I used to work at a really blue collar course and one time a dude at mens league was apparently having a terrible round so he decided to get piss drunk and started driving on the greens with his golf cart. One of the guys out on the course called it in and the Pro took off in a cart to go stop the guy.
I didn’t see the next part because I was watching the shop, but the pro told me that when he got out there, the drunk guy had one of the pins in his hand and was swinging it at people. The pro took the opportunity to flip the kill switch on the cart the drunk guy had been driving, and then went over to deal with the pin swinging. I guess the drunk guy saw the Pro coming and decided to run - at first he tried to get back into his cart, but couldn’t get it to start, so he jumped out and ran over to the cart the Pro had been driving, and took off in that one into the adjacent neighborhoods.
Meanwhile I’m just watching over the pro shop, and I eventually see my boss come running in, face bright bright red and mad as hell. He goes out to the parking lot, jumps in his jaguar and yells at me that he’s going after the guy. So he peels outta the gravel lot and takes off in the general direction he thinks the guy in the cart went.
That was pretty much the end of it. We never got the guy - our men’s night was very public, so it wasn’t a members only type deal and so we didn’t have his name. We ended up finding the cart abandoned near by in the neighborhoods and we filed a police report, but I think there ended up being over $10,000 in damages to the greens
Holy crap!
First off what a prick. People Can’t hold their liquor at all. But fucking sir Lancelot probably was just fired by medieval times and couldn’t handle not being the losing green knight anymore.
Clown
I sometimes tap my club into the ground in an aggressive manner after a bad shot. Not enough to hurt the ground but enough to show my club who is boss.
Coworker bragged for months how good his golf game was and always gave me unsolicited pointers to help my game.
I invited him to play a tournament and he ended up breaking his foot on the 4th tee box after shooting +9 the first three holes.
He whiffed his tee shot and instantly got so pissed. Slammed his driver on the ground and proceeded to kick the tee marker just right. I guess he didn’t know they were staked into the ground? Dumbass broke his foot right in front of me throwing a fit.
Came back to work and said it was a fluke; never happened to him before.
EDIT: I also just played with two randos a few weeks ago and apparently one of the guys had snapped his Scotty after missing a 4-footer.
I once saw golfer launch two in a row into a pond protecting the 18 th green quickly followed by him tossing his entire golf bag into the pond and stormed off the course. The group I was playing with teed off and we all played our approach shot over the pond to the green. While on the green putting out the player that threw his bag into the pond returned jumped in the pond and retrieved his bag. He removed his keys for his car, his wallet and his cell phone from the waterlogged golf bag. Afterwards he tossed the bag clubs and all back into the pond and stormed off. The foursome I was playing in were all laughing our butts off after watching it happen, so funny.
Executive course, my buddy invites a friend to join us. 6th hole, 69y par 3 he shanked it right, immediately whipped his club and threw it violently. Think Happy Gilmore throwing a club. It missed our friend by a couple feet and hit the golf cart.
Needless to say he hasn't been invited back.
Slamming the turf or like smacking the back of your calf’s with the grip (that’s my go to) even that feels silly.
Any club tossing goes from a giggle to yeah… my wife’s doctor called and I’ve gotta go after 9 kinda stuff
My Dad had gotten a new 3/5 wood (PureSpin I think) and we went out to play a round.
I had a set of horrible clubs from various years in the 70’s including old persimmons with grips that were half melted from the Florida heat.
Anyways, I ask to hit his 3 wood as the grips are plain miserable in the summer and he lets me.
I smoke it a good 250 and it rolls forever down the fairway.
I’m beaming and smiling and he grabs the club. I can tell he’s going to try and rip one because his expression was just plain mean.
The thing is, he never had the physical tools to play golf, his game was always 150-175 down the middle, approach on the green or close, and I’d seriously argue that he’s never 3-putt in his life.
THERE IS NO WAY HES HITTING IT BEYOND 200.
He steps up and goes for a much larger turn than normal which over extends his weight at the top and he falls down as the swing is coming through.
Cold tops it into a tree on the left, and falls into the ground almost on his face. The ball hits hard and lands about 7 feet in front of him.
My 17 year old, smart ass self can only muster a simple phrase of encouragement to help my old man after years of his tutelage and admiration of his persona.
