[Golfchicago]

I just started playing golf and I was playing this goat ranch in West Hartford Connecticut called Buena Vista. I dont even know if it is still there anymore. A friend of mine was right up against the lip of a bunker on the 7th hole. He opned his stance and blade tremendously. He swung and the ball almost did a Phil. It went straight up in the air, he had this look of frustration for a split second because he didnt know where it was and just a plit second before it hit him in the head I yelled duck. He doubled over in pain. I think it was more ego than pain! Man I laughed my a## off when I saw that.

[Golfchicago]

The funniest thing that happened to me in a matchwas again back in the 70s. I was in a high school match. I started birdie, birdie. I had my opponent 2 down. The third hole is a sharp dog leg right par five. Theyve changed it to a par 4 since then, but anyway, This opponent tees his ball about a club length directly behind the left tee marker trying to take advantage of the angle. He hit that tee marker dead square, he did a delayed reaction dive well after the ball was gone and the ball flew into the woods behind him and he made a double. We laughed our a33es off for about a minute.

[aussiefreddy]

A mate of mine who is a hacker plays off about a 30 handicapp tees the ball up on the right side as he has a nasty hook. He blades his tee shot hits the social marker infront of him it picked up speed when it hit the marker it come right back at him and hits him on the chin. We tried not too laugh as he went down like a sack of sh1t and he is a big boy about 100kg you could hear him hit the ground.

[pitbull808]

A friend of mines had just tripled a par 5. As we got to the next hole, in his disgust, he teed up his ball and aimed it at woods to get rid of it. He took a mighty swing and hit his ball. The ball shot out like a cannon into the curb of the cartpath, ricocheted right back at him and hit him in the stomach landing softly at his feet. Needless to say, after we found him okay, we laughed our butt off.

Same guy, different course, first hole. He walked up to his drive, went ten yards in front and dropped his bag. We all wondered what he was doing, but he walked back to his ball with 3 wood in hand. Again a mighty swing. The ball shot out and hit the bottom of his bag, ricocheting back at him and hit him on the shin. He was left jumping up and down in the fairway holding his leg. This time we didn't even ask how he was, we just laughed our butt off again.

[zojo]

pitbull808, on Jun 19 2005, 12:49 PM, said:

A friend of mines had just tripled a par 5.  As we got to the next hole, in his disgust, he teed up his ball and aimed it at woods to get rid of it.  He took a mighty swing and hit his ball.  The ball shot out like a cannon into the curb of the cartpath, ricocheted right back at him and hit him in the stomach landing softly at his feet.  Needless to say, after we found him okay, we laughed our butt off.

Same guy, different course, first hole.  He walked up to his drive, went ten yards in front and dropped his bag.  We all wondered what he was doing, but he walked back to his ball with 3 wood in hand.  Again a mighty swing.  The ball shot out and hit the bottom of his bag, ricocheting back at him and hit him on the shin.  He was left jumping up and down in the fairway holding his leg.  This time we didn't even ask how he was, we just laughed our butt off again.

did you ever find out why he put his bag infront of his ball?

[pargolfer]

I attempted an incredibly stupid shot about three summers ago.

The course has a small creek that runs through it with high stone walls on each side of it. The creek is about 4 feet wide and about three feet deep. I hit a tee shot that leeked into this creek, but fortunately for me, with the dry summer we were having, the ball was sitting on a very dry patch of ground. The whole creek was dry.

I'm seeing this ball sitting them and I'm thinking, "hey, no problem, hit my LW out and down the fairway". So I set up to it, open the blade, and take a mighty swing at it. Unfortunatley for me, the ball came off a little lower that I expected, it smacked a stone and came straight back at me and hit my shin right below the knee cap. Fortunately, the ball ended up out of the creek. My leg was slowly turning black for the rest of the round.

[kenfuji]

it was a long par 4 with a pretty strong head wind
my buddy decides to use his driver and tee it low to keep it under the wind. He takes his usual swing but catchs it thin. as the ball burns through the teebox about 2 inchs off the ground it hit a cement bank which is part of a small creek 75yds away. the ball shoots up in the air. we look at each other wondering where the ball went. as he's teeing another ball, the first ball lands right in front of him.
it must have been a good 10 seconds of hang time.

