Pet Hates on a around of Golf

[Grantley1988]

I've got two of them now, didn't do it myself for 10+ years, but the following:-

People not marking their balls, especially in comps. Yes, you playing a titleist 1, but will you also claim any titleist 1 we find in this rough, even though yours was a Prov, but this one is a solo?

Spare ball in your pocket - so this hole with 200 yards to carry the lake, OOb right and massive rough left you may not need it? Then proceeds to his bag 60 yards away to reload.

I would do the same. Knowing I had that ball in my pocket would make me doubt myself and I would probably hit it in the water!! I'd rather walk back to my bag and get another!

 

[williamalex1]

After rereading the post title, don't take your pet for a round then ..

 

[Foxholer]

After rereading the post title, don't take your pet for a round then ..

Good Brandy?

 

[williamalex1]

Good Brandy?

not tonight foxy, just my sense of humour.

 

[Foxholer]

not tonight foxy, just my sense of humour.

Bit 'Christmas Pudding-ish' for me in that case - demonstrating a little of mine!

 

[Slab]

Finally a chance to let off steam...

No ice in the buggy's coolbox
Balls not arranged into pyramids on range
When chilled towels delivered on course don't have that little hint of lemon
Having to switch the cart GPS from Meters to Yards
When the complimentary ice tea dispenser at halfway hut has run out of liquid sugar
And biggest pet hate:
When the starting staff wet the whole of the golf towel rather than just the bottom half

:rant:

 

[Imurg]

I would do the same. Knowing I had that ball in my pocket would make me doubt myself and I would probably hit it in the water!! I'd rather walk back to my bag and get another!

Doesn't that imply a mental weakness though?
It's only a ball...do you carry waterproofs in case it rains or because you're afraid it will rain...?

And, in this scenario, why is your bag 60 yards away....?

 

[bobmac]

Doesn't that imply a mental weakness though?

It depends.
If you always carry a spare ball, then no problem.
If you get out a spare ball and put it in you pocket just prior to walking back to the tee......maybe a mental problem

 

[Snelly]

Slow play and equipment junkies.

 

[Birchy]

People who complain about every little minor thing.

Just relax and enjoy it for god sake

 

[sandmagnet]

Do not really have any pet hates as I'm glad to be away from graft and playing golf,I see a pitch mark I repair it,in a bad bunker I rake it,slow play and prob look at score card and count putts and points.do hate no one shouting 4 mind you as I was hit in throat years ago and no 4 shouted!

 

[dewsweeper]

People who complain about every little minor thing.

Just relax and enjoy it for god sake

I agree,I am pushing 75 and life really is too short.
As Walter Hagen is supposed to have said "smell the flowers".
Dewsweeper

 

[Liverbirdie]

I would do the same. Knowing I had that ball in my pocket would make me doubt myself and I would probably hit it in the water!! I'd rather walk back to my bag and get another!

And if you put your next ball OOB, in a medal round, would you have to walk back to your bag again? What if everyone does this in your fourball? How long till you back up the whole course?

Question - how many balls do you keep in your golf bag, on average?

 

[Marshy77]

People who complain about every little minor thing.

Just relax and enjoy it for god sake

I was going to say the same, thought it was just me that played and never really got wound up.

If there a pitch mark to repair, repair it, if there's slow play and you can play through try play through etc etc. Life's too short.

 

[Birchy]

I was going to say the same, thought it was just me that played and never really got wound up.

If there a pitch mark to repair, repair it, if there's slow play and you can play through try play through etc etc. Life's too short.

Steady on mate I wouldn't go that far

 

[Duckster]

Litter on the course - we have bins at every tee, it's not hard to use them.
Club throwers - absolutely no need
People trying to play quicker than Usain Bolt then getting miffed about being held up for about 30 seconds on the tee.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Dog phoo in the rough...........see what I did there!

 

[Marshy77]

Steady on mate I wouldn't go that far

Hahaha I think its only myself that winds me up on the golf course. I have a tantrum and move on to the next tantrum - probably the very next shot

 

[Grantley1988]

And if you put your next ball OOB, in a medal round, would you have to walk back to your bag again? What if everyone does this in your fourball? How long till you back up the whole course?

Question - how many balls do you keep in your golf bag, on average?

I carry around 10 balls

To be fair on my course and and any other course I have played I would never have my bag that far away from me so this situation has never happened. I don't really see how walking back to your bag would back up a course.

 

[cookelad]

Another vote for litter on the course here - especially empty cans - here's a thought a 500ml can weighs half a kilo when full, when it's empty it weighs nearly nothing and yet when do people refuse to carry them?

Why, when I order my cheeseburger at the end of the round do they insist on putting mayonnaise on it???