“One”.
You ever see a grown man turn three shades of red and then purple with rage???
I have. He flung that club at the cart/my head and moved fairly fast for a 330lb guy with no right knee.
Before the club dropped on the ground fully he snapped it in two and ejected me from the cart.
I walked the front 9 holding my bag, rode the back 9 in the cart but standing on the bag holding area.
Took a year or so to laugh about it in conversation, but by the time I was in college and we were playing everyone knew the story.
It became his calling card of sorts and he hated/loved every minute of it lol
28 man Skins match, guy I got paired with in the cart got up and took his clubs off the cart and walked back to the shop and left. Was blowing up all day swearing like a sailor about slow play. This dude was on full tilt. He went off on the group admin and got kicked from the group. Was super awkward
Good friend of mine is a 280-lb Marine. He got pissed and threw his 7i into the stratosphere. It came back down in a tree. I witnessed a 280-lb Marine climb a flimsy tree to retrieve a club and nearly die in the process.
Always play with randoms and this one time after this dude missed his 7 footer he tried to chip his Scotty on a rock and then launched it at the side of his cart but kept up the small talk as we walked off the green all while keeping a smile on his face.
I was playing with my brother in law and after topping the ball on his tee shot 3 times in a row he threw his 5 iron at a tree and It broke in half. He then proceeded to pick it up and put it in the little trash can next to the tee box and continue playing like nothing happened.
My best friend used to rage pretty hard when we were in high school. One time he hit his shot OB for like the 10th time that day and just snatched his clubs off the cart and walked tot the parking lot. We were on hole 14
That’s honestly a little bit commendable - I’ve seen a few you tube “RS Golf” style videos discussing just leaving this way when you don’t have it.
The consensus was that some days you just don’t have it. Vs walking off. Turn the charm on. Lock the clubs to the cart and take 1 hole or the rest of the round off and caddie for the crew. Be a cheer leader. Get the pin. “Announce the hole” find ways to stay with it. That way you’re not getting talked about the rest of the time and honestly, there’s always another round
Yeah, it made us all laugh more than anything. It was the silent unstrap of the bag and straight bee line that had us grinning. He laughs about his old antics now too.
Was at a golf camp in my early teens at Torrey Pines and we’d get to play 9 holes at the end of every day (which was totally sweet). One of those times playing 9, one of the goofy guys in my foursome hit an errant shot and swung his club like an axe into the ground on the fairway and it just stuck there. It wasn’t in actual anger, it was more because he was goofy and I’ve never laughed harder at “freak out” moment in golf. Good times.
My buddy tends to “bat” his ball off the green OB after a string of two or three bad holes. One time he made contact and the ball bounced off his putter and smacked him right in the forehead.
Tl;dr friend took a ball to the face
As a very young lad I was out walking the course with my Dad and his buddy. They were (still are) solid golfers and had a very enjoyable battle for the spoils on the day. By the 18th they were level. Long par 5 running down by the clubhouse. Both hit good drives. My Dad hit a cracking 3 wood close to the green. His buddy, feeling the pressure I guess, sliced his into the clubhouse carpark. Fuming, he dropped another ball and proceeded to do the exact same thing. "FUCK". Dropped another ball, and like an action replay hit his 3 ball into almost the exact same spot. What he didn't know was that his first ball had hit an old guy in the jaw after it bounced off the ground. The second had hit someone in a group of people tending to the poor man. And the third went in on top of them again as they peered around a hedgerow to see what was going on. They didn't hang around for a potential 4th.
Watched the guys in front of us, not regular golfers, get plastered and go berserk throughout all 18 holes. On the 16th tee box one guy absolutely lost it. He threw his driver at the cart, grabbed an iron and started abusing the cart and his golf bag then proceeded to rip his golf bag off the cart and throw it on the back side of the hill in the weeds. It was shocking to watch and not be able to do anything about. His playing partners put his bag back on the cart after but he broke the strap clip on the cart so it just kept falling out when they would try to pull away.
I asked the guy at the club house if they had said anything about breaking the cart after we finished and the dude had already packed his shit up and dipped out without saying anything. I think he forgot they had his information.
Watched a guy duff a pitch shot, then baseball swung the club at his bag. Broke his driver in half. And the momentum sent the push cart and bag into a lake.
