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

Slab said:
A thread for folks to moan about golf gear they’ve got/bought that just doesn’t do the job… and for others to jump in and tell us that; actually it does work it's just that we’re doing it wrong and need to do xyz

I'll kick off with the 'microfibre' golf towel. I have a couple plus several traditional cotton golf towels and the difference in how effective they are is huge

Microfiber isn't absorbent, slides across metal surfaces way too easily to do what you want from a golf towel & it doesn't get into the groves like cotton ones. The only thing it has going for it is, it is slightly lighter/more compact than cotton golf towels



as a bolt-on whinge : I also hate the longer golf towels (cotton or microfibre). On a stand bag they just drag on the ground whenever the bag is stood on its legs. What's the bleedin point in that!



What you got that just doesn't do it...?
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These are good.
Cotton but not pure thick, perfect length, wee hook for wrapping round something in the bag. And can buy about 10 for the price of one of the big brands microfibre ones

 
What’s wrong with microfibre towels 😮

Use them all the time - get them wet during the summer to help keep the ball clean , clean the ball well in winter and then easily washed to be kept clean
 
sunshine said:
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.
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must be youngsters....our seniors will spend a good couple of minutes searching for their tee after hitting.

We even had one bloke who realized that he had left his tee stuck in the ground, from when he was marking out his relief area, and ran 100 yds back up the fairway to pick it up.
 
Slab said:
I also hate the longer golf towels (cotton or microfibre). On a stand bag they just drag on the ground whenever the bag is stood on its legs. What's the bleedin point in that!
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You mean to say you didn't get fitted for your golf towels?
 
My bloody leccy trolley packed up after 2 holes on a society day today.

Bloody hard to push, even in freewheel mode and tweaked something in my back pushing the bloody thing up a hill.

I know it should be in golf
Irritations, but it’s a golf thing that doesn’t work
Grrrrrrr
 
nickjdavis said:
must be youngsters....our seniors will spend a good couple of minutes searching for their tee after hitting.

We even had one bloke who realized that he had left his tee stuck in the ground, from when he was marking out his relief area, and ran 100 yds back up the fairway to pick it up.
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I played with a senior once who had 3 different height castle tees all tied together with a shoe lace. He'd stick all 3 in the ground and hit off the one for the club he had. Thought it was ingenious at the time.
 
I once bought a pair of 'waterproof' trousers at one of the original American Golf Discount stores.
Took them back for not being waterproof but could not get a refund.
 
Depreston said:
Stinks of @Burnsey that does 😂
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Lucifer MorningStar said:
Sounds more like something you would buy in Aldi 👀
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Alright, alright. Let's not shoot the man. My unrelated (to this thread) comment was generalised and I don't wan't @mentions all over the place please folks.

On topic, I had a set of those stringy rubber tee things once upon a time. Turned up on Boxing day to play and was the only one could actually tee off as the whole place was frozen stiff. Safe to say, as much as we wanted to play, we gave up after the first hole.
 
Burnsey said:
Alright, alright. Let's not shoot the man. My unrelated (to this thread) comment was generalised and I don't wan't @mentions all over the place please folks.

On topic, I had a set of those stringy rubber tee things once upon a time. Turned up on Boxing day to play and was the only one could actually tee off as the whole place was frozen stiff. Safe to say, as much as we wanted to play, we gave up after the first hole.
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Frozen golf is hilarious. Obviously you just forget about making a score, but trying to bounce it on the green from 30 yards short - your mate hitting the front edge and watching it bounce 20 yards through the back - all good fun. 😁
 
Off OP topic

Frozen golf

Our 9 hole course used to have the 9th hole ( around 125 yards) the other side of a narrow river tributary.
You had to work out where to land the ball on the tee side of the river to get the correct bounce for the ball to finish on the green. Land it on the green from the tee and it finished high up on a very steep bank just after the green or on to 18 hole course.
 
Orikoru said:
Frozen golf is hilarious. Obviously you just forget about making a score, but trying to bounce it on the green from 30 yards short - your mate hitting the front edge and watching it bounce 20 yards through the back - all good fun. 😁
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If our course is frozen I usually go home rather than waste my time. However, one time visiting my dad in winter up north and we had a game at Dewsbury. Frozen ground and I drove through the back of the 8th green about 360 yards away 🤣
 
srixon 1 said:
If our course is frozen I usually go home rather than waste my time. However, one time visiting my dad in winter up north and we had a game at Dewsbury. Frozen ground and I drove through the back of the 8th green about 360 yards away 🤣
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It was great fun the first time, the novelty soon wore off.
 
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