Drinking alcohol on the course

[woody69]

In another thread someone mentioned combining a match format with drinking shots to save strokes and it got me thinking about drinking on the golf course in general.

Perhaps because I'm not a particularly big drinker(I very rarely drink during the week, but will go out a couple of nights a month with mates and have 6 or 7 pints) I find the whole ideal of drinking any alcohol whilst playing golf a little bizarre. I often wonder why people feel the need to do it. It's not as if alcohol will improve your game really is it and the thought of drunk people hitting golf balls scares me to death! Yet some clubs have beer and cider etc in the fridges and let people go out drinking.

So what are your views on it? Anyone here regularly take a can or two (or something stronger) out on to the course and do you want to talk further about your alcohol dependency problems

 

[Rooter]

Nothing wrong with a wee hip flask of something warming on a cold winters day! wouldnt go round with a 4 pack of stella in my bag though!

 

[Pin-seeker]

In summer we usually have a pint after the round whilst watching others play the last hole,but not whilst playing. Last summer we were playing a 9 holer,another group was playing it twice,when they approached the 1st tee (10th for them) one of them ran up to the bar & returned with a pint. I actually thought 'wot a tool'

 

[mcbroon]

I have to be honest and say that the sight of empty beer cans/bottles in the bins on tees really annoys me. There are few people I'd like to meet less than a drunk golfer. Totally irrational, and no doubt a snobbish attitude, but it's just the way it is.

Great to have a nice cold beer after a round on a sunny day, looking over the course, but I just cannot understand why you'd want to drink while you're playing golf.

 

[StrangelyBrown]

I've never done it, but I wouldn't say no if it was a nice summers day and there was a frosty beer at the 10th tee.

 

[Rooter]

The halfway hut where i play often has a fully stocked fridge. mid summer, a nice ice cold bottle of lager is very very pleasant after 9 holes! (they have an enforced 10 minute stop at the halfway hut, so the tenth bin is not full of empties!)

 

[EuanRoss]

Most of the guys I play with have a couple of beers or a couple of tins of cider on the way round. I don't usually bother myself but I certainly don't frown upon it. It's not like folk are getting blind drunk on the course, it's only a beer or two.

 

[super hans]

I like a drink or ten, but definitely NOT when playing golf. Alcohol is not a help to a difficult game requiring hand/eye co-ordination.

A mate of mine (who is now playing on that big golf course in the sky) used to regularly smoke a joint before he played a round. He said it made him concentrate on every shot

 

[brendy]

Captains day has a beer tent at the 9th green, any other time, I wouldnt touch the stuff, Im bad enough as it is without a chardonnay or two.

 

[znuffzz]

I can live with or without tbh.....

I am however waiting for this thread to degenerate into hip flask vs beer snobbery when some old boy takes a comment the wrong way

 

[EuanRoss]

I regularly have a hip flask of rusty nail when playing winter league. Warms you up a treat.

 

[Picto]

There's a big difference between having a can or two and getting steaming drunk.

If I'm playing a social game on a hot summers day then a can or two of nice cold cider seems appealing. I often enjoy a post round pint - so i guess it's not much different.

If I was playing competitively though - I wouldn't drink though - my game's flakey enough as it is!

 

[Alex1975]

Live and let live but its no for me... I play to play as well as I can.

 

[cookelad]

If someone else want a couple of beers at 9.30 in the morning who am I to stop them? but it's a no for me - don't really drink but if I'm playing after work on a Friday night I have a beer in the clubhouse!

 

[Shaunmg]

I like my booze, in moderation, and drink at least one or two drinks most nights in front of the telly, and pub twice a week. I’m at least double the recommended weekly limits. But never! ever! drink on the golf course. I will occasionally, to be sociable have one pint in clubs house with four ball golf partners after a comp, if they are drinking. Otherwise a cup of tea or soft drink


This issue for me is driving, I feel hint of shame driving after just the one pint, although I know I would be under the limit

 

[Bomber69]

I see nothing wrong with have a few bottles of bud on the course but the problem is it's never just a few it always ends up being between 6-8 bottles, more if I am playing bad:lol:

I do always place the empty bottle in a bin or put it back in my bag so where is the harm.

 

[MadAdey]

To all the people who drink a few on the course I hope the police are sat outside your golf club to take your licence off you. Because no doubt if you are the type who has to drink on the course you will sink another couple in the bar afterwards.

At the end of the day I do not have a problem with people having a couple of beers on the course, that is if they are not getting drunk as that could become dangerous to others and stop their enjoyment of the game. But it really annoys me when I see people sitting in the clubhouse drinking 2 or 3 pints then getting in their car and driving home. I might have a beer afterwards, but it is one of those Carling C2 (2% ABV) they taste ok and I know I will not be any where near the legal limit.

I will now get off my moral high horse.......:sbox:

 

[garyinderry]

To all the people who drink a few on the course I hope the police are sat outside your golf club to take your licence off you. Because no doubt if you are the type who has to drink on the course you will sink another couple in the bar afterwards.

At the end of the day I do not have a problem with people having a couple of beers on the course, that is if they are not getting drunk as that could become dangerous to others and stop their enjoyment of the game. But it really annoys me when I see people sitting in the clubhouse drinking 2 or 3 pints then getting in their car and driving home. I might have a beer afterwards, but it is one of those Carling C2 (2% ABV) they taste ok and I know I will not be any where near the legal limit.

I will now get off my moral high horse.......:sbox:

chill out lad. many people walk or get a lift to golf.

 

[MadAdey]

chill out lad. many people walk or get a lift to golf.

Ok Gary, but that was aimed at people who think it ok to have a few at the golf club then drive 10 miles home. I see it all teh time at my place.

 

[garyinderry]

i dont usually partake in alcohol when playing. last year on a scorching hot day i took two ice cold bottles to the course as i knew id be there from around 12 til 8. it felt nice drinking them but i never repeated it as it was a bit of a hassel pushing the trolly, taking shots and holding a bottle.

on captains day when we reach the burger tent at the 10th we get the option of a beer or water.if its a nice day ill take a beer and put in in my bag. it gets cracked open later when i blow my round! one year i managed to keep it in my bag the rest of the round.