What is it with some people?

[HawkeyeMS]

I finished work early today so went down to te club for a bit of practice. I played each hole with one ball as I waned to get as many holes as I could before dark but when I got to the green rather than putt I chucked 2 balls into the fringe to work on my chipping.

Everything was fine until I got to the 6th. I'd hit my tee shot through the green so chucked my second ball into the rough. I chipped the first to about 2 feet and followed it with the second to about 6 inches when I hear a female voice shouting at me "excuse me, excuse me!" i was a bit surprised to hear anyone as I hadn't realised there was anyone else on the course. I look up and there's four ladies walking off the 17th. "You're only allowed to play one ball". I was very close to saying something but instead I just turned away and went to retrieve my balls. Then she says "It is in the rules"

Now I'm not kidding the course was empty. There was no-one behind me and I suspect very few people between me and them 11 holes ahead of me, so why in god's name did it matter if I chipped two balls, and more importantly what did it matter to her?

I do wonder whether some people have got nothing better to do.

 

[FG_HOOR]

Some people just think it's within their rights to be pompus a***holes!

 

[garyinderry]

here here. its attitudes like that that drive people away from golf!

 

[BTatHome]

Hat #1
She was totally correct. Most courses will employ a no practicing on the course rule. Saves your course from being ripped up from people hitting 3 balls from the same place and creating divots everywhere.

Hat #2
FFS !!
I hope you continued once they turned their back

 

[DeeJay]

Some people have nothing better to do to be honest, they love nothing more than a crazy little power trip.

 

[Oddsocks]

Easy way out, " I have an imaginary friend, we are having a sociable 2 ball dear "

 

[FG_HOOR]

The no practice on the course rule is a load of rubbish. She has a case to fight if you were hitting 80 yard shots but from around the green out the rough?

 

[macca64]

Was there a big queue behind them?

 

[sawtooth]

Quite entitled to play a provisional arent you?

 

[HawkeyeMS]

FFS !!
I hope you continued once they turned their back

The very next hole

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Quite entitled to play a provisional arent you?

Ha ha, that's exactly what I nearly said to her. Kind of wish I had now

 

[Lump]

I would have ignored her and gave her the thousand yard stare before carrying on.
Its still winter, its mid week and you said the course was quiet...miserable bint!

 

[trevor]

Yes but rules are rules. You can't alter them to suit yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[fundy]

just tell them to concentrate on their own game and youll do the same, that or tell her to do one

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Yes but rules are rules. You can't alter them to suit yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wasn't altering them, I was apparently breaking them :whoo:

 

[moogie]

My Pal was 'Scolded' for the same thing last year, by the Club President...........!!! :angry:

My Pal was LIVID
7pm last summer , course empty
No Harm Done.........SURELY...........??

 

[duncan mackie]

I wasn't altering them, I was apparently breaking them :whoo:

were you breaking them?

 

[HawkeyeMS]

were you breaking them?

Apparently

 

[Richardb1012302]

As a new golfer its people like them that scare you away from the course, some people are just compete mugs and think golf is just for them.

 

[swanny32]

You should have said, "Do you know what 'golf' stands for?" That would have really ticked her off!

Honestly, I don't know why people do it, I can understand if the course was busy, but when it's dead.....stop being a pompous idiot. People like her are the reason so many people don't bother signing up at clubs or taking up the sport all together.

My club doesn't have a "no practising on the course" rule and the pro openly encourages people to play 2 or 3 balls especially inside 100 yards, obviously only when the course is empty. If they kicked people off for doing such a thing I'd have been kicked off within 10 minutes of signing up as a member!