....... In an incident filled round!

[chrisd]

MashleyR7 and I decided to pop to North Kent this afternoon to play a course that we are playing a HDID knockout round on Saturday, you know, see what clubs to hit and get the feel of the place as neither of us had payed there before.

So off we went on a pretty quiet Wed afternoon and!

Lone player on hole behind bounces a ball between us whilst on the tee with no warning

I hit a bit long through the green on a par 3, eejit walking round the back spots ball and pockets it. I ask from about 30yards away if it was my ball he picked up? He takes it out of pocket and throws it to me, I pick it up and ask if he would care to put it back where he found it so I could play it where it lay and throw it back to him. He wanders back, obviously miffed, sort of throws it down and storms off.

We get to tee a couple of holes later and it's near a green where 3 guys are putting, so we wait, which is what we do back at home, so as not to put them off. Fat slob, misses after 3 putts and, with us still obviously waiting, and the 3 having finished the hole, Mr Slob decides to have 3 practise putts!

3 holes later the guy behind who picked up my ball and his mate, go to a shared tee and play the wrong hole now (for one hole) end up one hole in front of us, also holding us up!

Single golfer behind, who never caught us up, once again hits through us on the 18th without a shout!

Mashley and I, playing a Matchplay, halve game and drive home, looking forward to Saturdays 4bbb and whatever it may throw at us! I shoot 81 which wasn't bad for someone traumatised!

Any guesses what that may be?

 

[Pants]

Come on Chris. You've got to give us a bit of a clue.

Upchurch? Or did you have to count their fingers to make sure they were locals, born and bred?

 

[Leftie]

Or did you have to count their fingers to make sure they were locals, born and bred?

Would that be Sheerness Pants?

Wouldn't have been Gillingham as MedwayJon was (is?) a member there and he would never have allowed such behaviour.

 

[chrisd]

Come on Chris. You've got to give us a bit of a clue.

Upchurch? Or did you have to count their fingers to make sure they were locals, born and bred?

No clue necessary, got it in one!

No disrespect to the club though, most of these didnt deliberately set out to affect our game, we thought that it was what happens at courses that take all and sundry and there is definitely a need for courses where anyone who wants to play, can pay and play.

 

[Fader]

Played Upchurch once last year in a match and swore I'd never go back there. The place is lethal so many cross overs and blind shots with half the holes virtually aiming across each other.

 

[chrisd]

Played Upchurch once last year in a match and swore I'd never go back there. The place is lethal so many cross overs and blind shots with half the holes virtually aiming across each other.

We were told that before going there but we've got to play it as we've been drawn away. I think that the walk round yesterday with copious notes of what to, and what not to hit and where should stand us in good stead for the match. I might just nip to the range first, I mean the army shooting range at Hythe for full body armour!

 

[Deleted member 18121]

I've played upchurch a couple of times with a society and really enjoyed it there....may have something to do with winning the longest drive and shooting an 84 however! I know a couple of members there through another friend and based on their manners I'd never go there for a normal round.

 

[Fader]

We were told that before going there but we've got to play it as we've been drawn away. I think that the walk round yesterday with copious notes of what to, and what not to hit and where should stand us in good stead for the match. I might just nip to the range first, I mean the army shooting range at Hythe for full body armour!

I've still got a kevlar helmet if you want it and some body armour used for Taekwondo competition that may come in handy for you!...

I can't remember the hole I think its 4th where you tee off on a dog leg then at about 200yds it goes massively downhill, I got clattered by a ball off the tee there as the group behind tee'd off when we were in range but couldn't see us and the only warning bell is down by the green so not much use as a warning bell for tee shots on a par 4! The is it the 5th &7th that run parrallel but the tees cross each other so your hitting across each other as you tee off.... Lethal!

Just be careful stood on the 10th tee when people are playing the 9th hole! I cut the corner with my 2nd shot to try and reach in 2 as its a par 5. Only after I got down there behind the mound did I realise that yes I had reached the green but had literally hit directly over the heads of the players on the 10th tee! I was told don't worry people do that all the time but surely there should be notice advising of this as its bloody dangerous!

Been invited back to play there a few times as friend of my dads is a member there, anyone that knows their 70's football will have heard of him Derek Howells - Charlton legend and a guy that chinned Frannie Lee :thup: But I can't bring myself to return.

