funniest calamities you've witnessed on a golf course

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a month ago, a friend of mine mammothly over-clubbed and hit a five iron to the last green 150 yards away, except the ball over-shot the green and hit the club-house and puntured a hole in it's slate roof, removing a slate or two. it was the quickest exit any of us ever made from a golf course. played the same course last week and the offending hole is still there. i'm not going to name the course for obvious reasons, but it's in the south down area, n.ireland. (it's not RCD, thank *!!).
 
I once saw a group in front of us drive their buggy into the lake.
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:D. that's hilarious. they're lucky they weren't playing old head golf course in cork. that's a bad place to be drink-driving in a buggy!
 
played with a lad the other week who let go of his 8-iron during his follow through on a par-3 tee. It stuck right up the top of a nearby oak tree and wouldn't come down no matter how hard he tried shaking it.

was hard teeing off after him as I was laughing so much
 
On a tour of Ireland my mate (club secretary) pushed his electric trolley down a small slope thinking it would stop on a flat bit, however it failed to stop and careered down the next slope. Picture the scene my mate chasing after his trolley Benny Hill style as it in ran across the middle of a green whilst at the same time trying to wave in apology at a group who are waiting to play their shots to that green. It eventually came to a halt in some thick scrub. Hilarious, it took the rest of our four ball a good few holes to regain our composure.
 
Here is a couple ive witnessed. The first included me during a team match at Merchants Golf Club. Coming down the last all square when i pull a drive hitting the window(cracked it) and ball finishing about 10ft away from the hole, i won the hole and match but the thing that was funny was that the boy i was playing never told me anything all day about where Out of Bounds was, so i guess he had it coming to him ;).

The second was on the 2nd tee at Broomieknowe Golf Club where the boy i was playing hit a branch(no thicker than 10mm) about 50 yards off the tee and to see his ball travelling back to him at speed and going Out of Bounds. The picture of his face was worth a million pound :D
 
I hit the greenkeeprs shed roof last week playing with Phil the Frag which gave him a chuckle and made a hell of a racket. Also seen a guy tee off on a par 3 and be hitting his second on what has now become a par 4. He hit the womens tee marker and it flew past us and over the adjoining fairway.
 
A playing partner knobbed his tee shot which preceded to hit the tee marker and bounce back and hit him, my friend just said "did that hit you" the fella says yes "two shot penalty"
 
I once duffed a ball into a ravine, tried to play out and thinned a wedge which ricocheted back straight into my testicles at about 100mph.

They turned purple, swelled up to the size of tennis balls and I walked like John Wayne for a week. Still finished the round though! Hardcore!
 
A guy i used to play with had a real problem with the 17th at Torvean a 175 yard par 3 over a pond to a raised green. Anything short rolls back into the water. He had taken to chipping down to the ladies tee just short of the pond. One evening during a busy midweek comp, with 2 or 3 groups having to wait while each group played, he went to chip down hit the seed box next to the yellow tees bounced back over his head into deep rough behinde the back tee box. All the blokes waiting behinde fell about.
 
the course where i play in manchester has a small aerodrome next to it , one late evening i was walking down the last fairway , looked up and there was a low flying hot air balloon , i thought crikey thats gonna crash , as i came off the course and under the tunner linking the course to the car park , the balloon made a crash landing between a row of parked cars , a few people came out of the clubhouse to check if everything was ok , and the guys in the balloon cooly got out said there is a landdrover on its way to collect the balloon and then the simply went for a pint in the clubhouse ...
 
Captain's trip last year. 40 blokes all around the first tee waiting to go out. A past Captain of the slightly (let's say) stuffy variety keen to show off his brand new £700 bells and whistles electric trolly presses the 30 yard button and off it trundles ..... into a pond 27 yards away. Only one wheel visible which kept on turning for exactly 3 more yards. Classic.
 
Many years ago at Boothferry with my footy mates.
Our keeper lost 18 YES EIGHTEEN balls in a lake on ONE hole!

He wouldn't give up until he ran out of balls. Then asked to borrow one.
Agreed but only for the next hole.

That was our dressing room joke for the following twelve months
 
I managed to hit a drive on the second at Melbourn in Herts which managed to hit some scaffolding on the boundary of the OOB on the left of the hole. Only for it to ricochet once or twice and return right back at me.

Instinctively managed to stop it with my foot as it came to rest almost exactly where I had it teed up seconds before.

The people on the 1st Green bent over with laughter...
 
Wasn't a calamity, but i was playing in a medal one day at a club where a par 5 green was close to the car park. I hit too much club with my approach and it was drifting on the wind towards the car park, and was heading for an Audi parked nearest the green.

Bloody Hell, I said to the guy I was playing with, as it fell in the air, I wonder who owns that Audi?

I do, he said, just in time to see the ball hit the wind deflector on the windscreen wiper.

The deflector pinged off the car and the ball bounced back in bounds.
 
Many years ago at Boothferry with my footy mates.
Our keeper lost 18 YES EIGHTEEN balls in a lake on ONE hole!

He wouldn't give up until he ran out of balls. Then asked to borrow one.
Agreed but only for the next hole.

That was our dressing room joke for the following twelve months
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I bet the fourball behind were laughing all afternoon too
;)
 
In the last medal I played I did insist on adding up my partners score at the bar using their calculator... let's just say he wasn't too pleased. I'd call that a calamity :)

Then there's the time with my somewhat 'snobby' mate, all the gear, the money, the sports car...you name it. The kind of guy that wouldn't let you eat a Mars bar in the car if you were on an 800 mile trip without stopping, just in case you dropped a spec of chocolate on the carpet, heaven forbid you wanted a packet of crisps! Anyway... picture the scene..... we'd left the clubhouse with him a bit worse for beer, walking along in the darkenss to the car when all of a sudden he wasn't there any more, I was talking to myself. He'd only gone and fallen off the side of a BRIDGE into the hugest pile of sticky, wet, stinky mud you could possibly think of... lucky for him it was a 10 foot drop and the mud probably saved him from breaking his back. The drive home with him sitting in the passenger seat in his underpants stinking of sh*te was priceless - - my fondest ever golfing memory :)

I remember having to phone his wife to explain what had happened and that it might be an idea to have a bath run and was nearly crying with laughter! Just thinking about it brings tears to my eyes... happy days! :D
 
Many years ago at Boothferry with my footy mates.
Our keeper lost 18 YES EIGHTEEN balls in a lake on ONE hole!

He wouldn't give up until he ran out of balls. Then asked to borrow one.
Agreed but only for the next hole.

That was our dressing room joke for the following twelve months
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I bet the fourball behind were laughing all afternoon too
;)
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The 4 ball behind us and the 4 ball behind them were also with us.
As I said, he was the butt of the jokes for the next 12 months.

The funniest thing was that with every shot, the splash was getting closer and closer to us.
 
Playing Real Bendinat in Majorca a couple of years ago and saw a couple of Germans find out why there were so many keep to the cart paths signs on the course when the came careering down the middle of one fairway didn't see the 2ft drop and managed to put the cart on its roof, was amazed no-one was seriously injured and that the cart roof could take the weight.
 
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