[mattymc]

about 7 years ago my father, brother and i went out to play one weekend.... the three of us along with a single who was put with us are standing on the first tee, waiting for the group ahead to reach the green..... my bother (who let me preface by saying he's not a good golfer) puts his tee in the ground, places the ball on it and turns to us and proclaims, "If I can't hit it past the ladies tees, I'll play the rest of the hole with my pants around my ankles"........ he did this trying to be a wise-a** considering the red tees were literally 18 inches in front of the whites, which we were playing.......... he takes his backswing, now the downswing........ and hits completely under the ball, breaking the tee, advancing the ball all of 12 inches (red tees were 18)........... the four of us laughed for the rest of the entire hole...... we didn't make him play with no pants, considering we'd probably get thrown off the course, but i had ( and please don't ask me why because i don't remember why) a pink Flying Lady golf ball which we made him play with for the rest of the front 9........... hilarious

[KascoPro]

When I watched DM throw his Gaylor Made 510 df with a Fuji tourspec, and it ended up stuck in the top of a tree.

[Chief]

My golf buddies thought it was funny;a$$holes! I was an inch from the cart path and about 10ft from the green and I wanted to "flop" it straight up. I swung HARD and before I knew it the ball ricocheted off the cart path and hit me in the eyebrow hard enough to lay it open. I finished the round and then I decided not to go to the doctor because it would cost more than a box of butterfly closers. Still have the scar and they still laugh about it. A$$HOLES!!!

[stickman]

i was playing with my dad and his buisness friend and you know how buisness guys are on the couse they like to be big shots. well very first tee the guy tees up the ball and shanks his ball so badly it hits his cart which is parallel to the tee markers and breaks the rental carts windsheild i was lauging so hard i almost diedd! At the end of the round he had to pay 40 bucks for breaking the windsheild.

[Golfchicago]

Here is my topper story and it is a true story and it is unbelieveable. Back in high school in Connecticut, I was playing this course solo. I got to this par 4 about 320. So Im thinkin swing as hard as i can, right??? I swung, no ball in the air. I looked down at the tee and the ball was spinning viciously on the tee. I looked around hoping someone could witness this. I just laughed my a** off as I walked down the hole wondering how it was possible to do that.

[Golfchicago]

Thanks for sharing guys. Ive been laughing my a$$ off reading these stories. Who says you cant have fun on a golf course.

[glennmaitland]

Iv got a mate who rarely plays golf (twice a year maybe) and as such can be horrendous when he gets a club in his hand. He played two of the most ridiculous shots iv ever seen in one round when we played at the start of this year. On the 2nd tee he pulled out the driver, took a practise swing, addressed the ball, took his swing and heeled the ball with the thinnest contact ever so that it shot between his legs at 90degrees to where he intended to hit. Never seen a between the legs drive before and doubt i'l ever see it again!
On the 12th tee he played another incredible shot that almost defies physics. . . . Again with the driver, huge (no control) swing and this time as he made contact with the ball it jumped up in the air, bounced about 10-12 feet BEHIND him with soo much top spin that it spun forwards to finish about 2 feet behind where he originally teed it up. Effectively a -12foot drive with enough spin to bring it to a -2ft drive. Was so embarassed that i couldnt even laugh at the time! Can u imagine how that shot would read on a launch monitor!!!

[generalpatton]

When I was in high school the course I played used to take the large styrofoam hot cups and use them for tee box marker molds (filled with concrete and painted). My buddy hit a worm-burner tee shot and the ball hit one of the forward tee markers and it came right back at him in hit him in the nuts. No way we could keep from doubling over in laughter despite his pain.

[warner41]

A few years ago at our club's member guest the group playing with us didn't realize that my dad had not hit is second on a par 4 with a blind approach. They pulled right in front of the green with the cart and got out before I could stop him from hitting. The ball cleared the roof of their cart by a few inches and hit the guy right in the stomach, he doubled over and made the loudest grunt I have ever heard from a human. He was a big guy, (300 +) and when we all finally got up to the green he showed us the mark on his stomach, you could clearly see the dimples it was so funny. I still laugh about it today.

