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Most embarrassing today...
Playing in a 2 ball behind a 4 ball- we had a few friendly words on tee so allgood there.

I hit a rather poor tee shot on 1st and was still 170 yards to green. I'm not a long hitter and recent problems mean that my 5 wood is only scraping 150 yards.

So I decide to lay up using 120 yard club to keep ball well away from greenside bunkers...and hit the most dreadful thinned shot. I couldn't see all of its path due to contours of fairway, but guessed it hadn't gone far as the grass was still damp and thick in places.
I walk over to where my PP is about to play his shot and he says to me "do you know you're on the green?"

I looked at green to see the 4 ball ahead all ready to putt out (to flag in centre of green) and there is a 5th ball being ignored about 10 feet onto the green:o:o:o

Thankfully our second hole runs parallel to first, so I trotted over, left my bag near the tee and walked back to the green to meet them walking off and apologised profusely!!

They were charming about it and even called us through after the next hole (most probably thought it was safer behind us!!)
 
Been there, stood with nowhere near enough club to reach the green on a par 5, get it a bit thin and off it goes like a rocket, stopped on the back edge. Jogged over to the next tee to apologise when we got down there. Bloke said he was lining up his putt when my ball rolled across the green and hit his ball! After he put it back he missed his birdie putt, which he blamed me for...
 
Played in a society day yesterday, we were the last 4 ball out and from the word go had a 3 ball up our backsides who twice hit balls past us, neither time did they apologise.....the 3rd time they did it, they got an aggressive wave of my putter as I walked up to the green. Some might say that we should have let them through, some might say that they were trying to tell us to hurry up, but there was a 30 strong group of us, mostly 4 balls, everyone was waiting at various times and letting them through would have been pointless. I was not impressed, especially as on all three occasions there was no fore shout at all.
 
G1BB0 said:
I would have hit the fecker back at them after the 2nd one tbh!
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I saw this done once on a par 5, one of the lads was about to hit his second into a par 5 he was a big hitter and waiting for green to clear, we had all played. A ball rolled down towards us from the tee, the next player then tees off, as he was about to my mate said if this comes anywhere near us it's going back. I thought he was joking. Ball sure enough lands near us my mate walks up to it and without stopping smashes it straight back at them. It was still going up when it went over their heads. I just stood in disbelief.
The rest of the group didn't tee off. The same lad stopped playing not long after owing to what he described as 'anger issues'
 
swanny32 said:
Played in a society day yesterday, we were the last 4 ball out and from the word go had a 3 ball up our backsides who twice hit balls past us, neither time did they apologise.....the 3rd time they did it, they got an aggressive wave of my putter as I walked up to the green. Some might say that we should have let them through, some might say that they were trying to tell us to hurry up, but there was a 30 strong group of us, mostly 4 balls, everyone was waiting at various times and letting them through would have been pointless. I was not impressed, especially as on all three occasions there was no fore shout at all.
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I had a very similar situation some time ago which was discussed at length on here.... what I learnt from it was to let people through who do that kind of thing and make them someone else's problem.
 
I played Bramshaw a few years back in a 4 ball and were held up all the way by a man and his wife/girlfriend. Our patience was wearing thin after a couple of hours behind them and on a short par 4 (about the 16th) I drove the green with a 3 wood. They putted out and by that time we were around 50 yards from the green. He then picked up my ball and threw it in the bushes and laughingly said 'you won't see that again'.
On the 18th we timed a massive shout of 'Fore' just a he hit his second and they both dived to the ground. Hillarious laughter followed from our 4 ball. Revenge can be sweet - even though we decided not to go in the club for a drink afterwards!
 
I did a similar thing last year.
Playing in the pick 'n' mix my playing partner hit a lovely drive down the middle of our 300 yard par 4 third (our last hole from a shotgun start) so I teed up and with a fair but not overly strong tail wind hit the ball perfectly. It sailed through the air straight as a die and long, very long, very very long and onto the green where the group in front were putting out which included the captain!
After going to the next tee and apologising to the captain and the rest of the group it cost me a fiver for the charity when we all got in.
 
As long as you didn’t do it on purpose, it happens to everyone at some point. Some time it can even raise a smile, from both groups.



I was playing in the club champs last year on our 2nd which is 470 ish par 4 with a burn running across the fairway at about 220 yards from the green. It was a 3 club wind at least and was playing with the a young lad who’s off scratch and the good Doctor. Anyway the Doc says, you might as well go you are never going to reach in a month of Sundays in this wind ( I was a good 230 yards just in the first cut).. he was almost right. The 3 in front were all putting out around 15 feet from the flag.