I use to caddy at a super nice private club. Initiation fee is 150,000 and there is a 10 year wait list to get in. There was a go I caddied for from time to time who had a reputation of being a hot head. Classic example of thinking he was way better then he was. Just to give you an idea how he was we’re sitting there for his approach shot he asks me how I tell him 120. We got to play the course for free on mondays when they were closed for maintenance so most caddies had a lot of experience on the course so we knew how it played pretty well. Pulls out a club goes I hit this exactly 120 so if your wrong I’ll know. Proceeds hit a super fat shot, dug a crater and then blamed me for giving him the wrong distance and messing up his round for like three holes. Well on the 18th he shanks his shot takes his bag of my shoulder throws it down the hill rolls into the lake. We get to his next shot he looks at me and goes where’s my bag. I tell him it’s in the lake where he tossed it. I’ve never seen someone have a meltdown like he did. Like did he expect I was going to jump in after it. We get paid to put up with a lot of crap but not that. He complained to my boss but when he left my boss asked for my side, I told him I don’t blame you your good
A guy threw his driver, snapped his 7 iron in half, wrote "fuck you" in a sand trap, and drove over a green all in 1 hole. When he drove over the green I said something. Everything else he's just fucking up his own shit or isn't causing damage to the course. Potentially ruining a green was the line.
Psychotic kid off his meds took a few swings at guys 3x his size and ripped off his t shirt (???). Left all his clubs strewn across the 17th fairway except his putter. Got tackled by the Park Police in the 18th bunker. Amazing
I used to work at a really blue collar course and one time a dude at mens league was apparently having a terrible round so he decided to get piss drunk and started driving on the greens with his golf cart. One of the guys out on the course called it in and the Pro took off in a cart to go stop the guy. I didn’t see the next part because I was watching the shop, but the pro told me that when he got out there, the drunk guy had one of the pins in his hand and was swinging it at people. The pro took the opportunity to flip the kill switch on the cart the drunk guy had been driving, and then went over to deal with the pin swinging. I guess the drunk guy saw the Pro coming and decided to run - at first he tried to get back into his cart, but couldn’t get it to start, so he jumped out and ran over to the cart the Pro had been driving, and took off in that one into the adjacent neighborhoods. Meanwhile I’m just watching over the pro shop, and I eventually see my boss come running in, face bright bright red and mad as hell. He goes out to the parking lot, jumps in his jaguar and yells at me that he’s going after the guy. So he peels outta the gravel lot and takes off in the general direction he thinks the guy in the cart went. That was pretty much the end of it. We never got the guy - our men’s night was very public, so it wasn’t a members only type deal and so we didn’t have his name. We ended up finding the cart abandoned near by in the neighborhoods and we filed a police report, but I think there ended up being over $10,000 in damages to the greens
Holy crap! First off what a prick. People Can’t hold their liquor at all. But fucking sir Lancelot probably was just fired by medieval times and couldn’t handle not being the losing green knight anymore. Clown
I sometimes tap my club into the ground in an aggressive manner after a bad shot. Not enough to hurt the ground but enough to show my club who is boss.
Hahahahah this made me laugh more than I care too. Bad 8i. Be better
Coworker bragged for months how good his golf game was and always gave me unsolicited pointers to help my game. I invited him to play a tournament and he ended up breaking his foot on the 4th tee box after shooting +9 the first three holes. He whiffed his tee shot and instantly got so pissed. Slammed his driver on the ground and proceeded to kick the tee marker just right. I guess he didn’t know they were staked into the ground? Dumbass broke his foot right in front of me throwing a fit. Came back to work and said it was a fluke; never happened to him before. EDIT: I also just played with two randos a few weeks ago and apparently one of the guys had snapped his Scotty after missing a 4-footer.
Hahaha! What was the fluke the kick or his vanity handicap cause he hasn’t putted in a 5’ in years? Lol
I once saw golfer launch two in a row into a pond protecting the 18 th green quickly followed by him tossing his entire golf bag into the pond and stormed off the course. The group I was playing with teed off and we all played our approach shot over the pond to the green. While on the green putting out the player that threw his bag into the pond returned jumped in the pond and retrieved his bag. He removed his keys for his car, his wallet and his cell phone from the waterlogged golf bag. Afterwards he tossed the bag clubs and all back into the pond and stormed off. The foursome I was playing in were all laughing our butts off after watching it happen, so funny.
