Embarrassing friends

In the OP's situation you have to make it abundantly clear afterwards that what you witnessed was unacceptable and as such unless they change their ways you'll never invite them to any other course. Sometimes you really have to be cruel to be kind
 
I have come across with two different people on different occasions and it totally ruined my rounds of golf, was really embarrassing and I wanted the ground to swallow me up etc!!!!

When it happened with the second person (who off the course is a lovely guy and would never have guessed he would be like that, very laid back guy and just goes along with things), after the round I said something to the guy and said we play golf to enjoy it, not to get wound up with it so Keep calm and enjoy golf. Luckily enough he took it well and he is now great company on the course and plays better scores for it. I only said something to him as he was a friend.

The first guy I never said anything and have not played with him again.
 
One of my regular PPs, young lad, improving 5 hcp, has recently started club throwing and generally acting like a tosser when things don't go his way.

he's fine until he hits a bad shot, misses a make able putt or hits one into trouble off the tee. Gets worse when it gets to the stage where he is unable to win whatever comp we are playing in.

on Sunday he completely lost it after driving into the trees, threw his driver then punched the ground, whilst teaching me some words I've never heard before......

personally I think it's embarrassing for him, it's as if he honestly believes that a club comp is important enough to throw the teddies over
 
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Alex1975 said:
Crazy!! :D You chucked your whole bag over a fence.... At some point after that you realised that was total madness and then there was a moment where you realised you had to either walk off to the car park or climb over the fence, collect your clubs and carry on. Sorry but I just wish I could have watched that unfold!!! :D

Sorry for taking the Micky, you did not have to tell us. Does it feel ridiculous looking back on it?
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You had to go through a gate in the fence to get to the rest of the hole so it wasn't that bad. We had a laugh trying to guess how many clubs were damaged. As I said, it was more in frustration than anger.

The most dramatic of 'losing it' moments I know of is the son of the owner of a local course who drove his buggy, clubs and all, into the river that dissects the course. It was in about six feet of water and was 'rescued' by the green keepers later in the day.
 
Been in this situation. Ex playing partner did the whole swearing, club throwing, bag kicking thing. Nearly ditched him when he hit his bag so hard with a 3 wood it snapped. Gave up on him when he snapped his driver over his knee. Ok bloke off the course, total psycho on it
 
GB72 said:
Been in this situation. Ex playing partner did the whole swearing, club throwing, bag kicking thing. Nearly ditched him when he hit his bag so hard with a 3 wood it snapped. Gave up on him when he snapped his driver over his knee. Ok bloke off the course, total psycho on it
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I've witnessed him playing up twice, have decided that next time I'm going to have a frank exchange of views with him. I don't play golf in my spare time to have to put up with that type of petulant shenanigans.....
 
Playing a friend of mine many years ago. He was having a bad day with the driver. Not being one to lose his cool there was no chucking or swearing, just the odd mutterings of a partnership about to be broken. We reached the 18th tee. 180ish yd carry over water to the fairway. I made it, he didn't. My driver went in the bag, his calmly went into the lake! He reloaded, knocked one over the water with his 3 wood and no more was said!
 
ive shouted at myself a tad when ive hit some whoppers.but to actual do a helicopter with a club.well thats a no no.
a m8 hit a bad shot and buried his club into his bag,i told him to stop being a cock.we carried on with the game,next morning he rang me up to say sorry,totally out of character for him.
early last year in a medal,the only decent shot i done was the tee shot on the 1st,the rest were dismal.went round in 108 iwas playing of 14 at the time,3 pp's couldnt believe i didnt walk in and couldnt believe i was still standing there laffing and joking with them.
 
I threw a ball a couple of weeks back after multiple 3 putts for bogey on finals day. I missed out by 3 shots on a board comp. Furious. But after that I was totally calm.
 
A group of us who worked shifts used to play two or three mornings a week and one of our group regularly deposited his whole bag of clubs in the lake alongside the 18th fairway after a particularly bad round and then a little while later could be seen wading through the water to retrieve them. Totally crazy behaviour from a 60 year old guy but admittedly quite funny.
 
Its not club throwing that I find most embarrassing but I know a bloke who regularly takes full size divots on his practice swing/s and that gets to me every time
 
would not say a friend as such. used to get invited by a neighbour to a Jaguar Golf day which was always held at a nice course. well that was embarrassing. He kept farting every time our playing partners were either in their back swing or putting. it was funny the first time but not the other 150 times. behaved like t total uncouth thug, spitting, swearing.

the two guys we we paired with were horrified, one was a local minister the other a very straight laced bank manger.
 
Zzzzz you lot are all miserable I'd be winding them up for a laugh . It's not a bomerang your going to have to pick it up :fore:
 
I played the other week with a friend and his dad. we were playing stableford and having a decent game on a new course until on the 16th my friend had a 2-2.5ft putt for par and so we asked him to finish the hole and putt out. he started screaming and shouting that we had been giving gimmes all day so why should he have to putt. I explained that the other gimmes weren't given when a par was at stake and its our right to make him putt regardless of what gone on before.
he holes out and then proceeds laugh as drags his studs all around the hole scuffing the grass up and causing some minor damage to the green. After calling him some choice names and telling him he's not only messing up the green for me but for the member as well I walked off.
even his dad said he wished he'd pulled out!
cant see me playing golf with him any more as I want to play some decent courses and don't want to be associated with that sort of behaviour.
 
We played a forum meet yesterday with a player who had a dose of the J Arthurs, when he tried to sort that out, other problems manifested themselves, but, great credit to him, he never threw a club or did anything to detract from our game at all - he acted, as he should do, perfectly and I know he has a good game in there (as he does too) and I hope he finds it very soon - but I'd thank him for how he carried himself!
 
chrisd said:
We played a forum meet yesterday with a player who had a dose of the J Arthurs, when he tried to sort that out, other problems manifested themselves, but, great credit to him, he never threw a club or did anything to detract from our game at all - he acted, as he should do, perfectly and I know he has a good game in there (as he does too) and I hope he finds it very soon - but I'd thank him for how he carried himself!
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Excuse my ignorance, the "J Arthurs"?
 
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