Ever had a major strop?

[backwoodsman]

I have never thrown a club, I know I need to focus on my next shot and over come the last one to progress. the old saying "A bad workman blames his tools" is quite apt.

Ah, but, you're missing the point. Like most of us, I am angry at me, because I couldn't play the shot I know I can/could. Tisn't the club, which just happens to be in the hand. Focus on the next shot? Yes, well we know we should be like my mate P, who just looks at the ground, looks a bit puzzled, then smacks the next one down the middle. If only one could...

 

[StuartD]

I used to through my clubs about a bit when i was younger.

That was until my uncle picked my thrown club up and he chucked it in the gorse bushes saying "If you don't want it, you are better throwing it in there"

took me an hour to find it and get it back. Never thrown a club since

 

[markwarne]

Ashamed to say it but yes, I have been known to have the odd blow up in my time. In the very early days I smashed my putter into the green after missing a gimme (only saving grace was that the green wasn't great - it was a municipal course - and a severe b*******g from the guy behind me taught me a lesson).

Strangely enough, my playing partner now has told me that all he needed to do to beat me was watch my game and wait for the odd mutter or the "about to launch club but stop in the nick of time" and he knew that mentally I had lost it. After that, it was money in the bank for him.

Pretty simple really, but it has certainly made me stop doing it. Now I calmly berate myself in my head and move on to the next shot as best I can.

Golf is probably the most frustrating game you can play, but hey we all keep coming back for more

 

[forefortheday]

Played not so long ago with my regular fourball at a very nice course near me.

All going fine until the 14th when my cousin proceeded to hack his way close to the green, he then hit a lovely chip to within a foot he had the putt for bogey and proceeded to put it 4 feet past!

Next thing he actually took his putter out and swung it at the ball sending it 40 yards back down the fairway and leaving a nice chunk out of the green!

His dad had to have some very stern words with him, we skulked round to the 18th and got off asap.

Never been so embarrased on a golf course

 

[HTL]

No No No, What’s the point I play golf for a laugh with mates, I get enough stress at work I don’t want it on the weekends as well.

Worst I have done is dropped my club after I tried to hold a flash posh thinking it was going to be a cracking shot before the ball dived into a bunker.

I hardly ever score my rounds, you angry guys should try this, its great fun.

 

[pjaz]

Never thrown a club, but broke one in friustration. After a bad tee shot I walked to my bag and whacked the club against it in frustration. Walked down the course to my ball, took out my utility for my next shot to find the shaft snapped about 2/3 of the way down (oops, it was a favourite club at the time) - not all bad news though, I re-gripped it and gave it to my 9 year old (saved me £15 on buying a new one!!).

I do play with someone who throws their clubs, often further than his ball has gone!!!

 

[TonyN]

Some one has mentioned it but i also find that keeping a couple of shitty balls in the bag is good, When you get peed off just lash it over a field or somethin. We always play a flop shot as hard and high as we can into a pond and i find it most releiving. Hardly ever get a strop on.

 

[stevelockie]

I used to chuck clubs and get really angry as a junior. Looking back it really affected my game, I could have been so much better if I kept the heid!

These days I will mutter the odd expletive at myself (who doesn't!) but that's about it. At the end of the day, I'm just happy to be out on the course!

 

[GB72]

TonyN I agree with the crap ball method. If you play backwards off a couple of the tees at Rutland Water then you are driving straight into the reservoir. On a bad round I often consign a duff ball to a watery grave to release a bit of tension and I have seen a few others using the same technique.

 

[The23rdman]

Oh dear. Here goes...

Whilst playing Haste Hill with my regular partner, Ray, and his 11 year old son, Lee, I had a lesson in karma.

I was playing off about 11 or 12 at the time, but this day I was approaching the 9th about 12 over par already! I was being soundly beaten by an 11 year old and was not a happy camper. I was definately considering murder, or even worse. Throwing my clubs away and giving up the game.

Determined to finish the front 9 as I meant to start the back I pulled my driver out and gave it the 'steely eye' look down the fairway. Unfortunately my ball obviously hadn't caught up with the new determined agenda, because it left the club straight right and curved more so...bugger.

Sighing the sigh of the defeated I trudged to the adjacent fairway to find my ball in the rough popped up an inch or two in a dodgy, wet and horrid looking lie. I took my 5 iron and had a swipe at it. The ball did what they often do from those pop up lies and popped up. Divot went 20 foot, ball landed in divot.

Never one to hold my emotions in check for long on the course I promptly saw red and errupted, throwing the offending 5 iron at waist height towards the trees separating the two fairways.

I was obviously better at throwing clubs then hitting balls because the club flew like a rocket hitting a Silver Birch 15 yards away square on the shaft, rebounded on an exact reverse path with what seemed like extra, almost terminal, velocity (did the tree throw it back harder???) and connected solidly, clubhead first, with my poor meat and two veg.

