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[Goodfella]

exquisitechip, on 19 April 2012 - 10:01 AM, said:

I once hit a hard worm burner with driver. I looked up to watch the ball but it was nowhere in sight. I turned back to my friend and asked if he saw it. He looks bewildered and says No idea where that went. As we are looking at each other shrugging our shoulders wondering where the hell my ball went, behind him I see a ball fall straight down from the sky and nearly embed itself on the green of the previous hole with an ugly thud. Turns out I had worm burned it straight into a tee marker about five yards ahead, one of those round ones, and launched it a mile straight up into the air. My friend and I practically had a whole conversation before the ball hit the earth again. It took us a while to figure out what had happened. He was in hysterics, I was just glad the ball hadn't ricocheted back into us.

In a related story:   I was at a course that used what looked like painted shotputs for ball markers.  Sat AM tee off, a group of teenagers are teeing off from the blue tees.  There are many people gathered around, plus there is a putting green behind the tee box...separated by a cement cart path.  The first 3 kids tee of without difficulty, but the fourth kid is feeling the pressure.  At address, he paused, looked up, and saw about 20 - 30 people waiting and watching.  He then hits a wormburner that nails the white tees in front of him.  The ball comes straight back at him about knee high.  

He must have been an athlete as he jumps straight up and lets the ball go by and head directly to a crowded practice green.  Somebody yelled "fore" but it was too late.  The ball skipped hard of cart path and hit an older man in the back of the calf........dropping him to his knees.

Everybody on the green turned around and looked at the tee box......and the kid acted like nothing even happened.  He just put his driver in his bag and started walking down the fairway like he had nothing to do with it.

[BVIChester]

[GP300]

BVIChester, on 20 April 2012 - 09:14 AM, said:

That is hilarious

[noisy_boy]

Hey fellas! New to the site...


  I don't recall what hole it was, but I hit a gofer killer into the grass and it skids just past the lady's tee. The was a group on the green that was finishing up and I'm thinking "Well there is just NO way I can hit this thing to the green so I'm just gonna hit." Well... I hit the ball and WOW I hit it. That thing skipped up on the the green and about 5 feet from a player... So naturally I felt like a total idiot while also feeling good that I actually hit the shot.. Well the player on the green picks up my ball and tosses it into the lake. I couldn't be mad about it because I hit into them... Still though very embarrassing.

[masamitsu]

Some of my buddies and I were playing this course in Md playing the whites.  Three of us hit and next up is "Nate".  Well he thins his driver, it's hits the tee markers in front of us and the ball ricochets some 30 yards behind us.  Let me tell you everyone around the first tee thought it was hilarious.

[jtoker1369]

Last year I was teeing off with a few friends and my brother on Par 4.  I pull my drive, which is suck with,  and proceed to tee it up.  Aggrivated by the previous few holes i decide I am going to just kill this ball.  My driver sweeps right under the ball,  pops it straight up and into my had.  The ball falls b/t my feet and my hat falls behind me.   Everyone in my group just dies out laughing, including me.  My brother looks at me and with the straightest of faces says "plays long from there".

[Lefty94]

For the past few years my driver and I have not really been on speaking terms. TO the point where I don't really hit it much. Hit the 3 wood straight down the middle all day long, can't hit driver to save my life. Spray it all over the place. So I am playing a really nice course and it's kinda long from the blues. So the need to hit my driver is there. So I am coming up on 9, all kinds of pissed off because my round is gone to hell because I have been spraying driver all over the place, including ob. So I am pissed about the rd and even more pissed that I am too damn stubborn and wont stop hitting driver (I am in full on Roy McAlvoy mode right now). I step up on 9. I grip my driver and swing for the fences. To this day I have no idea how I buried the ball less than 6 inches in front of the tee. ONly the top of the ball was showing. No idea how one does this. But my buddies and I all got a good laugh and helped me relax a little.

