I'm fairly new here so I apologize if this has been discussed....but I'm wondering if anyone else has some things that people do on the course that drive them insane. I have 2...

1. If a putt of mine comes up short..within a foot or so..DON'T TOUCH IT and say "it's good." I don't want you to putt it back to me. If one more person does that I may lose it.
2. Faking some kind of pain on a bad shot. I'm not an idiot and I'm not blind. I saw that you just had a bad shot. You look more ridiculous faking an injury than you would if you just accepted your miserable attempt. And the only reason I am so annoyed with that is because I hit my fair share of dreadful shots!

Anyone else???

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The woulda coulda shoulda's..I can't stand it when people say they would have had a par if they could have kept their Tee shot out of the water...

Yup, but over a year old. After a while, dead threads should just stay burried.

Ground under repair not marked ground under repair.

Drives me nuts when I give a guy a 6 inch putt, putt it back to him, and he then acts insane and chases me around the green trying to hit me with his putter.

Now that's funny.

Yup, but its still a good reference if the OP was simply wanting to read some of the member's golf pet peeves.

Slow play,,,, drives me nuts. I have never hit a good shot after waiting for over 5 minutes on a group to move,,,,,, be it a 2nd to a par 5 or a tee shot. But I am a mental midget.

Ha, and there you have it.

When people pick up your ball with their grubby little fingers to identify it, even though it's clearly marked all the way around. A lot of adults are no different than children in that they just can't help themselves from touching stuff they're not supposed to. I walk all the time and it's usually cart riders who zoom ahead and do me this favor. Doesn't matter if the ball's in squarely in play and visible, doesn't matter that I've spotted it already and am walking towards it. No. Gonna touch it. Gotta touch it. Can't NOT touch it.

Sounds like a perfectly good gripe to me. The guy wants to play the ball down and if the course is good enough. Everyone should play it down,,,,, it will help your scores in the long run I promise. I dont want anyone touching my ball, unless its in the deep crap and I have to identify it,,,, still they should not touch it.

No one should ever touch your balls without permission.

Slow play.

The group rushing up behind you on the tee and clicking the brake in your back swing.

Can't stand it when I am addressing the ball and someone stands right behind me (down the line).

I have to say, this one bothers me a great deal. The moment a person does that, they go down a few notches in my book.

I could write in this thread all day probably. Another pet peeve that comes to mind is color commentary from experts in the obvious.

You didn't hit it.
Hit it too hard.
Well, you got the speed right.
Ooh, it's in the bunker.
Ooh, it hit the tree.

There is nothing more distinctly awful and anxiety-provoking than hitting a nice drive and seconds later seeing a cart emerge from an adjacent fairway, the occupants' faces lighting up as they point to your ball with that "Oh, THERE it is!" expression, with you 250+ (walking) yards away, virtually invisible to them and powerless to do anything. And you could be playing a bright pink Volvik with satanic pentagrams drawn all over it -- they're still gonna pick that baby up to identify it!

Best-case scenario, they leave it somewhere within the same ten-square-yard zip code. Worst-case, you have to run out and have the "uh, I'm pretty sure that's mine" talk and go through the motions of helping them figure out where their wildly off-target shot might have come to rest. And then hit your second shot amid cart-jockeying and further anguished conversation about the lost ball.

Good grief.

They actually teach this in medical school. I'm not kidding.

Or better yet by the time you get to where your ball was they've already hit it or just pocketed it and took off.

I caught one guy hitting my ball into the trees on purpose! He said "I thought it was a range ball."

Didn't the lack of a red stripe around it tell you it wasn't?

The main issue I have with this is that if it doesn't go in the first time and you swat it away every time, how can I really ever say I shot an "X" on a particular hole....

That depends entirely on who is doing the touching...

Talk about a derailing response!

The ONLY thing that irritates me on the course is when I'm playing with someone and they talk to MY ball I hit a tee shot on a hole and new it was gonna come up short and this guy in a group behind us started to yell GO IN THE HOLE!!... The ball ended up 25 yards short. My ball listens to me and no one else!! .... sometimes....

When that 30 handicap you are playing with says...

"Now I want you to try something with your putting stroke..."
"You really gotta flatten your swing plane..."
"So tell me, WHY would you hit a 4-iron off this par 4."
"You have a square driver eh? I never could hit those things..."

I've also had a few "Oh, you have the burner? I had that...hated it."

What do you even say to that?

Just chase them around the tee box whilst attempting to strike them with your putter. No need for words.

i know several people who do this, and its the absolute worst habit!!

People who don't mind their own business about what the other person is playing and whether it is suitable for their handicap. Or worse, the person who will actually mutter something under their breathe about it making sure everyone in the group can hear it.

Am I the only one that has more problems on the range than the course itself?

Tell us about your problems, please.

And with pictures of the " tee girls" please!

When some idiot picks up my ball. Or along the same lines when I hit a perfect drive and can't find it, prolly cause some idiot picked up my ball.

Here's an appropriate response for you, in that situation:

You: "You know, my grandfather played these clubs, and he lived to be a hundred."
Other Guy (bewildered): "Because he played those clubs?"
You: "No, because he minded his own f'n business!"

