Excuses for playing pants

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What are your excuses for playing poorly. I have cited the following down the years.

Too cold
Too hot
Too windy
Too wet
Game too slow
Hedgecutting the evening before wrecked my arms
Sore back
Bad guts that week
Flu/cold
Hangover
Golf elbow
Work stress
Lack of practice
no warm up time
Greens too slow
No yardage markers/yardage markers wrong
Annoying playing partner put me off
playing partner was crap and he brought me down to his level


I'm sure there are many others I can't remember or perhaps am too ashamed to remember!

Good clubbing in 2008!
 
I honestly cannot play in weatherproof trousers and jackets (jackets mainly) as I feel too restricted to make a proper turn.
Reminds me of the last time I did play a tad pants though, I played Carnalea golf course this year and they had the course totally sanded out in september, the weather was fine and had been too. Approach shots to the greens had to be treated like bunker shots. Ive never seen 2 inch thick sand collar everywhere, anther justified excuse! :D

If you go out to play golf you will be aware of how the course is playing within minutes, I just blame myself if I cant handle the conditions be it stiffness or just not having practiced.
 
Yes MVP I shall have to remember that one!
Come on it's almost 2008, come clean - you must be a club fitter or have some kind of commission-based vested interest in fitting. There's no way an innocent amateur golfer can go on about fitting so much without some kind of £££ incentive?
Incidentally I was chipping in the garden earlier with an old 60 deg CG10 and was looking at the lie etc and I can't for the life of me imagine how someone at 6'3" can manage to have strikes heavy in the heel witha standard wedge - it's anatomically impossible isn't it?
Just who is this guy fitting you, I'd go for a second opinion - seriously!
 
Yes MVP I shall have to remember that one!
Come on it's almost 2008, come clean - you must be a club fitter or have some kind of commission-based vested interest in fitting. There's no way an innocent amateur golfer can go on about fitting so much without some kind of £££ incentive?
Incidentally I was chipping in the garden earlier with an old 60 deg CG10 and was looking at the lie etc and I can't for the life of me imagine how someone at 6'3" can manage to have strikes heavy in the heel witha standard wedge - it's anatomically impossible isn't it?
Just who is this guy fitting you, I'd go for a second opinion - seriously!
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the guy who teaches/fits me teaches and fits young up n coming tour pros in britain. I found it strange too but i know how the tests work and its the right results.
 
Too slow,

I cant stand being stuck behind slow coaches during a medal, 5hr rounds are a disgrace. Went out first in a two ball last year in the club championship qualifying and we went round in 3 hrs 10 mins, a full 45 minutes ahead of the game behind.

Funnily enough we scored better than them as well!!
 
"What are your excuses for playing poorly."

I've just go these new custom fitted clubs and now I can't hit the bloomin ball!


Only Joking!
 
"What are your excuses for playing poorly."

There is something wrong with the clubs - I have to stand the wrong way round to use them! I must go for custom fitting next time instead of buying them off the shelf.

Can't seem to find any left handed balls in the stores.

The course is designed for right-handed players.

A happy and prosperous new year to one and all.

Roger
 
Course favours faders
Course favours a draw
Hollowtined greens
Temporary greens
The sight of greenkeepers preparing temporary greens
Seeing a helicopter
Too many dog walkers
Wet bunkers
Claggy muddy lies
Tufty uneven rough
Fairways too long
Fairways too narrow
Fairways cut too tight
Greens like concrete
No sand in bunkers
Just 'not in the mood', usually due to stressful drive to club
Holes were all cut poorly
Holes were cut on upturned saucers
xmas traffic


Note the theme here - never my fault.
 
Main excuses for poor playing:

Rushing because of a fourball behind us.
Birds twittering putting me off my swing.
"I am a high handicapper you know!"
These new tees don't suit my driver!
Jeez, I knew that would happen if I used my driver.
These clubs are 1" longer than my normal clubs (excuse for fat shots) Replace longer with shorter for thin shots.
 
No warm up
Too many clothes on
Too cold
Too warm
Rain on glasses ( can't use that cos I got them lasered last year)
Left the hoose in a bad mood cos the wife was nagging !!!
The knob I was playing with never shut the F*** up.
The knob I was playing with never said a F****** word
 
My favourite excuse for a bad drive is always that I have been waiting too long on the tee. Clearly the bad shot has nothing to do with the fact that I am a high handicapper who does not practice anywhere near enough.
 
Not bad folks, some good excuses I must commit to memory! My 2 faves from above are -
"twittering birds put me off" - bloody vermin should be controlled shouldn't they.....and
"Tufty uneven rough" - I mean how dare they make the rough tufty!
 
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