Worst collateral damage you have had?

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What's the worst collateral damage you have caused did to your golf? ... Smashed windscreen, hooked it into the bushes and killed a bambi...

My worst has nothing to do with my game. Was playing in Mumbai around Easter. I never wear my watch when I play, usually take it off and put it in the bag. Since I was renting clubs, I carried a small plastic bag with spare balls, tees etc. at tee off, took my watch and put it into the plastic bag. Off it went around the course as the caddie carried it around. At the end of the round, took it out of the bag to find the glass smashed :( :(. Sent it off to Ernst Jones and now landed with a bill for £120 :sbox:

No lunch money for a month now..
 
Not me personally, but a PP hit a second shot into our 7th hole which is lined with the road up to the club, it bounced off a sprinkler head then ricocheted off a stone wall and finally hit a car driving up the drive…

Said car was a £50k C63 Merc. It smashed the headlight… doing £1k worth a damage. Thankfully he was fully insured.
He now won't take a shot if there is a car heading up the road, always gets a chuckle when he waits for cars to pass.
 
I get the feeling that you appear to have a disaster every time you go near a golf course ?!? :D
 
Almost certainly killed a goose :(. flock in the middle of the fairway 100 yds infront of me, smashed my hybrid low, way to low, like a bullet. Hit the poor thing square in the neck, it circled its self then collapsed all twitchy in a spasm. Felt horrible waited a minute or 2 and decided i was gonna have to snap its neck and put it out its misery, approached it and it got up headed towards the pond fell over a couple of times made it to the water then collapsed again head down under the drink n didnt move. Too far out of reach for me to grab it. Still feel bad now, poor thing.
 
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Almost certainly killed a goose :(. flock in the middle of the fairway 100 yds infront of me, smashed my hybrid low, way to low, like a bullet. Hit the poor thing square in the neck, it circled its self then collapsed all twitchy in a spasm. Felt horrible waited a minute or 2 and decided i was gonna have to snap its neck and put it out its misery, approached it and it got up headed towards the pond fell over a couple of times made it to the water then collapsed again head down under the drink n didnt move. Too far out of reach for me to grab it. Still feel bad now, poor thing.
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RSPCA , most wanted list, have a gander
 
One of a group of four teenagers we were walking off the tee when we spotted a tee peg.
One guy yells 'it's mine' and makes a grab at it.
Another guy [not me] automatically goes to stamp his foot on it forgetting he is wearing spikes........lots of ouch and blood.
 
I once went out on the course and broke something really badly. Par.
 
At my old club you need to hit over the entrance road on the 18th
When I was a youth a smacked a car on the driver side door left a big dint
 
I have a couple of hits and near misses.
Hit.. a playing partner who had strayed forward of me while I was about to hit a shot, he hadnt taken the corner of the left to right dogleg into consideration with his positioning. The end result was a massive blue, red, brown and black bruise the size of a slice of ham on his right leg, I pushed my shot a touch from my lie on the hill and he couldnt get out of the way. I apologised, he said it was his own fault for being too close to my line. Took it weeks to settle back to normal.

Near miss, our 18th hole has several bunkers approaching the raised green with clubhouse behind (20 yards). I had found a bunker 30 yards short of the green with my drive and knifed it out, still rising as it hit the clubhouse, a few inches left or right and there was going to be an expensive glazing repair bill.it truly was one of those slow motion moments where I could feel my feet trying to pull myself into the ground in some effort to make the ball drop out of the sky shirt of the clubhouse. It bounced back onto the green and walked off with a par and a red face.
 
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I hooked a ball on the par 3 9th which bounced over the path and through the low stone bridge leading to the 6th. The ball was 3ft or so from the bridge but I had a shot to the green so took a wedge and with a confident swing thinned it.

The ball ricocheted off the wall and returned at 90mph, bounced off the inside of my thigh and hit me in the nuts :o

Funnily enough nobody laughed until they knew I as ok. I had a beautiful bruise on the inside of my thigh for several weeks but it wasn't the bruise or my pride that hurt :whistle:
 
No damage but could have been. A while back someone thinned a wedge at the 18th and if flew past the pro, who was standing in the doorway of his shop and proceeded to ricochet around the shop. The ball was a few inches from his head as it flew past.
 
Depends what you call collateral damage. My dad came to watch me and on the 3rd hole i was in left rough but an old oak tree was about 20 yards up in the left rough but had enough room to miss the over hangin branches with a punch 7i. The rough grabbed the hosel, closed the club face, ball shot off left smacked the tree full on, rebounded back, and as you do, you look quickly all over to see where the ball has gone and in the blind panick of 'where did that go' my dad in his infinite wisdom decided to take this opportunity to have a lie down in the fairway and started groaning, next to my ball................ Oh sh*t, the realisation of where my ball ended up was smack on the side of his temple and pol axed him to the ground.

I made my par tho. :thup:


And he went home with a thumping head and still alive today. :D
 
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Depends what you call collateral damage. My dad came to watch me and on the 3rd hole i was in left rough but an old oak tree was about 20 yards up in the left rough but had enough room to miss the over hangin branches with a punch 7i. The rough grabbed the hosel, closed the club face, ball shot off left smacked the tree full on, rebounded back, and as you do, you look quickly all over to see where the ball has gone and in the blind panick of 'where did that go' my dad in his infinite wisdom decided to take this opportunity to have a lie down in the fairway and started groaning, next to my ball................ Oh sh*t, the realisation of where my ball ended up was smack on the side of his temple and pol axed him to the ground.

I made my par tho. :thup:


And he went home with a thumping head and still alive today. :D
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That's OK then :D
 
Some of the guys at work decided to go to a pitch and putt, one chap hits his tee shot, straight into the stone tee marker, it rockets back right into the chest of his PP

Bruise was massive apparently
 
I played donnington grove last year, and hit a car on the third hole. Passenger rear door, big dent. Punched a five iron. I guess with the full benefit of hindsight, more loft was required to make the carry.
 
Managed to hit a stone wall on the old course at St Mellion, going way too fast and missing the gap. Shattered the windscreen and buckled the suspension. They weren't overly impressed but we blamed the buggy and got the group behind to say they saw us struggling with the steering
 
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