Etiquette - is it acceptable to cry on the course????

[Faldo_Fan]

What is the etiquette for tears shed on the course??

Is it acceptable to blub during or after a humiliating round or should the water works be saved for a quiet corner of the locker room, the car in the car park or behind closed doors at home??

Please advise?

 

[Smiffy]

If you have just been hit in the knackers by a stray ProV1 then yes, tears on a golf course. No doubt.
If you are crying 'cos you've just lost?
You're a **** and shouldn't be playing.

 

[Parmo]

I have been so close this weekend, I thought yesterday was going to be a great round until I lost a ball on the 5th then the 6th then the 13th & an out of bounds on the 16th, I wanted the course to open up and take me home, if I hadnt been soaked to the skin and cold I think I might have shed a tear.

 

[golfnut18]

If you have just been hit in the knackers by a stray ProV1 then yes, tears on a golf course. No doubt.
If you are crying 'cos you've just lost?
You're a knob and shouldn't be playing.

haha your right, a shot in the knackers = crying like a little girl .
Crying over a bad round = pathetic!! if i did this my dad would ban me from playing with him and give me a kick up the ****

 

[Faldo_Fan]

I have been so close this weekend, I thought yesterday was going to be a great round until I lost a ball on the 5th then the 6th then the 13th & an out of bounds on the 16th, I wanted the course to open up and take me home, if I hadnt been soaked to the skin and cold I think I might have shed a tear.

Haha if i had to take one in the wedding vegetables i'd like it to be the softer covered PRO V1.....Oh Top Flite titanium......now that would make the eyes water!

 

[Faldo_Fan]

I have been so close this weekend, I thought yesterday was going to be a great round until I lost a ball on the 5th then the 6th then the 13th & an out of bounds on the 16th, I wanted the course to open up and take me home, if I hadnt been soaked to the skin and cold I think I might have shed a tear.

I feel your pain Parmo......'it's so unfair!' (said in a Kevin & Perry voice and with tongue filmly tucked in cheek!)

 

[Deleted member 1147]

You should never cry on the golf course. Unless you are a lady golfer and have just found out you can't use your GPS in the monthly medal.

 

[golfnut18]

You should never cry on the golf course. Unless you are a lady golfer and have just found out you can't use your GPS in the monthly medal.

haha, watch out or the PC brigade will be on ur back

 

[birdieman]

What is the best golf related blub on tv ever then?
Faldo had a good blub at one of his Open wins, Sam Torrance at Belfry 85?

 

[KeefG]

Tiger's victory at Hoylake, the first after his dad died and he blubbed big style after his last putt went in nd also just before he lifted the Claret Jug!!

That was a good un

 

[Smiffy]

It's a bit different a pro crying. I mean they have struggled for four rounds, concentrated, etc. etc. and to win a big one must be a huge relief, so you can forgive them that.
But losing to a 24 handicapper in the first round of the club knock out on a goat track of a course watched by three crows, a cow and a rabbit with mixie?
Nah

 

[USER1999]

But what if you have just broken your favourite lucky tee? A few tears must be justified then, surely?

 

[Smiffy]

But what if you have just broken your favourite lucky tee? A few tears must be justified then, surely?

Aye.
I would also mourn it's passing

 

[JustOne]

But losing to a 24 handicapper in the first round of the club knock out on a goat track of a course watched by three crows, a cow and a rabbit with mixie?
Nah

ROFLMAO!!!!

 

[golf_bug]

PC brigade here.....I'm saying nothing!

Can't say tears have ever been close on the coure. My stock emotion is insane rage. Like missing a 3 foot putt by an inch, then missing the inch putt cos I've turned green and my muscles are bulging out of my now too tight strides and polo shirt combo............RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

 

[Adrena1in]

Biggest blub ever with regards to Golf was during that speech from Darren Clarke, which was after the 2008 Ryder Cup wasn't it? I was gone, and so were most of the players and people in the crowd.

Mind you, I felt like crying yesterday when I got up the club and checked the Handicaps folder, to find I hadn't been cut after my best ever round the other week. I thought my 40 stableford points, (which I had after 17!), would be enough to at least get me down to 15.8, but no. The handicap secretary told me the SSS had been cut by one recently too, and that one point was enough to prevent me having 0.3 taking off my 16.1. Darnit!!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Crying on the course is a matter to be taken up in front of the committee (Pro V in the knackers not withstanding). Get a grip its only a game, and one that for 51 weeks a year you may only have a passing relationship with. Just because you manage to finally coax that little whit grenade into the hole on a fairly regular basis and break your handicap isn't a reason to break out the kleenex

 

[viscount17]

Get a grip its only a game,

Homer after all the angst, all the ire and all the vitriol, and becoming a 'professional' columnist, how can you possibly believe that?



Snedecker's blub at the Masters is worthy of consideration.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Sometimes you (I) need to take a step back and remember why we all play the game and that it isn't our vocation and for many never could be. Play hard, play to win, but play to enjoy it.

 

[Faldo_Fan]

Don't forget Fella's.....this thread was started with my tongue firmly in cheek!

I have never wept on the course.....i tell a lie i once cried with laughter as my boss managed to hit a ball over the roof of the halfway hut at Woburn (Marquess) from the 10th tee.....anyone who's played there will know just how hard that is to do.