what "flips your lid"....

"the date is Saturday 25th November, the course is closed. there will be an inspection on Monday 27th at 9a.m. !"


nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :mad:
 
Gareth said:
The point is they are no where near hitting them or the green.Even if they hit a worldy of a mid iron, there is no way they are going to hit it 250 yards (Again, Swinger and Pieman accepted)

Look at it this way. If they are playing a 500 yards par 5. The hit an average drive at 230, they hit there 7 iron 160, that's 390 total. They are still 110'ish yards short of the green. I doubt the people putting out would even be aware the ball has landed behind them.

You see it all the time on tour where Pros lay up into par 5's while the other group is putting out so I see no reason why us mere mortals cannot follow suit.

Manners, as far as I'm concerned has nothing to do with it. It's people who stand 250 yards from a par 5 green with a mid iron in hand waiting for the green to clear, "just in case they get it there" who hold other people up. While very true they may create a gap between themselves and the group in front, the cause havoc for the groups behind.

Slow play, I think we all agree, is a curse of the game. If the chap has a 3 wood in hand, I could understand him waiting, but a mid iron :mad: . Know your yardages, play your lay up, keep the course moving. Simple :thup:
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You must have impressive eyesight to be able to see a player 230 yards away is holding a mid iron
 
Where do I start?

What really gets me is people who turn up to golf courses in a car that they are driving themselves. Do they give their chaffeur a day off? on a weekend?

And then they change their own shoes, in the car park. If you ask me, and I am pretty confident you have, this is just dispicable behaviour and something that I am going to campaign to no. 10 about.

It seems that these same individuals give the same leniency to their caddies as they do to their chaffeurs as they are no where to be seen. What sort of bafoon carries their own clubs round the golf course? Pah!

To make matters worse I will often overhear these people complaining about things during their rounds. Things like 'oh it's too hot', well go for a swim in your garden pool before you get here ... just like I did! I mean we all have pools for a reason.

It seems that many people who play at my golf course tend to shoot bogies on most holes. The thing is they don't understand where to hit the ball, you see the trick is you can often get a fantastic angle into the green if you hit your ball straight down the fairway next to you rather than aiming at your own. So whilst I am walking past the group playing the hole ahead of me they often say 'a four would have been nice!' well what did you shoot old boy, this is stroke index 17! chortle, chortle

I do like it though that many of the golfers are friendly, probably because they saw me pull up in my Bentley and they think I might give them a job, but they are always waving at us when we play our shots over to them. I do feel that my next business venture in town should be to build a good opticians as people are often saying 'you mustn't have seen me!', well actually I did old boy and I hit such a wonderful shot that I missed you by inches, if you could see that far you will have noticed I was aiming pretty much straight at you.

Well I tell you what, the other day Rufus was in the bunker and oh my word it took him 15 minutes to get out and you should have seen the mess he left in there... the group behind couldn't believe how he managed to get out either as they were all shaking their heads at the bunker by the time they got there.

Oh and then there was Edmund who waited a full 15 minutes for the green to clear on the long par 5 after his 250 tee shot. He was really letting them loose that day so we had to wait as there was a slight wind which could help him get a flier. The group behind seemed rather animated and couldn't wait for him to hit his ball. Well anyway, funny story, after the group had cleared he took a full swing with his 7 iron and was still a 7 iron away... oh how we laughed and the group behind were animated even more so.

Well the next time we had that problem Edmund just didn't wait as it was obvious he wasn't going to make it to the green in two with his fairway wood. Well blow me, he really caught it and it rolled straight through the green as some ghastly dressed golfer was putting out - he was head to toe in Orange garb, said something about looking like Richard Fowler, then moved on. He must need need a new putter as he was complaning about the weight on that one.

Well that's enough from me but I really hope golf clubs stop letting any old player on to the course, my Bentley looked ridiculous next to the old banger that pulled up next to it.

My grandson told me to say this; Hashtag get a grip grandad
 
londonlewis said:
Where do I start?

