Whats the strangest thing you have seen on the course?

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Following on from the Craws what have you hit on the course, what is the strangest thing you have seen on a golf course?

I was playing a local muni 9 hole course and coming up the 9th is tree lined on the left with a lake. get to the crest of the hill and look to the left to see a squirrel having a fight with a rabbit. honestly one of the funniest things i have ever seen and still massively regret not getting my phone out quick enough to video it.

Also seen some arse and knee marks in a bunker in portugal when i was one of the first out that morning, someone the night before must have got lucky!
 
Playing Wychwood park in Cheshire.

Played my tee shot, thought I'd carried the hazard, bounced on the fairway upslope and rolled back into it, but still on the grass not in the water.

Got to my ball, assessed my lie, selected my club. Stood over the ball getting ready to play my shot and heard a splashing behind me, enough to put me off.

Turned around to see what the noise was to see a fully grown man standing about 10 yards away, in a wet suit, with an American football helmet on up to his waist in the water hazard staring straight at me.

To say I poo'd myself was an understatement! :mad:

He was collecting the balls out of the lake(s) for a private firm. He apologised for disturbing us as he hadn't seen us pass by the hazard (.... And we definatley didn't see him!). Stood still while we played our shots then went back to work.

I heard a girly scream followed by some laughs from the group behind who obviously didn't see him either :rofl:
 
A chap walkin down the tree line fairway chattin to his mates not payin attention then walked straight into a low branch scatting him
Off his feet. Not strange but very funny. I went over he was dazed and confused but ok
 
A burning car- Pollok 1993

A baby fox nicking my scorecard and running away with it- Cooden 2012

A family having a picnic in a bunker- Belleisle GC 1995ish

A full gang fight - Clydebank&DistrictGC 11th fairway- most years:eek:
 
Torvean Golf course in Inverness. Playing one evening in 2006 and walking down the 8th Fairway which has a large pond on the left, we see a massive eel wriggling across the fairway, and I mean big. We thought it was a big snake to start with and stayed well back. It disappeared into the rough behind the 5th tee. A guy in the bar told us; he’s seen it before but was a few years ago. Apparently it was heading for the Caledonian Canal which borders the course.
 
A human turd in the cup at the 15th green Rothesay Golf Club. At least they had the decency to leave the flag out the dirty bazzas!!!!
 
A visitors remote controlled trolley not responding and heading straight into the lake on the 8th, queue lots of swearing from him and lots of laughs from his partners, another 4 ball on 16 and us on the tenth tee

Also saw a magpie chasing a squirrel across the 9th semi rough, the squirrel kept stopping to try and swipe the bird, would miss and run off again with the bird chasing. The squirrel got away into the rough unscathed
 
our course has 2 public footpaths going through it onto the beach, there's lots of potential....

only been a member for a year but so far have seen

kids playing football using a bunker as a goal
a family having a picnic
 
Not really an odd thing but waiting to tee off on the 11th at Whickham, there were 20 plus pheasants walking in a line on the golf course side of the farmers field, where he was busy trying to shoot pheasants.
 
Played a course in Malaysia when I was learning the game, where i first had a monkey scamper out of the trees and pick up my ball on the fairway and run away with it. If that was not enough, on another hole, par 3, i was on the green with my tee shot, only to find that a monitor lizard had chosen to take a nap on the green.
 
A squirrel nicked my half-eaten Snickers from the buggy at Jasper Park GC.

If anyone's played New Forest GC, it's set in the New Forest (no, really...?) and the resident animals basically have the right of way. Hit my tee shot up the first towards a herd of cows, then the approach to the first green had to avoid a horse having a kip. Last green, the biggest cow I've ever seen came rumbling from behind the green and straight across, continuing down the fairway. In spite of the number of hoof-prints in the greens, they're in surprisingly good nick.
 
A tramp asleep on the 5th? Tee @ Shirehampton

All 4balls in the hole @ par 3 5th Painswick. It's common land full of walkers etc, a blind par 3, holes in one are no longer counted there!! ;)
 
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