How would you respond?

[Holty]

I had something similar the other week, three times we had someone drive into us - I wouldn't mind, but we were playing par 4's, and we were continually waiting for other to clear the green, or were putting out on the green.

I can appreciate that sometimes you can surprise yourself by hitting it perfectly, but three times is a little excessive, particularly when you're stood on the green putting out.

Not a single acknowledgement of what they'd done, and had to check myself to stop the ball from flying into the trees or straight back to them. Decided it was better not to make much a fuss of it, since I didn't know the bloke, although it's certainly helped push the balance towards not renewing membership and looking elsewhere at the end of the year!

 

[cookelad]

If it was a one off I'd have shouted FORE! back down the fairway at them, if I was the guilty party I'd have legged it up the fairway and made my apologies.

For anyone who says they would have turned around a smacked it back at them, I'd be interested to know where they would stand legally if they were unlucky enough to hit the group they were aiming at, it's one thing to "innocently" hit someone in the group ahead thinking they were out of range, but to turn around when it had just been proven that they were in range and fire back at them could find yourself in some hot water!

 

[londonlewis]

If it was a one off I'd have shouted FORE! back down the fairway at them, if I was the guilty party I'd have legged it up the fairway and made my apologies.

For anyone who says they would have turned around a smacked it back at them, I'd be interested to know where they would stand legally if they were unlucky enough to hit the group they were aiming at, it's one thing to "innocently" hit someone in the group ahead thinking they were out of range, but to turn around when it had just been proven that they were in range and fire back at them could find yourself in some hot water!

Very good point - you would end up in the papers for that.

I think writing a rude word on the ball before moving off is a nice reminder that it isn't on.
However, when people shout Fore! and genuinely apologise all is forgiven.

This group didn't say a word about it and they had 3 genuine chances further down the course.

 

[gryffindor]

If they roll it onto the green on a par four and can't actually see it - why not give it a little nudge into the hole and start jumping up and down - I should think watching them pay the bar bill should more than make up for it

 

[bluewolf]

Wasn't it RickG who picked up a ball that had rolled on to the tee he was playing from, thinking that it was Smiffy's, and wrote "KNOB" on it, then placed it back in position. Unfortunately, the ball belonged to Capn Ron who is a 6ft 5 South African... Its a good job that Capn Ron is a genuinely nice guy or it could have got real interesting real quickly...

 

[Jon321]

But why did they wait before teeing off? If it was a one off long hit, surely they would have tee'd off straight away as they thought it was out of reach.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

If all four teed off after waiting for five minutes then it was no accident. Personally I would have let it go the first time as no-one got hurt but if it happened again I'd be waiting for the group to come up to the balls and explain that you have nowhere to go and there is no point trying to blast their way through. Be polite. If it happens again then I'd report them (officially, in writing) if they were members or guests of members. Hitting balls back just makes the problem worse

 

[Smiffy]

Some years ago, this happened to a mate I was playing with, so he delved into his bag, took out a handful of tees and spelled out a brief but pithy message beside the ball.

I was playing a really posh golf course a few years ago and tried this myself.
The only problem was I wasn't very good at spelling in those days and couldn't spell "absolute" or "bounder".
My two kids were into Mary Poppins at the time and I had watched the video with them quite a few times and knew how to spell "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" so wrote this instead.
The bloke got the right hump, but it certainly put him in his place.
I think he put in a report to the secretary but I never returned to that course again anyway.
Well worth the loss of 234 tees that was.

 

[Foxholer]

I was playing a really posh golf course a few years ago and tried this myself.
The only problem was I wasn't very good at spelling in those days and couldn't spell "absolute" or "bounder".
My two kids were into Mary Poppins at the time and I had watched the video with them quite a few times and knew how to spell "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" so wrote this instead.
The bloke got the right hump, but it certainly put him in his place.
I think he put in a report to the secretary but I never returned to that course again anyway.
Well worth the loss of 234 tees that was.

5 tees is all you need really!