Ok, I feel like I have been away for awhile as all I've been able to do is answer quick questions/PM's/or emails... so I figured we could do something fun for all of us.
I came up with alittle contest that consists of funny stories. What I would like for everyone to do, is to tell me what the funniest thing you have seen on a golf course is. It could have been at the club house or someone taking a bad shot, something they seen while playing....etc. What I will do is choose 5 of the ones we (CGS) think is the funniest and draw a name for the winner in 7 days.... The winner will get a Gift Certificate of $50.00 toward any purchase with Custom Golf Sales....
Was plaing a course that my freinds an I hate but we got a free round with carts (we usually walk). One of the holes is somewhat of a dogleg but short so we hit irons into it, and somtimes they drop into a little valley. One of the guys drove up to the outter edge of the dogleg to see where the balls would land, I hit first and put a line drive right into the cart with him. That was the last time he ever went ahead to spot anybody.
The funniest thing I witnessed on a golf course was when my TWO playing partners and I called in sick to play one Wednesday morning. We decided just to be carefull we would drive up about 1 1/2 hours to play a new course where no one would know us. The pro shop said they would put a single who had just called in with us and who would meet us on the tee box when he arrived. As luck would have it the single turned out to be our boss. We stood there watching old iron pants walking towards us and couldn't believe our eyes. We all fumbled with excuses and were all totally embarrassed and our boss was as mad as a firecracker. We just stood there and then one of our partners told us that they had set us up. We all laughed and had a great day golfing and now every once in awhile we ALL call in sick to play.
I was playing with a buddy of mine who is the cheapest of cheap skates. I mean cheap! So we were playing this executive course by his house and we walked it because he was too cheap to rent a cart. He hits a nice drive down the fairway avoiding the rough on the left but rolls toward the water on the right due to the slope. He hits his second shot and it just lands short of the green. But then he sees the water. He figures he could pull a few good golf balls out of the water with his ball retriever. He sets his pullcart down and proceeds to crouch down and reach for some golf balls. But as he does this he doesn't realize that his pullcart is facing the water. Due to the slope and the weight of his clubs, his pullcart tips over and ALL his clubs fell in the water. He jumped in the water to try and catch his clubs and was screaming HELP ME like he was dying or something. Before you know it, I was rolling on the ground in laughter. He had to use his ball retriever to retrieve his clubs! He played the rest of his round in wet shoes and shorts because he wanted to make sure he got his money's worth. I called all my other golf buddies and they couldn't believe that they missed it.
My friend and I were out golfing as a twosome one day when we were still juniors (probably about 16 or 17), and they started us out on the back 9. We played the back, and were following another twosome. One of the guys was decent, but the other guy was HORRIBLE! I have never seen anybody shank/top/whiff/duff so many shots, and that's saying a lot because I was probably shooting in the 120's at the time, having just started playing myself. The guy seriously must have averaged 6-8 strokes a hole just to get to the green, and that's not counting penalty strokes he incurred from losing balls OB.
Anyways, we finished 18 and proceeded to follow the other duo back to the first tee, which is right in front of the clubhouse, to finish the front. #1 is a par 4 at ~320 yards, and the green is probably elevated about 75 feet from the tee box. #2 is a short par 3 that plays perpindicular to the right of the #1 green keeping you on top of the hill, and then the tee box for #3 is behind the #2 green at the top of the hill and you hit back down toward the backside of the clubhouse and the parking lot (opposite direction to #1). We got to the tee at #3, which has a spectacular view being elevated as it is. There is a creek running down the left side of the fairway toward a river, with trees obscuring the view of the river to the left of the creek. To the right are more trees separating the #1 and #3 fairways. We were waiting while the other two were hitting their approaches. The bad player had hit his drive (at least I assume it was his drive) left down the hill so he was playing from the rough very near to the creek.
