Weirdest Thing Thats Ever Happened to you on a golf Course

jj72

Im sure there has to be some weird stories out there, mine is an easy one and so ridiculous it sounds false. Anyways i was playin a fourball match in my local clubs betterball cup. So we reach the final and the match goes down the 20th. Basically turns out my ball is on the edge of the green and i have to hole it to keep the game alive. so there i am lining it up takin plenty of time, and just on my down swing a tree falls onto the right hand side of the green about 10 yards away.......needless to say i missed and we lost ...but damn did we laugh

GeeNorm

Sounds like happy gilmore:)
I saw a crow pick my ball up and was cheering him on as he flew towards the green when he suddenly veered over a fence and dropped my ball out of bounds. Still not sure of the ruling :rolleyes:

Nemesis

Was playing the 4th hole at Woodenbridge (its beside a wood) when a pheasant was shot over our heads and dropped onto the green.

We also have a raven that nicks golf balls.
On the 15th I watched him take a friends ball,then after my friend hit another the raven flew back and nicked his second.

Micilin Muc

When I was about 12 (during the Troubles) I went on holiday to Portrush. I got hit in the back with a golf ball and started screaming, I'm shot, I'm shot! Took my dad a while to calm me down and explain to me what really happened.

It's not weird to get hit by a ball but I presume it was fairly funny for anyone who was watching!

Johnny_Fontane

I fell into the lake on the 13th at Mount Juliet, head first, trying to stop a mates ball going into the water. The flag in one hand, the putter in the other.

The bonus was that I found lots of balls whilst in there.....

That green is pretty fast back to front......

Myksyk

My brother was standing on a tee on a course in galway when they blasted the quarry right beside him. He and his partner were showered with large rocks but unbelievably did not get hit. Apparently there had been an ongoing dispute between the owner of the quarry and the owner of the club. The club owner ran onto the course where it happened and starting a fist fight with the quarry owner. My brother thought he was in the twilight zone!!

Jagera

Some stuff from back in Aus:

played at a western queensland golf course, no water or irrigation so greens are just sand with a oil mixed in. You use a kind of flat rake to make a smooth line between the ball and the hole and put away

also had a crow steal my ball and didnt think people would believe it, until i read some of the previous posts. must be common enough!

played at a course on an sand island with not much grass. you only play with orange balls because you can't see the white ones in the sand

on the same island course i technically 'lost' a ball because a 1.8 odd metre kangaroo stood his ground and wouldn't let me near the ball. i was only about 10 so wasn't keen on going toe to toe with him.

my friend went off injured with blood coming out of his head after being attacked by a maggie. it's extremely common, you have to have eyes in the back of your head in august time

JCDUB

A couple of years ago I was "attacked" by a squirrel.

Was feeding him a nut and the little bastard latched onto my finger!I stood up and waved my finger around like crazy to try and get him off, but he was a stubborn little fecker, just kept a grip on my finger!

Eventually got him off, but the finger bled like a tap for around four holes, shoulda seen my grips!

Had to get a jab in the arse down in the VHI clinic for me troubles:mad:

Benny Cake

A birdie

Mister Sifter

Was playing a few holes with my mum and dad one evening. We got to the par three tenth tee (which is the furthest point on the course from the clubhouse) just as light was fading. As we walked on to the tee and looked at the green there was a man and a woman butt naked and going at it on the side of the green. It was too dark to see who it was but i've never seen two white arses peg it into the trees as fast!

ThunderCat

Was going at it with the wife on the side of the green on the par 3 10th hole at the local club just as the light was fading. All was going well until a three ball arrived on the tee box and we had to scarper back into the woods to put our clothes back on.
I then watched from the woods as the 3 ball played the hole. The youngest in the group was a complete hack by the way. Think he got a triple bogey.:pac:

f22

JCDUB wrote: »

A couple of years ago I was "attacked" by a squirrel.

Was feeding him a nut and the little bastard latched onto my finger!I stood up and waved my finger around like crazy to try and get him off, but he was a stubborn little fecker, just kept a grip on my finger!

Eventually got him off, but the finger bled like a tap for around four holes, shoulda seen my grips!

