saw the funniest shot today

[MikeH]

evening all
just back from the British Golf Industry Assoc meeting/golf day today at Woburn on the Duchess course which was really a treat - 1st time I 'd played it and thoroughly recommend it if you get the chance

anyway I played in a fourball with three of GM's comercial team and think I witnessed the most amusing shot on a course I have ever seen when one of the lads roofed his drive so badly the ball went abut 100 ft in the air but only 50 ft forward he could have run forward and caught it!

he then reloaded and did pretty much the same.

the result one major sky on the face/crown of his G10 and one what can only be described as a skid mark halfway back on the crown (behind the alignment aid!)

I had to laugh

 

[medwayjon]

I did this with my D1 at Lydd on the 2nd.

The boys did rip it out of me badly.

 

[MikeH]

I skied my lovely newish rapture v2 3 wood the other week - Its sickening when it happens. Have sharpied in the offending mark on the crown but still tell tale scuff on the top of the face

 

[HTL]

Hope you said "Houston we have lift off" I did the same warming up at the London Club so cant laugh.

So how did you get on today?

I went round Leatherhead (my club) with a few irons and my pencil bag and had a great time. Then came back and spent far too much on new Golf stuff.

 

[brendy]

Its a beauty spot Mike, nothing to be ashamed of!

 

[HTL]

I did this with my D1 at Lydd on the 2nd.

The boys did rip it out of me badly.

Hey, at least you cleared the ladies tee, by all of 6 foot! Might have to plant a few seeds of memory before we tee off on the 25th

 

[medwayjon]

Glad I made the ladies tee, still if I hadnt, atleast it wasnt cold that day!

 

[MikeH]

HTL, it was a team comp with best 2 scores (3 at par 3s) plus individual and I was going OK (7 over which I was pleased with on a course as tight as that) until last five when I got on the bogey train dropping 7 more shots
think I finished on 29 points and GM 12th out of 18 teams. There are some very handy players in the industry and I'm afraid 4 hungover fools (aka Team GM) were never going to be bothering the prize table

 

[Smiffy]

You would have laughed playing Carnoustie one year Mike. We were playing the 18th, long (long) par 4 and it was into the wind. We had not a hope in hell of getting on for two. I had played short of the burn in front of the green and was attempting to play a knock down 7 iron into the wind for my third shot . I hit it fat, and the ball disappeared down the Barry burn. I was annoyed with myself and started to reach into my bag for another ball when after what seemed like an eternity my ball bounced off the wall, came back and rolled into the divot I had just taken. My mates couldn't believe it and were peeing themselves laughing.

 

[MikeH]

that's class smiffy!
seen a few come back off trees but from a water hazard beats that

 

[mono217]

You would have laughed playing Carnoustie one year Mike. We were playing the 18th, long (long) par 4 and it was into the wind. We had not a hope in hell of getting on for two. I had played short of the burn in front of the green and was attempting to play a knock down 7 iron into the wind for my third shot . I hit it fat, and the ball disappeared down the Barry burn. I was annoyed with myself and started to reach into my bag for another ball when after what seemed like an eternity my ball bounced off the wall, came back and rolled into the divot I had just taken. My mates couldn't believe it and were peeing themselves laughing.

very funny

 

[Herbie]

I had to laugh at that one till I remember the odd occasion I do this, then I cry a little

 

[HomerJSimpson]

What was Woburn like Mike, especially the greens. Its on my to do list this year. I actually thought MWJ cleared the ladies tee by less than that. It was funny though - all that energy through impact and it popping up like a lob shot.

 

[adamk15]

I was actually laughing so hard when I read this story.

However I have one of my own.

Last season my friend who plays off 15 was subject to one of the most embarassing starts to a medal ever. He is a long hitter so was hitting a 4 iron on the 300 yard par 4. He teed up and after a few practice swings he promptly hooked the ball into the gorse to the left of the fairway. After reloading he then topped the ball and it rolled 5 yards forward. He then chunked it twice before firing it down the fairway about 180 yards. In all, he took 6 shots to leave the tee

I had to go inside the clubhouse because I was suffering as I tried to hold in a burst of laughter.

 

[madandra]

Sorry Viscount but you hitting the ball BACKWARDS on the 18th at Goswick does it for me ... what trickery

 

[MikeH]

HJS
Woburn was in good nick as I guess one would expect after all the fine weather we have had - the greens do need a bit more growth (a bit patchy) but rolled pretty well in fact too well if a lot of my putts were anything to go by!
Thought the Duchess was better than the Dukes but not as good as the Marquess. I'd imagine its a great place to be a member if you have the cash!

 

[GB72]

Did similar myself the other week, hit a drive that would have been a decent shot with a lob wedge. Bounced right off a path of a stream and into the water.

Now have a horrible mark on my MD Driver (OK not quite as painful as damaging a more expensive club but still)

 

[forefortheday]

Played with my brother and his father in law last year and after watching FIL plonk 3 in a row in the drink we moved onto the next hole.

With a grimace he pulled his driver out of the bag, you could see the tension and anger rising in him as he walked to the tee.

Teed his ball up, took an almighty swing and he missed it by a mile, me and my brother wet ourselves as the ball took half a turn of the tee and plopped down at his feet

 

[slugger]

was it as funny as the first shot i took with my father-in-law's loaned Callaway Driver that i took at the range when the head came flying off, banged off the roof of the bay and rebounded back onto the top of my head?

oh, how i can laugh about that now!!! telling him i had broke his club on my first shot was more difficult that telling him that i was going to ask his daughter to marry me!

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Sorry Viscount but you hitting the ball BACKWARDS on the 18th at Goswick does it for me ... what trickery

I've seen that done, but still don't know how it happened.
In a junior league match one of our team, on the 1st at Kedleston Park Golf Club, hit the ball backwards onto the road OOB about 20 yards behind the tee.

For all of playing after him it was a relief just to hit the ball. We were still laughing so much.