Edit : Oh yeah and Good luck with the match though.

 

[chrisd]

I've still got a kevlar helmet if you want it and some body armour used for Taekwondo competition that may come in handy for you!...

I can't remember the hole I think its 4th where you tee off on a dog leg then at about 200yds it goes massively downhill, I got clattered by a ball off the tee there as the group behind tee'd off when we were in range but couldn't see us and the only warning bell is down by the green so not much use as a warning bell for tee shots on a par 4! The is it the 5th &7th that run parrallel but the tees cross each other so your hitting across each other as you tee off.... Lethal!

Just be careful stood on the 10th tee when people are playing the 9th hole! I cut the corner with my 2nd shot to try and reach in 2 as its a par 5. Only after I got down there behind the mound did I realise that yes I had reached the green but had literally hit directly over the heads of the players on the 10th tee! I was told don't worry people do that all the time but surely there should be notice advising of this as its bloody dangerous!

Been invited back to play there a few times as friend of my dads is a member there, anyone that knows their 70's football will have heard of him Derek Howells - Charlton legend and a guy that chinned Frannie Lee :thup: But I can't bring myself to return.

Edit : Oh yeah and Good luck with the match though.

Pretty much the sort of things that we saw and did and it was certainly a voyage of discovery!

I think the footballer is Derek Hales - I was at a Charlton match back in the '70's (I think) and he had a fight in the centre circle with Mike Flanagan and both got sent off - unusual in that they both played for the same team!

 

[Fader]

Pretty much the sort of things that we saw and did and it was certainly a voyage of discovery!

I think the footballer is Derek Hales - I was at a Charlton match back in the '70's (I think) and he had a fight in the centre circle with Mike Flanagan and both got sent off - unusual in that they both played for the same team!

That'll be him, I always get the spelling wrong quite bad really though as I should get it right as played county football with his son Leigh (and he does spell it that way). I believe he is a member there to and plays of a + fighure handicap.

I'm sure that my old man has a black and white cut out of that night from the paper, was one of the first recorded articles about team mates fighting pre all the hand bags of Batty & Shearer. Derek is still a guy now you'd think maybe I won't upset him! He also played at West Ham and Derby from what my dads told me.

 

[richart]

Pretty much the sort of things that we saw and did and it was certainly a voyage of discovery!

I think the footballer is Derek Hales - I was at a Charlton match back in the '70's (I think) and he had a fight in the centre circle with Mike Flanagan and both got sent off - unusual in that they both played for the same team!

I remember Flanaghan and Hales. Hales had a great beard and looked like Gert Muller. Brings back the days of watching the Big Match with Brian Moore.

 

[Fader]

I remember Flanaghan and Hales. Hales had a great beard and looked like Gert Muller. Brings back the days of watching the Big Match with Brian Moore.

That'll be this beard then... he now has just a small grey tache! Still tells a good storey though.

 

[chrisd]

That'll be him, I always get the spelling wrong quite bad really though as I should get it right as played county football with his son Leigh (and he does spell it that way). I believe he is a member there to and plays of a + fighure handicap.

I'm sure that my old man has a black and white cut out of that night from the paper, was one of the first recorded articles about team mates fighting pre all the hand bags of Batty & Shearer. Derek is still a guy now you'd think maybe I won't upset him! He also played at West Ham and Derby from what my dads told me.

It was an FA Cup match at the old Valley just before they closed it. The game was against Maidstone Utd and a potential giant killer. The Charlton fans were absolute animals and I had never been more scared at a football match, especially one where I supported neither team!

After the punch up Mike Flanagan was transferred to my beloved Crystal Palace

 

[richart]

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That'll be this beard then... he now has just a small grey tache! Still tells a good storey though.

Hales was nearly as frightening as Robin Friday. Now there was a rebel. I think they are making a film of his life, and there was an excellent book about him as well. The greatest footballer you never saw. I was very fortunate to see him play for two seasons.

 

[Golfmmad]

I remember Flanaghan and Hales. Hales had a great beard and looked like Gert Muller. Brings back the days of watching the Big Match with Brian Moore.

Ah, brings back memories. Derek Hales - a scorer of great goals!

Anyone remember when he won "Goal of the Season"?
It was from a corner, and he turned and hit it on the volley, it went like a bullet, keeper had no chance.