Whats the strangest thing you have seen on the course?

[richart]

I did think I had seen a ghost at Woodhall Spa. Out of the driving rain and wind came a misty apparition towards me as I played the third hole. It looked barely human, and just as I was about to leg it, it uttered the words 'it's too fe.king wet for me Rich'. Poor old Smiffy the only man to lose 5 and 13.

When I was playing in Reading we were hit by the biggest hail storm I have ever known. The course was a complete white out within minutes, and the hail was the size of golf balls.

 

[sawtooth]

Playing golf early one Saturday at Sherfield Oaks, hit a ball into the fairway and a bird of prey (red kite?) swooped down and attempted to carry my ball away. It moved the ball a bit but failed to fly away with it. Fascinating thing to watch.

 

[granters]

All I can say is poorly concealed pensioner, bottom, tampax ,extraction,17th tee.

A picture paints a thousand Words

 

[Heidi]

Our 3rd par 3 is always an entertaining hole - its next to a footpath leading to a housing estate
kids making sandcastles in the bunker
picnics
kids playing football
flag replaced by a small twig with a poly bag as a flag
and one i missed but my friend saw - last 'summer' two wee boys were jumping and swimming in the overflowing bunker, in the scud. she shouted at them to get out the way, they moved to the side, she played two balls in to the green, one ran on and nicked her ball. when she got to the bunker there was a pair of sodden undies lying at the side and she negotiated the return of her ball for the pants!

snake in spain

skid marks on princes 8th - which extended down the fairway and over the green, found out later that a horse had dismounted its rider and dragged them all the way down the fairway and across the green

 

[StrangelyBrown]

That's Embra for you - a bunch of culture vultures. You sure it wasn't some form of outdoor participation interactive art. Did the lassie have spikey blue hair, tartan trousers and doc martins? - and the bloke - centre parting, nice tweed jacket, chinos, brogues and elvis costello specs? They did? Nailed on Embra arty-farty stuff!

Are you high?

 

[mcbroon]

Our 3rd par 3 is always an entertaining hole - its next to a footpath leading to a housing estate
kids making sandcastles in the bunker
picnics
kids playing football
flag replaced by a small twig with a poly bag as a flag
and one i missed but my friend saw - last 'summer' two wee boys were jumping and swimming in the overflowing bunker, in the scud. she shouted at them to get out the way, they moved to the side, she played two balls in to the green, one ran on and nicked her ball. when she got to the bunker there was a pair of sodden undies lying at the side and she negotiated the return of her ball for the pants!

snake in spain

skid marks on princes 8th - which extended down the fairway and over the green, found out later that a horse had dismounted its rider and dragged them all the way down the fairway and across the green

Before you got to the horse, I was worried there was going to be a link between the skidmarks and the story about the wee boys...

 

[Gazzaman]

Was playing in Vietnam recently at Vietnam Golf and Country Club, trying to go for the par 5 10th in two I pushed my 3 wood right towards the water hazard, luckily the ball took a bounce of the concrete bridge over the hazard before playing pinball of the steel rails of the bridge before flying forward to clesr the hazard. As the ball bounced on the cart part it was heading towards one of my playing partners caddy whi trying to get out of the way backed herself away from the ball, forgetting there was a wall to the fairway which about the same height as her knees, she ended up on her backside and my ball ended up and 20 yards short of the green, wish I had my video camera handy

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Are you high?

nope - just from Glasgow

 

[gripitripit]

Sun bathers

No Joke

With ya on this one. 2 girls on the 1st green at Royston. Summer before last.

 

[StrangelyBrown]

nope - just from Glasgow

That explains a lot

 

[SaintHacker]

an appendage drawn in a big, visible bunker on ladies day.

Childish as it is, I'm sat here with tears of laughter streaming down my cheeks

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.

Yep. Was trying to tee off the other day but had to wait for a pony to finish having a roll around on the box.
One local rule is you are allowed a free lift clean and drop if your ball lands in any animal deposits...

 

[the hammer]

society day at karsten lakes, ping gainsborough, 14th,One ot the group in front played safe with an iron off the tee, totally wiped out a passing seagull. poor thing.

 

[gdc]

As a teenager I remember playing in a competition with a mate and his dad. I was just about to take my putt on the 7th green and my mate suddenly let out a yelp and started hopping across the green. He then proceeded to drop his pants to his ankles, stumbled around and fell head over heels onto the green.
Somehow a wasp had managed to get up his pants.

 

[Captainron]

Elephants and Cheetah on the course at Skukuza in South Africa. Plenty of game about. Lovely place

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Re Craws turd in a hole.
I used to know the pro at Littlehampton.
The course had a small campsite at the far end and one summer, everyday for a fortnight, the greenkeepers discovered something nasty in the hole cup.