[bub72ck]

When I was younger one of my friends has a set of PING ISI Nickel irons which you all know are very soft. He was really protective of the clubs and was always afraid something was going to happen to them. We were in a 4some one afternoon and the carts have to be parked in front of and a little to the left of the first tee. One of the other guys in the group hits this low hook and the ball makes a perfect strike on the clip holding the bag strap to the cart and my friends Nickel clubs go crashing onto the cart path. He was crying and we were all laughing.

[BENNYSUPREME]

I've got two


1st:

couple weeks ago while sitting on a par 3 waiting to hit, there was a group teeing off about 175 yards away on a par 4. the only thing that was between his tee box and mine was tall rough and air. well this guy hits his shot, a pull hook, when i say pull hook i mean it ended up on my tee box almost at a 90* angle ( more like 80 to 85 *) 175 yards away. after the group saw my 3some running they drove over to get the ball, the guy was so embarassed he just picked up and drove off saying sorry.

2nd

#1 tee new guy to the eara tees his ball up. to give you a pic. club house right there, driving range, #9 green, and about 50 people easy around tee box. ok back to the shot. this guy tees his ball up and takes driver out when all you need is an iron, hybrid, at most 3 wood. well being that we play this course all the time we tried to help him, well he says i know what i'm doing. . ok, so he proceeds to hit his shot, i'm looking down the fairway and did not see any thing. heres what happened, he some how hit the worest shot i have ever seen, off his shin. needless you stay he didn't know what he was doing, he got off the ground, picked his ball up and left, we have never seen him back.

[bradkv]

We were playing a little goat track here in town and it was pretty busy. The tees and greens are very close together on a couple holes, and we got up to the tee to hit, while the group behind us parked immediately behind our carts on the previous green. My buddy, who is left handed and a terrible player, tees off and takes a divot about 8 inches behind his ball, shattering his Steelhead 3 wood just above the hosel. The clubhead flies about 25 feet and hits the first cart of the group behind us, goes THROUGH the windshield, and ends up on the seat. I couldn't draw a club back for about 3 more holes.

Another time, in a capt choice tourney on our 2nd hole, one of my college buddies hits his tee shots and has a sudden urge to take a leak, so he walks over to the trees 90* right of the tee box, and proceeds to relieve himself. Another buddy of mine is teeing off, and toes his tee shot so badly that it shoots directly right at the guy taking a leak, we didn't even have time to yell, and the ball went between the guys right arm and rib cage, hit one of the trees, and bounced backwards, striking him in the stomach. It wasn't moving all that fast, so he didn't get hurt, but when he turned around, he had wet his entire right trouser leg. I am laughing too hard now thinking about that to type any more....

[golfpromt]

This is a fantastic thread. Keep it coming, I can barely see because I am crying from laughter.

[harleypitbull1]

Not one shot but an episode of shots. We have an 8some that goes to myrtle beach every year to play golf. Well Kings north number 5 is a short par 4,,,, about 380 I think. It has a huge bunker in the front of the green with a probably 8 foot tall face. I am playing in the back foursome so I get to see this entire show. Probably the worst player of the group,,,,, averages 90 at the beach playing it down so not terrible by any means,,,, hits his second shot in the trap. Bout this time we are getting to the middle of the fairway,,,, I see him go into the trap,,,, he swings,,, hits it thin and it plugs in the face,,,, of course he gets the other 3 to come look before he tries to hit it again. He is standing in the bottom of the bunker with the club up around his eyes swinging at it like a baseball and swings at it once,,,, it does not move,,,, he takes his time and tries again,,,, still dont move,,, by this time he is erupting and he takes 3 swings in less than 5 seconds,,, just hacking as hard as he can,,,, I am in the fairway rolling on the ground,,,,, the ball finally dislodges and rolls into the bottom of the trap,,,, yep,,,, you know what happens,,,, same thing again,,,, this went on for about 5 minutes and then he finally hits it out back down the fairway and then blades it over the green out of bounds,,,,, by far the funniest thing I have ever seen on the golf course,,,,,, I have no idea what he actually made,,,, they gave him a 15 and he picked up cause it took so long. We throwed cheap shots at him the rest of the week,,,, we laughed so hard over dinner and I am laughin now just thinking about it....... Guess you had to be there

[magnum184]

During a US Open Qualifier, a guy in my group had started off 3 under after 3 holes. By the time we reached the back nine his swing had completely left him. He was 5 or 6 over by the time we reached the 18th tee. This was a pretty big guy mind you. It was hot, he was drenched in sweat, his shirt stuck all over him. He had been through several gloves. On the tee, he blasts a drive that duck hooks sharply into the creek on the left barely getting off the ground. But, his club slipped and went flying through the air further than his ball almost. He turned so red it was scary. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME" "HOW CAN THIS GET ANY WORSE !!!!!!!!" Right then and there a bird flew over and dropped a sh#t on top of his white hat. He almost started crying. We tried not to laugh.

