What is the strangest thing you have seen on the course?

[madandra]

I bumped into a guy I used to play golf with a few years back and he reminded me of a game we had at Strathclyde Muni about 8 years ago and when we were on the 6th tee, he was having a cigar whilst we talked about life I said to him

YOUR HONOUR

to which he replied

I WILL JUST WAIT FOR THAT RACE HORSE TO GET THE F**K OUT MY WAY FIRST !!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a surreal moment until we realised their was a race meet on at Hamilton Park races which is at the 7th green and it had obviously made a bid for freedom. The best part was, a couple of minutes after the horse came past the wee jockey came up and asked

'You seen a horse?'

and my mate replied without missing a beat

'what? ever? of course I have ya knob'

So, what is the strangest or daftest thing you have ever came across on the course ????????

 

[Atticus_Finch]

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

 

[MVP]

CLASSIC !!!!!!!!!! thats well good atticus proper BO!!!

 

[John_Findlay]

Michelle Wie breaking 80? Seriously.

No. It would have to be when I was playing Nairn when I was a junior. A rabbit ran over the fairway and my pal thought it would be a laugh to try and frighten the wee thing by sending his umbrella towards it, javelin style....

....you can guess the rest. The poor guy has never recovered..... although he's still much luckier than the rabbit.

 

[John_Findlay]

Can I change my answer?

Just remembered that I've had to play over a crocodile pit at one of the par 3's at the Lost City Course in Sun City.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONRhSnMs_BQ

My playing partner put his first ball straight in...and then asked our joint caddie to go in and get it. Ahh, he worked for his money that day.

 

[brendy]

Couple of horses grazing on the fringe of gilnahirks 6th green, the big bollocks's had trampled all over the green too. Took months to recover the fairway alone.

 

[pjaz]

Was heading for the 18th last summer when I saw two guys heading for the 18th (from the 2nd? Guess they hadn't paid) but they were dressed in trainers, shorts and running vests - which may not have been a bad thing but they were about 5'8 and 16 stone. Pushing it even for a municipal!!!!

 

[rgs]

Not seen but related by a good golfing friend of mine,he was playing Hollywood Lakes in North County Dublin, a young cygnet was attempting to fly and decided to run down a slope and take off-he duly ran and flapped his wings but at the last minute put on the brakes and stopped. He then walke back up the slope with his head down as if he was sulking.

 

[Atticus_Finch]

Not seen but related by a good golfing friend of mine,he was playing Hollywood Lakes in North County Dublin, a young cygnet was attempting to fly and decided to run down a slope and take off-he duly ran and flapped his wings but at the last minute put on the brakes and stopped. He then walke back up the slope with his head down as if he was sulking.

Love it. That put a trememdous image in my head.
The poultry equivalent of Monty if you like.

 

[rgs]

Atticus appartently all golfers near by stopped and peed themselves.

 

[RGuk]

Two very sweet Japanese girls were playing in front of us once; on the first - one girl took two or three nice practice swings, then hit the ball, with a rather weird noise????

We (and the amassed folks waiting to tee off) all looked down the fairway, expecting to see a ball come down from the sky in the middle of the fairway.

but,

the plastic tee box started spining round and round in circles across the tee....her titleist did 1,000 revolutions in the pyramid shaped tee box!!!

"and there's more...."

at Silvermere (public course??) Surrey, a couple of little tikes came riding across the hole on their bikes, followed by a greenkeeper on a cart, followed by the Police!!! (in a range rover!!!)
In Surrey they must take rescuing titleists out of the lakes very seriously!!!

Dave

 

[RGuk]

Atticus.....it's not that unknown for a real man to wear pink!


Is that a green bronze statue half way down the hole??

Good shot b.t.w. - is the statue the marker? (I'd bet you hit a fade???)

Dave

 

[madandra]

but they were dressed in trainers, shorts and running vests -

I am guessing their scores were as follows


118
118

Geddit

 

[medwayjon]

JF Like your comments on Michelle Wie!

The strangest thing I have ever seen on a golf course was last year on the short course at Upchurch. A couple had parked up in a cutting on the road that runs parallel to the 5th fairway. They had decided to venture onto the course for a bit of al-fresco sexual intercourse in the rough. What was stranger still is that they were both a minumum of 55 years old.

This was quite an unpleasant sight, I can still see in my deeply repressed memory of that day, the image of his wrinkly lilywhite arse in the air. Fortunately she was still relatively clothed.

I also have seen rabbits having sex on many occasions, it is so stange as they do it so fast they literally become a blur.

 

[birdieman]

Atticus.....it's not that unknown for a real man to wear pink!


Is that a green bronze statue half way down the hole??

Good shot b.t.w. - is the statue the marker? (I'd bet you hit a fade???)

Dave

Come on Dave get with the program, it's Junior wearing the golfing fashion faux pas, not Atticus, he's pinched the offending pic from another post!!

 

[robin]

At Tilgate Forest my friend put his apple down to play a shot and a crow flew in and took the apple. Great laughs alround and 'core' what a shot he played!

A friend said that whilst playing at Banff< Canada < he had to wait for a moose to leave a bunker where his drive had landed before he could play!

 

[Toad]

Was playing with a couple of friends Colin and Calum in the Whitemoss gents open, and on the 8th hole there is a 2 foot wall 30 yards in front of the tee when my mate Colin hit his tee shot into the wall it came straight back 20 feet in the air and ended up 40 yards or so behind us.
The lucky begger then hit a great 3 wood chippped on then putted out for a par.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Was playing a society day at Ashdown Forest. We were playing the the last par 3 (think it was the 16th or 17th on the old course) and my mate had the honour.

He hit his shot thin and fired it straight into the concrete marker post on the ladies tee. It hit flush flew straight past his head (at the speed it was travelling no doubt it would have killed him outright) and ran all the way back across the fairway behind into the light rough.

After we had stopped laughing he asked what the ruling was. As it was only a bit of fun and none of our group had a sniff at any prize we told him as we could see it it had to be played.

Therefore his 2nd shot on a 180ish par 3 after already playing 3 iron was a 3 wood. In the end he played 3 iron, 3 wood 5 iron, and a 9 iron and a chip on to make the green in 5 and then proceeded to 3 putt missing a tiny one from around 6 inches

The only other thing that came close was watching my mate play at Sunningdale Ladies. It is only a short track but he was getting soooooo frustrated. He was only hitting a 9 iron but stood there throttling it to pieces. He took this most extraordinary slow deliberate but unusually long swing thrashed at the ball and literally swung himself off his feet and collapsed in a heap on the ground next to his divot and stationary ball.

 

[USER1999]

Have to go with sex too. Had a young couple 'going at it hammer and tongs' between our fourth green and the 11th fairway. Totally oblivious to us playing through.

Also, in the semis of our four ball knock out comp, an indian familly was having a picnic in the middle of the 17th fairway. They refused to move, or admit that they were on private property.

 

[viscount17]

sex with a difference!

Spring - pheasants, ducks, geese etc are all frisky - 11th fairway (must be something about them) - cock pheasant has chosen the tee as his demo space and is frantically trying to attract the attention of a hen. To his frustration, she has been seduced by a peacock! I think he spent all day trying to cosy up only to be continually warded off.