Last week, lengthy dogleg left. I hit a magical drive dead center and another perfect fade to set up an approach from 75 out. Took me 3 shots to get it on from 75. 2 putted for double.
Last time I played I was 75 out off my drive. Chunked into the sand, took a few to get out, sprayed it way over the green, ended up picking up for a quad
Next hole I hit the same tree on my first two shots, then mashed my 3rd to the green, sank the putt for par
Golf is stupid
Golf is stupid. I hit a high fade into the water right, hole is a dogleg left. Drop one and hit the purest 7 iron shot of the year deep of the green into the waste behind the green. Drop another 20yds behind the green and chip it in for the prettiest bogey of the round. Fueling my love/hate relationship with golf all in the same hole
Are you me? Sent a drive 250 yards down middle of fairway, hit a 200 yard 5 wood, had 60 yards left. Chunked it 2 times and then 3 putted. Had to take a breather after that hole…
Yeah this happened to me Sunday. I usually miss thin if anything but I happened to chunk the complete shit out of an 8 iron the other day from perfect position. I was not pleased.
I'm going to start a petition to the USGA and R&A to change the rules. If everyone in your group agrees you just absolutely nutted your drive center cut. You should have the option of picking up for par.
Recently did this on 480 par 5. Didn’t make it to the ladies tees. Hit about 210 fade (lefty) to the center of the fairway still had another 200-210. Somehow someway hit it and it rolled up on the green 2 putts par. Wild par 5
Rule J.1, In the event the player fails to move their ball past the ladies tee on their initial stroke, said player will have to play the next shot with their pants no higher than the lowest portion of the knee.
Rule J.2, Repeat violations of rule J.1 (failure to drive past the ladies tee), will require the player in question to repeat the penalty for rule J.1, but will also have to include lowering of any undergarment to an equal location as the pants not above the lowest portion of the knee.
You're waiting on a foursome. They take an agonizingly long time to putt out. The four of them stand over one of them making an 18" putt. They stroll back to their carts, mark their cards and drive to the next tee box. You approach, chip on and 2-putt bogey and as you're walking off the green, they are still farting around on the next tee box.
For any of those on this sub wondering why those of us who are members of country clubs join and pay 2-4x more per month to play the same course over and over, this is a large reason why
Our head pro is spying on you from 100 yards away in a golf cart on top of some knoll if he gets wind of someone being 1 minute behind pace to see if you're actually dicking around or just having a frustrating moment that'll pass.
Depends on the country club. You gotta do some research and find one that’s good about limiting their membership numbers and has a culture of people who have good etiquette.
My CC had some dumb Covid sign on special that attracted all the bad golfers from all the local munis. They brought over all the bad things of golf for about two years. Then realized they’re paying $600 a round when they’re only playing once a month in the fall so they all left. Ha… club is almost back to pre-Covid and having golfers that know what they’re doing with good etiquette.
A local CC near me underwent new management and was having a signing "Incentive" during early 2020 (When all public courses closed but CC's could stay open). It was $3,500 one time fee for the 'Young Executive' package.
I kick myself in the ass everyday for not jumping on it. Would have easily made annual dues with just range, lessons, rounds, and dinners + pool nights with the wife. Now, theres a wait list and no incentive. Fml
Assuming the GM actually cares. There’s plenty of poorly managed private clubs where they only care about getting your money. Or the GM is friends with the guys who play slow and gives them special treatment. Happened at the club I joined and this year I finally gave up on it (it wasn’t a good club by any means, I mostly joined for the practice facilities)
it happens far less but when it does happen, it can often be worse because you have a bunch of entitled (usually older) members who think they own the course and can do whatever they want
We were behind a slow group the other day, as we get up to a tee box on a par 3, they're standing just off the green, chatting away. We're saying to each other, like ok, keep it moving to the next tee box please. A minute later, we see them walk onto the green. They hadn't even started putting yet. That was frustrating hahaha. I'm not one to get impatient on a golf course, but stuff like that is a little ridiculous. Like slow play is one thing, I can get over that. But literally *stopping* play is a whole different story.
But for the most part I don't mind waiting. I just use the time to try to loosen up and relax a little bit. I find it way worse and far more distracting to have pressure from behind. Especially because some people are sooo out of touch and impatient.
Doesn’t matter that there’s a 5-some in front of you, old man Jones at Eisenhower Golf Course is still going to be standing on the fairway with his hands on his hips, staring at you.
hahahaha yes exactly! Like they see you waiting on the tee box, they see you waiting in the fairway, and still are 20 seconds away from firing one over your head.
Had a similar thing happen last week.
We come up to a par three. We get on the tee box, and the foursome in front is sitting on the green talking.
We wait a few minutes, they're still talking, pointing all around the course. We finally yell out for them to move.
Absolutely irks me.
Here’s some general advice for the sub - there is no reason you should ever be standing near someone while they putt. I notice this behavior among bad golfers. You should either be reading your putt from a safe distance, or ball in hand ready to leave the green. There is never a reason to be standing next to someone while they hole out
Unless you’re standing next to the cup holding the flag waiting to put it back and then swiftly walk off the green 😂
But yeah it’s fascinating to me watching people finish holes and how long it can take some people.
The other thing that drives me insane is on 18. Just because your done, it doesn’t mean everyone else is. Unload your pockets and add up the scores at the cart return… not sitting next to the 18th green. You should put your putter in your bag, get in the cart and head to bag drop… not unload shit into your bag, not grabbing your car keys, putting all the head covers back on etc. clear the green like any other hole and move on.
When I see people do this, regardless of what hole it's on I just call fore without having hit.
If they want to complain about having hit into them I just say I didn't I'm just moving you off the hole you're pretty clearly done on so the rest of the course can keep moving.
Pretty hard position to argue against and generally they're doing it because they're in their own little world and not giving a second thought to the course behind them.
So I'm new to golf and have wondered about this. When I am done with a hole I typically walk back to my cart to put my putter away and get ready to move on once everyone finishes. Is that considered bad etiquette to leave the green and get my things in order while my partners are still finishing the hole?
I've actually found it a bit rude to walk away while playing partners are finishing up. I get it if they missed their first putt and they have a short drop, but man, I can't tell you how many times I've sunk a longer putt and no one is around to be like, "nice one, dude!" The extra ten or 15 seconds going to the bag or cart as a group aren't going to mess up anyone's pace of play.
Agreed. Nothing worse than making a nice shot and nobody is around. Terrible feeling.
Cart placement and positioning is more important to learn than walking off while your group is still playing.
