Over the years as I travel, I have been paired up with golfers, and one type is always funny and annoying to me. The twin cities seems to have alot of these guys.

The golfers I am talking about are the ones that think they are really really good, and can't break 100. The golfers that talk a big game, bring a billboard staff bag, and talk down to everybody. Many times they will even give me advice on the coarse. Tell me how I should change my swing and so forth (usually giving me wrong advice). I have a pretty sound traditional swing I have been playing since I was a little kid, and I play almost everyday ( I am lucky). I also think it is funny to watch these guys try to hit on chicks at the coarse, they always do. Also this type of golfer always has a side kick that looks up to him and thinks he is just as good as a pro golfer.

I guess I am a pretty humble golfer. I don't give swing advice to anyone unless they ask me. I also don't go around telling everyone what a great golfer I am.

I think it is really funny, and even though a little bothersome, I like to watch these idiots.
I hope you guys will get a kick out of this, please share your similar stories or comments.

Great post......Glad I'm not from the "Twin Cities". If I were you, I think I would consider giving up the game.

Well, golf is like life, in so many ways. As we go down that road we meet all types of people. Good story, though :-)

Maybe if you tried playing on the course instead of the coarse you'd find better players.

haha. I hate the golfers that wear pants when its 90 degrees out. Your not on the PGA tour so stop it.

what if my legs aren't sexy

That's funny!

I go to the course and I have enough to worry about w/ my own game. If I tried to analyze and judge everyone else, I'd have trouble focusing on my targets.

You guys are talented!


:P

Sounds like you are describing the entire staff at my local Edwin Watts.

What is your approved maximum outside temperature for wearing pants? Do the police in NY allow nudism above 90°?

I remember over hearing some guys trashing a guy I knew that was wearing pants when it was like 95 degrees. I had to point out to them that he had a prosthetic leg. I think they felt bad after that and hopefully learned a lesson about casting judgement so fast.

LOL! My local Edwin Watts they talk NASCAR and basketball or college hoops.

On the course it is the jerks with Nike or TW hats and Nike gear, they smoke cigars and leave butts all over, throw empty beer cans out of the cart, fist pump, throw clubs, hit 2 or 3 balls until the drive is close to the fairway, spit, swear, wear red shirts on Sunday, look at their putts for 10 minutes etc etc.

The best one was some yea-hoo who was hitting Nike Juices. He would take a 2 or 3 shots off the tee and would leave his other balls. I just followed and picked up half a dozen juices for teh shag bag. Not a bad ball but Duval should have left Nike years ago. I know they supported him but a lot of their gear is crappy.

Good ole twin cities courses.... i wonder if you arent out by lake minnetonka area with all the rich kids, some of the people out there are just so annoying....

Hahaha, thats just the reply to a post like that that's needed.

Yeah, our Edwin Watts staff is definitely an anomaly. I have been to EW's in other states and they were really down to earth and cool. Dunno what happened here. LOL.

Not sure why wearing pants to play golf is an issue......I'm a 1hdcp and have very tiny calfs; so rather than hear all the jokes about peg legs and chicken legs, I'll just wear my pants even 100* temp

I'm 6'2" and have legs that look like they belong on a rooster. When it gets real hot I'll wear shorts be if you ever saw my legs, you beg me never to wear shorts again.

Why are you trying to justify yourself to this bozo?

once you get over yourself, youll realize that you really dont need to be worrying about other peoples clothes, swings, equipment, or whatever else bothers you. if you cant accept yourself, then i can see why you would have a hard time accepting other people. its not that hard to ignore people.


i do agree though about the 3 or even 2 ball tee hitter. terrible habit of some people.

what's a golf coarse...? is that kind of like a rougher way to play golf...?

those people don't bother me... i would just chuckle... i'm not that great of a player myself so hackers don't bother me, even if they look the part... they only bother me if they have no etiquette and play too slow...

I do hate the middle age guy who thinks the 18 year old cart girl with big boobs wants nothing more than for him to take her off somewhere and give her the best she's ever had. To bad for her he's married. But he'll tease her enough that she'll be thinking of him the rest of the day and be looking for him personally every Saturday. He's that awesome.

I am not suggesting that the brand of equipment or clothing is corollary to a persons demeanor or manners but the biggest moron/know
it all with no game whom I ever had the displeasure of playing golf with was outfitted in Titleist gear. Again, no bust on Titleist, I love their equipment.

I may be lucky to not have seen the Nike/TW clad people that I read about on this forum. Generally, the guys I see with alot
of Nike stuff are younger athletes who grew up using Nike gear in other sports and they are usually pretty good.

Whenever I'm approached by an armchair pro who offers unsolicited advice on the practice ground I just enter into animated conversation with an imaginary person about something like cosmology or the breeding habits of badgers.

Usually, they clear off within a minute or two.

I wear titleist head to toe, black slacks (neatly pressed), and my bud carries my 400 lb staff bag and wears a bib with my name on it even though I play to an 18 handicap and it's 107 degrees outside. I always wonder if people are staring because they think I'm elitist. Then I say to myself, nah... they just really admire my gear.

I despise these posts.

I can't stand golfers who complain about other golfers!

...and yes, I understand the irony of that statement.

I find this person at every country club. Typically these folks carry a great "ego handicap" and can be taken for a few bucks. They are also the loudest person on the golf course and usually break a club or put on a great display when things start going south. I have even seen a few leave the course.

Basically it's the same person that turns off the XBOX when you are thumping them at Madden and/or locks themselves in their bedrooms when their favorite sports team loses.