[bogeyjosh]

a few years ago i was playing with my dad and my grandpa at his home course in tn. he has little patience , so after his 2nd shot he takes off to the green while i have yet to hit my 2nd. as he his riding down the cart path, i take my swing and hit a pretty poor shot to the left, keep in mind he's still driving, the ball comes flying down striking the top of his cart perfectly! he just about turned that cart over when the ball hit. i still die laughing at that.

another time, same grandpa, we hit our shots on a par 3, then he tees up. takes a mighty swing and tops the ball sending a worm burner all the way to the green for a freaking HOLE IN ONE!!! haha.

[Hoover98]

Met a guy at Fish Camp before starting my freshman year of college. He said he played some and we planned a round when we got back to campus. He's a big guy (6'6", 260+) with a baseball background, so I figured he could at least play a little. On the first tee, he gets up and lets out this mighty swing, clips th ball just enough with the heel of his driver to hit it straight back through his legs and into the bushes behind him. Keep in mind I just met the guy a week ago, so I try and hide my amusement, that is until he looks down the fairway, up, down, left and right, then yells, "WHERE THE F**K DID IT GO?!?" I almost died right there I was laughing so hard. That was 14 years ago and the guy ended up being one of my closest friends, and yes, we still laugh about that story to this day.

[golfman1229]

Ive got one. i was at the driving range and this new to the game player starting hitting next to me. anyways i see him teeing up a hybrid on a driver size tee. he then precedes to swing under the ball, hit the tee, and the ball goes about an inch in the air and lands directly back on the tee. he was looking around for the ball down the range. when he realized he didnt hit it he was looking around to see if anyone had seen it. i was trying so hard not to laugh, for him being new to the game. i had to take a little break and walk away so i could laugh.

[ml43]

played with a guy who sorta looked like a smaller/older colin montgomery

first hole, tees up the ball about 3 inches off the ground, takes a big divot with his driver and looks at me and my friend in disbelief, like he was expecting it to turn out well

then later he says, "Someone told me to hit down on it"

couldnt resist but laugh

[brlambert]

Sorry but this thread made me think of this comercial, I still laugh everytime I see it

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=neeuQyfkwvg

[Southside Striker]

I played in a tournament and one of the kids i was playing with missed his six foot par putt and left it just inches from the lip. I guess he forgot it was a tournament and walked up to his ball, takes a full swing and sends it into a green-side bunker. He had to go and finish the hole ad ended up with a quadzilla.

[sambo400 II]

my first ever high school tournament we were backed up on the eighteenth tee. My freind and teamate hits this big cut with his driver, so to hit the fairway he has to hit it near this big, dead tree just 50 or so yards away. his first shot nails the tree and comes rolling back over the tee box, through the tees, and finishes behind him. His next one clipped some branches but got to the fairway.

Also, in a tournament, playing with Tanner Murphy, (eventual state champion who plays for Ohio State), at Murfield Village, (on the sixth hole if you can recall which one that is) I hit my 20 footer for birdie about an inch from the hole, then walk up and proceed to hit it another half an inch.

[matt062286]

One time I was playing with a high school kid who was playing pretty well then started losing his swing. By the 17th hole he was hacking it. He had a shot from the fairway and took a terrible swing, chunked it so hard that the ball rolled about 5 yards, then 2 seconds later the NY strip steak divot lands right on top of the ball.

Back when I was learning to play, my uncle took me to a local driving range. My uncle isn't a golfer so he was basically shanking everything. One shot he shanked an iron so hard off the toe that it ricocheted off the metal dividers between the range mats and went straight backwards. The ball took one bounce off the sidewalk behind us and went in through the door of the pro shop, I heard it hit something but no one came out and said anything. Couldn't concentrate to hit a shot after that from laughing so hard.