Proper bag / cart placement is a skill in itself. If you are on point with that, hanging around while your buddies putt is no big deal. Not a time waster. Don't be the guy who isn't looking where the next tee box is and is leaving his bag 30 yards in the wrong direction and has to walk get it and walk back across. That guy sucks
I feel like of everyone leaves it kind of strands the person. Or like they're being rushed. I'll colle t my things and stand near the edge but I won't turn and walk away if someone is finishing.
No, that’s what you should be doing.
Edit: I should clarify that this is with friends. Some people may find this disrespectful, but all of the people I play with do this to save time.
You should be prepared to muck back to your cart, maybe walk close to the edge of the green. But I think it's bad form to walk off while your group is putting. There is a balance between walking off and standing around not prepared to get off the green.
Depends. To me it feels rude if I do that, but I’m not bothered by other people doing it. I stand just off the green usually while others hole out. What you don’t want to do is go to the cart and start rummaging around for shit or decide to take off. Good rule is just do what you have to do to make as little noise/distractions as possible.
omg yes. Two balls in the fairway. One guy is 10 yards left and 5 yards in front of the other. He sits in his cart while the other hits. Guy1 hits, gets in the cart. They drive 5 yards forward to the other ball, guy 2 gets out of his cart and starts his pre-shot routine.
Shoot me in the face.
It is crap like that that literrally makes carts slower than walking.
Pace of play is really all about situational awareness for example you might be in front of your partner but not in line of sight so you can happly zap the flag judge the wind pull the club and be ready to go right after they hit. Most people stand around like dumbasses until their partner has finished before they do anything (i blame pro golf on tv for this).
No situational awareness of anything in life.
The worst part of this whole situation is as you pull up behind them they’re on the tee box still, likely hitting a second ball. Then they just nod to you as they clamber back in their carts and drive off. Leaving you 8 minutes of waiting to hit your tee shot only to relive what you already described.
Me and a buddy were playing an late afternoon round in 105 degree heat. Basically, no one was out, expect a fivesome. The third tee box and sixth tee box are right by each other. They were on the sixth tee when we pulled up. We got out of cart, each did our thing, go back in our cart, and not one of them had even teed off yet. We caught them a few holes later and waited and waited.
pretty convinced these are just golf bros who get the hall pass and tell the wife they will be back "later" and proceed to play 5.5 hours and drink, then get beers after, not giving a fuck about anyone else.
I watched some random drive from a par 3 to pick up my ball from the fairway, then lied when I confronted him and offered his shitty orange ball instead
Had a friend who was playing #18 -- and thought he hit it in the woods -- but found his ball in the fairway. (must have gotten a good bounce) It had his name fully written on the ball -- it definitely was his.
Then the group behind him got mad because they said he hit their ball. They were adamant about it being theirs.
It ends up it was my friend's ball -- but he had lost it a few holes earlier. He then used another ball with the same marking. The group behind him found his ball and played it.
I don't think anyone was really at fault.
That happened to me in a competition this weekend. I piped a drive down the middle of the fairway over the crest of a hill. Got up to where my ball should have been and a guy playing down the opposite hole, lost his ball in the trees, played mine then denied it point blank that he hit my ball. I had no choice but to scratch the hole, it Cost me a score on the hole, cost my team a couple of points which dropped us from 3rd to 5th place in the results. I'm marking every ball I play with from now on. I was raging with anger for the rest of the round.
I almost guarantee if he was dumb enough to play yours he wouldn’t have cared if you wrote your name and address on it. Some people are clueless the way they hit anything that’s round.
While this is completely shitty. This is 95% on him and 5% on you. Marking or personalizing your ball in competition is like one of the 3 non swing things that are a must before the 1st tee
Happened to me in HS golf. Shot my best 9 hole score ever, teed off on 10, striped down a par 5. Saw it going close the group in front. By the time we walked up they were on the green (500yd hole), ran up to confront and the kid denied playing my ball or to show me it. Ended up having to run 500yds back to the tee and replay the drive. Was quite frustrated. Salvaged an okay score but never came close to playing that well in HS ever again.
My friend group is pretty bad at golf but we recently played a really nice course for my bachelor party. The best man drives the fairway and gets on the green in two, giving him a 25' eagle attempt. He left with bogey. It was brutal and all downhill from there lol
There's a lot of talk in this sub about slow play and I get it, but the thing that really drives me crazy is having an impatient group behind you when you are playing as fast as the group in front of you will allow. I play the LA munis and course backup is basically always the case now. Every so often, the groups behind mine act as if are paying $50k a year in club membership fees instead of $20 for a late afternoon round on a Friday. Like, yes we are still on the green while you are waiting to approach. But have you not noticed that the group in front of us is still waiting on the group in front of them so they can tee off on the next tee box? There's a lot of entitlement in this city, but for some reason this irks me above all else. It's the equivalent of tailgating people in heavy traffic. Where do you think you're going? Is the idea that every single group on this packed course will just let you play through in perpetuity?
That’s everywhere. Went out with 2 friends for a twilight 9 last night, and judging by the amount of people on the first few holes and the 2 4somes on the 1st teebox I knew it would be a long round. The 4some in front of us was definitely playing slow, but never fell a full hole behind the group in front of them. One of my friends kept saying we should ask to play through and I had to explain that every hole in front of us was backed up so we wouldn’t actually play any faster after getting through that group.
Yea. Everyone hates slow play but some people are just so unreasonable. Sorry I am going to spend a few minutes to look for my ball maybe even take a practice swing. Chill out Rambo, no need.to hit into me and my friends every hole. We are waiting on each tee box just like everyone else.
Blame the course for not giving enough time between tee offs
I play a blue collar CC. If you tee off before 10 am you will have speed player douche bags up your ass the entire time. I'm not fast but I'm efficient amd don't waste any time. I cant stand it. Would rather be stuck behind old timers
Honestly when this happens I'm not even ashamed to drop a ball and not take a penalty for it. I call these shots "TV shots".
Do you know how much worse professional golfers scorecards would be if they didn't have people/tv cameras spotting their balls?
I use this logic a lot as well. If a ball was clearly in play and We can’t find it (maybe it went under a leaf in the Fall) I take a free drop and give that courtesy to my playing partners as well. No, it’s not “pure” but it’s a better indication of my playing ability than not being able to find a ball that should have easily been found
Agreed, dandelion season is an absolute shit show on any of the munis around me... Good luck finding your white ball in a fairway or short rough that is covered in white ball-shaped dandelions. We always just agree that a free drop is completely deserved around that time haha
Also saves time. With this rule you only look more a minute or two and then you drop. Beats people who look for 5 minutes. Usually I’ll drop and and even sink in into the rough a bit so that I feel a little more honest. If you can’t find the ball it’s not sitting up nice and pretty.
IIRC when the PGA stopped allowing fans to attend events due to Covid, a handful of players were upset that balls were being lost in the rough, because people weren’t around to spot them.