I nailed my 2 hybrid, to about 2 inches…. All the guys in front then had a moan at young Andy as they assumed it was him.. lol.
 
I hope they were seniors in front of you as us oldies are polite and wave people through, which is contrary to what some people think on here. :whistle:
 
I have done it and had it done to me. As long as there is a friendly word of apology then all is good as far as I'm concerned. As for the incident with the group hassling a society, I would have explained they wouldn't be getting through as you were up with the pace of lay and they had nowhere to go. Any words and I'd have reported them at the earliest opportunity. As has been discussed on here before, in my opinion hitting a ball back is both dangerous and reduces you to the same level as the group hassling
 
10th at Castle Stuart plays about 325 off the green tees, so even with a 20yd wind I should still be short. Well if I didn't nut one clean onto the back of the green, a green which at the time was occupied by the chairman of the company I work for:o

Thankfully he took it well and even gave me stick for not winning the long drive prize
 
Never ever ever hit a 300 yd drive in my life (except once) and god how I wish I could flipping do it again. Played iberostar cancun and it was my first game after having an ankle ligament re attachment and having 3 months off work. Anyway there I am on me 50th birthday playing golf in Cancun.

I blasted through the first 9 holes and at the 10th I got there 5 secs after 4 Americans. Who said if we hold you up will let you through. After 5 holes I had steam coming out of me ears and spent more time looking at the crocs and iguanas.

anyway I had started hitting the ball off the tee really really well so much so I managed to draw the ball a couple of times. We got to about he 14 the or 15th and the guys were fannying about going from one side of the fairway to the other. The hole was a dogleg left with water to the left. Me normal drive is with a fade so I thought aim for the edge of the water/bushes and it will fade to the centre of the fairway.

missis tash said take your shot there miles away. So I did and Bang. It did start off towards the edge of the pond/bushes but instead of fading to the right it drew to the left and kept going and going and going. I thought crap. I jumped in the buggy and flew down the fairway. Got the the first yank and profusely apologised.

he was full of apologies and said if he knew I could hit a ball like that they would of let me through on the 10th. I asked him where my ball was and it was 3 ft from going into green side pond and was 10ft from the green. In front of them and they had played there 2nd shot.

I knobbed me second and parred out.

got to the next tee and knobbed it 50 yd. god how I could drive like that again. Not even come close.
 
Had a similar situation this afternoon, joined up with an old fella on the 1st for a friendly bit of match play. Standing on the second tee a 425 yard par 4, there's a 3 ball in front of us all on the right hand side of the fairway about 120 from the green, so a good 300 yards away, slight wind behind I've nailed it straight down the middle 50 yards past them running out off the fairway :o Unfortunately didn't get an opportunity to apologise until one of them hooked a drive on to our fairway off the 9th tee, chap wasn't bothered in the slightest and said great drive. The guy was a navy lad off scratch and I had played a friendly pairs match against him in the summer and we beat them 8 & 7. Spent the rest of the day whistling ( inn the naaavyy ) :whistle:
 
Playing in Spain in a 2 ball. The course was empty (late afternoon) and we weren't playing anything like slow. No-one was ahead or behind us, it was "millionaires golf". I was just about to play my second shot on to a par 4 when a ball rolled past me, maybe 30' away. I look back to see a guy leaping into a buggy from the tee. He hadn't even taken the time to put his driver back in his bag. As he heads towards his ball, not far from me, I wait for him. He got to his ball, jumped out of the buggy, throws his driver in the bag, pulls out an iron, walks to his ball, plays his shot, missing the green just to the right. He had done all this by the time I had got to him! I shouted asking him what the heck he was doing, but he just blanked me, jumped in the buggy and sped off. TBH I think we just stood in amazement while this guy chips past my ball on the green, taps in with the blade of his wedge and speeds off.
 
Sweep said:
Playing in Spain in a 2 ball. The course was empty (late afternoon) and we weren't playing anything like slow. No-one was ahead or behind us, it was "millionaires golf". I was just about to play my second shot on to a par 4 when a ball rolled past me, maybe 30' away. I look back to see a guy leaping into a buggy from the tee. He hadn't even taken the time to put his driver back in his bag. As he heads towards his ball, not far from me, I wait for him. He got to his ball, jumped out of the buggy, throws his driver in the bag, pulls out an iron, walks to his ball, plays his shot, missing the green just to the right. He had done all this by the time I had got to him! I shouted asking him what the heck he was doing, but he just blanked me, jumped in the buggy and sped off. TBH I think we just stood in amazement while this guy chips past my ball on the green, taps in with the blade of his wedge and speeds off.
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Is this the old "can I play through? my wife's had a heart attack" scenario?
 
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