What really gets me is people who turn up to golf courses in a car that they are driving themselves. Do they give their chaffeur a day off? on a weekend?

And then they change their own shoes, in the car park. If you ask me, and I am pretty confident you have, this is just dispicable behaviour and something that I am going to campaign to no. 10 about.

It seems that these same individuals give the same leniency to their caddies as they do to their chaffeurs as they are no where to be seen. What sort of bafoon carries their own clubs round the golf course? Pah!

To make matters worse I will often overhear these people complaining about things during their rounds. Things like 'oh it's too hot', well go for a swim in your garden pool before you get here ... just like I did! I mean we all have pools for a reason.

It seems that many people who play at my golf course tend to shoot bogies on most holes. The thing is they don't understand where to hit the ball, you see the trick is you can often get a fantastic angle into the green if you hit your ball straight down the fairway next to you rather than aiming at your own. So whilst I am walking past the group playing the hole ahead of me they often say 'a four would have been nice!' well what did you shoot old boy, this is stroke index 17! chortle, chortle

I do like it though that many of the golfers are friendly, probably because they saw me pull up in my Bentley and they think I might give them a job, but they are always waving at us when we play our shots over to them. I do feel that my next business venture in town should be to build a good opticians as people are often saying 'you mustn't have seen me!', well actually I did old boy and I hit such a wonderful shot that I missed you by inches, if you could see that far you will have noticed I was aiming pretty much straight at you.

Well I tell you what, the other day Rufus was in the bunker and oh my word it took him 15 minutes to get out and you should have seen the mess he left in there... the group behind couldn't believe how he managed to get out either as they were all shaking their heads at the bunker by the time they got there.

Oh and then there was Edmund who waited a full 15 minutes for the green to clear on the long par 5 after his 250 tee shot. He was really letting them loose that day so we had to wait as there was a slight wind which could help him get a flier. The group behind seemed rather animated and couldn't wait for him to hit his ball. Well anyway, funny story, after the group had cleared he took a full swing with his 7 iron and was still a 7 iron away... oh how we laughed and the group behind were animated even more so.

Well the next time we had that problem Edmund just didn't wait as it was obvious he wasn't going to make it to the green in two with his fairway wood. Well blow me, he really caught it and it rolled straight through the green as some ghastly dressed golfer was putting out - he was head to toe in Orange garb, said something about looking like Richard Fowler, then moved on. He must need need a new putter as he was complaning about the weight on that one.

Well that's enough from me but I really hope golf clubs stop letting any old player on to the course, my Bentley looked ridiculous next to the old banger that pulled up next to it.

My grandson told me to say this; Hashtag get a grip grandad
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Part of me died reading this
#WhileWereYoung
 
londonlewis said:
Where do I start?

What really gets me is people who turn up to golf courses in a car that they are driving themselves. Do they give their chaffeur a day off? on a weekend?

And then they change their own shoes, in the car park. If you ask me, and I am pretty confident you have, this is just dispicable behaviour and something that I am going to campaign to no. 10 about.

It seems that these same individuals give the same leniency to their caddies as they do to their chaffeurs as they are no where to be seen. What sort of bafoon carries their own clubs round the golf course? Pah!

To make matters worse I will often overhear these people complaining about things during their rounds. Things like 'oh it's too hot', well go for a swim in your garden pool before you get here ... just like I did! I mean we all have pools for a reason.

It seems that many people who play at my golf course tend to shoot bogies on most holes. The thing is they don't understand where to hit the ball, you see the trick is you can often get a fantastic angle into the green if you hit your ball straight down the fairway next to you rather than aiming at your own. So whilst I am walking past the group playing the hole ahead of me they often say 'a four would have been nice!' well what did you shoot old boy, this is stroke index 17! chortle, chortle

I do like it though that many of the golfers are friendly, probably because they saw me pull up in my Bentley and they think I might give them a job, but they are always waving at us when we play our shots over to them. I do feel that my next business venture in town should be to build a good opticians as people are often saying 'you mustn't have seen me!', well actually I did old boy and I hit such a wonderful shot that I missed you by inches, if you could see that far you will have noticed I was aiming pretty much straight at you.