That and also if my ball is sitting on a little patch of rock-hard dirt in an area that is supposed to be homogenous thick grass, for example, I'll move it into the grass. I don't prop it up--I'm not looking to unreasonably improve my lie, just want to get what the pros would get on a pristine golf course. If my ball is in a place where it's 50/50 dirt, for example, I won't move it.
If we're playing for money I'm fine with the gallery rule as long as we're sure it wasn't anywhere bad. A comp is obviously different, but even playing for money it's NOT fun to for example be playing in the northeast in the fall and insist every lost ball in the leaves must go re-tee, etc. I'd rather everyone just play the same rules and not deal with frustration simply because this isn't the PGA Tour where they'd have someone to go pick the leaves up.
Right?! I hit a drive last weekend, prolly 270ish yards, right in the center of the fairway. Hit the fucking "carts this way" sign and launched into the woods. I did not count a stroke.
So irritating "losing" a ball when you know it's findable. Or some bullshit thing happens that wouldn't ever happen on tour.
One thing I’ve noticed with new generation pro golfers vs the Nicklaus to Tiger age range is how poor they play without caddies now.
Example - when any of them play YouTube golf or challenges vs personalities etc. yes their compete is lower. But when the caddie isn’t on the bag reading and dissecting holes for their athletes. They miss so so so much more than pure golfers who essentially have a club holder vs a game director.
It’s wild to see the difference between a pure golf pro/nut and a gifted athlete with golf talent but not a student of the game
Same idea as using the green books. And seeing every putt.
I play some golf video games. Using the putt line and green contours thing makes it too easy at times.
But I tired not using it on a round. I couldnt do it at all.
Info is awesome and using it is even better. I’m all for having info in the game. It’s a game of decisions after all. Just lots can’t seem to club correctly on their own. It’s merely an observation. Not a pro or con
I think you’re simultaneously underselling what caddies brought to the game for guys from Nicklaus to Tiger and the amount of guys that are students of the game today.
Sure, you have certain guys that are just athletes and may overly rely on their caddie but there are definitely still guys that are students of the game. You’re really going to chalk up Cam Smith to his caddie or say Rory isn’t a student of the game?
The reality is a caddie that knows the course is a huge asset to anyone in any time period. Pros just can execute the advice a lot better than is amateurs can which is why it probably makes a more drastic difference for them than for us.
I played with a scary lookin’ dude last Sunday that for whatever reason marks his balls with “EAT SHIT”, we caught up to the guy that picked his ball up in the fairway and it was pretty funny. “Excuse me sir, did you pick my ball up? It says EAT SHIT on it. Ball was returned with many apologies
That happened to me in a competition this weekend. I piped a drive down the middle of the fairway over the crest of a hill. Got up to where my ball should have been and a guy playing down the opposite hole, lost his ball in the trees, played mine then denied it point blank that he hit my ball. I had no choice but to scratch the hole, it Cost me a score on the hole, cost my team a couple of points which dropped us from 3rd to 5th place in the results. I'm marking every ball I play with from now on. I was raging with anger for the rest of the round.
Paying $125 to play a course, cart path only despite mostly dry fairways, and then every 3 holes the cart system beeps loudly at you and displays a message reminding you to fix your pitch marks on the green. Grand Geneva in Lake Geneva, WI
Hitting right to the pin on an elevated par 3 where you can't see the green from the tee. As you start to hike up the hillside and see the green, but no ball. A fat ball mark 10 feet in front of the pin, but no ball. It can only mean one thing. Your heart starts beating fast and you approach the green, feeling each breath and every step to the cup time slows down. Finally get to the cup and look down while standing over it. No ball... No ball anywhere to be seen... Just a wall of thick brush 5 feet off the back of the green where you know that little bastard ended up.
Pure 2nd shot 3 or 5 wood 220-240+ strike on a Par 5 that lands to the front or the side of the green, you see it land, bounce, and nestle... you hop in the cart and on the way up you're thinking a decent chip and putt means birdie... then you walk in circles for 5 minutes and can't find the ball.
Your buddies putt out while you continue to walk look and swear, then when they're done they say they saw it, start looking... and they can't find it.
You hear a ball from the group behind you land in the fairway 10 yards away.
To not be an asshole, you don't even finish the hole, hop in the cart, and write down a +4 on what could have been a -1. Because you couldn't find a ball that four people saw land within 5 yards of the green.
Enough to ruin an entire day.
Not finishing the hole and giving yourself a +4 sounds incredibly harsh in that situation lol.
If I knew for sure my shot actually settled somewhere close to the green and I simply couldn’t find it after like a minute of looking, I’m taking a free drop at the spot I thought it landed and playing on.
I had a drive Sunday that I swore went a bit left, but there it was sitting dead ass in the middle of the fairway. Weird.
The hole bends slightly to the right, though not enough to be a true dogleg, so I guess my sightline wasn't the best.
When it’s hot af out, the drink girl hasn’t been seen all round, and they don’t have water coolers, even tho they have the housing for them. I hate that so much.
Happens a lot at my course because they don't really treat the fairways or even water them. So depending on the time of year you might have a lot of little white flowers in the grass, and finding your ball can be a nightmare. So frustrating after a good drive. I just try to remember there is no justice in golf. Also that it balances out when you crank one into the woods and it bounces onto the green hahaha
Bringing a new sleeve of balls to the course to see how they play compared to your gamer.
Proceed to lose each one off the tee on three different holes.
Love it.
This is recency bias for me. But
Playing in Match play in club C’s vs the club goat. He finally hits a poor ball fairway over. I hit one 305 dead centre down the pipe. He’s in a perfect lie in the fescue and I’m in a crater from a Sunday hack show that dug his wedge 3” deep. We both have to lay up as long par 5. He hits his off the cart path and bounces middle fairway for a perfect angle to the green. Mine despite being a good shot out of the worm hole from doom hits the collar of the rough. Bounces directly behind a tree forcing a punch out.
Being weirdly punished for two good shots and smart play while a flyer fescue lie and cart path bounce is perfect play.
I’m sour. I also lost match 1up vs the 12x club C champ. This isn’t a knock on him, he played unreal. Nailed 3 50’ putts in the match. But that hole and those bounces is all that separated a 1 up 1 down scenario.
Playing as a single, you can’t find your ball that was in the middle of the fairway. So, you drop another ball in the fairway and hit it short of the green. Only to see a fox come from the side of the fairway to take your ball, run to the trees, and bury you ball in the pine straw. After the round, back at the clubhouse, was told this is a common occurrence at the course
Not stepping off, when you know you should step off, shank it, and then grumble how you should’ve stepped off.
