All the gear...

[CallawayKid]

So, another manager of a different department decides he wants to take up golf so I lend him some old clubs and bag etc. to see if he likes it. Playing with him I try and advise him on his grip and all the basics but he says he's been told by someone else to do it another way so I let him carry on.

He asks my advice on which clubs to buy so I advise him to keep playing with the old clubs until his swing is consistent then go get fitted for some as he's not short of a few bob. Next day he turns up with new Wilson Deep Reds in a carry bag, an proceeds to duff the ball along the ground blaming the new clubs. Also wearing all Stromberg kit...he's been to AG. Asked him if he had tried any on their bays and he said no as he was in a rush!

Low and behold, this morning he comes in after a lesson and tells everyone he has his grip wrong and has been told to hold it this way. Which way you ask? The original way I told him to...!

What a bounder! Suffice to say I will not be giving him any more advice unless I charge for it as I think this is the only language he understands.

Any of you guys had dealings with people like this?

Rant over, just needed to get that off my chest!

CK

 

[USER1999]

The only one who springs to mind was on a coroporate day. An important customer decides he wants to come on a golf day, so he wangles an invite.

He turns up late. Has no clubs, or golf shoes. We hire him clubs, and buy him a pair of £100 dryjoys and some balls etc. He goes to the first tee, and five swishes later he is still there. Turns out, he has never played golf, ever. He spends most of the front nine on the phone, loses about 4 holes on the group in front, and then walks in after 10, and goes home.

He abandoned the shoes in the bin in the locker room.

 

[john0]

I bet they loved him in AG, a perfect customer!

 

[CMAC]

The only one who springs to mind was on a coroporate day. An important customer decides he wants to come on a golf day, so he wangles an invite.

He turns up late. Has no clubs, or golf shoes. We hire him clubs, and buy him a pair of £100 dryjoys and some balls etc. He goes to the first tee, and five swishes later he is still there. Turns out, he has never played golf, ever. He spends most of the front nine on the phone, loses about 4 holes on the group in front, and then walks in after 10, and goes home.

He abandoned the shoes in the bin in the locker room.

what a total arrogant knobber! hope you sent him the shoes and moved away from having his business

 

[CallawayKid]

What a class door handle that bloke must have been!

Yes John, I think they were rubbing their hands when he strolled in...

CK

 

[Slicedwight]

i once played a round many years ago with 3 guys from work, 2 managers and another guy who did the same job as me, i borrowed a set of clubs from a friend and bought a pair of shoes so that i didnt look too out of place. Turned up at the course to see the 2 managers unloading electric trolleys and giant ping(or similar) tour bags out the boot, both looked up to the sky and proceeded to pull out every imaginable bit of wet weather gear you could imagine. The other fella i worked with turned up in slacks, t shirt and tatty trainers, he had with him one of those old leather bags you can only fit 3 or 4 clubs in and infact had a wooden wood, a wooden handled club and a couple of other mismatched clubs. Obviously quite a bit of banter and mirth followed particularly from the two managers however their grins soon dropped when this lad stepped up to the first tee and hit a good straight 250 yd+ drive. After 18 i had come last (by a long way) the two guys with all the gear were in the mid nineties and the other lad finished in the low 80's. Turned out he had grown up in a house that backed onto a golf course and thats how him and his brother had spent their spare time! Always brings a smile to my face when i remember him showing them how to play golf.