Where I used to work there was a driving range like 5 mins from work. I got an hour for lunch. So most days I grab a change of clothes and would head to the range. I was in my late 20s and I worked with a guy in his mid 40's. He was a cool guy and we hung out a lot since we were the only 2 guys in our dept. ANyway he says that he enjoys golf but isn't very good and doesn't play much. I tell him anytime he wants he can come and hit balls with me. So one day he does. He was all excited and talked about it all morning. He kept talking about his taylor made 5 wood that he murders, he can't hit anything else, but he kills this 5 wood. SO we get to the range and he breaks out his bag. The TM must have been from the early 90's thing was old and busted. SO I grab a wedge and start hitting a few. Look over and sure enough he has the 5 wood out straight away. Hits a shot or 2 with hit. On the 3rd shot he goes to kill the ball and the ball goes like 5 feet but head goes like 200 yds into the woods that line the side of the range. No chance for him to get it. Was pretty funny but I know he was bummed about it. He hit a few more balls and then just gave his bucket to me.

[fretbored]

Does shanking a 7-iron through the open door of the ladies bathroom count?

How about getting busted by the beverage cart girl whilst retrieving said golf ball?

"Beg your pardon, but could you direct me to the nearest point of relief?"

[clarkgagag]

I was playing a not so great muni a year or so back with a buddy of mine. We are on a medium length par 3 with some old apartments running down the right side. He slices his 5 iron over the trees to the apartments, bounces the ball off the concrete, up a flight of stairs, off of some people's door on the second story, and then it rolls off their balcony. We weren't sure whether to laugh or run. Needless to say I found it hilarious.

Same guy, same course, probably 6 months later. We were pared with two singles, we get to the 9th which is a long par 5. He does to hit his driver, and after he hits it, we hear this wooooshing sound over our heads and to the green behind us. His driver flew a good 30 yards left and landed next to the group behind us. I still give him crap about that one.

[scgamecock]

One time on the ninth tee at my club,  everyone was watching us in the member member.  It's about 290 to get around the dogleg on this par 5.  I take a huge shoulder turn and try to kill it.  I got out around and cleared the dog leg, but it ended up five yards right in the rough.

[GBglfr]

I knocked out the back window of Ray Nitschkes Bronco when I was about 12 years old.  Hitting balls and the local CC and hooked a drive into the parking lot.  My buddies and me all waited for the dreaded crashing sound.  Sure enough we heard it.  My buddy who was a member said it happens more than you think and I should just go home.  Riding my bike through the lot with my clubs on my back I notice a brown Bronco with the plate that had Rays last name abbreviated missing it's back window.  Looked in and there was a range ball in his back seat.  I peddled like hell.  Ray wasn't the most friendly guy to us kids back then.  I now feel bad for not owning up.  Maybe I'll leave a range ball at his grave and say sorry there.

[KYMAR]

GBglfr, on 22 April 2012 - 09:46 AM, said:

I knocked out the back window of Ray Nitschkes Bronco when I was about 12 years old.  Hitting balls and the local CC and hooked a drive into the parking lot.  My buddies and me all waited for the dreaded crashing sound.  Sure enough we heard it.  My buddy who was a member said it happens more than you think and I should just go home.  Riding my bike through the lot with my clubs on my back I notice a brown Bronco with the plate that had Rays last name abbreviated missing it's back window.  Looked in and there was a range ball in his back seat.  I peddled like hell.  Ray wasn't the most friendly guy to us kids back then.  I now feel bad for not owning up.  Maybe I'll leave a range ball at his grave and say sorry there.

Leave him a range ball? It's like taunting the guy! LOL That feels more like "Hey Ray, remember me? F&*^ YOU! HAHAHA!!" than it does "Sorry man, i was young and stupid" What you should do is leave the man a new rear window on his grave. Thats the classy thing to do

Edited by KYMAR, 23 April 2012 - 03:05 AM.

[GBglfr]

I think I'll let Ray rest in peace. The last thing I need is an angry Nitschke ghost after me.

[596]

Played with a guy that sliced alot when he was playing bad.  He hits a tee shot on a lay up par 4 dead right, right through the open second floor sliding glass door of a house right of the fairway.  As it's in AZ and we have no humidity, they must have left the door open and were not at home.  Yikes.....we actually heard the ball bouncing around in the room.

