Embarrasing.

I got picked up for an away day once with a couple of other guys and about 3 mins in to the journey realised I'd left my shoes at home. Quick turnaround to get them and an hour of mickey taking later the guy who had been on it the most then found out he had left his shoes at home.

Oh how we laughed!

They didn't even have the right size in the pro shop so he spent £80 on shoes that didn't fit quite right.
 
I travelled down to Surrey from Scotland to accept an invitation to present the trophies of a regional Junior league that I had started 25 years ago.
I got the dates muddled and arrived a day early.
To make matters worse I had made other appointments for the following day.
 
Hobbit said:
Playing in a mixed with the lady captain. Dashed into the woods for a jimmy. Had one of those squirt sideways events.... light brown chinos with large dark damp patch. Wasn't asked to play again.
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Thread winner!!
 
There's that many that I wouldn't even know how to start listing them, that and you lot would probably get bored of reading them after the first hour or so...
 
Done the shoes one and had to play a match in black hush puppies (it was the 80s). This year drove all the way to Milford for a practice round ahead of their scratch event and realised my putter was sitting on my practice green at home.

Mate of mine turned up for my first wedding a week early and rushed into the church thinking he was late and sat there for 20 minutes at the back wondering why he didn't recognise anyone.
 
Not golf related. I had booked a holiday on Santorini for a friend and myself. I literally moved house the day before the departure, so I had only glimpsed at the tickets once, memorizing the departure time. Packing and everything was totally hectic, but we managed to get to the airport about two hours early, feeling quite relaxed. The flight did not show up on the departure board at all, so we went to the airlines information counter to enquire about it. The lady looked at us and said: "Oh, you're this mornings no show ..." Turns out I had confused the departure time and the flight number and the plane had left some hours earlier without us. The next direct flight to Santorini wasn't going until three days later. We ended up flying to Crete instead and took the ship from there (to be fair, the lady from the airline was super helpful and I think it was only a 20 € fee to change the tickets).
 
Does forgetting to turn up for a match count?

Earlier this year l was at work & got a call from the club office to say my partner & opposition pair were standing on the 1st tee waiting for me! To make matters worse, it was foursomes ...
 
One of the lads on our annual golf trip left his shoes, golf bag and clubs in his works van that he'd left somewhere after going out straight from work the night before and only realised when we got to Carden Park - which is 2 hours away!!
 
Mrs Shep and I were due to stay a week with some friends who live in France - we'd never been to their house before. Our arrival was a day before they returned from a trip away so they told us they'd leave the gate unlocked and would hide a key for us. When we arrived in the village where they lived I realised that I had not brought the address with me. We couldn't get hold of our friends on the phone so we ended up wandering the village, street by street, looking for houses that fitted the bits of descriptions that we could remember (by a river, has a pool etc.). When we found the most likely candidate, the gate was locked - cue much more doubt and head-scratching (and Mrs S calling me an idiot for 100th time that morning). I eventually decided to climb the gate and see if the key was where it was supposed to be, halfway over I was challenged by a neighbour - she didn't speak any English and my French only works in shops and restaurants. Eventually we managed to establish that it was the right house and that we convinced Jean-Claude that were friends of the owner and that we were expected! Turns out the neighbour had locked the gate because he thought it had been left open accidentally.

We visited them again this year at their new house - they picked us up from the train station, probably simpler all round that way.
 
Golf related one....aside from the thousands of bloody awful shots I've made.....!

The name of the course this happened at escapes me. But I'd just finished a hole and decided to have a pee before the next tee off. Had a quick look around to find somewhere which wasn't overlooked and headed for a secluded spot down by a little lake.

Flopped my Johnson out, started to have a pee......and then looked up. Just across the lake there was a huge lovely building with big French doors and windows. Contained within was a large wedding party sat down at their meal. A good number of them were looking directly at me.