I find it ironic that a guy who plays golf everyday has to get paired up. Of course, after reading his post, I guess I can see why he's always looking for games.

Just an observation.

I just love 18 year old cart girls.

I think he said he travles and gets pair up while during said travling.

I'm not middle-aged...and I don't flirt w/ the beer girls. But who cares!?

So an old dude wants to have some fun. They know it's not going to lead to anything. A golf course is still, for the most part, a man's domain....and this has always been part of it.

have you checked out the videos on youtube titled "perfect golf swing"? I don't know who has more of the perfect swing, the guy who made the video of his "perfect" swing or the people commenting what mistakes he is making?

Sure .... bust my bubble. Why would you want to take that away from me?

When I've played golf in the U.S. a bit of carefree banter with the cart girl that wouldn't have been out of place in a Carry On film was always the highlight of the day.

Double entendres beat double bogeys any day.

What about teaching pros? I wear pants every single round I play.

If you had knees like mine, you'd wear trousers every time you played too.

I hate the guy who wears a wool sweater vest with no shirt underneath and who insists on trying my driver after eating
bbq chicken with his hands and screams "Get In The Hole" after his own tee shots.

I'm in the pants crowd regardless of the heat. My legs were put in casts (pre-school) and when I stand with my legs together I spell the letter X!
Speaking of know it all's jumping to conclusions about what they see on the course: A fellow in my cart saw a golf cart that was driven up onto the tee. He went on and on about the "a** hole" who was so mindless. He then screamed at the other cart in our group to point this "a** hole" out. After he paused for a breath I explained "That fellow plays here all the time. The course allows him to do that 'cause his legs were blown off in 'nam. He hits it really good from his custom golf chair." ... I think one "know it all" learned a lesson that day. I hope the lesson stuck with him.

i prefer to play in pants, but just can't do it in the heat... if i played in 70 degree weather all year round, i'd wear pants all the time, but i'm not that fortunate...

Nothing wrong with either pants or shorts. But why would a man complain about another man wearing pants instead of shorts? Do you really wanna see some man legs that bad? lol.

when someone tries to give me advice on the range or the putting green, I just ask them if they want to play for money. they usually say they have tendonitis/knee surgery etc.

I went to play this weekend by myself so I signed up for 3 rounds as a single and got paired up all 3 times. My last round was with this guy I will say mid 50s (if it was less he looked bad for his age...) he was from the midwest with a vacation home in FL next to PGA where we were playing. He kept buying beer every time from the cart girl and telling her what he thought were smooth pick up lines and compliments... Too bad for him the sexy latina cart girl with the very sizable chest and pretty face was like 8 months pregnant and he said he couldnt make her another one... What a tool, she kept smiling with those fake polite smiles probably just for the tips. I feel bad those girls have to endure these idiots for hours every day

Peace

Referring to them as "Foghorn Leghorn" usually works for me.

cowtown texas, what I mean by paired up is when I travel for work, I travel alone, so when I go to play golf they usually make me join up with more people.

When I play everyday weather permitting, I play at my CC that I live on.

I agree. See you at Hooters after the round.

If a man was younger than I, good-looking and trim, and not in a committed relationship, he might have a good old time making a run at the wife that guy is irritating by flirting with the cart girl. She might have to leave the course complaining of a sick headache, and he might be feeling poorly a few minutes later and have to leave, too. I'm not saying I would do that. I'm just sayin'...

I don't travel as much as I used to, but I've been around the block a few times. I really can't remember the golfer stereotypes. I know they are still out there, but somehow I'm not noticing as much.

But by far my favorite type of golfer to meet is some stranger who at some point in the round asks me if I heard the story about Mickelson gambling at Augusta two years ago. I do my best deadpan look and say no, haven't heard it. And then I patiently listen to them tell the story with great passion and conviction. I feel so much for my fellow man I don't dare burst their bubble and tell them it was an April's Fool Joke.

Other than that, the only golfer that seems to still get my interest is the guy who hits it 200 off the tee on a Par 5, then waits for the green to clear 300 out. That one I don't get.

Whoa whoa whoa. There's women that actually play at your muni? I'm only a weekend golfer now and it's a rarity to see a skilled woman at my course. I'm sure the women come out, but never when I'm playing. It seems like whenever I get paired up with women, they're usually pushing north of 65 or being dragged out there by their boyfriends / husbands and quit after 7 holes (this past weekend, leading to a 3: hour long front 9).

By the way, is there anything better than a skilled woman golfer? I would love to get paired up with a skilled, passionate, female golfer.

I wear pants otherwise my legs get eaten up by gnats & mosquitos, and it also saves me from a little sunburn.

What are these attractive cart girls with big breasts I keep hearing on this forum?! Over here we just have caddies... no cart girls though.

Is it quite common to have a 'cart girl' at a golf course in America?

it is fairly common, in canada too actually

i'm pretty easy going when it comes to playing partners. I've played as a single many times in my years playing golf, the one thing i can't stand is swing advice...talk about anything else, just no swing advice!

Actually, there are a number of cart girls around where I live and most of them are at least cute and some are hot. I'm not some j/o who's going to give them a huge tip or try and find a way to say something about sex, but I like meeting them. Most are nice girls and don't deserve aggresive drunks getting out of hand, but then again they are pretty much making their living by driving around selling drinks while showing off their legs.

If someone insists on giving golf advice, and they suck, ask to bet money and they will shut up 90 something percent of the time.