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Your Worst Golf Experiences
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Bunkermagnet
Journeyman Pro
Mannings Heath.
Played there once as a guest but the whole experience was horrible.
Played there once as a guest but the whole experience was horrible.
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Tour Rookie
Discovering forums.
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Ross61
Challenge Tour Pro
Not long after joining a club and getting a handicap I entered a comp that was a Stableford with a shotgun start. On the morning we got there, due to overnight rain all the holes had gone to temporary greens. There was a change of format to 3 ball Texas scramble with the original drawn 3 balls becoming the "team". I was with a people I didn't know. One guy was really nice the other a cat 2 player who could hit the ball miles was not sympathetic to my inability as a high handicapper. As we had to take at least 5 drives each I really needed to take the ones that were reasonable as they occurred, but the cat 2 player insisted on taking his monster drives early on. By about the 6/7 th hole me and the other guy was saying we needed to take some of my drives ( I had only taken 1 on a par 3 where I was the closest.) By this time my nerves on the tee were getting worse and so were my shots. With 4 holes to play I needed to take 3 of them... my confidence was shot to pieces and ended up taking a mid iron on a Par 4 just to get it on a fairway, unfortunately on the final hole I put it in the drink.
A fun day had turned into a nightmare and It took quite a while to get my confidence back and enjoy playing in comps at the club.
A fun day had turned into a nightmare and It took quite a while to get my confidence back and enjoy playing in comps at the club.
ruff-driver
Journeyman Pro
I once bogeyed a hole, terrible terrible day.
Maninblack4612
Tour Winner
Selected by my firm to play for a team against Barratt Developments at Muirfield (because Sir Lawrie Barratt wanted a game at Muirfield). When we got there we were told that we could play singles or foursomes. It was decided we'd play foursomes (because that is what Sir Lawrie wanted). I played partners with a 25 handicapper who was having an off day. I got no idea at all as to what it was like to play the course properly. That was 36 years ago. I'm still scarred by the experience.
Tashyboy
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Ripon city golf club, just did not feel the love. Fact they had our pants down In The club shop re price of round did not sit to good with me for 18 holes either.
JohnnyDee
Tour Winner
Back in the day, around 2001, with handicap tumbling from 26 to 15 when suddenly and totally out of the blue came a bout (for over 3months) of the shanks. It nearly made me give up forever as if I was hitting an iron, almost any iron, it was 75% likely that it would be a Barclays.
Still scars my soul to this day.
Still scars my soul to this day.
Region3
Ryder Cup Winner
Having a migraine come on in the middle of the round. Always seems to happen when I'm playing miles away from home too. Not good.
clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
1997 club championship 17 hole wedge in hit sprinkler head went OOB lost by one gutted .
clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
Do you get a headache or just the kaleidoscope vision .
I just get vision problem I was shocked to find out from my doc that this is migraine he sent me to opticians and he confirmed it is migraine
very light headed and flashing lights mid round is not good
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Hawkeye and I turning up at Maidenhead in the Nike matchplay. Got done by a dog licence and we were lucky to get away with that. The annoying thing was I was shocking and he wasn't far ahead of me but our opponents were something like -1 better ball off mid-handicaps. Never wanted to get off a course so fast
davemc1
Journeyman Pro
Been away twice on golfing trips. Forgot how to hit the ball on both occasions. Kinda spoilt it a bit
Region3
Ryder Cup Winner
I've only ever had the funny vision thing a couple of times. It's normally a very sharp pain in one eye and the back of my neck (always same side for both), and the worst ones are accompanied by nausea as well.
Jimaroid
Journeyman Pro
Stood between two senior men coming to fists in the middle of the 18th fairway.
I mean, honestly. It's just golf!
I mean, honestly. It's just golf!
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Deleted member 15717
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Pretty much a replica for me. Still scarred, and my ball striking is nothing compared to what it was. Doubt I will ever get it back either. Come close to giving up playing very often!
snell
Journeyman Pro
Rocked up to a local course to play an open with moogie and wayman from the forum...only to discover the green keeper had sanded the greens that morning. Almost needed a rake to have a chance.
Ended up winning the open mind, so every cloud and that
Ended up winning the open mind, so every cloud and that
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Deleted member 17920
Guest
they let anyone on the old course these days
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Deleted member 17920
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losing a brand new ball OB after 1 hole, it's been 10 years and I still think about it everyday.
Dasit
Tour Rookie
First tee, about 20 people watching, all goes silent, mishit it off the toe, straight into a house about 50 yards to my right, hit a smash and a dog barking like mad.
Just wanted the a hole in the ground to swallow me up.
Just wanted the a hole in the ground to swallow me up.