Had to finish my business, then gave an apologetic wave, put myself away and quickly moved on. God knows how I hadn't clocked the huge building before I started! :o:D
 
I've missed some embarrassing putts in my time. Worst one I can remember was having just left it less than a foot away, I went to tap it in, but I was so focused on not stepping on the other chap's line that I basically tried to tap it in with a wide open putter face and missed it by two inches. And that was for one point in a Stableford as well so that earned me a blob. Quality work.

Another time recently, wasn't as embarrassing as it might have been because luckily I was only playing with my pal rather than any other club members. But it was a lay-up hole, we were just waiting for the fairway to clear, and I had my hybrid in hand so I was rabbiting on about how I might buy a second, longer hybrid as well as they're usually pretty reliable. So having said that, I step up to take my shot, thump the hybrid into the ground about 2 inches behind the ball, which squirts about 40 yards right and doesn't quite make it past the ladies tee. I just turn round and say "forget that - not buying another one of these bloody things" :D
 
Orikoru said:
I've missed some embarrassing putts in my time. Worst one I can remember was having just left it less than a foot away, I went to tap it in, but I was so focused on not stepping on the other chap's line that I basically tried to tap it in with a wide open putter face and missed it by two inches. And that was for one point in a Stableford as well so that earned me a blob. Quality work.
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Did that yesterday, so annoying. Little tap-in for a par, rushed it, pushed it, bogey. Annoying. Luckily still made buffer, would have been fuming if I'd missed buffer by a shot.
 
Playing the 17th at ours in a comp. Hit up to the green and left my bag along the path that leads up the 18th fairway (the tee is past the 17th green). Took driver and putter up. Hit a great tee shot on 18, longish par 4 up the hill towards the clubhouse. Iron onto the green. Get green side look into bag.... no putter!

Left it leaning against the tree next to the 18th tee. Played the ball out with my rescue club (par) but still had the loooong walk back to the tee then back again.

I'll not do that again.
 
Don Barzini said:
Golf related one....aside from the thousands of bloody awful shots I've made.....!

The name of the course this happened at escapes me. But I'd just finished a hole and decided to have a pee before the next tee off. Had a quick look around to find somewhere which wasn't overlooked and headed for a secluded spot down by a little lake.

Flopped my Johnson out, started to have a pee......and then looked up. Just across the lake there was a huge lovely building with big French doors and windows. Contained within was a large wedding party sat down at their meal. A good number of them were looking directly at me.

Had to finish my business, then gave an apologetic wave, put myself away and quickly moved on. God knows how I hadn't clocked the huge building before I started! :o:D
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Similar situation. Had a ladies' fourball behind us. We finally got out of sight & I went across to the edge of the Fairway. Saw three greenkeepers a little distance away & thought that wasn't a problem. When I was done I walked past the greenkeepers & passed the time of day. First Lady greenkeeper I've ever seen.
 
Just as an aside question. In The Rules are you actually allowed to add to your clubs (if you start with less than 14) after you have tee'd off on the 1st? Let's assume you don't actually have to go off the course to get another club and so cannot be deemed to breach Rule 6-7 - in respect of Unduly Delaying Play.
 
I was playing in a society on a course i did not know. I needed relief from the lunch time beers, and so with no one about so to speak, i popped over to the ob fence for a quick jimmy. Mid flow, and i find out that the other side of the fence is a rail cutting. I know this now, as a flipping great train went past, with me waving my tackle at it.
 
Not golf related. Was called up to play for the under 13s as an 11 year old. Cleaned my boots at lunchtime and put them on the bus hours before we left. Found out I had left them on the other bus (still at my school) so didn't get to play in that footie game.

Golf related - was playing at Southwold with two mates and some of their family members came to watch.
One of them tees off on the 5th, hits a tree and nearly takes out his wife. Fortunately the ball didn't hit her but has completely disappeared behind us.
I didn't do a particularly good job at stiffling my laugh.
 
One of the guys in our Sunday roll-up takes out his range-finder and as we are following a fourball of ladies, reports that the distance is "167 to her left tit, 169 to the right one". We all naturally laugh.

One of the others goes into the clubhouse and tells the story .... to her husband (without realising who it was). The other three of us seeing what is about to occur, rapidly exit stage left.
 
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