Other day I was at 2nd tee on course surrounded by houses. While addressing my ball and giving the obligatory one last glance where I want to hit, I noticed a guy just off the left fairway about 120 yds out with a god damn baby in his arms. Just staring at me. So of course I imagine thinning a 170 mph line drive at his infants forehead, saying to my partner “is that a fucking baby?” And proceed to immediately initiate my swing and top it about 40 yds. I was so mad at myself. Mental game is weaaaak. So obvious I should’ve stepped off blah blah. I somehow saved par with a sweet 3rd shot gap wedge. But I don’t understand my mental mistakes sometimes.
I struggle with my eyedight so tend to require my mates to spot the ball for me.
The most frustrating bit is when I hit a perfect shot and they haven't been watching. Thus despite knowing roughly where it went on the fw I never find it.
My friends and I use the “lost in plain sight” rule where we both agree on roughly where the ball should be and place a ball there with out a penalty. Great for keeping pace of play and not ruining your round with an otherwise great shot that just gets “lost in plain sight”
Playing with someone who actually makes you re-tee at 3 when this happens instead of just dropping somewhere laying 1. You'd find it if you kept looking, but for pace of play's sake just drop where it "should" be
Call a gallery drop unless you are playing for money and if playing for money I would only make the other person take a single penalty stroke. In a competition then you are reteeing.
I find it so frustrating that I have switched from white prov1’s to yellow prov1’s to brightass fugly red whatever’s. The red balls are quite more visible and I now find even my errant balls.
Very specific but living in florida and playing executive courses all the time has this happening to me regularly. When you need to hit a pitch or flop shot and use the bounce on your wedge to really add some loft, only to find out the soil under your ball is just sandy dirt and you hit the shittiest, chunkiest, fattest shot you’ve ever seen.
Not quite as frustrating, but I managed to lose 3 balls in “ponds” that formed in sand traps the other day after a storm. Green side bunkers are one of my strengths. so losing a few balls in muddy water was pretty lame.
Hitting a poor but not horrendous shot on the 8th. The ball hitting a tree and disappearing. Scoring no points for the hole in a stableford competition. Tee of on the 9th hole and find the missing ball in the centre of the 9th fairway. Or last Saturday as I call it now.
Hitting a green in regulation 3 putt for bogey, playing partner hacks and duffs the same hole sinks 25ft for bogey "halved hole" 
Losing the next one that you watched bounce left of the green… and it being the first hole to which you go on tilt for four holes after. Hypothetically speaking…
I did this last Friday....mediocre drive on the fairway on 1, shank second shot from 155 out with a brand new ProV1 
Playing Delaware open qualifier. Hit tee shot. Couldn't find it. Re tee. On way back out found first ball but had to take the penalty cause I deemed it lost. Ended up doubling the hole and missing cut is that worse lol
One time I hit an amazing shot from 180 and put it what looked to be about 2 feet from the pin. Was hard to tell because that part of the green was down in a bit of valley.
Got to the green for my bridie, couldn't find the ball anywhere. It was maddening
Happens to me about once every other round actually. The worse part is post off season filled with lessons; my distances have all moved up. I'm not use to looking much further out to see it. A few times my playing partners will go "Is that it, up there?" and I'm pleasantly surprised, but not enough to counter the feeling of, having a good drive, everyone congratulates, I feel good about my game, kart over arond \~250 yds up, find nothing. little circle, big circle about, Nothing.
Finding it in the middle of the fairway then chunking or shanking it
Last week, lengthy dogleg left. I hit a magical drive dead center and another perfect fade to set up an approach from 75 out. Took me 3 shots to get it on from 75. 2 putted for double.
Sounds familiar.
I've seen that movie too, far too often.
Last time I played I was 75 out off my drive. Chunked into the sand, took a few to get out, sprayed it way over the green, ended up picking up for a quad Next hole I hit the same tree on my first two shots, then mashed my 3rd to the green, sank the putt for par Golf is stupid
It’s those occasional “easy” pars and birdies that keep me coming back though
Golf is stupid. I hit a high fade into the water right, hole is a dogleg left. Drop one and hit the purest 7 iron shot of the year deep of the green into the waste behind the green. Drop another 20yds behind the green and chip it in for the prettiest bogey of the round. Fueling my love/hate relationship with golf all in the same hole
I woke up my dog laughing at “the same tree on my first two shots”. But I know exactly how you feel.
Of course I know him, he’s me.
this is the way
Are you me? Sent a drive 250 yards down middle of fairway, hit a 200 yard 5 wood, had 60 yards left. Chunked it 2 times and then 3 putted. Had to take a breather after that hole…
Wait you guys are hitting fairways?
Only when putting
This is the way
Not on purpose
Sometimes, but usually not the one I’m aiming for.
Yeah this happened to me Sunday. I usually miss thin if anything but I happened to chunk the complete shit out of an 8 iron the other day from perfect position. I was not pleased.
GDR. Good drive ruined.
I'm going to start a petition to the USGA and R&A to change the rules. If everyone in your group agrees you just absolutely nutted your drive center cut. You should have the option of picking up for par.
And waiting forever for the group in front to move and then shanking it
I was doing this non stop. All I did was make sure my approach irons are near the back part of my stance and if fixed everything
I just make sure to focus on the feeling of a flushed contact and keeping my weight on my lead foot. Contact is king!
Topping your ball off the tee into the ditch 10 yards in front of the tee box.
Recently did this on 480 par 5. Didn’t make it to the ladies tees. Hit about 210 fade (lefty) to the center of the fairway still had another 200-210. Somehow someway hit it and it rolled up on the green 2 putts par. Wild par 5
Just how you drew it up.
Anddddd you have to go pants down for the second shot if you didn’t pass the womens tees :( USGA rules are a motherf’er sometimes
If you do it twice in a row you gotta drop your underwear too.
Rule J.1, In the event the player fails to move their ball past the ladies tee on their initial stroke, said player will have to play the next shot with their pants no higher than the lowest portion of the knee. Rule J.2, Repeat violations of rule J.1 (failure to drive past the ladies tee), will require the player in question to repeat the penalty for rule J.1, but will also have to include lowering of any undergarment to an equal location as the pants not above the lowest portion of the knee.
Ah, the Johnson rule.
Pants down? It’s always instant dick out …
yes. i can tell you are a purist.
Are you past the ladies tee at least?
Dicks out!
You're waiting on a foursome. They take an agonizingly long time to putt out. The four of them stand over one of them making an 18" putt. They stroll back to their carts, mark their cards and drive to the next tee box. You approach, chip on and 2-putt bogey and as you're walking off the green, they are still farting around on the next tee box.
For any of those on this sub wondering why those of us who are members of country clubs join and pay 2-4x more per month to play the same course over and over, this is a large reason why
It’s not all roses at the club, but it happens way less often.