Had to get a jab in the arse down in the VHI clinic for me troubles:mad:

It's the squirrel I feel sorry for

SuprSi

Some great stories here. The best I have is when I was playing a round with a society a good few years ago. One of the more flash members had just purchased a brand new electric trolley and was quite proud of it. We were walking towards a green with a pond on the right when he tripped on something and spun the speed control to full, sending the whole lot flying into the pond. It started sinking pretty quickly so he had to wade in and grab it, and play the rest of the round in wet trousers and water leaking out of his bag. How we laughed!

Jagera

SuprSi wrote: »

... and play the rest of the round in wet trousers and water leaking out of his bag...

But he still kept playing... Legend.

Mister Sifter

My Dad was playing with his mate in a Sunday medal and on the 8th tee his mate **** himself. The poor guy had to walk right across the course to get back to the clubhouse. Bit of a sad story actually as obviously word got out and the guy, to the best of my knowledge, has never played golf there again since.

PeterJamesDoyle

Got married! It was a hippy wedding.

Oliverdog

We were playing in the UK once when we saw a poor guy on the adjacent fairway get hit in the testicles by a stray golf ball. He was on the ground, naturally screaming his head off, and we rushed over to help him.
One of our group was trying to comfort him in his pain, and said "Never mind, it's a good job it was one of those Balatas - if it had been a Top Flite there'd be no nookie for you tonight !"
I swear to you that the poor victim stopped wailing and started giggling.

ratzy

I was out playing golf in a major tournament we were the last group to go out it was a two ball. The guy i was playing with thook out his three wood on his second shot on a par five. HE TOPPED the ball a started swearing then it happend he got the three wood a swung the club as fast as he could he then slipped and fell on his arse. I kept walking and could not stop laughing he tought that i didnt see him fall but when we got to the next tee box i said that was some fall you had he had a little laugh and that was the last thing we said to each other all through the round.

Webbs

Caddying for my Dad when I was a young un at a pro am and got whacked in knee by golf ball, guy comes over and spends next 10-15mins making sure I was Ok chatted with me and waited for car to come across the course so that they could whisk me off to hospital - all made Ok though as the guy was Gareth Edwards so for a rugby mad welshman was well worth the pain.

On the same course I managed to kill a seagull in flight with a perfectly struck drive!

SoupyNorman

Good few years ago now, I was out with my dad in Swords Open. I usually just searched for balls up through the rough and trees, anyway I have a rare enough surname and never met someone I wasnt related to with the same surname. Found a personalized ball with with my name printed on it, it was spooky.

rafared

This is more funny than weird I suppose.........was playing the new course in Headfort about a year ago with two mates one a low handicapper and the other a high handicapper. On the 17th, the par 3 over the water with the footbridge on the right (lovely hole by the way) the high handicapper, hitting last, hits his tee shot realy fat and it barely makes the water in front of him. He then tees up another and shanks it miles right into the water. In temper he runs over to his bag, grabs another ball and tees it up before swinging as hard as he could it. The ball went realy high and slightly right....from behind I thought it might land on the bridge. When it did finally did come down it hit the metal hand rail of the bridge which rung with that dung-dung-dung-dung sound, shot back to the left across the green, missed the pin by inches and finished about 4 feet away from the cup. Me and my other mate almost cried with laughter......:D
He just picked up his tee and carried on withouth saying a word.........and he missed the putt:eek:

Shoota

Playing with a friend of mine, were rather poor golfers, but we like to give it a lash :pac: we politely allowed two club pros to play through us on the ninth, got to the tenth, lads ahead putting out in the green of an average length par 4, my mate lashes his drive dead straight, bounces straight onto a stone bridge goes a further 40 yards, rolls down a slope and trickles onto the green......

We could only wave an apology from the tee, but then two lads gave him a clap

thegen

Playing the 16th in Castle GC in Rathfarnham, hit a good drive over the bunker on the left hand side of the fairway only to see a Fox take the ball back to the bunker and proceed to bury it in it, then dig it up as we stood and watched, he dropped it when we threw another ball for him to play with.

jod1983

Playing the 1st on Ring of Kerry. A fourball with 2 caddycarts. Anyway, the 4 of us tee off. Me and my playing partner went long and to the left, the other short but center of the fairway.
We drove straight up to our balls and sat in the cart waiting for the other 2 to play. One of the guys is using a 3 wood,hits it a little left with a slice.
To our horror,me and my partner see the ball heading towards the cart.The ball came within 3 inches of our faces after going through the cart.

stooge

playing my local course one day when I was about 15. At the par 4 4th, the greenkeeper was out cutting the first rough in a tractor (fairly big one with a cabin and all). I was reluctant to hit my drive even though he was on the opposite side of the fairway that you should aim. My mates though, convinced me that there was no chance I'd hit him.

