JustOne
Ryder Cup Winner
Doesn't sound ruined - sounds like a right laugh!
Perhaps you should learn to hit your driver longer,,,
Range Goons! - a rant
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Doesn't sound ruined - sounds like a right laugh!
Perhaps you should learn to hit your driver longer,,,
Fader
Tour Winner
Sid Rixon & Darth Vega: I seriously wish it were just a dream but sadly it wasn't and I've never come across anyone as irritating the only way i could describe him is like a dose of thrush!
James: Maybe your right and i need to man up to get average forum distance what is the average these days about 370yds! I'll have to accept mu poultry 240-250yds is merely a girls distance and start playing from the red's.
James: Maybe your right and i need to man up to get average forum distance what is the average these days about 370yds! I'll have to accept mu poultry 240-250yds is merely a girls distance and start playing from the red's.
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Alex1975
Guest
Doesn't sound ruined - sounds like a right laugh!
Perhaps you should learn to hit your driver longer,,,
You been hanging round the range again giving people stick James?
One Planer
Global Moderator
A few weeks back, I was at the range in my lunch hour.
Set up in a bay, with 2 lads in the adjoining 2 bays. Set my bag down and proceeded to get my balls from the machine (Situated behind).
The lad in the bay next to me was giving (Loudly) advice to his friend on his swing. Stood directly behind him, talking him through the swing and what he should be doing and feeling.
Taking no notice I pull a club from my bag and proceed to hit a few balls. The chap then says to his mate.
"See I told you I'd get you hitting your 7 iron further. You hitting it nearly as far as this chaps (....meaning me) 7 iron"
To which my reply was.
"I wouldn't take his advise bud........ I'm hitting a pitching wedge"
Set up in a bay, with 2 lads in the adjoining 2 bays. Set my bag down and proceeded to get my balls from the machine (Situated behind).
The lad in the bay next to me was giving (Loudly) advice to his friend on his swing. Stood directly behind him, talking him through the swing and what he should be doing and feeling.
Taking no notice I pull a club from my bag and proceed to hit a few balls. The chap then says to his mate.
"See I told you I'd get you hitting your 7 iron further. You hitting it nearly as far as this chaps (....meaning me) 7 iron"
To which my reply was.
"I wouldn't take his advise bud........ I'm hitting a pitching wedge"
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Alex1975
Guest
A few weeks back, I was at the range in my lunch hour.
Set up in a bay, with 2 lads in the adjoining 2 bays. Set my bag down and proceeded to get my balls from the machine (Situated behind).
The lad in the bay next to me was giving (Loudly) advice to his friend on his swing. Stood directly behind him, talking him through the swing and what he should be doing and feeling.
Taking no notice I pull a club from my bag and proceed to hit a few balls. The chap then says to his mate.
"See I told you I'd get you hitting your 7 iron further. You hitting it nearly as far as this chaps (....meaning me) 7 iron"
To which my reply was.
"I wouldn't take his advise bud........ I'm hitting a pitching wedge"
LMFAO!!!!!!
Region3
Ryder Cup Winner
As soon as he said he knew what he was talking about because he played off 11 I'd have offered him a game off scratch for a couple of hundred quid. 
Might have hushed him up!
Might have hushed him up!
Stuey01
Journeyman Pro
Wow, you lot have seen some prize planks at the range!
Got nothing on these but the 3 that stick out to me:
1) a girl of about 7 or 8 years old and her little brother. Obviously left to hit some balls by their father who was nowhere to be seen. Had run out of balls and kept running out to retrieve balls. I told her she should stop because she could get hurt. She ignored me and even ran out next to my bay whilst I was mid downswing on my driver. I packed up and went home rather than risk taking her head off.
2) hitting a few balls, kind of in the zone, work up to my driver. Hitting it pretty well, for me, they were going straight on this occasion. Using a ping g20 that is mega loud in an enclosed range. Look up and there is a couple of lads stood there watching me. One of them had a camera ad appeared to be filming my swing. I've no idea how long they had been there. One of them just said "nice" and nodded, then they wandered off. That was a very wierd experience, and clearly they must know nothing about golf to call my swing "nice".
3) older gentlemen with a full on trackman system and laptop in a metal briefcase, all set up in the bay for his practice session. He looked a knob but to be honest I was a little envious.
Obviously you always get a few chimps making a load of noise and skying their driver into the roof of the bay, generally they are easy to ignore.
Got nothing on these but the 3 that stick out to me:
1) a girl of about 7 or 8 years old and her little brother. Obviously left to hit some balls by their father who was nowhere to be seen. Had run out of balls and kept running out to retrieve balls. I told her she should stop because she could get hurt. She ignored me and even ran out next to my bay whilst I was mid downswing on my driver. I packed up and went home rather than risk taking her head off.