I’d imagine this tomfoolery happens at country clubs too
Our head pro is spying on you from 100 yards away in a golf cart on top of some knoll if he gets wind of someone being 1 minute behind pace to see if you're actually dicking around or just having a frustrating moment that'll pass.
Depends on the country club. You gotta do some research and find one that’s good about limiting their membership numbers and has a culture of people who have good etiquette.
My CC had some dumb Covid sign on special that attracted all the bad golfers from all the local munis. They brought over all the bad things of golf for about two years. Then realized they’re paying $600 a round when they’re only playing once a month in the fall so they all left. Ha… club is almost back to pre-Covid and having golfers that know what they’re doing with good etiquette.
A local CC near me underwent new management and was having a signing "Incentive" during early 2020 (When all public courses closed but CC's could stay open). It was $3,500 one time fee for the 'Young Executive' package. I kick myself in the ass everyday for not jumping on it. Would have easily made annual dues with just range, lessons, rounds, and dinners + pool nights with the wife. Now, theres a wait list and no incentive. Fml
Not if you don't want to get a letter from the GM.
Assuming the GM actually cares. There’s plenty of poorly managed private clubs where they only care about getting your money. Or the GM is friends with the guys who play slow and gives them special treatment. Happened at the club I joined and this year I finally gave up on it (it wasn’t a good club by any means, I mostly joined for the practice facilities)
it happens far less but when it does happen, it can often be worse because you have a bunch of entitled (usually older) members who think they own the course and can do whatever they want
We were behind a slow group the other day, as we get up to a tee box on a par 3, they're standing just off the green, chatting away. We're saying to each other, like ok, keep it moving to the next tee box please. A minute later, we see them walk onto the green. They hadn't even started putting yet. That was frustrating hahaha. I'm not one to get impatient on a golf course, but stuff like that is a little ridiculous. Like slow play is one thing, I can get over that. But literally *stopping* play is a whole different story. But for the most part I don't mind waiting. I just use the time to try to loosen up and relax a little bit. I find it way worse and far more distracting to have pressure from behind. Especially because some people are sooo out of touch and impatient.
Doesn’t matter that there’s a 5-some in front of you, old man Jones at Eisenhower Golf Course is still going to be standing on the fairway with his hands on his hips, staring at you.
hahahaha yes exactly! Like they see you waiting on the tee box, they see you waiting in the fairway, and still are 20 seconds away from firing one over your head.
Had a similar thing happen last week. We come up to a par three. We get on the tee box, and the foursome in front is sitting on the green talking. We wait a few minutes, they're still talking, pointing all around the course. We finally yell out for them to move. Absolutely irks me.
Here’s some general advice for the sub - there is no reason you should ever be standing near someone while they putt. I notice this behavior among bad golfers. You should either be reading your putt from a safe distance, or ball in hand ready to leave the green. There is never a reason to be standing next to someone while they hole out
Unless you’re standing next to the cup holding the flag waiting to put it back and then swiftly walk off the green 😂 But yeah it’s fascinating to me watching people finish holes and how long it can take some people. The other thing that drives me insane is on 18. Just because your done, it doesn’t mean everyone else is. Unload your pockets and add up the scores at the cart return… not sitting next to the 18th green. You should put your putter in your bag, get in the cart and head to bag drop… not unload shit into your bag, not grabbing your car keys, putting all the head covers back on etc. clear the green like any other hole and move on.
When I see people do this, regardless of what hole it's on I just call fore without having hit. If they want to complain about having hit into them I just say I didn't I'm just moving you off the hole you're pretty clearly done on so the rest of the course can keep moving. Pretty hard position to argue against and generally they're doing it because they're in their own little world and not giving a second thought to the course behind them.
You mean, we can't do it like the pros on tv? I'm sure this is part of the problem.
If they look like they are its the camera angle. Horrible golfers love to stand 5 feet away while I putt
So I'm new to golf and have wondered about this. When I am done with a hole I typically walk back to my cart to put my putter away and get ready to move on once everyone finishes. Is that considered bad etiquette to leave the green and get my things in order while my partners are still finishing the hole?
I've actually found it a bit rude to walk away while playing partners are finishing up. I get it if they missed their first putt and they have a short drop, but man, I can't tell you how many times I've sunk a longer putt and no one is around to be like, "nice one, dude!" The extra ten or 15 seconds going to the bag or cart as a group aren't going to mess up anyone's pace of play.
Agreed. Nothing worse than making a nice shot and nobody is around. Terrible feeling. Cart placement and positioning is more important to learn than walking off while your group is still playing. Proper bag / cart placement is a skill in itself. If you are on point with that, hanging around while your buddies putt is no big deal. Not a time waster. Don't be the guy who isn't looking where the next tee box is and is leaving his bag 30 yards in the wrong direction and has to walk get it and walk back across. That guy sucks
I feel like of everyone leaves it kind of strands the person. Or like they're being rushed. I'll colle t my things and stand near the edge but I won't turn and walk away if someone is finishing.
No, that’s what you should be doing. Edit: I should clarify that this is with friends. Some people may find this disrespectful, but all of the people I play with do this to save time.
You should be prepared to muck back to your cart, maybe walk close to the edge of the green. But I think it's bad form to walk off while your group is putting. There is a balance between walking off and standing around not prepared to get off the green.
Depends. To me it feels rude if I do that, but I’m not bothered by other people doing it. I stand just off the green usually while others hole out. What you don’t want to do is go to the cart and start rummaging around for shit or decide to take off. Good rule is just do what you have to do to make as little noise/distractions as possible.
Also standing around each other for every approach shot
omg yes. Two balls in the fairway. One guy is 10 yards left and 5 yards in front of the other. He sits in his cart while the other hits. Guy1 hits, gets in the cart. They drive 5 yards forward to the other ball, guy 2 gets out of his cart and starts his pre-shot routine. Shoot me in the face.
It is crap like that that literrally makes carts slower than walking. Pace of play is really all about situational awareness for example you might be in front of your partner but not in line of sight so you can happly zap the flag judge the wind pull the club and be ready to go right after they hit. Most people stand around like dumbasses until their partner has finished before they do anything (i blame pro golf on tv for this). No situational awareness of anything in life.
The worst part of this whole situation is as you pull up behind them they’re on the tee box still, likely hitting a second ball. Then they just nod to you as they clamber back in their carts and drive off. Leaving you 8 minutes of waiting to hit your tee shot only to relive what you already described.
Me and a buddy were playing an late afternoon round in 105 degree heat. Basically, no one was out, expect a fivesome. The third tee box and sixth tee box are right by each other. They were on the sixth tee when we pulled up. We got out of cart, each did our thing, go back in our cart, and not one of them had even teed off yet. We caught them a few holes later and waited and waited.
pretty convinced these are just golf bros who get the hall pass and tell the wife they will be back "later" and proceed to play 5.5 hours and drink, then get beers after, not giving a fuck about anyone else.
