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Whats the most Hilarious or worst shot you have witnessed?

Herbie

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I couldnt resist this one, I can think of several in this catagory.
Fist one was an old boy on first tee of his first comp.
Addressed his ball, majestic back swing with a smooth attractive swing.................Off the toe, hit the yellow tee marker about 10 yds ahead, shot back causing synchronised duck and twist of all 4 players in the group, followed by the synchronised sudden shrug as the ball clouted a passing car from nearby farm and bounced OOB at rear of 9th green, then after recovery from the aftermath, made his way back to the tee, where 3 players moved as one to the far right of the tee, whereupon he drove off hitting a tree and landing in a pond! Taking his 5th shot just about 100yds ahead of the 1st tee in light rough. lmao.

I would have gone home lol. :D
 

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Years ago at the first club I ever joined I was playing with an ex workmate, mate and my brother, the ex workmate who couldn't hit a cow up the arse with a banjo was last up on the 6th teebox with a small ditch running beside and ahead of the teebox for 50 yards with a black plastic dustbin. He managed to thin the driver which went like a scalded cat straight at it and burst through the side and stopped inside. We were doubled over and let the fellas behind us play through as we were weak from laughing.
 

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4 of us turned up a club in Oxfordshire to play a social round. As we walked to the 1st tee there were 2 ladies just about to play. They insisted that we played first as they would probably hold us up so we got going. The first 3 of us tee'd of no problem and then came JR - an ex-army sergeant with the power of 3 bulls. He'd just got the brand new Mizuno T-Zoid Driver (shows you how long ago it was!) and he was aching to let rip.

As he addressed the ball I thought to myself that he'd tee'd the ball up awfully high but before I had time to do anything he'd taken an almighty swish. His finish pose was classic - the ball went 20 yards in the air and landed down the cleavage of one of the women who had positioned themselves 10 yards behind us.

I was on my knees and to say we just wet ourselves laughing is the understatement of the century - even the Secretary came out to see what all the noise was about.

JR went the kind on red normally associated with the Special K models dresses and was very quiet once we managed to pull ourselves together.

And I think the lady had her eye on him as she asked him if he wanted to get his ball back.........
 

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4 of us turned up a club in Oxfordshire to play a social round. As we walked to the 1st tee there were 2 ladies just about to play. They insisted that we played first as they would probably hold us up so we got going. The first 3 of us tee'd of no problem and then came JR - an ex-army sergeant with the power of 3 bulls. He'd just got the brand new Mizuno T-Zoid Driver (shows you how long ago it was!) and he was aching to let rip.

As he addressed the ball I thought to myself that he'd tee'd the ball up awfully high but before I had time to do anything he'd taken an almighty swish. His finish pose was classic - the ball went 20 yards in the air and landed down the cleavage of one of the women who had positioned themselves 10 yards behind us.

I was on my knees and to say we just wet ourselves laughing is the understatement of the century - even the Secretary came out to see what all the noise was about.

JR went the kind on red normally associated with the Special K models dresses and was very quiet once we managed to pull ourselves together.

And I think the lady had her eye on him as she asked him if he wanted to get his ball back.........
Haha brilliant. Id pay good money to see something like that.
 

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At a national works outing at Brechin GC and it was quite an official kind of thing with sponsors and what have you.
Anyway, a group of guys from our plant were first on the tee and one guy in particular who was the works clown (but in a funny way) was first to hit. He wasn't much of a golfer it has to be said, but he had a thrash at the ball and to this day I've no idea how he done it, but it went between his legs and ended up underneath one of the sponsors trailers behind him. There must have been about 50 people watching and you could have heard a pin fall as he had to wait for a ruling on how to proceed.
He got absolutely slaughtered for it for evermore mind.
 

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Playing with a workmate new to the game took a swoosh with his driver and the ball hit his big toe and broke it the guy never played again after that
 

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One of the funniest shots I have ever seen was whilst playing with my Brother in Law at Letham Grange during a trip to Scotland. We were playing a really nice par 5 (I think it was the 9th) which had beautiful pine trees running the whole length of the hole. He had sliced one off the tee (as usual) and ended up behind one of the trees. His only shot was to wedge out sideways. He took a couple of practice swings, hit down into the back of the ball which popped straight up in the air. The divot he took came up like a clam shell but didn't detach itself, the ball landed in the divot he had taken and the turf came back down over the ball like a venus fly trap! He couldn't move the turf back off the ball to play his next shot because as I say, it hadn't detached itself. We peed ourselves laughing...

Another time we were playing at St Mellion and I was sharing a buggy with the same Brother in Law. We were on a fairly long par 4, he had hit a good drive down the middle of the fairway and was waiting for the green to clear so that he could unlease a Faldo like raking 4 iron onto the dance floor. I was sitting in the buggy watching him take his practice swings, which were all perfect.
The green finally cleared, he stepped up to the ball and said "I'm going to give this some biscuit"...he then took the biggest swing I have ever seen him take. I looked up to see the ball in flight, but nothing!
I then looked back to where he was standing and he had missed the ball completely, taking a divot out that was the lenght of a snake some 4 inches or so INSIDE the ball.
The ball hadn't moved an inch.
I was crying it was that funny, my stomach hurt so much.
Lol!!
I've got a smile on my face like a cheshire cat as I type this, I can still see his face when he realised what he had done.

:D :D :D :D
 

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the one that we all, not so secretly, love to see.

Society on tour, first tee, first game and the mouth who has been entertaining, himself mostly, with his comments on all others past performances, prowess on the putting green etc.

