cookelad
Tour Winner
I've only had a couple of incidents worth telling about over the years the worst/best one was when I was handicap secretary at the club about 15years ago
Player A, a fellow committee member and renown exponent of the leather wedge, was due to play someone he worked with in the club knockout, so a couple of weeks prior the emails start, with most of the committee cc-ed in - claiming that Player B should be cut a couple of strokes because he was protecting his handicap he hadn't returned anything better than 36 points in two years because he was intentionally blobbing holes etc, finished up by saying he would hold me responsible if he lost the match, I told him to take it up with CONGU if he felt that strongly.
Another one, quite recently in a "friendly" Sunday morning betterball, playing the 12th I had a long putt for birdie which I'd drastically under hit, it was probably going to be about 4ft short but before it stopped one our opponents knocked it back, so I, as anyone would, picked up and pocketed the ball thinking I'd got away with one there.
Next thing the same opponent says what was that? a 4 I reply. I can't believe you're taking that he says. It's not so much me taking it as you fired it back at me before it had chance to come to rest let alone before I had chance to putt it.
He spent the rest of the round in a childish strop (50+year old man playing for a 10pln (about £2) Nassau) didn't take part in the rest of the match so it was 2 against 1 for the best part of the back nine - needless to say he didn't pay up!
Player A, a fellow committee member and renown exponent of the leather wedge, was due to play someone he worked with in the club knockout, so a couple of weeks prior the emails start, with most of the committee cc-ed in - claiming that Player B should be cut a couple of strokes because he was protecting his handicap he hadn't returned anything better than 36 points in two years because he was intentionally blobbing holes etc, finished up by saying he would hold me responsible if he lost the match, I told him to take it up with CONGU if he felt that strongly.
Another one, quite recently in a "friendly" Sunday morning betterball, playing the 12th I had a long putt for birdie which I'd drastically under hit, it was probably going to be about 4ft short but before it stopped one our opponents knocked it back, so I, as anyone would, picked up and pocketed the ball thinking I'd got away with one there.
Next thing the same opponent says what was that? a 4 I reply. I can't believe you're taking that he says. It's not so much me taking it as you fired it back at me before it had chance to come to rest let alone before I had chance to putt it.
He spent the rest of the round in a childish strop (50+year old man playing for a 10pln (about £2) Nassau) didn't take part in the rest of the match so it was 2 against 1 for the best part of the back nine - needless to say he didn't pay up!