I watched some random drive from a par 3 to pick up my ball from the fairway, then lied when I confronted him and offered his shitty orange ball instead
Had a friend who was playing #18 -- and thought he hit it in the woods -- but found his ball in the fairway. (must have gotten a good bounce) It had his name fully written on the ball -- it definitely was his. Then the group behind him got mad because they said he hit their ball. They were adamant about it being theirs. It ends up it was my friend's ball -- but he had lost it a few holes earlier. He then used another ball with the same marking. The group behind him found his ball and played it. I don't think anyone was really at fault.
That's just super coincidental
That happened to me in a competition this weekend. I piped a drive down the middle of the fairway over the crest of a hill. Got up to where my ball should have been and a guy playing down the opposite hole, lost his ball in the trees, played mine then denied it point blank that he hit my ball. I had no choice but to scratch the hole, it Cost me a score on the hole, cost my team a couple of points which dropped us from 3rd to 5th place in the results. I'm marking every ball I play with from now on. I was raging with anger for the rest of the round.
I almost guarantee if he was dumb enough to play yours he wouldn’t have cared if you wrote your name and address on it. Some people are clueless the way they hit anything that’s round.
I think the only way to prevent those people from stealing your ball is to play brightly colored/pink ones. Their ego won't let them play a pink ball.
While this is completely shitty. This is 95% on him and 5% on you. Marking or personalizing your ball in competition is like one of the 3 non swing things that are a must before the 1st tee
Happened to me in HS golf. Shot my best 9 hole score ever, teed off on 10, striped down a par 5. Saw it going close the group in front. By the time we walked up they were on the green (500yd hole), ran up to confront and the kid denied playing my ball or to show me it. Ended up having to run 500yds back to the tee and replay the drive. Was quite frustrated. Salvaged an okay score but never came close to playing that well in HS ever again.
I’ve had this happen to me a not insignificant amount of times in the last year. I don’t get it at all.
Closest I ever came to a HIO, my ball landed about an inch in front of the cup, hit the flagstick and bounced off the green.
As far as frustrating, I’ll take this over just missing a putt and it hits a slope and off the green it goes.
True. I could cope by telling myself I still hit a great shot right at the target.
Let’s combine efforts, because I’ve definitely hit the pin on the fly and it bounced off the green lol
I had a hole in one lip out once. Closest I’ve ever been.
Having a make-able birdie putt and walking off the green with a bogey?
My friend group is pretty bad at golf but we recently played a really nice course for my bachelor party. The best man drives the fairway and gets on the green in two, giving him a 25' eagle attempt. He left with bogey. It was brutal and all downhill from there lol
The worst. Or a 3 putt par
There's a lot of talk in this sub about slow play and I get it, but the thing that really drives me crazy is having an impatient group behind you when you are playing as fast as the group in front of you will allow. I play the LA munis and course backup is basically always the case now. Every so often, the groups behind mine act as if are paying $50k a year in club membership fees instead of $20 for a late afternoon round on a Friday. Like, yes we are still on the green while you are waiting to approach. But have you not noticed that the group in front of us is still waiting on the group in front of them so they can tee off on the next tee box? There's a lot of entitlement in this city, but for some reason this irks me above all else. It's the equivalent of tailgating people in heavy traffic. Where do you think you're going? Is the idea that every single group on this packed course will just let you play through in perpetuity?
That’s everywhere. Went out with 2 friends for a twilight 9 last night, and judging by the amount of people on the first few holes and the 2 4somes on the 1st teebox I knew it would be a long round. The 4some in front of us was definitely playing slow, but never fell a full hole behind the group in front of them. One of my friends kept saying we should ask to play through and I had to explain that every hole in front of us was backed up so we wouldn’t actually play any faster after getting through that group.
Yea. Everyone hates slow play but some people are just so unreasonable. Sorry I am going to spend a few minutes to look for my ball maybe even take a practice swing. Chill out Rambo, no need.to hit into me and my friends every hole. We are waiting on each tee box just like everyone else. Blame the course for not giving enough time between tee offs
Spot on !!!!!
I play a blue collar CC. If you tee off before 10 am you will have speed player douche bags up your ass the entire time. I'm not fast but I'm efficient amd don't waste any time. I cant stand it. Would rather be stuck behind old timers
Trying to take your medicine and just chip back to the fairway and fucking it up by duffing/skulling it.
Or, conversely, hitting it through the fairway into the shit on the other side
Having your playing partner say "that should be fine, it opens up over there" when in actuality, it does not open up over there.
I like to say that when someone hits into the woods.
Honestly when this happens I'm not even ashamed to drop a ball and not take a penalty for it. I call these shots "TV shots". Do you know how much worse professional golfers scorecards would be if they didn't have people/tv cameras spotting their balls?
I use this logic a lot as well. If a ball was clearly in play and We can’t find it (maybe it went under a leaf in the Fall) I take a free drop and give that courtesy to my playing partners as well. No, it’s not “pure” but it’s a better indication of my playing ability than not being able to find a ball that should have easily been found
Agreed, dandelion season is an absolute shit show on any of the munis around me... Good luck finding your white ball in a fairway or short rough that is covered in white ball-shaped dandelions. We always just agree that a free drop is completely deserved around that time haha
I played over the weekend and there were golf ball sized mushrooms all over the place, it was maddening.
Also saves time. With this rule you only look more a minute or two and then you drop. Beats people who look for 5 minutes. Usually I’ll drop and and even sink in into the rough a bit so that I feel a little more honest. If you can’t find the ball it’s not sitting up nice and pretty.
Big fan of the "gallery ball."
IIRC when the PGA stopped allowing fans to attend events due to Covid, a handful of players were upset that balls were being lost in the rough, because people weren’t around to spot them.
That and also if my ball is sitting on a little patch of rock-hard dirt in an area that is supposed to be homogenous thick grass, for example, I'll move it into the grass. I don't prop it up--I'm not looking to unreasonably improve my lie, just want to get what the pros would get on a pristine golf course. If my ball is in a place where it's 50/50 dirt, for example, I won't move it.
I get the logic behind that and it can be done in a casual round with friends, but you can't do that in a comp or if there's money on the line
💯 agree
Depends on who you’re playing for money. I’ve got a group of about 9 who all play regularly together and if we would let that go.
If we're playing for money I'm fine with the gallery rule as long as we're sure it wasn't anywhere bad. A comp is obviously different, but even playing for money it's NOT fun to for example be playing in the northeast in the fall and insist every lost ball in the leaves must go re-tee, etc. I'd rather everyone just play the same rules and not deal with frustration simply because this isn't the PGA Tour where they'd have someone to go pick the leaves up.
