Temper Temper...

[Smiffy]

When I first started playing I used to be a club thrower. Threw a brand new 2 iron I had just bought over somebodys back garden once and lost it...which made me even madder. I calmed down a bit once I joined a club and began playing with people I didn't know and can't remember the last time I actually threw a club. I occasionally lob my putter towards my bag if I three putt but do it underarm and fairly gently so don't class this as an act of temper lol!!
Stupidest thing I have ever done was practice swinging on the first tee on a course in Brighton, swishing my three wood around out of harms way. I turned around without looking up and took another practice swing without realising there was a chain link fence all around the back of the tee. My graphite shaft sounded like a rifle shot going off as it hit it, and the head of the club whistled about 30 yards into some trees....knob!

 

[USER1999]

Well I've broken putters, wedges, irons, drivers, utilities, in fact just about every club in the bag. I have even lost a putter up a tree.

Just the way it is. Most of the time I am patience personnified, but sometimes, it all gets the better of me.

I would like to think I am mellowing as I get older, but not totally sure.

 

[WGC2]

A high green on my course is ideal for taking out the rage as you can lob your ball off the cliff and it all fizzles away..... I used to throw the club when I played the par 3 courses but thats out of the question now.

 

[Teeshot]

Worst I've done so far is throw a ball up in the air after 3 putting a birdie opportunity, to then "baseball bat it" with the old putter!
Best thing was, I probably hit it further than my drives that day...
Still, temper is well under control compared to my days on the tennis court a few years hence- I used to smash a new racket almost monthly (no joke)

 

[Herbie]

Very good fella, I once played with a guy that said he had to get a new putter and when asked why he said his last one didnt float. I'll swear Ive seen that quote on the internet somewhere before though.

That just cracked me up!

 

[Herbie]

A high green on my course is ideal for taking out the rage as you can lob your ball off the cliff and it all fizzles away..... I used to throw the club when I played the par 3 courses but thats out of the question now.

 

[Herbie]

Well I've broken putters, wedges, irons, drivers, utilities, in fact just about every club in the bag. I have even lost a putter up a tree.

Just the way it is. Most of the time I am patience personnified, but sometimes, it all gets the better of me.

I would like to think I am mellowing as I get older, but not totally sure.

And you wonder why the pro shop staff snigger and call you names before every round lol.

 

[USER1999]

You know, they don't. They have seen everything before. You know the day I am not passionate about golf will be the day I give it up. Anyway, why would they laugh and call me names, they need people like me, I provide them a living. Without me, they are minding a shop.

Herb, get real, custom is custom, and if you despise your customers you don't have a business.

 

[DCB]

Played with a workmate who wrapped his 3 iron round his golfbag. The bottle of IrnBru in the clothing pocket instantly decided not to be a bottle anymore and my mate walked down the next few holes dribbling IrnBru all over the course.

 

[USER1999]

So how bad would that be, it is muck anyway! But you might stain your bag with it.

 

[brendy]

Herb, get real, custom is custom, and if you despise your customers you don't have a business.

Exactly, who are they going to sell that 3 iron to, or reshaft that driver, or fish the putter out of the tree at the back of the 18th green
In my first year of golf I can now remember one incident where I was a club chucker (tm)I did it on a long par 4 and hit such a horrible hook, off it went like a chopper rotor easily 80 yards up the fairway, a playing partner did the same at the next and I vowed never to do it again as it looked rediculous. I still beat myself up for a moment or two after a bad shot but then its business as usual.

 

[DCB]

IrnBru is apparently an insurance companys nightmare. If you spill it on the carpet it doesn't clean out properly even with professional cleaning tecniques. Imagine staining a hallowed green with that stuff!

 

[USER1999]

Or your favourite golf bag, way worse!