Shout of Fore Not Heard

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I was playing a solo round last Friday morning and enjoying the sunny weather. Unfortunately, when coming down the 9th I caught half of the ball with the toe of my 7 iron and an open face (uncharacteristic because I typically hook bad shots these days!!). It went very high and sliced off to the right massively as you would expect, heading towards the 10th fairway. There is a spine of mounds, covered in trees, between the 9th and 10th fairway and I shouted 'fore' since I could see that the ball would clear them.

I walked over the mounds looking for my ball to find, without meaning to be disrespectful, a group of 4 older members. 3 of them walked off and one of them shouted at me 'a shout of 'fore' would have been nice!'.

I explained that I had shouted fore and perhaps they hadn't heard me because it was relatively windy (there were gusts but not enough to stop someone from hearing a shout of 'fore'; I'm a relatively polite person and thought that suggesting they didn't hear me due to their age would have been rude...). The guy wasn't having any of it, basically called me a liar and said he was going to report me in the club house.

What would you have done in that situation? I ended up just thanking him for pointing out my ball location and walked off. It really annoyed me and spoiled the round; I just finished the hole, went to my car and drove home - didn't bother with the back 9.

Thoughts?
 
Put it down to experience and walk on.. Sometimes people get a bit shook up by a ball landing nearby and react accordingly.. Make your apologies politely and play on.. It'll happen to you at some point as well.. :thup:
 
bigslice said:
it wouldnt have bothered me one bit, you hit a ball in the wrong direction and shouted fore, nothing else you can do or say
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Agree entirely. Sounds like you were polite in your apology and ensuing conversation, but I would have carried on playing the back nine. It's one of those things that happens, and it sounds like you didn't hit any of them, so his annoyance is potentially misplaced. However, there's another thread on here where the OP hit 240 yards uphill into the wind to a blind green and made the front edge. When he got chewed out by one of the fourball, it transpired that the guy had almost been hit twice previously there. You can rarely know the other person's reasons for behaviour unless you delve deeper.

If you'd done that to me, I'd have simply said, "Oh, okay. We obviously didin't hear you with the wind. No harm done. Enjoy your round", as I almost always do. Once time, I did suggest they could shout a little louder, as it was pretty windy, but I'll always accept an apology.
 
I think everyone should have an air horn....if you hit a bad shot then you must honk the air horn continuously until the ball lands.(*)













(*) I may or may not be joking.
 
Sadly there are some people (and far too many of them seem to frequent golf courses) who just love the opportunity to put someone to rights. Be it the situation here where there was an honest an genuine reason for a perceived lack of etiquette or whether it is an untucked shirt, the wrong socks or any one of a number of reasons, there are people who just live for the opportunity to put someone in their place.

Just let it slide, take the moral high ground and walk away.
 
It would have annoyed me too. At a 'drive-able' par 4 15th on a course last year we'd been behind a very slow foursome for ages and had another foursome that had caught us up waiting on the same tee as us. The group in front finished out the 15th eventually and went to the 16th tee area - about 30 yards right of the 15th Green. Annoyingly they left their 2 carts beside the green of the 15th. I debated taking my tee shot but my partner told me to go ahead as I've never driven the green before anyway - of course caught it well, went straight, thought it felt long and shouted 'fore'. Landed just right of green, clear of the carts and well clear of the foursome. Partner teed of and sliced well short and right. After his second we got to the 15th green to find one of the four sitting in his cart to tell us (really me) off. I apologized (I was annoyed I did so afterwards) pointed out there's a backlog, that all his group were on the tee of the 16th and that I shouted fore. He pointed out the carts were still there and in future wait until everything was clear. I said I would, and with a huge smile on my faced asked did he know where my ball actually went because I never hit it that far.... it was beyond the green!

Last laugh was his though as he then drove 30 yards to the right where his 3 partners were waiting for him to tee off on the 16th which meant we had to wait for them to 'clear' the last three holes and hold everyone up longer.
 
GB72 said:
Sadly there are some people (and far too many of them seem to frequent golf courses) who just love the opportunity to put someone to rights. Be it the situation here where there was an honest an genuine reason for a perceived lack of etiquette or whether it is an untucked shirt, the wrong socks or any one of a number of reasons, there are people who just live for the opportunity to put someone in their place.
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There called seniors :eek:

:whistle:
 
rksquire said:
It would have annoyed me too. At a 'drive-able' par 4 15th on a course last year we'd been behind a very slow foursome for ages and had another foursome that had caught us up waiting on the same tee as us. The group in front finished out the 15th eventually and went to the 16th tee area - about 30 yards right of the 15th Green. Annoyingly they left their 2 carts beside the green of the 15th. I debated taking my tee shot but my partner told me to go ahead as I've never driven the green before anyway - of course caught it well, went straight, thought it felt long and shouted 'fore'. Landed just right of green, clear of the carts and well clear of the foursome. Partner teed of and sliced well short and right. After his second we got to the 15th green to find one of the four sitting in his cart to tell us (really me) off. I apologized (I was annoyed I did so afterwards) pointed out there's a backlog, that all his group were on the tee of the 16th and that I shouted fore. He pointed out the carts were still there and in future wait until everything was clear. I said I would, and with a huge smile on my faced asked did he know where my ball actually went because I never hit it that far.... it was beyond the green!

Last laugh was his though as he then drove 30 yards to the right where his 3 partners were waiting for him to tee off on the 16th which meant we had to wait for them to 'clear' the last three holes and hold everyone up longer.
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So he wanted you to wait on the tee on the par 4 15th huole, until they had finished teeing off on the 16th?
Completely daft, and I would have told him so.
 
i would have apologised again, sincerely expressing my regret that i hadn't managed to hit him and that I'd hopefully get him another time.
 
I don't usually let things get to me but this really irritated me. Was just one of those 'I can't be bothered with this' moments. One of the main reasons I didn't continue the back 9 was because I had the group of 4 seniors in front of me, the only reason they had been near the landing point of my poor shot was because all 4 of them had duffed their tee shots 40 yards off the tee on the 10th and from the vibe I was getting I didn't think the chances of them letting me through were particularly high.
 
Should have just chinned him, and said " report that"!

only kidding, it doesn't matter how loud you shout sometimes someone won't hear you! In Health and Safety terms you did "everything reasonably practicable" to ensure their safety.

I did have a chuckle today when some "ramblers" were crossing a pathway on our course (legitimately) only for a fourball of seniors to shout fore at them to hurry them up, they gave them the WTF you lot on about look and and carried on rambling more to the annoyance of seniors!
 
Scooby999 said:
Should have just chinned him, and said " report that"!

only kidding, it doesn't matter how loud you shout sometimes someone won't hear you! In Health and Safety terms you did "everything reasonably practicable" to ensure their safety.

I did have a chuckle today when some "ramblers" were crossing a pathway on our course (legitimately) only for a fourball of seniors to shout fore at them to hurry them up, they gave them the WTF you lot on about look and and carried on rambling more to the annoyance of seniors!
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I actually worry about this as we have a few holes with footpaths on the Belton estate just outside the course. Easy to hook a ball and hit a walker but the walkers have no idea what a shout of fore means and just keep going. Needs signs to explain in my opinion
 
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