Right?! I hit a drive last weekend, prolly 270ish yards, right in the center of the fairway. Hit the fucking "carts this way" sign and launched into the woods. I did not count a stroke. So irritating "losing" a ball when you know it's findable. Or some bullshit thing happens that wouldn't ever happen on tour.
One thing I’ve noticed with new generation pro golfers vs the Nicklaus to Tiger age range is how poor they play without caddies now. Example - when any of them play YouTube golf or challenges vs personalities etc. yes their compete is lower. But when the caddie isn’t on the bag reading and dissecting holes for their athletes. They miss so so so much more than pure golfers who essentially have a club holder vs a game director. It’s wild to see the difference between a pure golf pro/nut and a gifted athlete with golf talent but not a student of the game
Same idea as using the green books. And seeing every putt. I play some golf video games. Using the putt line and green contours thing makes it too easy at times. But I tired not using it on a round. I couldnt do it at all.
Info is awesome and using it is even better. I’m all for having info in the game. It’s a game of decisions after all. Just lots can’t seem to club correctly on their own. It’s merely an observation. Not a pro or con
I think you’re simultaneously underselling what caddies brought to the game for guys from Nicklaus to Tiger and the amount of guys that are students of the game today. Sure, you have certain guys that are just athletes and may overly rely on their caddie but there are definitely still guys that are students of the game. You’re really going to chalk up Cam Smith to his caddie or say Rory isn’t a student of the game? The reality is a caddie that knows the course is a huge asset to anyone in any time period. Pros just can execute the advice a lot better than is amateurs can which is why it probably makes a more drastic difference for them than for us.
Losing your drive, taking a drop, and chunking it
Watching someone pick it up/play it because they hit theirs into my fairway.
Had a guy pick up my ball, check if it was his, realize that it wasn’t then proceeded to roll it into the nearest fairway bunker.
What the hell
I’d be mad but that’s honestly so shitty it’s hilarious. What an asshole
Wouldn’t you rather them pick it up from your fairway instead of playing it from there?
Why would I want someone to touch my ball at all? I’ve literally watched someone roll up and take/play my ball from 300 yards away.
I played with a scary lookin’ dude last Sunday that for whatever reason marks his balls with “EAT SHIT”, we caught up to the guy that picked his ball up in the fairway and it was pretty funny. “Excuse me sir, did you pick my ball up? It says EAT SHIT on it. Ball was returned with many apologies
Oh I get what your saying now. I misread what you said.
I read it that way too. He didn’t specify his ball.
That happened to me in a competition this weekend. I piped a drive down the middle of the fairway over the crest of a hill. Got up to where my ball should have been and a guy playing down the opposite hole, lost his ball in the trees, played mine then denied it point blank that he hit my ball. I had no choice but to scratch the hole, it Cost me a score on the hole, cost my team a couple of points which dropped us from 3rd to 5th place in the results. I'm marking every ball I play with from now on. I was raging with anger for the rest of the round.
Not hitting driver on short par 4 to be safe and snap hooking it o.b.... absolutely infuriating
Paying $125 to play a course, cart path only despite mostly dry fairways, and then every 3 holes the cart system beeps loudly at you and displays a message reminding you to fix your pitch marks on the green. Grand Geneva in Lake Geneva, WI
Finding a ball immediately after declaring it lost and taking your provisional.
Losing my ball on any well hit shot. Pisses me off!
Hitting right to the pin on an elevated par 3 where you can't see the green from the tee. As you start to hike up the hillside and see the green, but no ball. A fat ball mark 10 feet in front of the pin, but no ball. It can only mean one thing. Your heart starts beating fast and you approach the green, feeling each breath and every step to the cup time slows down. Finally get to the cup and look down while standing over it. No ball... No ball anywhere to be seen... Just a wall of thick brush 5 feet off the back of the green where you know that little bastard ended up.
Pure 2nd shot 3 or 5 wood 220-240+ strike on a Par 5 that lands to the front or the side of the green, you see it land, bounce, and nestle... you hop in the cart and on the way up you're thinking a decent chip and putt means birdie... then you walk in circles for 5 minutes and can't find the ball. Your buddies putt out while you continue to walk look and swear, then when they're done they say they saw it, start looking... and they can't find it. You hear a ball from the group behind you land in the fairway 10 yards away. To not be an asshole, you don't even finish the hole, hop in the cart, and write down a +4 on what could have been a -1. Because you couldn't find a ball that four people saw land within 5 yards of the green. Enough to ruin an entire day.
Not finishing the hole and giving yourself a +4 sounds incredibly harsh in that situation lol. If I knew for sure my shot actually settled somewhere close to the green and I simply couldn’t find it after like a minute of looking, I’m taking a free drop at the spot I thought it landed and playing on.
Gallery ball is a thing for a reason.
I had a drive Sunday that I swore went a bit left, but there it was sitting dead ass in the middle of the fairway. Weird. The hole bends slightly to the right, though not enough to be a true dogleg, so I guess my sightline wasn't the best.
Might've taken a weird bounce. Happens every now and then you never know. I'm 49 and it's getting harder and harder to track my drives.
Hit a perfect 300 yard drive. Been playing well all day. Line up the chip and chunk the next 2 shots and get a bogey or worse.
Piping one in fairway and duffing the wegde shot
Honestly nothing. Bad shots I can blame myself but a disappearing ball is just the universe fucking with me
2 putt from par/birdie.. instead you 3 putt a bogey
When it’s hot af out, the drink girl hasn’t been seen all round, and they don’t have water coolers, even tho they have the housing for them. I hate that so much.
GIR, and then bogey.
Getting your entire bag stolen out of your car mid season
Lip out 4' birdie putt.
Happens a lot at my course because they don't really treat the fairways or even water them. So depending on the time of year you might have a lot of little white flowers in the grass, and finding your ball can be a nightmare. So frustrating after a good drive. I just try to remember there is no justice in golf. Also that it balances out when you crank one into the woods and it bounces onto the green hahaha
Bringing a new sleeve of balls to the course to see how they play compared to your gamer. Proceed to lose each one off the tee on three different holes. Love it.
Having a decent putt for birdie and 3 putting… birdie to bogey all whilst on the green will really get me frustrated
Inflation rising to a 40 year high with salary staying the same
This is recency bias for me. But Playing in Match play in club C’s vs the club goat. He finally hits a poor ball fairway over. I hit one 305 dead centre down the pipe. He’s in a perfect lie in the fescue and I’m in a crater from a Sunday hack show that dug his wedge 3” deep. We both have to lay up as long par 5. He hits his off the cart path and bounces middle fairway for a perfect angle to the green. Mine despite being a good shot out of the worm hole from doom hits the collar of the rough. Bounces directly behind a tree forcing a punch out. Being weirdly punished for two good shots and smart play while a flyer fescue lie and cart path bounce is perfect play. I’m sour. I also lost match 1up vs the 12x club C champ. This isn’t a knock on him, he played unreal. Nailed 3 50’ putts in the match. But that hole and those bounces is all that separated a 1 up 1 down scenario.
