Funniest thing you have seen on a golf course?

[medwayjon]

Went to the range this morning and was chatting to a guy I know from Gillingham.

He was playing with a fella yesterday who was playing out of a fairway bunker. He played his shot, the ball hit the lip and bounced straight back into his tackle leaving him writhing in agony.

So it made me think about funny incidents.

Mine is probably seeing a guy on our society fall in the drink at Boughton GC near canterbury. It was a par3, he was off balance playing his 2nd which landed just to the left of the water and rested on a downslope. He played his shot and then almost in slow-mo toppled into the drink. The other 3 of us were on the floor laughing for about 5mins.

 

[Smiffy]

One of the funniest things I've ever seen was on one of my first forum meets. At Princes, about 18 months ago.
Had been invited down there with a couple of other forum members courtesy of a guy who won membership there in a GM competition. I can't remember who it was now....

Anyway, the guy played off 27 but I had heard that he could hit a mean ball. Had been known to drive it a long way.
We stood on the first tee and the guy took a couple of practice swings. Jeez he was powerful!!
Anyway, I trained my eyes about 300 yards down the fairway in the hope of being able to see it land, he took an almighty swipe and bugger me...an air shot!! He looked a bit embarrassed, took another swing and dumped his next attempt over the OOB fence on the left.
My how we laughed....

He had his name emblazoned on his Tour bag too

 

[Losttheplot]

Funniest thing I've seen was playing a weekend away with the lads golfing up in Chester area.
My father in law drove off and landed 5m short of a lateral water hazard. For his next shot he got the 3 wood out and had to hit it over the corner of the hazard. He proceeded to flush it against one of the stakes and drop into the water. He took a drop and went to hit it again. This time he smashed it against one of the other stakes and went in the water. The fact the stakes were 1"x1" posts only a foot tall was just too funny to not laugh. We were rolling around in laughter as my father in law was about to do a Sergio and blow up against the hazard. Brilliant.

 

[medwayjon]

One of the funniest things I've ever seen was on one of my first forum meets. At Princes, about 18 months ago.
Had been invited down there with a couple of other forum members courtesy of a guy who won membership there in a GM competition. I can't remember who it was now....

Anyway, the guy played off 27 but I had heard that he could hit a mean ball. Had been known to drive it a long way.
We stood on the first tee and the guy took a couple of practice swings. Jeez he was powerful!!
Anyway, I trained my eyes about 300 yards down the fairway in the hope of being able to see it land, he took an almighty swipe and bugger me...an air shot!! He looked a bit embarrassed, took another swing and dumped his next attempt over the OOB fence on the left.
My how we laughed....

He had his name emblazoned on his Tour bag too

Yeah I wonder

 

[Leftie]

It was about 3 years ago when our society was holding it's Christmas bash at Sweetwoods Park GC. We had got to the par 5 14th and had just played up to the green . Not realising that he had left his electric trolly switched on, Terry took out his putter and walked up to the green.

Someone noticed that the trolly was still moving and kindly mentioned it to Terry who proceded to chase it. He was just too late in stopping it from falling down the bank into the small stream. That was the first laugh .

Not wanting to go for a paddle, he thought that he could get it out by standing halfway down the steep bank holding on to a small tree/shrub. Now a trolly with a full set of clubs on weighs quite a bit. Add a couple of gallons of water in the bag and poor Terry was always going to struggle.

It was like listening to one of those old great commedians who delay the punchline and the audience crack up as they know what's coming. The 3 of us could see it happening as if in slow motion. Terry had the handle of the trolly in one hand but couldn't pull it out as it was so heavy. Meanwhile his feet were slipping and so was his grip on the tree.

Splash. Oh how we laughed We last saw him that day trudging back towards the clubhouse leaving a trail of water behind him. Surprisingly, he didn't join us for the Christmas meal after the game.

That corner of the course is now known by us as Terry's Folly.

 

[chrisd]

A year or two back I was playing a pairs match against the Captain and his partner. The Captain lost his ball on the 1st - nothing too funny about that I hear you say!

He lost his ball in the ball wash machine before teeing off, too tight to use a new ball, he dropped it into the machine, turned the handle a few times and the ball didn't come back out and he never did get the ball back!

Chris

 

[AuburnWarrior]

Smiffy in white trousers!!!