[DJ Aus]

About ten years ago i had a round where I kept hitting shanks (never happened since) and so I started to pull the club inside the line to try and avoid the hosel. On 17 I had 7 iron into the green from the middle of the fairway and managed to avoid the shank - unfortunately I also avoided the ball, I had an air swing passing inside the ball! I just started laughing and then had to try and explain it to my playing partners. I doubt anyone has ever hit a more fluent airy...

[tesuquegolfer]

I was playing in a tournament at my local muni with a lot of good golfers and the driving range was packed.  Well, the driving range is pretty short and one can easily hit it over the screen onto the #2 putting green.  However, we usually just aim left taking the green out of play.  Well, the Pro announces on the loud speaker, for the newbies, not to hit balls over the screen onto the green.  Well, being a little nervous and tense, I aim left and hit a bomb slice that is headed right for the green and there are people on the green.  Well, I do the responsible thing and yell fore with everyone on the range giving me a look.  I embarrassingly tee up another, and damned if I didn't do it again.  After yelling fore AGAIN, I just turn around and put my driver away.  Needless to say I didn't have a very good warm up in that tournament!

[ruascott]

Was playing at a fancy resort course in Arizona on vacation. The first tee sits below the clubhouse and parking lot. They literally announce your name and hometown over a loud speaker when it's your turn to tee off.

We are playing with rental clubs, and we didn't bring our golf shoes. My dads name is announced. He goes up, takes a massive swing, losses his footing, does a a 180 spin move, falls on his butt facing backwards.

The ball line drives into the stone bulkhead of the lake in front of the tee. Ricochets backwards, over our heads, over the putting green, over the waiting onlookers and bounces all the way though the parking lot.

Funniest thing ever. We were all in stiches.

[bkim33]

Played with this old dude who decided to tee the ball right behind the tee box maker..Hits his driver thin, ricochets off the marker and nearly nail my friend in the balls! Luckily he had baggy shorts that adsorbed the blow

[bkim33]

BVIChester, on 20 April 2012 - 09:14 AM, said:

Hahhaha nice find!

[fore]

Once while trying to punch a low shot out from some trees I topped it. The ball when straight into about a 30' length of drainage pipe laying on the ground coiled once on itself. I could hear the ball winding it's way thru the corrugations before exiting the far end and rolling out to the rough.

[lukesmurf59]

Today on the first tee with about 20 people watching, my idiot friend hit two straight balls that went directly up and over his head, finishing about ten feet over his left shoulder.  The whole club was on the floor.

[miket_81]

Our club has a Wednesday night mens group that is a 3 man scramble. One guy who is a notorious bad golfer on a par 4 gets up and hits so far behind it he dirt knocks it off the tee..

[cardoustie]

my Dad has hit two priceless shots

one a 3 iron that went thru his legs in slow mo after he gave it his "ripper swing"  (he never hits woods).  Dead off the heel

The best.  Same 3 iron, different day.  Off the tee on a par 5.

He hits about 6 inches behind the ball.  He goes right under it, the ball pops 2 feet into the air and then drops down into the fresh divot hole.  Better yet, the divot itself didn't displace and then the grass flap promptly dropped over his ball hiding it

My Dad, twin and brother in law were 1 minute from all wetting our pants.  I can't remember laughing so hard on a golf course

[Onewaggle]

Great thread, pulled me out of being a lurker!

Two stories, the first not a shot, but the outcome.  Playing in a tourney with the high schools Basketball coach, he's a once a year golfer with a wild swing.  Uphill approach shot maybe 50 yards, he hauls off and creams the ball, best shot he's hit all day.  Right after he swings, I hear this hollow thwack, look just in time to see him hit himself in his own rear end with the head of the club, at some extreme speed.  I was kinda in shock, never seen that before!  But when he turns to me absolutely dumbfounded with a priceless look on his face and says "I think I hit my self in the A&$, I lost it". Cried laughing!


