Done something you didn't know your partners hated?

swanny32

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Stems from the laughing thread, just wondering if anyone has done something out on the course to then later find out that your playing partners hate it.

Example.....

I am terrible when it comes to bad language, nothing phases me and every possible swear can and will come out of my mouth if I feel it's appropriate. So, this past weekend in club champs, I'm playing with two blokes who are right jack the lads, ones a tiler/plumber, ones a builder both of them got a bit of a cockney/essex twang when they speak, you know the kind of bloke. Anyway, I make a right pigs ear of the par 5 4th and the par 3 5th, pulling my tee shot on the 5th behind some trees, I try and flop it over but it falls short into a bunker which then takes me two to get out of, when I eventually get out it's because I have taken to little sand and fired the ball out the back of the green into a ditch......I didn't lose my temper but I did the usual "Oh Swanny, you absolute c***" then walking off the green, "I'll try to not play that hole like a c*** this afternoon", it's the kind of language I have become accustomed to playing with my regular playing partner Daveyc2k2 (R2D2).

Anyway, a couple holes later one of my playing partners misses a 2 footer for bogey and is so upset he says "That was a c***" or something along the lines that, at which point his mate says, "Unlike you to use that word" the conversation develops and it turns out that both of them really despise the word, hate hearing it and will almost never ever say it......cue me wanting the ground to swallow me up as I had said it about a billion times already in that round.

Lesson learnt, don't judge a book by it's cover and try to keep the bad language to a minimum!
 
I most probably have done....but never been alerted to it!
 
Lesson learnt, don't judge a book by it's cover and try to keep the bad language to a minimum!
Swanny, if you want to swear if we ever play together, that's fine... I reckon I'd give you a run for your money, mate!

I've done things like stand on their line when putting (Father-in-Law, and have only done it once) or move away when I think they're still practice swinging and end up walking past them as they're "zoning in".

Most of the time, I'll just say to people "Tell me if I do something you'd rather I didn't, and I'll try not to repeat it". With the exception of foul language!
 
We all like a bit of banter on the first tee - don't we? Well it turns out a lady member I've played with a bit hates it - get's dead embarrassed when I do it and thinks it's off-putting. Don't do it any more when I play with her.
 
Think the only I do that Hawkeye hates is missing three footers to keep us alive in matches. He has got his own catchphrase now "**** off Stannard" and everyone knows its him and I even had people saying they know when he's had a good round as they didn't hear his call
 
Is that c**k or c**t?

If it's the 2nd one then I'd try and use the 1st one instead, the 2nd one really is reserved for your mates and family :-)

Family?

My dad's only heard me say "The Worst Word in the World" once, and that was because I managed to catch my chin in the zip of my waterproof jacket.

It effing nipped I'll tell ya...

Apart from that he does hear the full gambit of Anglo Saxon from me, but if I'm playing with new people I'll try to reign in my language until I've sussed them out.
 
Family?

My dad's only heard me say "The Worst Word in the World" once, and that was because I managed to catch my chin in the zip of my waterproof jacket.

It effing nipped I'll tell ya...

Apart from that he does hear the full gambit of Anglo Saxon from me, but if I'm playing with new people I'll try to reign in my language until I've sussed them out.

Lol, caught your chin in the zip of a jacket, you're lucky you put jacket!

It was the "worst word in the world" and after the little episode at the weekend I'm going to try and use it a bit less now.
 
Swanny, if you want to swear if we ever play together, that's fine... I reckon I'd give you a run for your money, mate!

Bratty you don't swear much do you?? Don't remember that at Redlibbets...................oh wait, yes I do. Haha. To be fair I think my golf benefits from me swearing.

That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!!
 
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