Everytime I think of that image, I'm in pieces......

 

[USER1999]

Especially with a little yellow stain down the front.

 

[Paul_Stewart]

Guy playing off about 20 with a sky caddie on a par-3, also paces out the yardage from the marker on the tee to where the discs are. Then spends two minutes trying to decide what club to hit and announces 171 yards is a 6-iron.

Then thins it, hits one of the red tee markers in front and rebounds 10 yards behind him.

"It's 181 to the pin now" says another member of the group before we all collapse in laughter at this complete *** making an arse of himself.

He ends up scoring about 22 points for the round and then spends the next hour in the bar bitching about the greens and how it totally affected his game.

You've got to love muppets like that. If you didn't have arseholes in life, you'd never know who the good people were.

 

[RowleyBaggie]

Brilliant, i've never undertood why people use sky caddies and all that to be honest - i'd sooner buy lessons off a pro and improve my game, the yardage plan on the back of the card is enough for me.

Funniest thing i have ever seen is my mate try to absoloutly knock the skin off the ball with his driver (we all know this doesn't work) only to top the ball about 30 yards into a bush.....not funny? hang on.....The funny thing was the sight of his driver head landing bang in the centre of the fairway about 100 yards down.

Another funny one was a chap i paired up with in a society doing the loudest fart i have ever heard halfway though his backswing on the first tee surrounded by people and ending up thinning his shot into the trees!

 

[Swinger]

Club Champs three weeks ago.

A 5 H/C player was just just starting to warm up. He grabbed his wedge and went over to the practise nets. Ones swing later he hit the crossbar over his head and the ball came straight back and hit him between the eyes. There were lots of people around as the putting green is right by the nets and there were roars of laughter for several mins. He did have a golf ball size lump there for the rest of the day.

Apart from that I have seen some funny shots from supposedly good golfers in first team matches over the years. Think the best one was the guy who managed to hit his golf backwards twice in a row by topping it so badly. He was playing his third from behind the tee on a short par 4.

 

[Spoff]

Like the o/p, in a bunker recently smacked the lip, then smacked my lip, well, chin. Half an inch higher it would have taken a tooth with it I imagine!

 

[USER1999]

My mate Adam, first tee shot in the medal, heels it left, hits a bench that really isn't in play, and the ball shoots off behind the pro shop. We fall about, and he shouts out 'THIS IS SERIOUS'. Didn't help.

Hitting the ladies tee marker at my old club, and making all my 4 ball duck as the ball comes back at a million miles an hour and goes ob.

Another friend Steve, tees off on par 3. In front of him is the ladies tee, and a big green box for divotting. I question why he is aligned to hit over the box, but he hits anyway. Knifes it, straight into the box of mud. Ball comes back to him at ankle height.

Smiffy putting into a bunker. Yep, not forgotten that one yet.

My usual partner in crime, Matt, hits his drive on 18 into the woods on the left. Got a half decent lie. Has a swing at it, and the ball comes out. Sadly, the head of his 8i snaps off, and goes off into the trees like a boomerang. 3 hours with a metal detector, and he never did find it.

Alan, lost control of his electric trolley in France, and it fell 20 ft into a ravine. Any of us could have saved it, but we didn't. Just stood there and watched it go. Just like when Almunia is watching the ball go in the net.

 

[Smiffy]

Smiffy putting into a bunker. Yep, not forgotten that one yet.

In my defence...
That was a particularly fast green and had a very subtle downhill slope to it.
That would most probably have caught a touring pro out........ even possibly Bobmac

 

[Farneyman]

On a bounce game I duffed one off the tee at the first (hit ground about six inches before the ball, though it still went straightish) got a shout from one of the others in the waiting groups, " good recovery considering the lie you had" I must say I chuckled at that one as Id not heard it before.

Funniest thing I seen was on a trip back home to Clones Golf Course with some friends and having had only a few hors sleep and an early tee start. To cut a long story short we had no water and very dry from the night before so to see my pal drinking from a puddle on the fairway was enough to call it a day and we went back to the pub again.

 

[Sneds]

Sliding down a hill in a buggy on a wet day. No control of the buggy and my friend literally holding on with his hands on the buggy with his legs outside the buggy as we spun around.

Took us about 5 minutes to stop laughing. I actually cried with laughter that day.