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funny..sort of!

  • 10-07-2006 11:59am
    #1
    The Novacastrian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 198 ✭✭


    Funny and also dangerous....

    We were playing sat morn and a stray ball landed on our green, bounced up, hit my Bro on the chin and landed down his shirt.

    the guy comes out of a bush apologising said he couldn't see it. lucky we are easy going types and my bro wasn't really hurt, just a little shook up. needless to say he didn't make his putt and his next drive was pretty awful too.

    its a funny aul game..


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  • #2
    J.R.HARTLEY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭J.R.HARTLEY


    another example of people not using their cop on, if the balls gone wild and could potentially hit someone he should have given a shout, i'm sure your brother would have appreciated it at least, too many people nowadays appologising with the words "sorry about that i had no idea......."


  • #3
    celica140bhp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭celica140bhp


    Very true JR, I don't know if people are embarrassed to shout "Fore" or just ignorant to what to do. Basically if you cannot see where your ball is going to land (over trees, over a hill, in trees - whatever) then shout "Fore" just in case.


  • #4
    J.R.HARTLEY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭J.R.HARTLEY


    it's gas but my when i was school, back in the 1800's our teacher told us Fore was Anglicised from the Scots Gaelic word Faire which means Beware/Look Out, if ost people knew that mayvbe they'd know to use it more frequently as a warning.


  • #5
    css
    Closed Accounts Posts: 387 ✭✭css


    You might call it funny afterwards alright. I once felt the air turbulence from a golfball going by the base of my neck about an inch from it. It was still accelerating, if it hit me, I was at least paralysed: Which ain't a funny prospect..


  • #6
    cichlid child
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 646 ✭✭✭cichlid child


    goslie wrote:
    Funny and also dangerous....

    We were playing sat morn and a stray ball landed on our green, bounced up, hit my Bro on the chin and landed down his shirt.

    the guy comes out of a bush apologising said he couldn't see it. lucky we are easy going types and my bro wasn't really hurt, just a little shook up. needless to say he didn't make his putt and his next drive was pretty awful too.

    its a funny aul game..
    IFf the guy had shouted fore your bro might have ducked putting his hands up to cover his head. then the ball would have smacked in the theeth.


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  • #7
    DIEGO WORST
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭DIEGO WORST


    cichlid child wrote:
    IFf the guy had shouted fore your bro might have ducked putting his hands up to cover his head. then the ball would have smacked in the theeth.

    ...and the guy who hit the shot was aware of this, so he held off shouting.;)

    Have you ever stood in the fairway waiting for the green to clear, and a ball comes bounding down towards you from the tee on the same hole? Happened to me several times. Not only is there no "fore", but I get "sorry mate, I didn't think I could reach you with my drive".
    Another case was when I was waiting on a tee box, and a guy playing the previous hole, a par 5, went for the green in two, totally slices the shot and it heads straight for my tee box, clears my head by I don't know how much and plops in the water just behind me - I didn't see the shot, just heard the ball splash.:eek: No "fore", no "sorry" but a "you didn't see where my ball went?"


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