Tantrums on the course

Getting annoyed when hitting a bad shot (everybody has a different version of bad remember) is completely normal,but if your outburst is so bad it bothers your playing partners,you need to have a word with yourself.I chunter under my breath when i hit a bad shot out of the blue,but its never loud enough for my playing partners to hear,and i'd never even contemplate throwing a club.
 
When i was a junior i used to be quite bad for throwing a wobbly. Snapped my pw in half after clearing a green from a fairway bunker around my trolley. But now i put a bad shot behind me and just think im more than capable to birdie every single hole on the course so get the shot back within the next 2/3 holes
 
I try to stay as calm as I can. If I make a birdie or screw up and get a double or triple, I try to act the same. Getting over excited never helps. My only hole in one was followed by a terrible round.

Also I disagree that throwing a tantrum doesn't affect other players. I was playing in a medal a few weeks ago and one of my partners 4 putted from 3 feet including a double hit. He was so angry afterwards that it affected me (added to the pressure to speed up from behind) that I wasn't calm and missed a short putt for par.

Also an interesting story about the best golfer at my club. I was playing with him one day and he was about 18 at the time. He got so angry over a short putt that he smacked the ground and took a huge divot out of the green. He told me not to tell anyone, I didn't, but soon after he was banned from the club for a couple of months. He now plays off -1, I think overcoming his tantrums must be one of the reasons.
 
I use to be pretty bad as a kid. These days there seem to be more bad days than good and so as long as there is one good shot to remember the round by I'll write it off and wait for the next round and try again. I still have the odd cuss but the days of proper helicoptering of clubs are behind me (I hope)
 
I'd like to think I'm very composed after a bad shot, though I do sometimes have a scream in my head! I came close to tears last year during a bounce game with a mate as my game literally disappeared for the first 6 holes. I didn't shout or throw any clubs but was a really sulky bugger. A horrible feeling, so now I tend to laugh things off and accept I'm not good enough to get that upset :D
 
I used to play with and Army chap, he was always losing it, during one round he chucked his putter into a pond, broke a wedge over his knee and chucked a 9 irin into another pond.

I manage a few swears now and again.
 
pbrown7582 said:
used to have hissy fit and tantrums but have stooped now and will curse myself (call myself allsorts mainly what everyone else says anyway)

but thats it these days
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I call myself a fat bast@rd... Strangely i feel better
for saying it!
 
after helicoptering my driver up a tree (it took forever to come back down), kicking my trolley over causing 2 buckles to snap and giving the hole a v sign and a few choice words, I have actually managed to calm down considerably

I still call myself names and can be heard muttering expletives but I am improving, honestly I am :)
 
I know a lot of people don't believe that there's anything to all this talk of the mental game, but for those that do...

Strong emotions help to reinforce a memory. For all those that have recounted stories in this thread, do you think you would still remember the shots now if you hadn't reacted the way you did? Why would you want to remember those shots? Especially when you come to a similar situation.

There is a guy who plays off about 5 I think where I play. He has such a bad temper that he often has to reshaft his driver.
I played with him once and he was telling me he's just reshafted all 3 of his woods as he broke them all the week before.
Another time he walked off after 6 holes even though he was level par. Apparently having to scramble all those pars wasn't proper golf and he'd had enough! :mad:
 
There was a story at my place many many years ago about the chap that threw his entire set into the pond right of the 4th green. Then realised his car keys were in the bag.
As for me I gave up club abuse many years ago - but am still prone to an outburst of Tourrettes - in the right company of course!
 
Region3 said:
I know a lot of people don't believe that there's anything to all this talk of the mental game, but for those that do...

Strong emotions help to reinforce a memory. For all those that have recounted stories in this thread, do you think you would still remember the shots now if you hadn't reacted the way you did? Why would you want to remember those shots? Especially when you come to a similar situation.

There is a guy who plays off about 5 I think where I play. He has such a bad temper that he often has to reshaft his driver.
I played with him once and he was telling me he's just reshafted all 3 of his woods as he broke them all the week before.
Another time he walked off after 6 holes even though he was level par. Apparently having to scramble all those pars wasn't proper golf and he'd had enough! :mad:
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what a dick ! :rofl:
 
I used to be a club chucker, I'm more of a "tosser" now........
My putter is the most likely candidate to get tossed, (or helicoptered), back towards my bag, accompanied by an expletive or two. The long irons "sometimes" go through it, and my sand wedge has been known to take a trip through the air but this is very rare. My Driver and woods vex me occasionally, but I tend to keep my temper under control when these are in my mitts.
I no longer carry hybrids as they didn't do my blood pressure any good at all.
 
gotta admit i love it when a club chucker throws a club and the shaft bends or smashes (once it starts hurting there pocket they might think again) and i think it does cause a bad atmosphere in a group,not nice when 3 people are trying to play normally and 1 bloke is raging, well all get upset and nobody wants to play like a donkey but its all about controlled aggression,and if you carnt control it ,golf aint the game for you, go try rugby or boxing when something might hit you back instead of a poor defenceless club,


the darts other night that paul nicholson was punching the wall after he got beat,looked a complete tosser, now to me thats prob the equivalant to a club chucker looks on a golf course
 
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