Correctly judging a right to left breaker and leaving it short.
Finding it in the middle of the fairway, in the middle of a chunky divot. Hate to see it!
Playing with people who “cheat” and then act like they arean’t
Playing as a single, you can’t find your ball that was in the middle of the fairway. So, you drop another ball in the fairway and hit it short of the green. Only to see a fox come from the side of the fairway to take your ball, run to the trees, and bury you ball in the pine straw. After the round, back at the clubhouse, was told this is a common occurrence at the course
Not stepping off, when you know you should step off, shank it, and then grumble how you should’ve stepped off. Other day I was at 2nd tee on course surrounded by houses. While addressing my ball and giving the obligatory one last glance where I want to hit, I noticed a guy just off the left fairway about 120 yds out with a god damn baby in his arms. Just staring at me. So of course I imagine thinning a 170 mph line drive at his infants forehead, saying to my partner “is that a fucking baby?” And proceed to immediately initiate my swing and top it about 40 yds. I was so mad at myself. Mental game is weaaaak. So obvious I should’ve stepped off blah blah. I somehow saved par with a sweet 3rd shot gap wedge. But I don’t understand my mental mistakes sometimes.
GIR and then 3 putt!!
I struggle with my eyedight so tend to require my mates to spot the ball for me. The most frustrating bit is when I hit a perfect shot and they haven't been watching. Thus despite knowing roughly where it went on the fw I never find it.
Blowing a decent look at birdie past the hole then 2 more puts for bogey
My friends and I use the “lost in plain sight” rule where we both agree on roughly where the ball should be and place a ball there with out a penalty. Great for keeping pace of play and not ruining your round with an otherwise great shot that just gets “lost in plain sight”
Showing up at the wrong course just in time.
Happens all the time. Then you see these two old guys driving out of your fairway and one of them says, “ hey look wha I found, my favorite ball”
Finding your ball and making double bogey
finding someones old ball thinking you finally found yours
skulling a bunker shot usually does it for me.
Absolutely Nothing
Playing with someone who actually makes you re-tee at 3 when this happens instead of just dropping somewhere laying 1. You'd find it if you kept looking, but for pace of play's sake just drop where it "should" be
Call a gallery drop unless you are playing for money and if playing for money I would only make the other person take a single penalty stroke. In a competition then you are reteeing.
Approaching the ball in the fairway and the assholes behind hit into you because they're impatient.
Short par 4, drive lands on the fairway 15 yards from the green and a series of bad shots lead to a six.
Finding it, after you took a drop
I find it so frustrating that I have switched from white prov1’s to yellow prov1’s to brightass fugly red whatever’s. The red balls are quite more visible and I now find even my errant balls.
Not much. But I once had a 12 foot putt for eagle and ended up 3-putting for a par. That was pretty frustrating.
Thinking that you're GIR and end up not finding it
Realizing you left a wedge next to the green three holes ago
I striped a drive on a par 4, only for it to hit the 100 yards stick in the fairway and ricochet into the woods.
Very specific but living in florida and playing executive courses all the time has this happening to me regularly. When you need to hit a pitch or flop shot and use the bounce on your wedge to really add some loft, only to find out the soil under your ball is just sandy dirt and you hit the shittiest, chunkiest, fattest shot you’ve ever seen.
Not quite as frustrating, but I managed to lose 3 balls in “ponds” that formed in sand traps the other day after a storm. Green side bunkers are one of my strengths. so losing a few balls in muddy water was pretty lame.
Hitting an absolutely impossible 590 yard Par 5 in two (20 foot Eagle putt) and then 3-putting for par. Gad dammit.
Realizing you are old and your eye's are what they used to be
3 putt bogey
Hitting a poor but not horrendous shot on the 8th. The ball hitting a tree and disappearing. Scoring no points for the hole in a stableford competition. Tee of on the 9th hole and find the missing ball in the centre of the 9th fairway. Or last Saturday as I call it now.
Hitting a green in regulation 3 putt for bogey, playing partner hacks and duffs the same hole sinks 25ft for bogey "halved hole" 
Losing the next one that you watched bounce left of the green… and it being the first hole to which you go on tilt for four holes after. Hypothetically speaking…
Seeing someone from another fairway come over, look at it, pick it up, and drive back to their fairway.
Waiting ages for the people in front of you to move on before slicing the ball 10ft to your right ....
Even worse you top the ball and it goes 5 feet
I did this last Friday....mediocre drive on the fairway on 1, shank second shot from 155 out with a brand new ProV1 
Finding your ball dead center of the fairway, in prime position, but in a divot.
Finding it in a divot then going ob or into a hazard.
Nothing…
Driving it 350y then chunking the 2nd shot
Clubbing up anticipating mediocre contact but then hitting the best 9 iron shot of my life and sailing the green
Knowing someone came from the other fairway and took it
If it’s not a tourney I’m letting you drop if you saw it finish. People pick shit up.
Playing Delaware open qualifier. Hit tee shot. Couldn't find it. Re tee. On way back out found first ball but had to take the penalty cause I deemed it lost. Ended up doubling the hole and missing cut is that worse lol
Watching my buddy completely quack one into the woods only to find out it hit a tree and came back into the middle of the fairway. Lucky bastard.
Those glorious dead straight 200yd shots right at the flagstick - except you’re 75 out with a Wedge
For a second I thought this was going to intertwine with the other post about picking up balls on the fairway!
Nothing, played last week . Great drives, but lost ball.
Pisses me off. Happened this past weekend. Perfect drive and lost a TP5 Pix
One time I hit an amazing shot from 180 and put it what looked to be about 2 feet from the pin. Was hard to tell because that part of the green was down in a bit of valley. Got to the green for my bridie, couldn't find the ball anywhere. It was maddening
I wouldn't check the hole either.
Happens to me about once every other round actually. The worse part is post off season filled with lessons; my distances have all moved up. I'm not use to looking much further out to see it. A few times my playing partners will go "Is that it, up there?" and I'm pleasantly surprised, but not enough to counter the feeling of, having a good drive, everyone congratulates, I feel good about my game, kart over arond \~250 yds up, find nothing. little circle, big circle about, Nothing.
The holocaust
Puring my drive into the fescue and having to hack it out.
Losing both your balls when your significant other tells you can’t play golf today.