Unsolicited swing advise when I am trying to get over a hangover.
Everyone stopping to watch when I hit my driver.
Little "prodigy" kids screaming at their dads telling them they want to hit like the American.
People asking for swing advise.
Folks rummaging through my bag.
The lack of quality range balls at some of the ranges I go to.
The range only going to 200 yds with a net that doesn't go high enough.
Being kicked off said range for hitting my woods.
Mats so old that they're no longer green.
My caddy being also my "waiter" asking me if I need something mid-swing.
Being asked to use the mat when I hit my driver on the grass when there isn't an appropriate sized rubber tee thing.
Being constantly asked if I want a "real" drink from some dude I only met 5 minutes ago who wants to be my new "friend".

I probably have more, but these just happened a few days ago.

Well its funny because I'm no superstar by and means, but I am 6'2" 240...so people usually don't antaginize me. But when they say stuff like that I just look at them.

Arbitrage comes from Queens. He'll get the variance on the Brooklyn Tony joke.

Dorfler, I'm just happy that your range buddies aren't trying to force you into betting with them.

You'd be surprised. I am 6'3" and around 275lbs, and people still find me very "approachable" for some reason. I hope this goatee I am growing does the trick.

The incident I was referring to in my earlier post happened in my second year of golf. I was probably a 34 hc at the time but I had a particularly great day for me (shot a 93). I was playing with a threesome and one of the guys who claimed to be a 16hc shot a 112 with his Walmart "bag in a box" set. He mutters under his breathe, but in earshot of everyone, "Maybe if I had rich boy's clubs I would have shot better then him today." His friends were very apologetic because up until that point we were having a great time and getting along famously. If that wasn't enough, when we walked to the parking lot with our bags the same guy pointed out a black 2 door Mercedes coupe and asked me if that was my car, because "that's what people like you drive". I laughed and walked over to my wife's beat up 2000 Rav-4 and went home.

I'll never understand people like that. How is it MY fault that my clubs are nicer than yours?

I have my own version of the Brooklyn Tony joke that I use that I can't repeat here.

The folks that did the above didn't mean any harm. Someone who tries to force you to gamble is out to try to prosper from other's ignorance and misery. Friendly bets between friends is a whole other matter.

I've had issues in the past with people trying to make me gamble. One individual tried to push the issue once on a course. I pushed back. He didn't like it. I can still see the desperation in his face in the parking lot with his hand out saying I owed him 300 bucks. I'm pretty sure he really needed some money fast and thought he could intimidate me into solving his financial woes.

If I make a bet, I honor it. When I do bet I bet on food and drink. Before the round started he asked if we could play 100 bucks a hole. I said no quite firmly. I guess he didn't know what no meant at the time. Unfortunately I had to give him a class on the word no in the parking lot. The best part was he threw the first and only punch and I threw none. I'm not real sure if he's still double jointed anymore at the shoulder.

It's nothing I'm proud of. I don't like having to get physical with anyone. This individual was on the same level as a mugger. Nothing more, nothing less.

I hate when the people in front of you leave the flag out of the pin and have left it laying on the green.

Sand rakes left in front of the green.. ruining any approach bump-n-run shots

As I'm finishing up a hole and walking off of a Par 3, having young punks yell "Fore!".. I proceed to take cover.. and I look back and they haven't even hit the ball .. while laughing and having a good ole time..
I did wait for them to arrive to the next tee.. but unfortunately for their health.. they proceeded to skip a few holes

Does it end in "... you'd be a TEN."???

also when i hit a 300 yrd drive, leaving me 100 yrds into the green, and make double bogey, happens to me atleast once per round

If someone threatened or tried to intimidate me at the start I'd simply walk off the tee or where ever and find other people to play with. The day someone swings or attacks me at a golf course is the day I get arrested.

Ah, c'mon! Ya know ya should be flyin' the ball to the hole and stoppin' it, like a REAL Amerricun!

Yours from the PGA Tour,
Franklin Ray Lickliter II

No, but I like the way you're thinking.

How about the guys that tells you even the pros' arent using blades anymore...
Or the guys that your ball, then says 'it was a prov so i thought it was mine'...he was using last year's model, i had this year's model...and his ball was 50 yards shorter than where my ball was
Or the guys that tell you nice shot if when you're furious cus it really was not..,
Or the guy that tries to make you gamble, but wants odds because you have blades...
Or the guy that esctatic because he outdrove you (even though you used a 3W and him driver...)

Oh I just thought of another one. I played last saturday...a pair of gents in front of us took THREE shots off of EVERY single tee. One of the guys never used his driver, EVER and his irons were less than 150 yards regardless of club choice. His buddy teed the ball up so high he would literally hit the ball straight into the air and use his hand to block the sun and say "where did it go??" looking down the fairway

Ball washers. I hate ball washers. I don't know what it is? Perhaps it's more of a superstition than a pet peeve, but I can't stand ball washers. There's just something weird and elementary about them I can't explain. I'm not saying anyone who uses them is an idiot, I just prefer a towel. Also, whenever I see someone use one, I think about how hilarious it would be if, say, at the Masters you saw Tiger or Phil come to the tee box after a miraculous eagle at the 15th or something and go place their golf ball in the ball washer... and wash away! Hee, hee. That would be awesome!

And yes, I know there are no ball washers on the tee boxes at Augusta. It's just part of my sick and twisted fantasy...