Golf Random Irritations

Lord Tyrion said:
Playing in an open on Sunday, 8.50am tee off, and the catering doesn't start until 9am :oops:. What's that about? Lots of golfers looking forward to a pre-round bacon / sausage buttie, practically compulsory on an away trip, and it wont be available. Missed opportuntiy for the club to make some money and yes, irritating.
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McMuffin it is
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Playing in an open on Sunday, 8.50am tee off, and the catering doesn't start until 9am :oops:. What's that about? Lots of golfers looking forward to a pre-round bacon / sausage buttie, practically compulsory on an away trip, and it wont be available. Missed opportuntiy for the club to make some money and yes, irritating.
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The catering at my old place didn't start until 11am on a weekend. Baffling.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Playing in an open on Sunday, 8.50am tee off, and the catering doesn't start until 9am :oops:. What's that about? Lots of golfers looking forward to a pre-round bacon / sausage buttie, practically compulsory on an away trip, and it wont be available. Missed opportuntiy for the club to make some money and yes, irritating.
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Sure you have plenty of Mince Pies left LT. They will soon be available again, now down rounder 20
 
Took the new irons out today in the days Stableford comp for the first time.

Level Handicap though the first 7 holes. Eighth hole calf muscle pops on the tee shot, hobbled in. Now stuck at home ice pack in place. Bloody furious.
 
Golf courses who state a maximum handicap due to the difficult nature of the course. Then let anyone on.

55 minutes it took to play the first 3 holes of the Hotchkin course yesterday. The two groups in front of us were awful. They couldn't reach a fairway off the yellows and all of them hit 2 balls of a lot of tees. Honestly they would have struggled round a pitch and putt. My playing partner did suggest to one of them as we passed close, that they should consider playing off the forward tees. I don't think that went down well ?.

On the 8th tee there was a 2 ball, and 2 four balls.
 
When your partner picks up or loses his ball on 6 holes, has another 2 doubles, comes in with 3 inconsequential pars (cos you were on the green in reg anyway) doesn’t win or half a hole and you shake hands on 13 in a scratch match.

But that’s not what is an irritation because we all have bad days. What irritating is behaving like it wasn’t his fault in the clubhouse afterwards. He didn’t say to anyone he played badly or I played pretty well. I’m not the sort who throws his partner under the bus so didn’t say anything and the more I think about it the more I now realise why people don’t like playing with him. I thought it was that he never shuts up. I think he thinks it’s that too.
 
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Was playing great then had two weeks off from golf to do other stuff and have a weeks holiday with HID. Played in the competition yesterday and have now developed an over the top movement. Big pulls left with the driver and a few shanks with the irons. Grr. Stupid game.
 
How can I play so badly for 9 holes, to take myself out of contention and then play great on the back 9. A whole 10 shots less on the back 9 to bring myself back in level handicap overall. Conditions weren’t the best, but not too bad so imagine a few will have beaten their handicap.

I should be positive that I pulled it back together, but irritated that I took myself out of contention in the first 5 holes.
 
Weird one on Saturday afternoon.
I was warming up the putting stroke on the practice green next to the 10th tee and 2 consecutive 4 balls completely ignored the tee markers.
Looking down from above, all 3 sets of tees were in the top right hand corner of the tee box
Both groups played from, what I later determined to be, the white tee stone that is at the bottom left corner...
And they did it again on the 11th....
I presume they were playing their own roll up or swindle and as such it's not a huge issue..but..
They were making divots on a patch of the tee box that hadn't been used for a while and was perfect.
It now looks li,e it's been used for a day and so has to be repaired before it can be used again...
Ignorant and arrogant are the words that spring to mind and, as I'm sure to see him in the week, I'll mention it to the Head Greeny.
It may be something he's OK with but it irritated me at the time.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Playing in an open on Sunday, 8.50am tee off, and the catering doesn't start until 9am :oops:. What's that about? Lots of golfers looking forward to a pre-round bacon / sausage buttie, practically compulsory on an away trip, and it wont be available. Missed opportuntiy for the club to make some money and yes, irritating.
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Since re-opening after the first lockdown, our place has kept some peculiar hours. Last summer the course was rammed every day - 1st tee booked from 6am to 8pm without any gaps. The weather, as I recall, was pretty good.

And the bar and catering facilities? Shut at 5pm, even now. 4-ball after 4-ball walking off the 18th, unable to get a pint or food of any description. The explanation given was that it would not be cost effective to pay a couple of bar staff. Given the prices they charge they would cover the cost in no time.

Their loss, because now the club are starting to see sense, after a midweek late afternoon knock the majority of us are continuing to use the local pub which has welcomed us with open arms throughout.

Truly baffling.
 
Imurg said:
Weird one on Saturday afternoon.
I was warming up the putting stroke on the practice green next to the 10th tee and 2 consecutive 4 balls completely ignored the tee markers.
Looking down from above, all 3 sets of tees were in the top right hand corner of the tee box
Both groups played from, what I later determined to be, the white tee stone that is at the bottom left corner...
And they did it again on the 11th....
I presume they were playing their own roll up or swindle and as such it's not a huge issue..but..
They were making divots on a patch of the tee box that hadn't been used for a while and was perfect.
It now looks li,e it's been used for a day and so has to be repaired before it can be used again...
Ignorant and arrogant are the words that spring to mind and, as I'm sure to see him in the week, I'll mention it to the Head Greeny.
It may be something he's OK with but it irritated me at the time.
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have played at a course where you play off the stone in a couple of comps, those spots arent used otherwise through the year, possible it was a scratch comp of some sorts?
 
The shanks! :mad:

One of the club 'majors' last weekend, off the very tips, course playing long with the first cut brutal.

I was leading after round 1 on Saturday with a nett 72.

Sunday 3 out of the first 4 tee shots hosel rockets 45 deg right and a lost ball, triple, double, par, triple start :mad::mad::mad:
 
Club champs, qualified for the scratch, playing a kid off +3 tonight off the blacks.. also got cut to 2.7, my lowest ever..
Though, its nice to get down in reality, I'm not a 3 handicap, been 5 for the last few years and under the old system had not a hope of getting this low.
I've no expectations other than I'm going to get humped by a spotty faced kid:ROFLMAO:
 
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