Bad inventions and things I hate about golf

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A brief list of annoying things:

Plastic tees
Distance golf balls
K1 speed
Squeaky trolleys
American golf fans
Noisy modern drivers
Slow play
Score card holders
Novelty head covers
Head covers for irons
Head covers with zips
Game improving irons
Rescue clubs
Broomstick / belly putters
Automatic ball shaggers
Mats
Soft spikes
Winter greens
Swing training gadgets
Bright chrome finish on irons
Snobby golf clubs
Footprints in bunkers
Courses you can't play for love or money
Lost balls
Stone chips on your new irons
Roof marks on your driver
Muddy shoes
Crowned greens
Multi coloured trousers.

Bet there are more.....
 
Not wishing to start a confrontation but I'm a fan of swing training gizmo's (has worked for me), rescue clubs (mine has got me out of trouble on more than one occasion), score card holders (makes life much easier), novelty head covers (they make me laugh)!

Oh and noisy drivers that make a big bang when you hit them......... love them too!
 
Blimey mate, why not stand in front of a brick wall and ask for the firing squad to "pop by" after their tea break!

Plastic tees
Distance golf balls
Game improving irons
Rescue clubs
Swing training gadgets - does this include towels/shafts/alignment aids....pretty harsh if it does

Can't see anything wrong with these things????

K1 speed
Squeaky trolleys
American golf fans
Noisy modern drivers
Slow play
Score card holders
Novelty head covers
Head covers for irons
Head covers with zips
Broomstick / belly putters
Automatic ball shaggers
Mats
Soft spikes
Winter greens
Bright chrome finish on irons
Snobby golf clubs
Footprints in bunkers
Courses you can't play for love or money
Lost balls
Stone chips on your new irons
Roof marks on your driver
Muddy shoes


Agreed on all this lot though!!!
 
I like what's left, after you take this lot out. Mmmm, soft golf balls, fairway metals, blades, twin strap bags, wooden tees, peace and quiet, wedges (lots), hats with magnetic brims for your ball marker, banter, guiness, ripping a 3 iron out of the rough, sinking long putts (with a proper putter), bird song (not crows, they nick your balls), winning, fast greens, and more.

I do have a rescue club, there is just no satisfaction in hitting it, because it is designed to be easy.

Oh, I don't like mallet head putters either. Work of the devil.

Honestly, I do like playing (well, maybe only when I play well).
 
Thats why it's a rescue club, its meant to make things easy.

Whats in your bag Murph? I have a Nike sasquatch square head driver which is also designed to make things easy, but you still have to have a certain extent of technique.

Golf is an extremely difficult sport and i'll do what ever I can to improve my chances of scoring well, except cheating of course.
 
Some say I am bitter... sounds like you are living in a day dream with blades, a few years down the line when your using "Lite" graphite shafts and will use anything to get the ball airbourne, you will be glad of the help.

As for hating soft spikes come back from the dark ages please.
 
mtm - should I tell my pro he's an idiot and to go "get a life" when he asks me to practice 10-20 3hybrids off a short castle tee with my soft-spiked footjoys on?

If your life is birdsong (???), draining long putts and winning.....I think it's time you wrote a self-help book.

Only 'aving a giraffe, I know what you mean.

As for magnetic caps.....got to be better than the ******* I saw the other day with a blue-tooth headset on whilst choosing his vegetables at Asda......"ooh, look at me, I'm so important and well paid, I need to be on call all day, totally hands free"......If you're all that, surely a slave would be more appropriate!!!
 
Murph, surely if squeeky trolleys are annoying the sound of them metal studs across the car park/path must drive you mad???

I'm in favour of the soft studs and have never had a problem with them.
 
wow finaly, people who are in agreement with me about the tosse*s who have a blue tooth head set on in town and hold there phone in there hand. IT WAS PROBABLY MORE EFFORT FOLDIN YA CABBAGE EARS BACK AND TRYING TO GET YA BLOODY ALDI HEADSET ON THAN JUST ANSWERING THE PHONE TO YA MUM OR WIFE! :mad:
 
Wow, there is some teeth to this site, and I thought that it would be full of polite senior folk.

As to your 'bluetooth' friend, if he had money why the hell would he be shopping at Asda? Unless he's one of the lower / middle management types that thinks he's made it by wearing a bluetooth headset, driving a BMW 3 series, and recently taken up golf to 'help' his career! Ouch!!!
:D :D ;)
 
As this is beginning to sound like golfs room 101 why not add umbrellas being blown inside out and breaking, waterproos leaking just after the guarantee has run out, kids riding onto the course and nicking your ball, spike marks on greens, Ian Poulter thinking he is the 2nd coming of golf (and denim - off to hide now)
 
I shop at Asda in preference to Tesco, but sometimes I go to Waitrose, or even Harrods! I drive a BMW 3 series.....I don't play golf with work colleagues, they are all cr**. Should I be worried?

Am I worried.....no!

Would I use a blue-tooth ear piece out shopping.....hell no! I might in the car, but (as my old man says) if you're not allowed to use a phone in the car....don't talk to the buggers....if it's important they'll leave a message.

No disrespect to those that need to be on the phone 18/7, the best thing about going off to golf is escaping the world but I don't actually mind my golfing mates checking their texts quietly between tees.
 
Enjoy......

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Drool, drool :)
 
Cripes, did I hit a nerve ;)!
Just goes to show that broad brush-stroking is very dangerous. But it is what fires up most 'specialist' forums that I've seen.

Most work on the 'I'll have a pop at ......., then I'll add a smiley, or similar 'tongue in cheek' comment to show that no real malice was intended, and that we're all good friends. Occasionaly someone will step out of line - genereally newbies - and someone will get a bit heavy with them and put them back in their place. Who says forums are 'free' places. They are sometimes the best policed areas of the world, why, because we're all looking after it.

Happy golfing
 
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