Golf stuff that doesn’t work… or does it?

[jim8flog]

I was once given an unwanted present of a golf ball retriever and sold it to some one who plays on a course with a lot of water. A few months later he tried to get his money back from me. Apparently the little basket thing on the end just swivelled round when it had a ball in it and the balls just dropped out.

 

[sjw]

I was once given an unwanted present of a golf ball retriever and sold it to some one who plays on a course with a lot of water. A few months later he tried to get his money back from me. Apparently the little basket thing on the end just swivelled round when it had a ball in it and the balls just dropped out.

Ah, now I have seen a lot of people use these wrong, assuming it looks like this



At no point are you supposed to turn it over. You put it down on the ball, and then the little tab keeps the ball in when you pick it up. I've watched a number of people struggle, turning it over and then, yeah, of course the ball falls out!

 

[RichA]

Better still you can get cotton facecloth/flannels for a pound each or less. I just stick a carabiner through it and away you go

Cotton gets dirty and stays wet though. Microfibre cloths just need a quick rinse and wring out and the muck is gone and they're as wet or dry as you want.

 

[jim8flog]

Ah, now I have seen a lot of people use these wrong, assuming it looks like this

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At no point are you supposed to turn it over. You put it down on the ball, and then the little tab keeps the ball in. I've watched a number of people struggle, turning it over and then, yeah, of course the ball falls out!

Too long ago to remember what it looked like and I never used it for myself (no 'real') water) on our 18 hole course.

 

[Slab]

Cotton gets dirty and stays wet though. Microfibre cloths just need a quick rinse and wring out and the muck is gone and they're as wet or dry as you want.

I wish it stayed wet, I have to soak a cotton one at least two-three times a round cos its gone bone dry, microfibre ones would dry out twice as fast

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

Balls with an alignment line on them..
1. Seriously, you can't line it up properly....
2. Seriously, you probably can't hit it on that line anyway....
3. It's in your head....

If I could like a post twice this would be one of them!

I hate balls that have alignment aids or lines all over them. Often slows down play waiting for someone to line their ball up 99% of the time on the wrong line only to wonder why they missed the putt, then repeat the process on the next one etc!

 

[Voyager EMH]

High spinning golf balls.
Useless for the majority of players I see using them.
They spin away from the hole rather than towards it for the vast majority of their shots.
Therefore - they need a ball that spins less and will move more towards the hole and get closer to it.

 

[cookelad]

Headcovers with no socks.

The one I find worse are the headcovers with the sock but it doesn't quite reach the bag so you spend extra time/effort trying to make it reach out of shear optimism that it might protect your driver just a little bit

 

[Neilds]

Headcovers for ball retrievers - one of my recent playing partners had a Callaway branded one. Not sure if it came with the retriever or was an after market buy.

 

[Dingy]

My swing

 

[backwoodsman]

Golf trolly cup holders. Just whose cup or bottle is supposed to fit in them?

(Have split mine in half, then 'repaired' it with elastic thread. Now it fits any cup...)

 

[Crazyface]

I have been playing golf for 55 years.
I have never bought a tee peg in my life.

On two occasions I have put 100 pink castles on a table in the bar. I still own several and I will use one sometimes - usually white ones for me.

I saw a bloke at ours buy some red ones in the Pro shop a few weeks ago. I nearly took a photo. LOL

Anyone want some castle tees, I've got hundreds

 

[Crazyface]

I was once given an unwanted present of a golf ball retriever and sold it to some one who plays on a course with a lot of water. A few months later he tried to get his money back from me. Apparently the little basket thing on the end just swivelled round when it had a ball in it and the balls just dropped out.

I got one from a charity shop for a fiver. It paid for itself in my next round, and continues to be the best golf buy ever! Anyone want some Pro Vs?

 

[sjw]

Seems there are plastic tees being bought, but supposedly no one ever loses or breaks them. So where are they all going? Why isn't the world just overrun with them, why aren't we wading through them? Emptying them out of our shows when we get in?

Wood is superior for tees, always has been

Back on topic, I also have a pair of those ball-spotting goggles. Never once used apart from when I put them on last time I found them in the garage. They really are a waste of plastic!

 

[Mel Smooth]

Druids waterproof rain jacket.

Feels like you're wearing a crisp packet, and isn't waterproof.

 

[NearHull]

Seems there are plastic tees being bought, but supposedly no one ever loses or breaks them. So where are they all going? Why isn't the world just overrun with them, why aren't we wading through them? Emptying them out of our shows when we get in?

Wood is superior for tees, always has been

Back on topic, I also have a pair of those ball-spotting goggles. Never once used apart from when I put them on last time I found them in the garage. They really are a waste of plastic!

I’ve posted this before but perhaps relevant. A colleague bought 144 plastic tees on line, didn’t check his order or price, received 144 bags of plastic tees. Many years ago, but I bet he’s not got through the first ten bags.

 

[jim8flog]

Seems there are plastic tees being bought, but supposedly no one ever loses or breaks them. So where are they all going? Why isn't the world just overrun with them, why aren't we wading through them? Emptying them out of our shows when we get in?

Wood is superior for tees, always has been

Back on topic, I also have a pair of those ball-spotting goggles. Never once used apart from when I put them on last time I found them in the garage. They really are a waste of plastic!

I am overrun with them. I must have about 1-200 pink plastic ones and I have never bought one in my life.
I just hate seeing them lying around on the ground.

Now wooden tees - I bought 1000 70mm ones about 15 years ago and the only reason the box has been opened is to check they were all there.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

This is a whole other debate that has been had many times I'm sure, but this is a weak argument to me. Yes they are biodegradable but you go through at least 6 of them a round and leave the broken bits lying around all over the place. Whereas my pink castle tee is near-indestructible, I use one all the way round and leave nothing behind. Even on the rare occasion I lose it after a shot, I usually find two others during the round that I'll pick up, so in net profit anyway. They don't need to be biodegradable when you keep reusing them for a decade.

Im sure that at the next H4H you will be inundated with pink castle tees @Imurg @Bratty

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Druids waterproof rain jacket.

Feels like you're wearing a crisp packet, and isn't waterproof.

They are cheap for a reason

 

[sunshine]

Seems there are plastic tees being bought, but supposedly no one ever loses or breaks them. So where are they all going?

I see a couple at the front of every tee on every golf course, don’t you? I don’t know how people lose them, I assume people have so many they don’t bother picking them up and just use another on every hole.