As we watched, he proceeded to shank not one, not two, but three shots in a row directly into the creek! With each shot, he would move up to where the last ball entered the creek, drop one, and then immediately shank it back into the water. After the third one plopped into the water, he bent whatever club he was holding over his knee, hurled it into the creek, then proceeded to turn around and grab his entire bag of clubs and tossed those into the water as well. Only after doing this did he apparently realize that he left his wallet and keys in the bag, so he had to wade in after it, and retrieve them. He gathered whatever it was he needed out of the bag, then just stormed across the green, got in his car and drove off.
It took us about 10 minutes on the tee box to pick ourselves up off the ground and get our lower jaws to meet back up with the top one, but we finished our round, and for some reason my poor play just didn't seem to bother me as much.
While playing a round in during high school practice back in 1986 on an executive 9, one of my teammates was teeing off on par 3. He proceeded to blade his tee shot straight ahead into one of the womens markers splitting into two pieces. The ball then riccocheted back to him hitting him in a spot no man wants to be hit. He doubled over on the teebox and the rest of us could not stop laughing.
I was playing with my dad and 3 of his buddies (fivesome). After we finished the front 9, my dad and I drove our cart to the cafe and got some hot dogs and drinks. My dad buddies followed us except for the single. We got our hot dogs and went to the 10th tee and we started to hit our tee shots while we waited for the single...and waited...and waited. Now he was friends with all of us so we know he didn't jump ahead of us. We didn't see his cart by the bathroom or cafe, so we were wondering where he went. We decided to play on cuz there was people behind us. On our way to the green we called him. He thought we left because we were upset at our front nine scores, so he left too not wanting to play alone. What an idiot!
I have a friend who always takes a practice swing while standing behind his ball, looking at his target. A couple of years ago, we're out on the course, and I'm sitting in the cart looking down the fairway, ready to spot his ball. All of a sudden, SPLAT! My buddy had taken a huge muddy divot on his practice swing, which of course hit me square in the side of the head. I look over at my friend, and he says "Fore" in a real small voice. Even I had to laugh, while trying to dig mud out of my ear...
ok ok here is a good one that I just remembered. It's a bit gross, but bear with me. My same buddy as the my first reply here, refuses to wear underwear. Sometimes when we play golf, if his shirt is not long enough, we get an unwanted peek at plumbers crack. Well one time we had just finished the back nine and he had gotten a cup of coffee. He was ready to hit his tee shot on the 12th hole when my other buddy who was standing behind him started laughing but holding it in during his preshot routine. He called me over so I slowly walked towards him. He then pointed at the back of my other buddies shorts. Without getting too gross, the coffee loosened something and when he let out a little flatulation, he let out a bit of something else too. After he hit his ball, we all started laughing and wretching at the same time. It was soooo funny. OMG. We told him to go to the bathroom and make sure he washes the seat on his cart.
Happened years ago. We had a guy in our league who wasn't a real good golfer (who is?), but he'd always brag about the 300 yd. drive he had last week, or the string of pars he had over the weekend. Anyway he shows up on the first tee with his "new clubs." "Got a great deal on the whole set," he says. "Just got em out of the box" he brags to all of us. As he's walking to the tee with his new driver, someone yells to him "Harold, when did you become a lefty?" The guy never even checked to see if they were right-handed clubs.
This is such great post. I have so many stories to share. I was playing with the buddy I mentioned in the stories above (let's call him Arwin) at a muni in DB, California. We were on the first tee getting ready to hit. You know how everyone kinda leans on their driver? Well Arwin leaned on his and broke the shaft. It was a nice UST shaft too. He had to play the rest of his round with his 3 wood because we would not let him use our drivers after that!