Struts up in all the latest finery with the latest in equipment, and lines up to fire a bomb over the lake - after deriding his playing companions(?) for taking the safe route. Winds up . . . and launches his brand new driver into the lake while the ball sits glistening at him, untouched on the tee.
 

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Not a shot as such but still makes me laugh.

A work colleague bought an all singing and dancing electric trolley.
Took him an age to get his bag fixed onto it in the car park. He continued to adjust and basically fiddle and fart about with it as we played.

On the 12th fairway he continues to show off by having the trolley poddling along in front of him as he walks along. He has the one where you can set a yardage for it to run before it stops.

Anyway, he sets his yardage and away it goes......bad move. Instead of 50 yards (just short of the green) he inputs 150. Result, the trolley trundles along, fortunately missing the green but veers left, climbs the hill then topples over into the greenside bunker and deposits several balls and his much fiddled with bag into the sand. His face was a picture as the three of us rolled with laughter.
 

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My biggest mishap on a course was when we played at a Muni down in Brighton called Waterhall. First hole is a short par 4 all downhill which can be driven quite easily when the ground is firm.
I stood at the back of the tee waiting for the green to clear before hitting my 3 wood. I was practice swinging quite happily and just turned 90 degrees to take another swing, not realising that there was a chain link fence around the back of the tee. I took a practice swing and a crack like a rifle shot went off as my graphite shaft snapped in half and the remining bit attached to the head of the club when flying into some trees.
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4 of us turned up a club in Oxfordshire to play a social round. As we walked to the 1st tee there were 2 ladies just about to play. They insisted that we played first as they would probably hold us up so we got going. The first 3 of us tee'd of no problem and then came JR - an ex-army sergeant with the power of 3 bulls. He'd just got the brand new Mizuno T-Zoid Driver (shows you how long ago it was!) and he was aching to let rip.

As he addressed the ball I thought to myself that he'd tee'd the ball up awfully high but before I had time to do anything he'd taken an almighty swish. His finish pose was classic - the ball went 20 yards in the air and landed down the cleavage of one of the women who had positioned themselves 10 yards behind us.

I was on my knees and to say we just wet ourselves laughing is the understatement of the century - even the Secretary came out to see what all the noise was about.

JR went the kind on red normally associated with the Special K models dresses and was very quiet once we managed to pull ourselves together.

And I think the lady had her eye on him as she asked him if he wanted to get his ball back.........

Sounds very "Carry On"...! :)
 

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Played with my brother and his father in law a while ago and after FIL putting 3 balls in the pond in front of the par 3 the previous hole he had a look of murder on his face.

Full of tension and a face like he was about to pass a brick he took an almighty swing with his driver, we all looked far into the distance but couldn't see a thing then we looked at the tee to see his ball take 1 turn and fall off his tee.

I held it for about 10 seconds before I joined my brother rolling about the floor
 

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Played in big works comp at Hawkestone Park this year over three days. On the second day it was foursomes, and me and my partner had massive hangovers and had both wanted to avoid the first tee shot. We needn't have worried. I had knocked ours up the fairway OK, our opponent teed it up. The 1st tee is large and has small posts with chain link on to make it look pretty. He proceeded to drill it 40 yards forward into the last post, whence it richocheted all the way back behind us onto the 4th tee, leaving his partner a face of thunder as he was 30 yards further back hitting two. Me and my mate and the starter were like three kids trying to suppress the laughter.
 

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standing on the 6th hole a shortish par 3 and a 2 handicapper is in contention for the club championship, he takes about 20 practice swings then, with his 9 iron addresses. a smooth backswing leads to a typically smooth downswing, however something must have got wrong because he has shanked it into the tee marker and it has come back and hit him right in the crown jewels, ouch!, he still made bogey !
 

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Dont think mine counts as he wasn't actually playing his shot but the FIL was trying to walk down the bank of a little stream to collect his ball and fell, he slid down on his behind and landed with his as* in the drink, I managed to keep a straightish face and pull him out but when he turned around he had mud from bum to foot and I couldn't hold it, he started laughing too so I laughed harder. About 3 holes later I was teeing up a drive and just burst into laughter thinking of it and couldn't play my shot, I think I ended up topping it about 100 yards.
 

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I remember one that happened to me once. I took the missus to a seminar in altricham somewhere(cant remember course) I used my Ping driver back then and had it for some time and it was the most accurate driver for me that I have had EVER!

I played a round with a chap I met there, a lovely old chap (I was in my late 20s then)who was a very funny guy. We got on this tee and it was my honour as I was playing outa my skin, I swung back, powered through the ball and saws it fly straight down the middle, but at the same time ,the head of my dear driver, flew off to the right and shot into a nearby clump of trees with heavy rough all around and disappeared.
I stood there with a gormless look on my face not knowing whether to laugh or cry, motionless I thought for a moment only to have this moment of silent anguish broken by the soft spoken chap I was with, as he walked to the tee he calmly spoke..."Thats the trouble with you young golfers, you cant see the wood for the trees!"
I collapsed and continued laughing about it for the rest of the round, a round that I went from 2 over after 7 to 16 over after 18. But it was such a laugh.
 

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My dad at Campomor Nr. Murcia driving range, I had just stopped for a rest and having a small beer when I turned to watch my dad proceed to slice a shot so bad that it almost covered the entire field then to enter a tree making a rather loud bang and then whilst not trying to laugh a bird dropped out of it, DEAD! I couldnt stop laughing, and as I type *coffee >>> screen* lol.
 
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