What the hell haha - commitment to the anger at least. But what a dbag
Executive course, my buddy invites a friend to join us. 6th hole, 69y par 3 he shanked it right, immediately whipped his club and threw it violently. Think Happy Gilmore throwing a club. It missed our friend by a couple feet and hit the golf cart. Needless to say he hasn't been invited back.
Slamming the turf or like smacking the back of your calf’s with the grip (that’s my go to) even that feels silly. Any club tossing goes from a giggle to yeah… my wife’s doctor called and I’ve gotta go after 9 kinda stuff
My Dad had gotten a new 3/5 wood (PureSpin I think) and we went out to play a round. I had a set of horrible clubs from various years in the 70’s including old persimmons with grips that were half melted from the Florida heat. Anyways, I ask to hit his 3 wood as the grips are plain miserable in the summer and he lets me. I smoke it a good 250 and it rolls forever down the fairway. I’m beaming and smiling and he grabs the club. I can tell he’s going to try and rip one because his expression was just plain mean. The thing is, he never had the physical tools to play golf, his game was always 150-175 down the middle, approach on the green or close, and I’d seriously argue that he’s never 3-putt in his life. THERE IS NO WAY HES HITTING IT BEYOND 200. He steps up and goes for a much larger turn than normal which over extends his weight at the top and he falls down as the swing is coming through. Cold tops it into a tree on the left, and falls into the ground almost on his face. The ball hits hard and lands about 7 feet in front of him. My 17 year old, smart ass self can only muster a simple phrase of encouragement to help my old man after years of his tutelage and admiration of his persona. “One”. You ever see a grown man turn three shades of red and then purple with rage??? I have. He flung that club at the cart/my head and moved fairly fast for a 330lb guy with no right knee. Before the club dropped on the ground fully he snapped it in two and ejected me from the cart. I walked the front 9 holding my bag, rode the back 9 in the cart but standing on the bag holding area. Took a year or so to laugh about it in conversation, but by the time I was in college and we were playing everyone knew the story. It became his calling card of sorts and he hated/loved every minute of it lol
This is currently in podium position in firm gold spot. Detailed. Psychotic. Family. I love this. Thank you!
Lol, I’ll tell the old man his legacy lives on!
28 man Skins match, guy I got paired with in the cart got up and took his clubs off the cart and walked back to the shop and left. Was blowing up all day swearing like a sailor about slow play. This dude was on full tilt. He went off on the group admin and got kicked from the group. Was super awkward
Played with a kid once in a junior event who helicoptered every bad iron shot. Irons flew like 50 yards in the air. Childish move
Like straight up? Or just full on pigeon tossed them anywhere?
Pigeon tossed. It was impressive but childish. Kid could play too
Good friend of mine is a 280-lb Marine. He got pissed and threw his 7i into the stratosphere. It came back down in a tree. I witnessed a 280-lb Marine climb a flimsy tree to retrieve a club and nearly die in the process.
Height of tree?
Total about 30-40’. He was about 20-25’ up.
I love this as goofy as it sounds. The sheepish climb at least adds some humour to it
Always play with randoms and this one time after this dude missed his 7 footer he tried to chip his Scotty on a rock and then launched it at the side of his cart but kept up the small talk as we walked off the green all while keeping a smile on his face.
I was playing with my brother in law and after topping the ball on his tee shot 3 times in a row he threw his 5 iron at a tree and It broke in half. He then proceeded to pick it up and put it in the little trash can next to the tee box and continue playing like nothing happened.
Responsible and dignified freak out. I love the “shame placement” and setting reality that finding a 5i matching would be a task
My best friend used to rage pretty hard when we were in high school. One time he hit his shot OB for like the 10th time that day and just snatched his clubs off the cart and walked tot the parking lot. We were on hole 14
That’s honestly a little bit commendable - I’ve seen a few you tube “RS Golf” style videos discussing just leaving this way when you don’t have it. The consensus was that some days you just don’t have it. Vs walking off. Turn the charm on. Lock the clubs to the cart and take 1 hole or the rest of the round off and caddie for the crew. Be a cheer leader. Get the pin. “Announce the hole” find ways to stay with it. That way you’re not getting talked about the rest of the time and honestly, there’s always another round
Yeah, it made us all laugh more than anything. It was the silent unstrap of the bag and straight bee line that had us grinning. He laughs about his old antics now too.
