Hitting into people

In the interest of combining a theme with another thread, why not pop a squat over the cup. that'll teach em not to hit into you again lol.

(and it will save you some time at the clubhouse between the front and back nine).

Two birds, one stone.
 
In the interest of combining a theme with another thread, why not pop a squat over the cup. that'll teach em not to hit into you again lol.

(and it will save you some time at the clubhouse between the front and back nine).

Two birds, one stone.

Because thats just rude to the person who has to come out and get that out of there.
 
I have never hit into a group ahead of me with direct intentions to harm anyone. I have drove over doglegs, down blind hill par fours etc. where there is no way you can tell if anyone is on the green. No bells to ring etc. Now on the other hand, if I see someone in front of me playing very slow and there are three or four holes open (happens alot during the week days), I will "Fire a missle up their arse". There are more ways to do this procedure than to dangeroulsy drive a ball into them. The way I fire my missle, is to drive up to the foursome and ask if them, is it ok to play through? If they get all pissy, I move to the hole ahead of them and continue play. Before I tee up for the next hole, I simply call the course manager and report the problem. Some people don't know or don't care about proper golf etiquette. You should always allow faster players the option to play through, providing you have that option. That means if there are holes open in front of you, and you are excessively slow for whatever reason, let faster players advance. I have seen my brother hit in the back with a golf ball. He had a deep bruise for over a week. I saw a friend of mine while playing in Augusta, get hit below his eye which caused severe damage. We were teeing up on a par three and a guy hitting from a par four coming back towards us, hit a errant ball and hit my friend. He certainly had no intention of doing this and was very saddend by what happened. We knew the guy personally. While I certainly agree no one should fire into a group out of anger, I also believe slow players should respect golf etiquette. When the course is packed, you can not do a thing about it, but when the sailing is clear, do what is right. It's part of the game and has been that way since the beginning.
 
LOL. I was hoping you would catch that. That was a vicious hit you took.

Kevin

Eh... merely a love tap. I told the guy I was sorry for leaving a dent in his ball (along with a little blood).
 
I have never hit into a group ahead of me with direct intentions to harm anyone. I have drove over doglegs, down blind hill par fours etc. where there is no way you can tell if anyone is on the green. No bells to ring etc. Now on the other hand, if I see someone in front of me playing very slow and there are three or four holes open (happens alot during the week days), I will "Fire a missle up their arse". There are more ways to do this procedure than to dangeroulsy drive a ball into them. The way I fire my missle, is to drive up to the foursome and ask if them, is it ok to play through? If they get all pissy, I move to the hole ahead of them and continue play. Before I tee up for the next hole, I simply call the course manager and report the problem. Some people don't know or don't care about proper golf etiquette. You should always allow faster players the option to play through, providing you have that option. That means if there are holes open in front of you, and you are excessively slow for whatever reason, let faster players advance. I have seen my brother hit in the back with a golf ball. He had a deep bruise for over a week. I saw a friend of mine while playing in Augusta, get hit below his eye which caused severe damage. We were teeing up on a par three and a guy hitting from a par four coming back towards us, hit a errant ball and hit my friend. He certainly had no intention of doing this and was very saddend by what happened. We knew the guy personally. While I certainly agree no one should fire into a group out of anger, I also believe slow players should respect golf etiquette. When the course is packed, you can not do a thing about it, but when the sailing is clear, do what is right. It's part of the game and has been that way since the beginning.

I was hoping your coloured comment was going to be some reference to a heat seeking stinger missile up their tail pipe... nothing a little HE can't fix!

I kid...
 
Intentionally hitting into people is a really bad idea. None of us are good enough to predict the outcome of that one. I met a family on vacation and the 14 year old daughter was hit by a shank the day before. Couple lost teeth and a broken jaw for her. Guy that hit it was pretty torn up too, guiltwise as it was a freak accident. Girl went to grab a topped ball 10 yds past the line and... I've been hit and I caught my ball square in the ear, lucky. Two inches lower and I would have been eating straw food for awhile too.
 
I don't really think accidental shots that end up hitting someone or end up close to someone is the issue here. The issue is to knowingly hit at someone or into a group. That is the bad idea. When I think of those that condone this, I get the image of this guy.....

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I don't really think accidental shots that end up hitting someone or end up close to someone is the issue here. The issue is to knowingly hit at someone or into a group. That is the bad idea. When I think of those that condone this, I get the image of this guy.....
Yeah no kidding. My point was that shooting one across the bow might end up being a serious irreversible mistake. I'm guessing from the pic you posted you wouldn't like my Kenworth hat either.
 
Hitting into people to give them a warning to hurry up is NEVER acceptable. A couple times people have tried that with me and Ive shot their ball back at them. If you want to play through, be a man about it and come ask to play through. Heck, most the time if you are obviously faster than me you wont even have to ask, I will offer to let you play through.
However, hitting into my group is only going to make me not want to let you play through and cause me to play even slower just to annoy you.
 
