We were behind some jackasses last weekend that did something like this on almost every hole until they were removed from the facilities. One guy destroyed the back bumper of a golf cart with his Vokey SM4 wedge. How did we know it was a Vokey SM4? Dude left it in pieces in the rough to the right of #10. By the time they got to the tee on #11, the GM was there to escort them off property.
Have you ever played with a person whos damaged or lost clubs when losing the plot ?
Kobey
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I've ony seen it one time, and that was over ten years ago. On a par 3, a guy flubbed his shot, went back to the cart and slammed his iron against it. The head broke off and hit another guy in the arm. After seeing that, I vowed never to throw or slam a club in anger, and I never have. Besides, my clubs get enough stress from me slamming them into the ground just trying to hit the ball. They don't need the extra wear and tear.
cpljohnst
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In May of this year in a competitive round of the Mesquite Amateur had a fellow competitor in my pairing break a wedge over his knee in a bunker after he skulled the shot over the green. He had hit two drives OB off the tee and was in route to a 10 on the hole. Was kind of frightening coming from someone I did not know. Wasn't sure how to react. We were riding in a cart together. I didn't speak for the next hole not sure what to say. He apologized two holes later and bought a round of drinks post round.
Matthew
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Never damaged anything but I have been known to have a very Tiger like drop on the follow through once or twice.
I had a friend that used to play that would get so astonished and shook up that someone would abuse clubs, or even get mad at all about play.
I had a really old KMart wedge in my garage with a slightly tweaked shaft so I bagged it one day just to pull a prank on this guy.
I told the other two in our usual foursome what was up and to get ready, for on the 14th hole there was going to be a chunk into the water, a grade-A tirade, and an Olympic toss into the big lake in front of the green. NOTE: This hole is very secluded from the rest of the course, making it perfect for the ranting and tirades.
The time came, and after I layed up perfectly in front of this lake, I gave a nod to the other two who just smiled, knowing that ol' Lee was going to see a show.
I promptly pulled wedge (I double checked to make sure it wasn't my good one!) and executed a perfect chunk that put the ball about 4 feet into the water. What followed was a cuss-fest worthy of a veteran sailor and a Herculean toss of some 60 yards into the far reaches of the lake. When I turned around, his jaw was dragging the ground and his eyes were wide as the ball he was playing. He went on and on, for the remaining 4 holes, about throwing money away, having a heart-attack with that much anger on the course, etc. He wouldn't shut up and just couldn't believe it.
We all kept the little secret until we came back to work and he was telling everyone about the incident at the Monday meeting. Finally, we all laughed and told him it was all a ruse to fire him up and the look on his face was worth the effort. He's one of those guys that is really easy to spin up, so this was kind of fun. I had to go out to my car at lunch to show him my 'good' wedge did not go in the lake to prove it was all a prank. I think if anyone was to have a heart attack that day, it would have been him.
Ahhh the fun times you have with your military friends.
Wongstongs
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I probably only ever do it once or twice a season, but I'm guilty of taking a ball that is behaving badly and throwing it into the ground as hard as possible :confused2: I make sure it isn't gonna hit someone if the throw is bad.
mastapp
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I'll attest to this. It is quite Tiger-esque, indeed.
Smallville
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Hope you all are talking about finishing your swing and dropping it behind you, and not like this very professional act by El Tigre. I'd have loved it if he had hurt someoneone and got his ass sued from this one.
Did any of those Tiger fans defend this one and say it showed his intensity?
I am adept at this move. On par with Tiger himself.
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A drop like that to me is more of a disappointed move, not a p-o'd move. I have yet to see a drop make people uncomfortable. Now if you did it every shot it would get old real quick!
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I think I would have been the proud owner of a Tiger memento. I wouldn't have passed it back in unless an official told me I had to or something. He threw it to me, it's mine now. LOL.
I am a fan of the post follow through club release from time to time if I've hit a crap shot. The only other thing I'll do is sometimes toss the offending ball in the drink if I've had a terrible hole - sometimes you just need a fresh start! I'll usually only do that if the ball is a little beat up though.
