lost your temper?

I snapped my 10 year old Progen Gap Wedge over my knee today, they've been on its way out for around 6 months since I bought my Vokeys but still used to be able to hit a decent shot with it, but today broke the camels back so to speak. Was very calm when it happened and don't regret it. My 4 balls actually perked up at the sight of the societies youngest and 3rd best player have a mare hole.

I have played with people who have kicked their bag up the fairway, snapped new golf clubs, thrown golf clubs bushwacker style into a near-by field and once saw a whole set including powercaddy but minus battery being deposited into the lake bordering the 18th to the amusment of the 80 or so people at the medal ceremony.

I normally pull my hat low over my eyes and have a word with myself, that or I read my clubs horoscope to them and hope they perform better.

I did once play with a guy Richie who slammed his club down on the tee and managed to break his wrist in 2 places and still to this day sturggles in the winter months due to the cold.

SG86
 
It's a good job they won't let me have firearms in this country, our club may have been one or four greenskeepers less today.

Why would I want to pay £1200 a year to watch/ listen to some minimum wage muppet cut the fookin grass whilst I'm teeing off or putting?

Way past anger management today...
 
I used to have a really bad temper and would helicopter badminton rackets across the hall in my youth.

I've chilled a lot since then and the worst that usually happens now is cursing myself for a few seconds, although at the weekend after a bad hole I threw my ball in the river on the way to the next tee without a word.
Was funny actually because my mate was looking around for a golfer to hurl abuse at for not shouting fore!
 
Back in the days when I was just starting to play golf regularly a mate and I used to play at Ruislip Manor. We were both sh!te and trying to break 100 at the time but because of work shift patterns got to play 3 times a week. Anyway, I used to have a bad temper and used to have a good swear at myself. Compared to my mate however, I was a saint.

One day he was on for breaking 100 and we got to the 16th (I think). From memory this was a par 5 with a ditch across the fairway. These days I wouldn't think twice about it but back then getting over it was 50/50. My mate has teed off, caught it a bit thin and it never got more than 4th off the floor. My mate had convinced himself it had gone in the ditch and completely lost it. I had to back off as parts of his 3W that he was smashing into the floor rained down all around me. People on the other fairway were looking on in disbelief. When he'd finished and picked up all the bits, putting them all in the bin we wandered off down the fairway, neither saying a word. We got to the ditch and found his ball, in the middle of the fairway 50yds or so the other side of it.

I don't think either of us mentioned that moment for about two years afterwards.

Never seen anything like it since and doubt I ever will again.
 
I don't tend to lose my temper on the course but I must admit to losing it last Saturday.
Played a beautiful tee shot at our par 3 7th..over the flag..over the green into the back bunker.
One thinned bunker shot back down the hill and I'm almost back at the tee.
One fatted 9 iron lands short of the green and starts rolling back towards me which is when I lost it and swung the Footjoy at it. Result..perfect contact over the OOB into the field while rather uncharitably hoping a sheep would choke on it. :o
 
I never lose it and was really shocked when I played in an open with a guy from work and a couple of his mates.
We were playing one hole and one of them topped his ball and as it bobbled down the fairway he launched his 6 iron towards some trees. As the club bounced through the trees there was a big splash as it came to rest in the canal beyond the trees.
Apparently this was not the first time this had happened and as the round progressed I took a look in his bag to find his irons were all mismatched where he had done similar things in the past.
 
Do not lose my temper playing as I don't take the game that seriously. If I hit a bad shot I am more embarrassed than angry. Have never thrown a club, but if someone did that could make me lose my temper. Disrespect to the game and your playing partners.

Playing tennis is a different matter, and have lost my temper playing against cheats, and players who try and take my lady partner out.
 
I can be prone to a bit of swearing but not shouting and have been guilty of once helicoptering a hybrid.

Said hybrids head is mounted on a marble base as the duffer prize in my fourball for the bottom player on the "Race 2 Birchwood".
 
I *slightly* lost it on the 12th (ish) par 5 at St. Pierre the other day. After 3 great holes to start the back nine, hit my drive down the middle of the fairway, top my second, hit my third to within twenty yards, duff my chip, chip on and 3 putt for a blob. Helicoptered my wedge back to my bag after my duffed chip (about 25 yards) but was more of a lob than an all out angry throw.

Still, I was rather annoyed.
 
Must have been the heat getting to you mate, What did you mean by I was nothing like you expected me to be???...
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I think it was the heat and the frustration that I was hitting the ball well (for the most part, apart from the odd 3 wood top and duffed chip :D) and not really being rewarded for it.

And I meant you looked nothing like I imagined. And for some reason, I was surprised you were Welsh, even though I knew you were welsh before I met you! :D

Look forward to our round though, should be some good banter! Where's your home club? I might have to take a trip across the border at some point too.
 
I *slightly* lost it on the 12th (ish) par 5 at St. Pierre the other day.
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Hooked the drive left into the trees there. Played a good recovery and stuck the hybrid on the green in regulation. Three putted from 12 feet though. Still 6 for two points. Easy hole that one :D :p
 
I *slightly* lost it on the 12th (ish) par 5 at St. Pierre the other day. After 3 great holes to start the back nine, hit my drive down the middle of the fairway, top my second, hit my third to within twenty yards, duff my chip, chip on and 3 putt for a blob. Helicoptered my wedge back to my bag after my duffed chip (about 25 yards) but was more of a lob than an all out angry throw.

Still, I was rather annoyed.
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I didn't see that. Probably because I was p***ed off after hitting two shots to about 60 yards short of the green then taking 4 to get down. Sometimes I hate golf :p
 
I *slightly* lost it on the 12th (ish) par 5 at St. Pierre the other day. After 3 great holes to start the back nine, hit my drive down the middle of the fairway, top my second, hit my third to within twenty yards, duff my chip, chip on and 3 putt for a blob. Helicoptered my wedge back to my bag after my duffed chip (about 25 yards) but was more of a lob than an all out angry throw.

Still, I was rather annoyed.
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I didn't see that. Probably because I was p***ed off after hitting two shots to about 60 yards short of the green then taking 4 to get down. Sometimes I hate golf :p
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I think Rhys saw it. He was walking in the direction of my bag at the time (quite a way behind!)...He even picked up my club and rested it against my bag. You can tell your brother he raised his kid right! :D
 
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