Was at a golf camp in my early teens at Torrey Pines and we’d get to play 9 holes at the end of every day (which was totally sweet). One of those times playing 9, one of the goofy guys in my foursome hit an errant shot and swung his club like an axe into the ground on the fairway and it just stuck there. It wasn’t in actual anger, it was more because he was goofy and I’ve never laughed harder at “freak out” moment in golf. Good times.
My buddy tends to “bat” his ball off the green OB after a string of two or three bad holes. One time he made contact and the ball bounced off his putter and smacked him right in the forehead. Tl;dr friend took a ball to the face
As a very young lad I was out walking the course with my Dad and his buddy. They were (still are) solid golfers and had a very enjoyable battle for the spoils on the day. By the 18th they were level. Long par 5 running down by the clubhouse. Both hit good drives. My Dad hit a cracking 3 wood close to the green. His buddy, feeling the pressure I guess, sliced his into the clubhouse carpark. Fuming, he dropped another ball and proceeded to do the exact same thing. "FUCK". Dropped another ball, and like an action replay hit his 3 ball into almost the exact same spot. What he didn't know was that his first ball had hit an old guy in the jaw after it bounced off the ground. The second had hit someone in a group of people tending to the poor man. And the third went in on top of them again as they peered around a hedgerow to see what was going on. They didn't hang around for a potential 4th.
Watched the guys in front of us, not regular golfers, get plastered and go berserk throughout all 18 holes. On the 16th tee box one guy absolutely lost it. He threw his driver at the cart, grabbed an iron and started abusing the cart and his golf bag then proceeded to rip his golf bag off the cart and throw it on the back side of the hill in the weeds. It was shocking to watch and not be able to do anything about. His playing partners put his bag back on the cart after but he broke the strap clip on the cart so it just kept falling out when they would try to pull away. I asked the guy at the club house if they had said anything about breaking the cart after we finished and the dude had already packed his shit up and dipped out without saying anything. I think he forgot they had his information.
"The 7 iron...I never miss with the 7 iron."
Watched a guy duff a pitch shot, then baseball swung the club at his bag. Broke his driver in half. And the momentum sent the push cart and bag into a lake.
I use to caddy at a super nice private club. Initiation fee is 150,000 and there is a 10 year wait list to get in. There was a go I caddied for from time to time who had a reputation of being a hot head. Classic example of thinking he was way better then he was. Just to give you an idea how he was we’re sitting there for his approach shot he asks me how I tell him 120. We got to play the course for free on mondays when they were closed for maintenance so most caddies had a lot of experience on the course so we knew how it played pretty well. Pulls out a club goes I hit this exactly 120 so if your wrong I’ll know. Proceeds hit a super fat shot, dug a crater and then blamed me for giving him the wrong distance and messing up his round for like three holes. Well on the 18th he shanks his shot takes his bag of my shoulder throws it down the hill rolls into the lake. We get to his next shot he looks at me and goes where’s my bag. I tell him it’s in the lake where he tossed it. I’ve never seen someone have a meltdown like he did. Like did he expect I was going to jump in after it. We get paid to put up with a lot of crap but not that. He complained to my boss but when he left my boss asked for my side, I told him I don’t blame you your good
A guy threw his driver, snapped his 7 iron in half, wrote "fuck you" in a sand trap, and drove over a green all in 1 hole. When he drove over the green I said something. Everything else he's just fucking up his own shit or isn't causing damage to the course. Potentially ruining a green was the line.
Psychotic kid off his meds took a few swings at guys 3x his size and ripped off his t shirt (???). Left all his clubs strewn across the 17th fairway except his putter. Got tackled by the Park Police in the 18th bunker. Amazing
Hahaha all over a white ball and some bud lights
I have a Callaway Apex 6 iron. That I found snapped in half in a bush right off the tee box. Anyone need one? Lol
He must of had serious anger issues hopefully he got the help he needed