I played in a pro-am and one of the amateurs had been raving about his new Taylormade hybrid which he said he'd been hitting great.Anyway on the back 9 he tried it out of a bunker and topped it...wrong club.Two holes later he hits it again and pulls it into a lake.....the red mist then descended and he ran at speed with the hybrid in hand and launched it into the said lake where it splashed popped up and Excaliburred into the murky depths.......very funny.He then turned to his friend and shouted "and you can have the bleeping head cover" and threw it at him,hitting him on the head.
moosejaa
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Even though it's ancient history I am embarrassed to admit that I have lost my temper on occasion. I bent a putter around a ball-washer, spider-ed a shaft on a driver and "plinko'd" an iron into a pine tree. Was in my 20s and a little more hot-tempered back then.
I hadn't experienced anyone else doing it until recently. Saw a guy just lose his mind on the 18th hole. Slamming his clubs on the ground, in his bag and even hit his ball from the green back down the fairway. He looked like an idiot.
I hadn't experienced anyone else doing it until recently. Saw a guy just lose his mind on the 18th hole. Slamming his clubs on the ground, in his bag and even hit his ball from the green back down the fairway. He looked like an idiot.
Matthew
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Almost as good as either of those striped 6i for eagle looks.
That was very bad form for me and I do sincerely apologize for that.
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I used to play in a golf league at work. One of the players was well known for being a hothead on the course.
He was a pretty good player (a 7 ghin) but when things went south for him, his temper flared.
I was playing one league night with him, when on the second hole, he chili dipped a wedge.
He then bladed the next shot over the green and the following shot he chili dipped again.
That was all he could take, so he promptly heaved his wedge as far as he could fling it, out into the wheat field that bordered the course.
I was laughing so hard that all I could do was yell . . . "AirWolf" !! (does that reference show my age?)
Six holes later he 4 putted and then threw his putter towards the next tee box.
He didn't look before throwing it and it sailed about a foot over my head.
Now, I had had enough. I picked up the putter and gave it back to him and told him that if he tossed another club my way, I would drop him like a 2 foot putt.
Of course the apologies ensued and he offered to buy me a beer, so I accepted . . . both.
So after the round and the beer, one of the other guys in our foursome and I went back out and found his wedge. Of course we had some plans for it, so we didn't tell him we picked it up.
5 weeks later, at the end of season league dinner, we honored him with "Longest club throw" award and gave him back his wedge with a big pink bow and some paper wings on it.
The scary part of this is the fact that this guy was a security guard at my workplace and carried a .357 magnum every day there.
Tempers and guns usually don't mix well.
He was a pretty good player (a 7 ghin) but when things went south for him, his temper flared.
I was playing one league night with him, when on the second hole, he chili dipped a wedge.
He then bladed the next shot over the green and the following shot he chili dipped again.
That was all he could take, so he promptly heaved his wedge as far as he could fling it, out into the wheat field that bordered the course.
I was laughing so hard that all I could do was yell . . . "AirWolf" !! (does that reference show my age?)
Six holes later he 4 putted and then threw his putter towards the next tee box.
He didn't look before throwing it and it sailed about a foot over my head.
Now, I had had enough. I picked up the putter and gave it back to him and told him that if he tossed another club my way, I would drop him like a 2 foot putt.
Of course the apologies ensued and he offered to buy me a beer, so I accepted . . . both.
So after the round and the beer, one of the other guys in our foursome and I went back out and found his wedge. Of course we had some plans for it, so we didn't tell him we picked it up.
5 weeks later, at the end of season league dinner, we honored him with "Longest club throw" award and gave him back his wedge with a big pink bow and some paper wings on it.
The scary part of this is the fact that this guy was a security guard at my workplace and carried a .357 magnum every day there.
Tempers and guns usually don't mix well.
dhartmann34
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I see it a lot less often these days than I used to. I'm not sure if it's because I tend to play with the same group of guys or if it's because everyone has chilled a bit as they have aged. I think the ones I see throwing clubs and getting the most angry these days are the young high school kids which is sad because they should be enjoying the game. I hate playing with hotheads and I really hate when people are throwing clubs....especially when I'm close to the path of the club, and I certainly let the person know they can either stop or make their own group.
