My cousin & I play golf each year while on vacation during each of the main summer holidays. We play a little course in north-central indiana that happens to have high tension power lines running through a few holes on the course. The local rules are if you hit one you get to re-hit, but we'd played there dozens of times and never even come close...you see where this is going, but wait.. So my cousin, he's not what you'd call a consistent driver of the golf ball, and the only way you could really hit these power lines would be if you hit a pretty good drive, and even then the ball would have to peak exactly where the lines are as they are pretty high...again that would be a great drive...not real common for either of us. About the time we'd forgotten the lines were there, he nuts a drive and hits the power line dead on..funny noise, then the ball drops out of the sky....we were cracking up. Now, that's not the "shocking" thing...that could happen to anybody I suppose...We've played twice since he did that, and both times we've stepped up to the tee, looked at each other, laughed, then he drilled the power line! It's gotten less funny for him, because it ruins a great drive...me, I laugh hard
almost put this in hole-ies and pole-ies this summer
Me and my buddy ALWAYS walk. Period. Even if we gotta pay to ride we walk. Well my buddy will fight a tree or at least talk yang to it. We're playing in High Point (home of the World Famous Tiki) at Blair Park. A less than stellar goat track in less than desirable 'hood. For instance a couple of geezers got pistol whipped on 18 and their assailant walked a way with about $5 and some Geritol.
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...crushed driver on a tight par four at my buddy's club about 290. The bad news--my Titleist bad hops in to a swale/ditch that bisects the fairway. My buddy drives to his ball, I decide to tip-toe down in to the muck and grab my ball--on the third step, I go down and in, up to my chest in this murky, boggy quicksand stuff. Buddy races over, pulls me out with his six iron.
That was the fifth hole. We finished the round, me covered up to my chest in mud. We skipped drinks in the clubhouse afterwards. Oh, took a drop hit a nice 8i in and lipped out the nine footer.
to me, but some of the things that people dream up to excuse it are.
One day at work I watched a guy lose it and pitch his brand new Scotty Cameron flat stick into the lake adjoining the 18th green. It was a classic case of TOSS. He then had the chutzpah to come in the shop and ask if the diver who retrieved balls from the lake would please return the putter that had "slipped out of his hand while he was tossing it to his bag". My arse... This guy would have won the hammer throw at most Olympics.
The other one I love was the guy who came into the shop almost crying he was laughing so hard. His buddy was still in the cart, smoke coming out of both ears. The guy who came in the shop finally gasped out between spasms of laughter that his buddy needed to get in touch with maintenance to borrow a ladder. Seems he had launched his driver into a tree and then had been so mad at that that he got his putter stuck in the same tree trying to get the driver down. We found him a ladder.
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I just remembered the funniest thing I have ever seen or heard on a golf course, but how off color can we get before the moderator kicks us off? I don't want to offend anyone, but a friend of mine had the best/worst experience in our foursome one day.
Guidelines anyone????
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Originally Posted by Fred Brattain
I just remembered the funniest thing I have ever seen or heard on a golf course, but how off color can we get before the moderator kicks us off? I don't want to offend anyone, but a friend of mine had the best/worst experience in our foursome one day.
Guidelines anyone????
Obi WunPutt
Obi...
As you've no doubt seen, The Colonel's got a different set of guidelines than most. But, if you'll just PM Bagger, we'll 'think on it' and, you'll have...
"...your answer in the mornin'!"
-- Meatloaf
P.S. Thanks for sending your West Texas Wind CD. It's in my player now!
City Park in New Orleans
Playing with this rather golf purist from Boston - not too uncommon to have a tourist loop in with us. He's a nice fellow with a solid 5 HC game. We talk about where's he's played and how he was a volunteer for the Ryder Cup at The Country Club. We get to the third hole and these 2 teenagers come running on the course - right behind them is a police car pulling about 25 mph on the course - just beside our fairway - welcome to New Orleans.
As you've no doubt seen, The Colonel's got a different set of guidelines than most. But, if you'll just PM Bagger, we'll 'think on it' and, you'll have...
"...your answer in the mornin'!"
-- Meatloaf
P.S. Thanks for sending your West Texas Wind CD. It's in my player now!
Done and thank you for the thank you
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