This one is kinda funny but more of a feel good story. My golfing buddies and I organized an outing with some of our college buddies. Our friend Frank had come to play golf for the first time ever. He had bought some beginner set from Big 5 just for the outing. We were trying to teach him how to swing on the range. He kept asking us what distance each club goes and we told him it was a personal thing and it was up to him to determine that. So we start playing. He is hitting his driver straight but can't use his irons. We come up to a par3 150yds. He proceeds to walk up to the tee with his driver. We asked him what he was doing and he said he was going to use his driver, so we left him alone and chuckled in the background. WHACK! Worm burner...skippin across the ground....but straight...onto the green...4 ft below the hole. It was such an amazing shot! Then he 4 putted. Oh well.
Funniest story I have to tell.. It was a sunny day, nice conditions for play. Me and two buddies play the executive course and my friend cannot stop boasting about his new driver head he put on himself. Second hole, balloons one and the clubhead flies out 40 yards past his ball, I couldnt of laughed harder, even he was laughing, "Well maybe I shouldn't use Elmers Glue next time".. hahaha
This happened when I first started playing. Me and my cousin were playing a 9 hole course. Now being beginners we arent that good, and of course were going through alot of balls. So we get to the third hole and were about to tee off and we see this big hawk fly right by us, no more than 10ft away. So we stopped and watched it and it flew off. Well we come to the 8th hole, I tee off first, then my cousin gets on deck puts his ball on a tee, takes some practice swings and decides to change his club. As he is walking back to his bag , out of no where the hawk comes and grabs his ball and flys off. My jaw just drop. He grabs his club turns around and starts walking back to the tee then he stops, turns to me and says wheres my ball. I started craken up, I couldnt believe what I just saw. I told him and he couldnt believe it. But to top it all off after laughing about it for a minute he goes into his bag rambles around looks up at me and says "that was my last ball", so i lended him another ball, and then another in the middle of the 9th hole. lol
Let me preface...We were playing at a local outing - I was the only person who golfs regularly and we were drinking pretty decently...
Any way the course we were on was beautiful with valleys and a really nice set up. By the time we had made the turn we had emptied our cooler and were on a first name basis with the cart girl... Our cart decided to slow down a bit because we were not playing to bad so we stocked the cooler with beer and soda..our other 2 players didnt make that decision..decingin instead for a fukll cooler of beer and some clear drinks in big styrofoam cups that smelled like gasoline.
We proceed on having great fun hooting and hollering and actually playing well. Any wat we get up to the signature hole the 16th or so i believe. Cant be sure - its a great Par 3 about 150 yards over a gulch with a lake at the bottom to a elevated green with a waterfall running down the side into the lake- It really was a pretty hole. This is the good part..
My partner hits and thinks hes on the green so he tells me to go for it- and i stripe my 8 right at the flag saying"thats gotta be close!" (cue the beer girl)
Our other partners start talking to the beer girl and ordering more drinks - we say were going to see where the balls are and wave them on after we get up. so we drive down the gully and up to the green - I am estatic as I was right and my ball is about 2 feet from the hole! I walk to the front and wave the other guys on saying were already close .. they just dont even hit and head to thier cart- as another team was coming to the tee and things were getting backed up- we mark the ball pull the flag and wait so they can see how close we are. and wait and wait... I'm like wtf? I just putt it finally and walk over to the cart just as our friends are cresting the hill ON FOOT. Apprently they took the corner at the bottom of the gulch a "little" to fast and put thier cart..clubs and all..into to the lake at the bottom of the gulch. i wont go into the details of the ensuing discussions with the pro shop - needless to say they are both now referred to on the course as swampy 1 and swampy 2.
May 31st, 2006, 01:05 PM
With each shot, he would move up to where the last ball entered the creek, drop one, and then immediately shank it back into the water. After the third one plopped into the water, he bent whatever club he was holding over his knee, hurled it into the creek, then proceeded to turn around and grab his entire bag of clubs and tossed those into the water as well. Only after doing this did he apparently realize that he left his wallet and keys in the bag, so he had to wade in after it, and retrieve them. He gathered whatever it was he needed out of the bag, then just stormed across the green, got in his car and drove off. 
but we finished our round, and for some reason my poor play just didn't seem to bother me as much.
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