I have hit into people on accident. It does happen, but I go out of my way to apologize. I have been hit into but never too close. I would never tee it up and fire back, or hit the ball in the water. Karma

I have done the same thing. I have hit into people on accident and had to apologize. Sometimes you just hit one further then you thought you could. But I have not hit into someone on purpose no matter how bad I wanted to. :at-wits-end:
 
I was hoping your coloured comment was going to be some reference to a heat seeking stinger missile up their tail pipe... nothing a little HE can't fix!

I kid...


haha RF -- I have thought hard a few times about putting my 13D foot up their tail pipe, but not the golf ball. Slow play is going to happen, it's part of golf and involves all skill levels. Look at the pros, some of them are put on the clock. There is one pro (I forget his name) who is notorious for slow play. It's the one Rory sabbatini left on a hole and moved to the next tee to continue play. I suppose Rory did not want to be fined or penalized for slow play. The times I want to put my big foot up someone's butt is when there is the open hole dilemma. It's the golfers who prefer to play slow or simply have to, because of their skill level and ignore those behind them. It's golf etiquette being ignored at the highest level in my opinion.
 
I don't feel you should ever hit into a group intentionally. Its way too dangerous and nobody needs to get hurt on the golf course. There are many civilized ways to attempt to deal with the situation but people also need to have respect for everyone on the course as well. I have been hit into many times, some by accident and other times by completely inconsiderate people.

I have never hit a ball back to someone but I have waited for them to get to their ball and had conversation with them to explain how dangerous it was to hit while I was still in range.
 
I have hit into someone once and been hit into once. Both were accidents.

When I hit into a group, they were around 250 yards up, and I almost never got close to that at the time of the round. Well... I did this time, and it landed around 10 yards from them. The guys were super cool about it, but obviously slightly annoyed.

I was HIT with a golf ball when I was hit into. Caught me in the small of the back. Hurt like hell, and I was ten kinds of pissed. Whats worse is, my own brother did it.
 
^^ While I agree with the hitting back into a group, hitting over a group, etc is bad taste and should never be done. I don't really have any issues with the people that pick up the persons ball and keep it or sink it in the mud. Definitely reporting it to the club house or ranger is best and there are plenty of people who in a startled moment of having a golf ball scream into their cart, feet, gear don't always think clearly.

If some body hits into me, I will let it go. No harm done. I will say something to a marshal or in the clubhouse later. Hit into my wife, then its green light for go time.
 
Hitting into people to give them a warning to hurry up is NEVER acceptable. A couple times people have tried that with me and Ive shot their ball back at them. If you want to play through, be a man about it and come ask to play through. Heck, most the time if you are obviously faster than me you wont even have to ask, I will offer to let you play through.
However, hitting into my group is only going to make me not want to let you play through and cause me to play even slower just to annoy you.

You bring up something here that I'd like to point out. I HATE when someone comes up on me who is playing faster, then you offer to let them play through and they decline even though you know they are impatiently waiting behind you, hitting as soon as they feel you're far enough ahead.
 
Me and my dad were on the range about two weeks ago. And the base course has two holes that go along the sides of it and we were down wind. Well two guys were walking along the driving range while me and my dad were hitting. I had the driver out and hitting everything great and pure sailing these balls over their heads. My dad hit a slice and I know he came pretty close but to me it looked like he sailed it over them. I then hear a ball hit the trees near the range and I just laughed.

Well these cool guys walk by and say "what did you not see us?" And I knew they were there and their complaint was pretty much "you saw us so why didn't you stop" Well my dad snapped back and was like we never saw you. These guys began to become smart so I said "bud we were sailing them over your head, not even close, were downwind were not gonna stop for ten minutes just so you can get out of the range" They continued to keep talking while we went back to finishing our bucket. So then he said(only one of the two guys was talking) said "we got some real tour pros here" and then really annoyed I said "Why don't you go hit it into trees some more"

I never hit into people, even if I think it comes close I yell something to them.
 
One day someone did this to me more than once (I was held up by the group ahead). I looked back at them so that I could acknowledge their presence, then I aimed at the nearest body of water and hit their ball in it. I only did that because it happened on more than one occasion and wasn't an errant shot (they knew what they were doing)

LOL, I think I would have done exactly the same :D
 
You bring up something here that I'd like to point out. I HATE when someone comes up on me who is playing faster, then you offer to let them play through and they decline even though you know they are impatiently waiting behind you, hitting as soon as they feel you're far enough ahead.

Yeah, that annoys me too. Ive had it happen a few times where I offer to let people play through and they were like, "No, no; Im not in a hurry."
 
I move along pretty fast on the course. I don't take practice swings and don't spend much time reading putts. I ask to play through or just skip ahead. I don't try to hurry, I just don't do a lot of thinking out there. I would never hit into anyone.
 
Me and my dad were on the range about two weeks ago. And the base course has two holes that go along the sides of it and we were down wind. Well two guys were walking along the driving range while me and my dad were hitting. I had the driver out and hitting everything great and pure sailing these balls over their heads. My dad hit a slice and I know he came pretty close but to me it looked like he sailed it over them. I then hear a ball hit the trees near the range and I just laughed.