2) hitting a few balls, kind of in the zone, work up to my driver. Hitting it pretty well, for me, they were going straight on this occasion. Using a ping g20 that is mega loud in an enclosed range. Look up and there is a couple of lads stood there watching me. One of them had a camera ad appeared to be filming my swing. I've no idea how long they had been there. One of them just said "nice" and nodded, then they wandered off. That was a very wierd experience, and clearly they must know nothing about golf to call my swing "nice".
3) older gentlemen with a full on trackman system and laptop in a metal briefcase, all set up in the bay for his practice session. He looked a knob but to be honest I was a little envious.
Obviously you always get a few chimps making a load of noise and skying their driver into the roof of the bay, generally they are easy to ignore.
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Alex1975
Guest
londonlewis
Tour Rookie
you should have asked him to run through playing all the shots.
"So, can you show me how to hit a high draw with a 4 iron please?" ... "but that one had a huge slice..."
"what I'd really like you to show me, oh masterful one, is a half 60 degree wedge shot that lands in that 50 yard bucket" ... "as an 11 handicapper I wasn't expecting you to slice that one 90 foot right of the target"
"how about 3 drives, one with a fade, one with a draw and one that goes perfectly straight all finishing within a 10 yard radius of each other" ... "ermm, you seemed to slice all those"
Put him under pressure, then tell him to sod off, can't stand those that are 'can't use new technology' s!
"So, can you show me how to hit a high draw with a 4 iron please?" ... "but that one had a huge slice..."
"what I'd really like you to show me, oh masterful one, is a half 60 degree wedge shot that lands in that 50 yard bucket" ... "as an 11 handicapper I wasn't expecting you to slice that one 90 foot right of the target"
"how about 3 drives, one with a fade, one with a draw and one that goes perfectly straight all finishing within a 10 yard radius of each other" ... "ermm, you seemed to slice all those"
Put him under pressure, then tell him to sod off, can't stand those that are 'can't use new technology' s!
JT77
Tour Winner
Can imagine that was very annoying fader have you tried hitting balls with your ipod in? Find it helps sometimes.
Failing that id have pointed out that id got to singles figures without his advice. And politely ask if he needed help as his short game must be dreadful if his swing is that good and he is still off 11!!
Failing that id have pointed out that id got to singles figures without his advice. And politely ask if he needed help as his short game must be dreadful if his swing is that good and he is still off 11!!
londonlewis
Tour Rookie
I always laugh at the people who talk to their ball like they are on the course... calls for 'get down'... hilarious.
Get down to what? You aren't playing a real game of golf you moron so it isn't like you need it to land on a six pence!
Coatsy79
Q-School Graduate
I always seem to find myself between the talker and the group of lads with 1 club between all of them (or as one of them described it "I'm using a 3 driver")
Wilson
Head Pro
I travel to a range further away to avoid these people! The worst I've had was a kid who kept telling his mate to check out where his ball was landing - only problem was that it was my ball most of the time!
londonlewis
Tour Rookie
1) I over heard a chap telling his mate he was hitting it well but the wind was making it fly 45 feet to the right of his target.
He was saying 'oh mate, this is like a 35 mile an hour wind, you should expect it to go right' ...
then why was no one else hitting them over there?
2) Heard someone say, the lower the number the more you put the ball towards your backfoot. So wedges are off the front and driver is off the back .... good one.
3) heard a woman give her female friend a bible of instruction that David Ledbetter, Butch Harmon and Hank Haney would have struggled to keep up with. I laughed because she had just finished topping every ball 30 yards herself, so she was clearly well versed in the fundamentals of the game
4) had a chap once walk 5 bays over and ask me which shafts I was using on my irons. WTF? Because that's the reason why I am hitting it well apparently. Thanks dude.
5) overheard so many people say 'it's a lot harder than it looks on TV / I wasn't expecting it to be this technical / well I expected I would be much better than this' Love it when people say golf is easy and not a sport etc... to then find out just how hard it really is!
He was saying 'oh mate, this is like a 35 mile an hour wind, you should expect it to go right' ...
then why was no one else hitting them over there?
2) Heard someone say, the lower the number the more you put the ball towards your backfoot. So wedges are off the front and driver is off the back .... good one.
3) heard a woman give her female friend a bible of instruction that David Ledbetter, Butch Harmon and Hank Haney would have struggled to keep up with. I laughed because she had just finished topping every ball 30 yards herself, so she was clearly well versed in the fundamentals of the game
4) had a chap once walk 5 bays over and ask me which shafts I was using on my irons. WTF? Because that's the reason why I am hitting it well apparently. Thanks dude.
5) overheard so many people say 'it's a lot harder than it looks on TV / I wasn't expecting it to be this technical / well I expected I would be much better than this' Love it when people say golf is easy and not a sport etc... to then find out just how hard it really is!