I did what any self respecting gentleman would do under the circumstances and crumpled to the floor in a world of pain.

Ray, Lee and just about everybody in sight of this free show did the same thing...in tears of laughter. The basta%*s.

The point to this little tale of woe is that once I'd picked myself up, apologised to the tree and found my rather sore testicles, which were lodged under my ribcage behind my liver, I realised I was taking it far too seriously and it was and is only a game - one in which we have to play with what we have on the day, and it's far more important to be a good playing partner than be a good player.

I played the rest of the round in good spirits and have never thrown a club or had a serious tantrum on the course since. And there have been plenty of opportunities too!

 

[shanker]

Brilliant story 23rd man! Wish it had happened to me years ago.

 

[Parmo]

hahahahaha classic tale, wish it had been on film.

 

[Toad]

Nice one 23rd, personally I have never thrown a club or hit it off anything in anger.
I just curse under my breath at myself for my stupidity when I have played a bad shot.
I have a regular playing partner who throws clubs, smashes them into his bag and kicks out at anything whithin range, one day last year while playing in the club championship he kicked the wheel off his powakaddy at the 3rd and ended up conceding the match, but it still does not stop him.

We now fine him £5 per tantrum on the course so he has cut down a little.

 

[Range_Ball]

I dont throw my clubs around but i do shout expletives to myself and may hit the ground with the club after a bad shot.

I would never pass coment on someones bad shot unless they wanted me to.

Was out playing yesterday 3 ball with 2 blokes from work one of them had a full on strop. He duffed his lob wedge twice on the 11th he then proceeded to hurl the wedge at his golf bag which actually hit a tree, he then said that he had enough and was going home which i throught was a bit childish.

To cap it all off we then proceeded to the 12th par 3 140 to the pin and the wind was against us he pulled out his 5 iron and topped the shot, he was not a happy bunny.

He plays off 7 so he rarely misses his shots dont you think we are all a little hard on ourselfs at times.

 

[TonyN]

Actually just thought of somethin i did last month that i guess you could count as a strop. After a good straight drive onto a tight fairway and an even better aproach with the wedge, i proceeded to 4 putt So had no choice but to get rid of the ball (brand new callaway hx hot 3 holes old)

Decided i should blast it into the stream adjacent to the course and thought nah i will probably duff that up and get even more frustrated. So after taking out a new ball and putting the bag at side of tee, i ran 10 yards and threw the ball as high and far as i could aiming for O.B.... I actually hit a fooking tree with the throw and it bounced back in (bast**d) i thought in my head and thought i need to go get rid of that bloody thing. So as i started walking towards it, it eventually, SLOWLY rolled down the hill and under then fence, plopping into the little stream. It was almost as if the ball was teasing me as it left.

 

[The23rdman]

Like someone said, it's just such a damn waste of energy and you look a FOOL. Ray, the guy I used to play with then, used to think it was so bloody funny that I got my hair off so much.

I started meditating a little bit after that ball-breaking incident, which helped and still does. Just a couple of weeks later I went out and from the 1st tee I was so relaxed and balanced and in the zone I shot 74. I only lost that focus when I looked at my card and saw I was 2 over after 15. Played the last two in 2 over because of it.

 

[brendy]

Very good tony that made me laugh. Back when I was a young'un around the age of 19 I played of 6 or 7 and had a really bad day at the grassy office, around the 16th hole I hit a fairly bad med iron and proceeded to wind up and launch it down the fairway, it went around 30 yards which I found quite unimpressive and realised how stupid I was for doing it, I decided to never do it again, just give mysef a quick mental kicking and forget about it by the next shot.
A fella in the same fourball back then loved chucking clubs until one day one of them hit an elecrtical poe and broke it, I didnt know what was funnier, watching a grown man throw a club or then watching him skulkingly walk after it, pick up the two pieces and ferociously trying to stuff both ends into his golf bag. Needless to say he never did that again.

 

[Parmo]

I have seen a dunlop pull trolley & remains of some dunlop club in the bushes at my local, it must have been some attack on the forth as the trolley had been wrecked by the club and vice versa, it was funny just picturing what had happended.

 

[brendy]

I have seen a dunlop pull trolley & remains of some dunlop club in the bushes at my local, it must have been some attack on the forth as the trolley had been wrecked by the club and vice versa, it was funny just picturing what had happended.

Haha I have this image in my head now..

 

[Nico]

I used to be a javelin artist,until I got a proper talking to from a mate.
To my shame I have lapsed but I genuinely cannot remember the last time it happened.
These days I prefer an ironic chuckle and a few deep breaths.
Sometimes though it is hard,so so hard!!!!