Well, I took my shot and sure didn't I hook it straight onto the grass cutting blades of the tractor. The blades spun the ball into the cabin, it bounced about 2 or 3times and flew back out. The greenkeeper (who I knew) said he couldnt belive how he didnt get hit. he was checking himself for bruises for about 5mins!

j14

Playing a four ball in Glen Mill last week. On the 17th after a scuffed tee shot a friend of mine lost control of his trolley and nearly lost the whole lot into the water on the right. He managed to save everything and took his second shot onto the green and hit one of the other players in our group. He parked the trolley on the edge of the green, managed to clip it with his heel and nearly sent it into the water again!

During all this I'm in a bunker and having played my shot I proceed to stub my toe on the edge of the bunker and do a forward 360 degree tumble onto the ground, all the while never letting go of my SW. We didn't stop laughing until we were off the course.

It was like a Fawlty Towers sketch or something.

What a great day.

Dacelonid

Was playing in Stepaside GC about 10 years ago with a few lads from work. On one of the holes (probably a few of them, but I remeber this one) there were powerlines across the fairway, fairly close to the tee, and fairly high. I tee off (badly)and hit the actual pole of the powerlines, the second guy narrowly misses the lines, and we joking say to the third that if he hit the lines he wins the round. He duly steps up and hits the bloody lines.
Later on in the same round he three or four putts and in a fit of rage pulls on the ball with the putter. It hits the hole and ricochets up and hits me in cheek. Cue yer man going from bellowing rage to regret in the blink of an eye.

Oh and years before that on a par 3 course I saw a woman with a pram (baby inside obviously) on the course. We commented on how dangerous we thought it was when the pram gets hit with a ball. After much screaming from the woman the offending golfer comes over to makes sure the baby is alright (we went over too). The mother starts screaming at him and he's all apologetic, until the husband pipes up with "Well if you hadn't brought the ****ing baby onto the ****ing course in the first ****ing place, you wouldn't have anything to worry about would ya, ya stupid b***h". Needless to say everyone left the area very quickly

bigtimecharlie

D_Red_Army wrote: »

A birdie

I'd second that. land on the green on a par 3 and to 1 put, now that weird.

nige1982

was out in Corballis a few months ago playing the 3rd hole a long par 4 all of us hit off walking up trying to find our balls to the right of us on a hill was a 40+ woman haven a big Dump :eek: and wiping here self by sliding around the long links rough it was so funny she was like a dog

davemac83

Weirdest thing happened on Saturday at a club competition, or more frustrating maybe. Anyway the play was very slow throughout the round, group in front of us were at least 1 hole behind those in front of them and it was getting very annoying. We came onto the 15th par five only to have the three ball in front of us no more than 160 yards down the fairway.......one of the older guys in the group looked like he was giving the younger guy a swing lesson!!!!, showing him where his head was throughout his swing (no one in front of them by the way, group ahead had even gone onto the next hole) ended up with the younger guy setting up his shot with the older guy standing directly in front of him with an outstrectched hand keeping the younger guy's head down as he swung.....THIS IS THE MIDDLE OF COMPETITION!!!! :mad::eek::mad:

narddog

Was playing a round on GC in Arizona. As I approached a green , I noticed a guy on the fairway, on the next hole, slamming his club repeatedly into the ground. I assumed he was REALLY pissed off with his shot. When I passed the spot where he had been hitting the ground, found the remains of a recently deceased, big ass, snake. Apparently snakes are a big hazard on courses in AZ. As if there wasn't enough pressure on the tee box.......

LarMan

I was playing in Kilternan with a guy from Work, we were in a buggy and it had been raining. The other guy was driving the buggy and as we were coming down a slope he lost control of the buggy and it started sliding sideways down the hill.

Quick as a flash and without saying a word my buddy jumps out and leaves me alone. Luckily it didn't tip over but it thought me a lesson about who I take a buggy with.

NITFBY

was out in the first group one morning when we got to the 8th hole. Playing partner went to take out the flag when he noticed some c*** had s*** in the hole. :mad: Had to get the greenkeeper to change the hole.

Mr check raise

playin a practice game on me own one mornin before everyone started the competition and got caught a bit short around the eight green and was burstin to go for a number 2. There was no bushes around so i had to go in the hole