Why bring an audience to the range?

[rob2]

Now I am not passing judgement on others (well, I am really) but why bring your wife/girlfriend to the range to watch you hitting balls for an hour?

I was at the range today and this bloke had his dutiful wife just standing a the end of his bay watching him hit shots for a full hour and being told after every single shot what he did right/wrong only to be met with an obviously bored "Hmmmm" every time.

I just could not see the logic behind it? I go the the range to get away from the family (actually maybe this says more about my marriage than his )

Anyone admit to taking their other halves as observers?

Feels like madness to me..............

Rob

 

[AuburnWarrior]

I once saw a bloke practising basketball in a local park to me. He was there for ages. His girlfriend just stood and watched.

They must have met on the internet.

 

[Deleted member 1740]

My tart isn't intrested in golf and to be honest my golf is my time away from her.

 

[AuburnWarrior]

Anyone admit to taking heir other halves as observers?

Wait a minute - are you trying to tell us you're into dogging??? :rofl:

 

[rob2]

Wait a minute - are you trying to tell us you're into dogging??? :rofl:

I thought my subtle invitation would slip under the radar.....

 

[PIng]

At the range today the guy in the next bay had his wife and 3 kids with him. The wife and teenage daughter just watched but the 2 younger boys kept getting too close to their Dad and me when we were taking our backswings and then when they had a go themselves, they were stepping out onto the range to fetch the ball when they duffed it a couple of yards.

Don't these people realise ranges can be dangerous and are no place for excitable or unruly kids?

 

[jasondransfieldgolf]

My girlfriend plays off 1 so is more than happy to go play golf or go practice even in the poor weather!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I tend to get HID to film my swigns once in a while but usually at the end of a session when she's come back to pick me up. She says she doesn't mind but I'm pretty confident that is female speak for "it's going to be expensive when it comes"

 

[BROOKIE]

About 2 or 3 weeks ago I was up at the range, there was only 3 or 4 of us ,when this guy came in with his girlfriend,it was okay for about 5 minutes until her phone rang,now most guys would say a quick hello and then phone the caller back,not her,she went on and on for about half an hour talking about the holliday she'd just had, by the end of it, everyone had just about enough,even her boyfriend

 

[Piece]

At Silvermere recently, Heidar Helguson (QPR striker) brought his wife down to the range. And that was oh so fine with me :thup:

 

[Phil2511]

then when they had a go themselves, they were stepping out onto the range to fetch the ball when they duffed it a couple of yards.

Don't these people realise ranges can be dangerous and are no place for excitable or unruly kids?

This is very true. In 2010 two brothers about 12ish were on our range and one in the right bay went forward past the partition to pick up a ball just at the same time as his brother blocked/shanked a ball.

Hit him right on the Temple, he came round for a couple of minutes just after and spoke then passed away.

 

[JustOne]

Hit him right on the Temple, he came round for a couple of minutes just after and spoke then passed away.

Ouch!

http://www.4ni.co.uk/northern_ireland_news.asp?id=127102

 

[SocketRocket]

Off subject but, does it annoy you when you are at the range working on a part of your game when a group of 18 year old Neandertals start hitting a pitching wedge off a long driver tee and send every ball up into the range roof, then proceed to let out screams like a baboon climaxing at a monkey wife-swapping party.

 

[Evesdad]

Yeah I do! As in not like not do it! A few times I've just packed up and gone home but usually just try and zone it out, good mental game practice!

 

[AmandaJR]

Yeah I do! As in not like not do it! A few times I've just packed up and gone home but usually just try and zone it out, good mental game practice!

Same here and if I really want the practice time I'll use the idiots to replicate idiots distracting me on the course

We stopped going to the range of an evening as it always seemed to have some likely lads or a couple oddly flirting with each other as if they were on a first date !

 

[bobmac]

My girlfriend plays off 1 so is more than happy to go play golf or go practice even in the poor weather!

Where did you meet?

 

[Smiffy]

We stopped going to the range of an evening as it always seemed to have a couple oddly flirting with each other as if they were on a first date !

That would have been Homer and Hywel Amanda

 

[CMAC]

Same here and if I really want the practice time I'll use the idiots to replicate idiots distracting me on the course

We stopped going to the range of an evening as it always seemed to have some likely lads or a couple oddly flirting with each other as if they were on a first date !

That's a pub Amanda:ears:

My wife came and watched once, she was bored in minutes and kept asking if I'd finished yet...... Never again!

 

[jasondransfieldgolf]

Where did you meet?

We actually met at a Challenge Tour event in Sweden that was being played on her home course many years ago.

 

[CMAC]

We actually met at a Challenge Tour event in Sweden that was being played on her home course many years ago.

A Swedish 1 handicapper.................you guys have it tough