they were matching the "tigers" with their "elephants." I'm talking your green glen plads with orange stripes and white belts. Shoes with them little flapper thingies.

They're gettin' their pre-round gibber jabber on . . . I'm sure talking about starting a college fund for the peg leg stripper at the World Famous. I'm sure it was the foreign version of "Dude, she was wantin' me baaaaaad."

When it happens . . .

Foreign Buddy Number 1 practicing his double-cocked backswing that's way faster than his downswing, connects at point blank range with Buddy Number 2. Right smack dab on the mouth! Sounded like somebody looking for a ripe watermellon at the Piggy Wiggy. Buddy Number 2 is now rollin' around like that ant you pinched between your fangers when you were a tot right on the tee box.

Buddy Number 2 is restrained by Numbers 3 and 4 so no fistacuffs will ensue. But now Buddy Number 2 is minus . . .

a toofus. Yikes. We were had one of those milk comin' out of the nose laughs. True story.

dcg1952 02-02-2006 05:43 PM

About 6 years ago I was playing in a tournament at our local course. An elderly guy (Bob) in our foursome, about 65 or so, was well-known to be rather feisty. On the 13th tee a marshall drives towards us and Bob, who wasn't in a very good mood, announces to us that the %&^$#@* marshall better not say a word about our group playing slow because we had been waiting on every shot. Sure enough, the marshall very kindly was going around asking every group to try and play a little faster. As expected, Bob proceeds to verbally rip this poor guy apart. We finally managed to get the marshall away, but Bob continues to fume. A few holes later, on the 16th fairway, this marshall comes up behind us and says something to good old Bob, who is sitting in the cart. I have hit my approach shot to the green and am walking up to mark my ball when I hear shouting behind me. I turn around to watch Bob and the marshall involved in full all-out combat---wrestling, punching , kicking. Two guys in their late 60's goin' at it in the middle of the fairway.
I've seen people get angry about being hit into, slow play, etc. But, this was a classic. The advanced age of these guys actually made it funny. We managed to get them separated and continue the round. Still talk about it every year. (And the week following the incident the guy riding with Bob showed up wearing a football helmet)

EdZ 02-02-2006 06:26 PM

A few years ago I was finishing up a round at Harding Park in SF. The course is between two lakes, and there is a small park area and boat launch near the entrance, and somewhat close to the 18th hole.

On the 18th tee, as the group in front of us moves out of range, I get up to hit and see a woman and two small kids walking out to the middle of the fairway. She spreads out a blanket, plops down a picnic and her two kids start running around playing tag with each other. It took a while for her to hear the 4 of us yelling out at her to move, since the tee is across a bit of water and the wind was blowing!

Needless to say, I don't think she knew anything about golf or golf courses!

bambam 02-02-2006 09:00 PM

one more shocking tale...
 
My cousin & I play golf each year while on vacation during each of the main summer holidays. We play a little course in north-central indiana that happens to have high tension power lines running through a few holes on the course. The local rules are if you hit one you get to re-hit, but we'd played there dozens of times and never even come close...you see where this is going, but wait.. So my cousin, he's not what you'd call a consistent driver of the golf ball, and the only way you could really hit these power lines would be if you hit a pretty good drive, and even then the ball would have to peak exactly where the lines are as they are pretty high...again that would be a great drive...not real common for either of us. About the time we'd forgotten the lines were there, he nuts a drive and hits the power line dead on..funny noise, then the ball drops out of the sky....we were cracking up. Now, that's not the "shocking" thing...that could happen to anybody I suppose...We've played twice since he did that, and both times we've stepped up to the tee, looked at each other, laughed, then he drilled the power line! It's gotten less funny for him, because it ruins a great drive...me, I laugh hard :-)

almost put this in hole-ies and pole-ies this summer

12 piece bucket 02-02-2006 11:08 PM

Slim Pickin's
 
Me and my buddy ALWAYS walk. Period. Even if we gotta pay to ride we walk. Well my buddy will fight a tree or at least talk yang to it. We're playing in High Point (home of the World Famous Tiki) at Blair Park. A less than stellar goat track in less than desirable 'hood. For instance a couple of geezers got pistol whipped on 18 and their assailant walked a way with about $5 and some Geritol.

HoganFan 02-03-2006 01:29 PM

The Good News...
 
...crushed driver on a tight par four at my buddy's club about 290. The bad news--my Titleist bad hops in to a swale/ditch that bisects the fairway. My buddy drives to his ball, I decide to tip-toe down in to the muck and grab my ball--on the third step, I go down and in, up to my chest in this murky, boggy quicksand stuff. Buddy races over, pulls me out with his six iron.

That was the fifth hole. We finished the round, me covered up to my chest in mud. We skipped drinks in the clubhouse afterwards. Oh, took a drop hit a nice 8i in and lipped out the nine footer.

Fred Brattain 02-04-2006 12:14 AM

Club throwing isn't funny
 
to me, but some of the things that people dream up to excuse it are.:D
One day at work I watched a guy lose it and pitch his brand new Scotty Cameron flat stick into the lake adjoining the 18th green. It was a classic case of TOSS. He then had the chutzpah to come in the shop and ask if the diver who retrieved balls from the lake would please return the putter that had "slipped out of his hand while he was tossing it to his bag". My arse... This guy would have won the hammer throw at most Olympics.

The other one I love was the guy who came into the shop almost crying he was laughing so hard. His buddy was still in the cart, smoke coming out of both ears. The guy who came in the shop finally gasped out between spasms of laughter that his buddy needed to get in touch with maintenance to borrow a ladder. Seems he had launched his driver into a tree and then had been so mad at that that he got his putter stuck in the same tree trying to get the driver down. We found him a ladder.

Obi WunPutt:cool:

Fred Brattain 02-04-2006 12:15 AM

Family forum
 
I just remembered the funniest thing I have ever seen or heard on a golf course, but how off color can we get before the moderator kicks us off? I don't want to offend anyone, but a friend of mine had the best/worst experience in our foursome one day.

Guidelines anyone????

Obi WunPutt

Yoda 02-04-2006 01:41 AM

Let Us Think On It...Baby, Baby, Let Us Think On It!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Fred Brattain

I just remembered the funniest thing I have ever seen or heard on a golf course, but how off color can we get before the moderator kicks us off? I don't want to offend anyone, but a friend of mine had the best/worst experience in our foursome one day.

Guidelines anyone????

Obi WunPutt

Obi...

As you've no doubt seen, The Colonel's got a different set of guidelines than most. But, if you'll just PM Bagger, we'll 'think on it' and, you'll have...

"...your answer in the mornin'!"

-- Meatloaf

P.S. Thanks for sending your West Texas Wind CD. It's in my player now!

robertrex 02-04-2006 01:57 AM

City Park in New Orleans
Playing with this rather golf purist from Boston - not too uncommon to have a tourist loop in with us. He's a nice fellow with a solid 5 HC game. We talk about where's he's played and how he was a volunteer for the Ryder Cup at The Country Club. We get to the third hole and these 2 teenagers come running on the course - right behind them is a police car pulling about 25 mph on the course - just beside our fairway - welcome to New Orleans.

Fred Brattain 02-04-2006 02:55 AM

thanks
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Yoda
Obi...

As you've no doubt seen, The Colonel's got a different set of guidelines than most. But, if you'll just PM Bagger, we'll 'think on it' and, you'll have...

"...your answer in the mornin'!"

-- Meatloaf

P.S. Thanks for sending your West Texas Wind CD. It's in my player now!

Done and thank you for the thank you :)

Obi WunPutt


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