A few beers?

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RobbOnTheRock

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Hi I'm back again!

Just wondering on the thoughts on drinking whilst playing a round of golf?

Personally, I have no real issues with it, but I won't do it myself, I'm crap enough without having alchol in my system to make it worse. Anyways my golf time is precious ill quite happily leave it until after the game or not at all.

Thoughts?

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AndyR
 
Pretty anti if I'm honest. Just doesn't set the right tone and I think many of us have been stuck behind the boozed up society or a 4 ball green fee at a muni too interested in getting hammered and not the golf
 
Never tried it.
I wonder if its like Snooker, Where 3 pints makes you a world beater but 5 makes you worse than you could ever imagine.:eek:

I might have to try it
 
never done it as always driving. I wont even have 1 or a shandy even.

If I was on a weekend jolly playing 36 holes then I may have 1 or 2 at lunch but that would be about it
 
I don't mind a can of cold Carling on a hot day as I'm going round - can't see the difference between having one can or a can of coke. Hate stopping at the halfway house for anything. Thankfully I've never had the misfortune to follow a booze cruise.
 
I would say its fine as long as you don't affect other players. Never taken beer onto the course, although I was playing our local Crown golf course a few years ago with some mates on a real hot midsummers day (remember them?), when we got to the turn there was a guy in a buggy with an ice box on the bag full of bottles of Stella. That went down well!
 
Drinks buggy at a course I play has small cans that can be appreciated on hot days.

Not good for the Golf performance though I'm afraid. Did seem to swing smoother a couple of holes into an afternoon round when a couple (or 3) beers were consumed at lunch!
 
If someone was doing it in a comp then I'd instantly think of them as a right knob. I don't really understand how people just having a knock about can do it but then if you're just having fun and trying to enjoy your day I guess it's OK to do whatever you like. The thought of playing 18 holes then having a couple of pints and then playing another 18 just doesn't make sense to me as I enjoy the golf more than I do the drinking... that said if I'd scored sub-10 points in the first 18 holes I reckon I might NEED a beer :D
 
Hobbit said:
I don't mind a can of cold Carling on a hot day as I'm going round - can't see the difference between having one can or a can of coke. Hate stopping at the halfway house for anything. Thankfully I've never had the misfortune to follow a booze cruise.
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I would have thought alxohol was the last thing you'd want on a hot day when trying to play sport?
 
Playing in the Algarve in June this year in 90 degree heat - when that guy came speeding round selling ice cold drinks, the beer went down an absolute treat!
 
The odd nip of single malt on a clear, sunny, frosty winter's morning is wonderful.

Drinking a couple of tins would have me stopping at every other tree for a Jimmy.
 
I've had a couple of beers at lunch time before a friendly afternoon knock. it made me want to have a little lie down if I'm honest. I'd have one on my hols if I was in a buggy, in the sun. maybe not after 9 in the monthly medal

looks like it's frowned upon by the esteemed membership of Royal Ascot though !:o
 
I've mixed feelings about it mysef, i hardley ever get a chance to have a drink while golfing as i'm always driving.

I also hate seeing guys more interested in chugging down beer than playing golf. The club I'm at now you hardly if ever see it as i would say its made up of mostly seri golfers, but the club i was a member at before, very different. Quite a few could be heard by the bottles in their bags while walking down the fairway. These mostly would be the ones wearing jeans;)

On the other hand ive found a few large G&T's before a round does wonders.
when i played at Western Gails we were plied with lots of large ones before the match, of which i had 8 treble G&Ts and played like a dream, so that back fired on our hosts, but not so later that night :(
 
Yup & as mentioned earlier up to 3 makes you play better 5 is too many

Time of day isn't important (it's hot all day) & of course I don't need to drink alcohol but then none of us need to play golf, so that's a poor observation
 
I had a can of lager at the halfway hut on the first day of captains and proceeded to feel dazed for the next 2 holes and triple bogeyed them both so never again!

Beers are for drinking after golf not during or before imo.
 
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