Hole in one?

[Dodger]

Playing yesterday in a charity do 4 man team thing that had nearest the pins,longest drives,straightest drives etc.

It was a cracking day on the links with the course in great condition and for a change I shot the sticks out and we finished 2nd!

I managed to bag longest drive on 7 and nearest pin on 9 and when we came to 13 I jammed it into cocks length so walking up to the green I am thinking there's another prize netted possibly.

Alas nearest the pin was in the hole!!

Gets back into the clubhouse and one of the boys asks where the drink is for the hole in one but the boy had done a runner without doing anything to mark his achievement!!

Now,I have to say I do not blame him one little bit,we were discussing the fact that with about 150 folk playing his hole in one could have cost him the same as what his annual subscription did!!

Is the 'aye been' thing that the person who has the hole in one buys the drink the most stupid tradition in golf??

Surely he should be bought a drink by the club to mark his occasion not him having to buy every bloke at the club on that day a drink?

For the record,I am a tight erse and I would have done the same thing.......I have things my £400 could be spent on for myself not folk I do not even know!!

 

[Hobbit]

The guy may be stony broke and only just affording to play golf... 25yrs ago, with a young family, I'd have been praying for it not to go in, and would also have done a runner if it had gone in.

Our bar will sell you two bottles of whisky at trade price to put on the bar - a bit more sensible than running up a £400 bar bill. Mind you, I sometimes wonder why it shouldn't be that everyone else buys you the drink...

 

[thepodgster]

I'm all for having history and traditions, but surely times change and people need to realise we actually live in 2012 and not 1912.

In my view things like this should be changed where everyone buys that individual a drink. Can't say i blame him for doing a runner!

 

[gripitripit]

Why get punished for achieving a hole in one??? Everyone else should buy you the drink for getting an ace (not at same time though).

 

[virtuocity]

Stupid archaic tradition.

Unless covered by insurance (which in this case he wouldn't have been due to it being a charity round) there's no way he should have to fork out this much.

Good idea about the trade price whisky. I'd have no problems buying 3 bottles of this to share round the club.

I suppose I would be comfortable with the idea if those who chose to take a drink contributed to a whip round to fund next year's subs.

 

[cookelad]

Totally agree! Even with golf insurance covering I think £100 of your bar tab buying a drink for what could be in excess of 100 people could reach the best part of £300 it makes you want to aim away from the hole! Luckily a few clubhouses now offer to sell you a bottle of whisky at cost!

I've seen people keeping tabs on who's gone straight home, after someone else's hole in one, and tried to claim their drink!

 

[Tommo21]

Apart from Dodger being an tight erse, something we all know by the way. If everyone was to buy the guy who holed the shot a drink he would be severely pissed in no time.

Good to read you put that shot into 3 inches at 13 Alan.

 

[bladeplayer]

Is the 'aye been' thing that the person who has the hole in one buys the drink the most stupid tradition in golf??

Surely he should be bought a drink by the club to mark his occasion not him having to buy every bloke at the club on that day a drink?

At long last , i was always afraid well aprehensive to say this... i get a HIO & i buy the bar a drink .. now dont get me wrong ive no problem with buying rounds of drink , even if im driving & on the 7up .. but to buy everyone in the bar a drink ? are ya aving a lauf ?


Buy a drink for strangers some of who wont even reck ya or say hello to you on a normal day ? get out of it..

I was lucky to have my first HIO this year in a tuesday comp , we had always planned in going in for one drink afterwards , there was about 9 people in the bar & i sad right id better stump up .. to a person they all said dont be stupid , get your own group a drink & no body else .. way outdated tradition of when golf was an elitest for the rich to show off ..

Great post Dodger ... Mike H or Tiger thers a good topic for the mag .. coz i bet there are alot think the same ..

 

[Dodger]

Apart from Dodger being an tight erse, something we all know by the way. If everyone was to buy the guy who holed the shot a drink he would be severely pissed in no time.

Good to read you put that shot into 3 inches at 13 Alan.

2 Tommo,2.Come on man.

 

[cookelad]

The Pro at Aldersey takes £1 out of the kitty every week during the Summer Wednesday Roll Up which goes into a hole in one fund! I think whoever wins it might have to declare themselves professional in order to collect the prize!

 

[Tommo21]

2 Tommo,2.Come on man.

2 inches, must have been cold eh.

 

[Rooter]

I agree with the point about being financially "punished" for some good / lucky golf. I think its a cracking idea to start to change the tradition! My suggestion is player A gets a hole in one, he doesn't put his hand in his pocket for a drink and everyone in the bar chips in for a taxi home for him/her.

Where do we start this campaign?? Mike H??!! can we get a front page cover spot for this very important idea?

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I must be lucky as on two occassions the bar was closed and on the third it was about 5pm on a dank wet weekday with less than half a dozen souls in the clubhouse.
I have £100 insurance and at my club they have two bottles of whisky that they put on the bar with no charge.

 

[MikeH]

love it, great thread. we will do it as a 'GM asks' feature in a future issue

Tommo can I also thank you for the following line

'If everyone was to buy the guy who holed the shot a drink he would be severely pissed in no time"

For some reaason its given me a fit of the giggles

 

[Dodger]

love it, great thread. we will do it as a 'GM asks' feature in a future issue

Tommo can I also thank you for the following line

'If everyone was to buy the guy who holed the shot a drink he would be severely pissed in no time"

For some reaason its given me a fit of the giggles

Mike,what's your take on it?

 

[cookelad]

Surely if you follow the logic - If I have to buy everyone in the clubhouse a drink when I have a hole in one then everyone in the clubhouse should buy my a drink if shank one in to the car park!

 

[Rooter]

awesome Mike! field of dreams, if you build it, they will come!

Not that i am ever actually going to get a HIO.. would be nice to know it wont cost me anything!

 

[Hobbit]

So when did the tradition start? It was way back in the mists of time. And just how many would have been in the clubhouse back then? In all likelyhood, the Doctor, the Solicitor, the banker, the retired Colonel and.... Nowadays, if you get a HIO on a Saturday half the town are lined up waiting for free beer - bit of an exaggeration but no doubt you get the drift.

 

[d2cko]

Maybe I'm a bit of a traditionalist but I think that you should buy the drinks for a HIO! I don't mean a pint for everybody in the bar but a bottle of whiskey to go on the bar is right and proper, especially since you've just taken the 2's pot too!

D2

 

[thecraw]

I nearly got a hole in one last week on the 4th at Machrihanish. It was during an Open better ball and to be honest I was thinking to myself, please don't drop.

If it had been jammy enough to drop, I'd just have popped back to Campbeltown and bought two bottles of Grouse from Tesco and plopped them onto the bar. No chance I'm spending £X in a clubhouse full of strangers!