Well these cool guys walk by and say "what did you not see us?" And I knew they were there and their complaint was pretty much "you saw us so why didn't you stop" Well my dad snapped back and was like we never saw you. These guys began to become smart so I said "bud we were sailing them over your head, not even close, were downwind were not gonna stop for ten minutes just so you can get out of the range" They continued to keep talking while we went back to finishing our bucket. So then he said(only one of the two guys was talking) said "we got some real tour pros here" and then really annoyed I said "Why don't you go hit it into trees some more"

I never hit into people, even if I think it comes close I yell something to them.

I think you guys should have just waited. Or at least hit wedges or something that wouldn't have come near them. You're on the range, there's really no reason you couldn't have waited or done something else for 5 minutes while they got out of your area
 
I've accidentally hit into a group before. They finished the hole, and I didnt realize they needed to drive back to get to the next hole. I did slice the heyzues out of my shot and it probably came within 30 yards. They got pissed and started yelling lol. Said he was gonna stab my neck or something. I felt like an idiot for not recognizing they had to drive back around. New course never do it again. I kept my cool though. My pops got a tad upset at that stabbing comment.

I don't think its a safe thing to do at all. Just my opinion. My friends will give me grief on short Par 4's but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

ive played on quite a few courses that are designed horrendously in that way
only 1 course had a sign saying to wait till the ppl on the green come back around the teebox youre on
all the rest of the courses... if its your first time playing there... you have no idea and bomb balls into oncoming carts

ive accidentally hit into plenty of ppl because of all the usual excuses
guys coming out of the woods
shanking/duck hooking shots into other fw's
puring a tour quality shot that went 50-100yrds farther than your normal shot
but ive never intentionally hit into anyone

the groups that ive played with have been hit into too many times to count
alot are by accident... but some are not
my faves are when i played a round with a friend of mine and his buddy... they are cops
after a few close calls they rode up to the group behind and had words
my brothers arent little guys even tho i am... one brother picks up the ball that came close to him and rode back seeing if anyone would claim the ball
when none of them spoke up he tossed it into the water
another time was at my home course where i know 75% of everyone on it... i was playing a round with my friends 14yr old daughter (kinda babysitting but she doesnt need one)
everyone at the course knew her(very good player) when a ball sailed over us while we were waiting for the green to clear... then on another green a ball rolled on while we were putting... between holes she text her mom and a few of the course employees were sent out to escort the group behind us off the course hahaha
another was when my nephew was sitting in the cart with my girl and a ball bounced off the top of the cart... she rode right up on them and my nephew had to put on his "earmuffs" while she went off on them

what i dont understand is the "accidents" where nobody yells fore... 90% of the time ive been hit into there was no warning at all
 
i accidentally hit a kid i was golfing with in a meet in high school. i was at the bottom of a blind hill, he was on the other side to the left where his ball was (i didn't know that, couldn't see anything). i hit a terrible thin hook that barely made it over the hill and hit him in the calf. I'm friends with the guy so it was no big deal and kind of funny, but it still couldn't have felt good. He had a rough year, at the conference meet the strap on his bag broke so he had to hold it in sort of bear hug, and on hole 11 some kid on 10 hooked his drive and nailed this kid the back. rough year indeed:laughing:
 
Me and my dad were on the range about two weeks ago. And the base course has two holes that go along the sides of it and we were down wind. Well two guys were walking along the driving range while me and my dad were hitting. I had the driver out and hitting everything great and pure sailing these balls over their heads. My dad hit a slice and I know he came pretty close but to me it looked like he sailed it over them. I then hear a ball hit the trees near the range and I just laughed.

Well these cool guys walk by and say "what did you not see us?" And I knew they were there and their complaint was pretty much "you saw us so why didn't you stop" Well my dad snapped back and was like we never saw you. These guys began to become smart so I said "bud we were sailing them over your head, not even close, were downwind were not gonna stop for ten minutes just so you can get out of the range" They continued to keep talking while we went back to finishing our bucket. So then he said(only one of the two guys was talking) said "we got some real tour pros here" and then really annoyed I said "Why don't you go hit it into trees some more"

I never hit into people, even if I think it comes close I yell something to them.

We have a simple rule (and signs) that tell anyone on the range (inside the yellow box) that they must STOP hitting anytime someone on holes 1 & 3 are anywhere near or inside the range. Hitting a ball over anyone's head at my home course would get you TKO's for a day or two. Again, just a simple courtesy to those on the course, who have the right of way on the course. Just take a second....take a break. The persons life that is on the course is worth that.

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I got hit into TWICE yesterday on THE SAME HOLE. And I'm not talking about the ball rolled near me. I mean the ball flew near my head (within a few yards) both times. I let it go the first time. The second time, I had a SW in my hand. I turned and hit the ball back to the group behind us. (Sadly it was the best shot I hit all day).

This happened on 9. There were 3 groups backed up on 10 tee. After we teed off, I told the guys behind us, "I'm not trying to start anything, but for your information, you hit into us twice on the last hole. I'd appreciate if you'd be more considerate." They then wanted to fight because I'd hit their ball back at them.

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