Second one isn't a bad shot as really bad luck.  Buddy of mine has been playing for a couple years and just this year he has really worked on his game, but is good for one weird shot a hole.  We walk up to the tee on this par 4, really weird hole, it goes around a big hill to the right, the fairway is dead straight, but ribs at a 45* angle to the tee box requiring a weird slice to get around trees.  Any who, he says as we are on the tee box "I absolutely hate this hole, some thing bad always happens to me". Foreshadowing!

But he tees off and hits a beauty of a controlled fade, just around the trees, leaving him about 240 out (have to tee off with an iron).  So he can't reach the green from where he is, asks me what to do and I say hit a 3W up there.  Never expecting him to get home.  Hit absolutely laces the shot, best two in a row I've seen him hit.  Starts low with a little balloon at the end, center of the green.  As I'm watching it, I notice something run out on the green.  His ball comes down directly on the head of a Ground hog!!!!  And takes a dead left bounce into the trees.  I can barely stand owe my ball, backed off for a good ten minutes I was laughing so hard!  (groundhog seemed un-fazed, runs off).  

It gets better!  The third in our group is up further, and can't figure out what I'm laughing about.  We all meet at the green and he says "you laughing about that goose?". What goose???   Well after the bounce off the ground hog the other guy didn't see, it bounded over to a creek.  My buddy says the goose picked up the ball and rag doll shook it and it came out of its bill and shot over the creek way OOB!

That was it, day over, my ribs hurt for days!

[Mr. T]

I got paired up with this golf know-it-all in Tucson once and he sets up about three feet behind the right side tee marker and lines his drive right into it. It comes straight back and hits him in the foot, which drops him like a rock. He writhes around in pain for a bit and then finally has to limp off, because he couldn't continue. I had to bite my tongue the whole time to keep from laughing because he was such a jerk the whole round I kept thinking he had that coming to him. Ultimately, I did feel bad for him as he probably broke something or was going to have one hell of a bruise, at a minimum!

[Man In The Miura]

This happened to my FRIEND, I swear.

I used to visit a friend once a year, and we'd play as much golf and drink as much beer as possible.  Teeing off for the 2nd round (I think it was Sea Pines, NJ?), we were about 12 beers into it apiece, with bags freshly reloaded with brew and ice.  My bag had holes in the bottom for drainage, that is what a drinker I was.  This was a nice resort, and overlooking the 1st tee was a balcony.  On the balcony was a wedding reception.  There were a lot of people who were watching, and were probably a little sauced as well.  My buddy, who's a very good golfer, was feeling great, and took what looked like a very nice swing.  He stood there and posed wondering where the ball went.  He had feathered that thing so incredibly lightly that is had moved about a foot away, him barely touching it off the toe.  The balcony erupted.  I erupted.  He tees it up again, this time hitting an impossibly high sky ball that goes 30 feet up and maybe 5 feet out.  What was so funny is that he actually thought he had crushed both drives and was posing like a tour pro.  I was lucky to stripe mine through the tears.

[mpedro]

Teeing off on the first tee of a tournament, the first hole is a dogleg left that they put a big oak tree on the left about 20 yards out so that you dont cut the corner.  I decide to try to cut the corner by coming close to the tree.  I tee off with my driver and my ball hits the tree smack dab in the middle, the ball flys backwards and lands directly in the middle of the practice putting green where everybody is warming up before teeing off.

[elay95]

I played with a guy today who topped a putt.... LOL i think he shot double my score or so

[inthefairway]

I was playing with this group and after his drive on a par five this guy had an uphill lie with his buddy in the golf cart behind him.  Some how the guy mishit the ball and the ball went into the golf cart (fortunately not that hard)  and hit his buddy in the leg and ball rested on the floor of the golf cart.  We were all laughing so hard tears were rolling from our eyes.  My suggestion was to drive the cart near the green and put it from the floor of the cart for an eagle.

[chas521]

If you play this game long enough, it's pretty much a guarantee that something embarrassing will happen to you.