Well I tell you what, the other day Rufus was in the bunker and oh my word it took him 15 minutes to get out and you should have seen the mess he left in there... the group behind couldn't believe how he managed to get out either as they were all shaking their heads at the bunker by the time they got there.

Oh and then there was Edmund who waited a full 15 minutes for the green to clear on the long par 5 after his 250 tee shot. He was really letting them loose that day so we had to wait as there was a slight wind which could help him get a flier. The group behind seemed rather animated and couldn't wait for him to hit his ball. Well anyway, funny story, after the group had cleared he took a full swing with his 7 iron and was still a 7 iron away... oh how we laughed and the group behind were animated even more so.

Well the next time we had that problem Edmund just didn't wait as it was obvious he wasn't going to make it to the green in two with his fairway wood. Well blow me, he really caught it and it rolled straight through the green as some ghastly dressed golfer was putting out - he was head to toe in Orange garb, said something about looking like Richard Fowler, then moved on. He must need need a new putter as he was complaning about the weight on that one.

Well that's enough from me but I really hope golf clubs stop letting any old player on to the course, my Bentley looked ridiculous next to the old banger that pulled up next to it.

My grandson told me to say this; Hashtag get a grip grandad
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:clap: :clap: :clap:
 
Gareth said:
The only thing that annoys me when I play the game is people waiting on the fairway.

On a short par 4, I have no issue if there are players on the green. But when hitting into par 4's and 5's especailly some of the longer ones, they stand in the middle of the fairway waiting for the green ahead to clear with a mid iron in their hand :mad:

Now, I'm sorry, but If you are playing a 500+ yard par 5, a drive and a 7 iron for most players isn't going to get you there (Pieman and Swinger accepted :D ). When the green clears, they hit there shot, find themselves a full iron shot short of the green and then stand in the fairway discussing "How could I be that short???", then amble away to their ball.

Play your lay up and keep the course moving. Either that or pull your 3 wood and give it a proper chance.

That's he only thing that narks me on the course.
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Same here. All it needs are a couple of 4 balls to start doing this all the time and you are then looking at 5 hour rounds. I think some of it may be down to people just getting professionally angry a lot more.

I played the other week and hit a few shots that I knew were going to land 40 or 50 yards short of the green just because of the club I was hitting. And I kept getting the skunk eye from the 4 ball in front of me who were on the greens. They were not particularly slow and I was not trying to hurry them up, but just keep up with play. Which I would argue I was doing.
 
RollinThunder said:
Players with an inflated view of their own ability and or importance. Those who half-way through a round, start complaining about how last week they could do this, and were doing that. In a competition a guy in my fourball pulled me to the side half-way through a round and said "I'm not normally this bad you know, I'm having very bad luck, you have to understand that, you've got to understand !"

It does my tree in. We all have good and bad rounds, but just shut up and get on with it !
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Agree with this wholeheartedly, although I've no doubt been guilty of it myself on the odd occasion... my thinking would be, 'I already know you can't be that bad normally or your handicap wouldn't be what it is!'
 
mikee247 said:
Drivers ( I could think of another description...) on motorways who insist on sticking in the middle lane at 68 mph.........:angry: You would not believe the influence this has on traffic jams and hold ups.... its been mentioned on air and over the TV so many times but thousands still do it!!...
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Thought that was an Austrian idiosyncrasy :smirk:

On the golfcourse: fellow competitors commenting on every single stoke. hold your tongues, lads and keep the "nice shot" for the really good ones. I appreciate it
 
People who don't follow their ball until it comes to rest then realise they have no idea where it finished and have to ask you where it is.

A regular playing partner used to do this. He wasnt very good and would more often than not miss the fairway. As soon as he saw it was heading for the rough he would turn away and go and put his club back in his bag then turn around and not have a clue where his ball went. He eventually got the message after lots of shouting after each tee shot.
 
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