No joke, some guy who was on our high school team broke at least 10 clubs in the three years that we were on the same team.
He once snapped a steel shafted club over the back of his neck. Had to get stitches. All of the clubs that he broke were in practice rounds also. I don't think he ever broke a club during competition.
He once snapped a steel shafted club over the back of his neck. Had to get stitches. All of the clubs that he broke were in practice rounds also. I don't think he ever broke a club during competition.
One of my buddies is a little bit of a hothead and I have seen him snap a three wood over his knee twice. The best part is he isn't good enough to be that mad.
The one that takes the cake though is my father in law, he hit a bad shot and whacked his bag with the club, to bad he hit the bag right where his skycaddie was and destroyed it.
The one that takes the cake though is my father in law, he hit a bad shot and whacked his bag with the club, to bad he hit the bag right where his skycaddie was and destroyed it.
I've never seen it happen, only heard stories afterwards.
I have a tendency to lose my cool as well, so I understand when it happens, but I cringe when I hear the equipment pay the price for it!
I have a tendency to lose my cool as well, so I understand when it happens, but I cringe when I hear the equipment pay the price for it!
bogeybrain
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haha! that's a great story!
About four years ago at the annual "guy's weekend" at my lake place, one of the guys skulled a pitch into the water on the 9th hole. He tossed his wedge into the air in frustration, but held onto it a tad too long, and it flew off to his left into the water hazard. We all laughed pretty hard, as he really isn't "that guy" at all, and is pretty much one of the more mellow people you could ever meet.
So, we finish the round, and 18 comes up the other side of the same pond (Thumper Pond in Ottertail). After we finish, at the top of a hill over the pond by the clubhouse they are selling three floaty balls for five bucks. You hit them into the pond where a circle is floating. Anyone who hits and ends up inside the circle is in a drawing for a cash prize dependent upon how many people enter.
Craig, my buddy, borrows my wedge and puts his first ball right into the circle. He won the cash drawing, and we picked it up the next morning on the way home. He won enough to buy a new wedge, so it all worked out. We got to laugh at him, and he got a new wedge.
So, we finish the round, and 18 comes up the other side of the same pond (Thumper Pond in Ottertail). After we finish, at the top of a hill over the pond by the clubhouse they are selling three floaty balls for five bucks. You hit them into the pond where a circle is floating. Anyone who hits and ends up inside the circle is in a drawing for a cash prize dependent upon how many people enter.
Craig, my buddy, borrows my wedge and puts his first ball right into the circle. He won the cash drawing, and we picked it up the next morning on the way home. He won enough to buy a new wedge, so it all worked out. We got to laugh at him, and he got a new wedge.
A few months ago I was lucky enough to get paired up with an extreme hothead. For 15 holes I have to listen to him cuss and slam clubs around and just act like an idiot. Seriously every tee box got pummeled and he's hitting 2 balls of almost every tee - must have lost 15 balls. We get to 16, a 160 yd par three with a pond running along side the tee box to a semi island green. He shanks 2 into the water and proceeds to slam/throw his club at the ground in front of him. The club takes a wicked hop high and right - I swear it was in super slow motion - the club goes right into the drink! It was possibly the best thing I've ever seen. I couldn't stop laughing.
A few months ago I had a bad hole and as I was rearing back to throw the ball into the woods, I stopped and put it in my pocket. Then I got an old waterball out of my bag and threw that one into the woods. It felt good.
Mark_UK
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A few years back, I snapped my driver in half. Luckily I was playing alone. I had shanked every ball in my bag during a practice round one quiet afternoon. I slammed my wedge into the bag, next hole notice the driver is the shortest club in the bag rather than the longest and think uh oh! Sure enough, snapped clean in half. It was pretty embarrassing taking the 2 halves into the pro shop. £90 later (what's that, about $140), I had a new shaft and a new attitude to anger management LOL