[pointcenter]

I saw my brother hit one off of his foot but here are a few unique ones.

I was on a par 4 left of the fairway under a tree. I took out my 8 and was going to try and hit a low shot and run it up to the green. Well I swung WAY too hard and the ball got up in a hurry. The ball hit a branch square and came right back at me. It bounced once and was heading right for my nuts. Seeing this, I turned my body hard to avoid getting hit in the nuts, I caught(!) the ball in between my legs! I pretty much gave up on that hole because I was laughing so hard.....

My other story was when I was just starting to play golf. I am a big guy 6'9" and swing pretty hard. i didn't have my own clubs so I was using some crappy ones with graphite shafts. I was playing at the par 3 course at a retirement complex where my grandmother lived. I was on the 9th hole heading back to the clubhouse and I hit a very poor tee shot to the first "fairway". I was about a 100 yards out and had to go over some trees so I took out my wedge and swung as hard as I could. Ball never got above 5 feet and was going about 200+ mph straight at the clubhouse. There was an old man sitting there in the path of the ball. I didn't have time to yell fore, and ball hit the wall above his shoulder and the old man(80+) NEVER moved. Well I was freaking out and ran up there to see if he was OK.... he just said nonchalantly "I saw it coming the whole time....."

[divot46]

Probably the hardest I ever laughed about a golf shot was when I played every weekend with my dad and a couple of his buddies. First tee, Saturday morning, people lined up waiting. My dad's buddy steps up and takes a mighty swing and his ball explodes. White powder all over the place. He turns around with this deadpan look like "wtf just happened????". Everyone thought the other guy in our group slipped him the exploding ball. Come to find out he had teed it up himself. The whole place was dying......

[tko112204]

The best one I ever saw was also the most amazing. My buddy, who is a terrible golfer, 110ish probably, tees up his ball on a par 3 at my home course. As he's taking his backswing the ball begins to roll off the tee, well he can't stop his swing and tries to hit it anyway. He absolutely pured it at the flag and it went in for an ace. The craziest thing I've ever seen. If it hadn't fallen off the tee he would have missed it 4 inches in on the toe. Haha.


Ben

[Cameron Carter]

Quote

The best one I ever saw was also the most amazing. My buddy, who is a terrible golfer, 110ish probably, tees up his ball on a par 3 at my home course. As he's taking his backswing the ball begins to roll off the tee, well he can't stop his swing and tries to hit it anyway. He absolutely pured it at the flag and it went in for an ace. The craziest thing I've ever seen. If it hadn't fallen off the tee he would have missed it 4 inches in on the toe. Haha.


Ben

he ought to be ashamed of that hole in 1

[homergolf]

I thought one of the best shots I ever saw was my buddy, he's 6'6", 185, was in the fairway on a par 4. He took a swing with his 6 iron, bladed it to the right, it hit a tree and came right back at him hitting him in the shin. Down went his 6'6" frame while he clutched his shin. I was rolling. I have reminded him of that shot regularly until, months later, I left my drive in the trees to the right. I took a look at the lie and it was up against a root. I took my 60 out thinking I could pop it up over the root and into the fairway. Nope, it came straight up and hit me just below my left eye. Man did I have a shiner. He had the decency to wait until he knew I still had my eye intact before he went into convulsions.

[One_Putt_Blunder]

I was playing one of my buddies for a double or nothing bet from football. He was down 100 and wanted to try his luck on the course. As our customary bet I spotted him 10 strokes he is a (18) im a (9.4)
He is actually up by 3 or 4 net by the 15th hole (498 par 5) and he starts in with the trash talk after his drive. I proceed to remind him that golf karma can be very cruel he just laughs and says were all even ($ wise) now and some other cocky stuff, I tell him to hold his horses he still has a 185 carry over water to get on in two,my ball is just off the green in 2. He steps up to his 3 wood and just completly lays the sod over one, I mean this is the worst I have ever seen his club hit about 2 feet behind the ball and just tore a massive divot that went about 20 yards his 3 wood went about 15 yards as it flew out of his hands. He looked to see if the ball ended up in the lake as I was on the ground in tears saying Brian the ball hasnt moved one inch your now hitting three btw the next one did go in the lake. I won by 5 he completly lost it after that.