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Worst start to a competion / outing that you can remember ( with or without observers

For me, it was the New England Invitational. Whiffed my opening tee shot, tripled a lot on the front nine before settling down and playing more mediocre golf on the back.
 
For many years I played in an annual company outing. We played at the York golf club in Maine. This course starts with a 190 yard par three with an OOB road on the left. I front of many colleagues I pulled TWO consecutive tee shots way down the road. That secured me a low finish and a brief place in company history.
 
Philly Golf Guy said:
For me, it was the New England Invitational. Whiffed my opening tee shot, tripled a lot on the front nine before settling down and playing more mediocre golf on the back.
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Thought you did that in OC too....

Mine was in front of 40 THP'ers at the PGA National Champions course.

Duffer one.
Breakfast ball.... duffed.
On a severe down hill lie, and ball resting in a different angle from my stance buried in grass. Hit the fairway from there, then the green, saved bogey.

Yeah, nerves got me!
 
Worst start to a competion / outing that you can remember ( with or without o...

Worst start to a competion / outing that you can remember ( with or without o...

Michigan Slice said:
Thought you did that in OC too....

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Yeah, it was two invites in a row, so I was pretty relieved I striped the opening tee shots at PGA National each day.

That hybrid shot of yours was a pretty good recovery for sure.
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Wicked Cool Bearded Man said:
I'm going with the 2nd round of the 2014 MC with Howzat. We were terrible... at everything .
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You weren't terrible at the stories told regarding that round hahahah! #MissYouBro!!!!

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Canadan said:
You weren't terrible at the stories told regarding that round hahahah! #MissYouBro!!!!

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Miss you too bud. Man I wish you had seen how bad we sucked hahaha
 
Hs match first tee playing #2 team. Hit a worm burner that is so low it hits the ladies sod shacker thingy and deflects back at me and the gallery onto a cart path about 100 yards behind me. No one seems to think it is ob. So I play it....
 
Mystery Meat said:
unfortunately , this guy will be known for the highest hole score in tour history . Can't run from it always there.. But for me or others , within a certain time period everyone forgets what we did .. But we always remember . Weird , after reading these I noticed a trend. Almost like we were never prepared for such a horrendous shot and went numb or brain dead after that . How can you prepare for a catastrophy such as many have posted? How do you practice a top / shank or equivalent ? How do you know what shot to hit next ? Almost like we were never prepared , or we never imagined this could happen with our game plan .

I think I need to sit down and make an ebook . Call it " recovering from a flub" , make my millions and retire in the poorest city in Mexico and be a king ( just joking , but thought it sounded funny )
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Didn't John Daly get a 18? I think McCord scored a 16 also.
 
Wicked Cool Bearded Man said:
I'm going with the 2nd round of the 2014 MC with Howzat. We were terrible... at everything .


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Howzat and I backed up that performance with a similar display in round 3.

I think both of us got a little too much sun watching everyone else tee off before our match -- at least that's what I'm going with.
 
ATLGolfer said:
Howzat and I backed up that performance with a similar display in round 3.

I think both of us got a little too much sun watching everyone else tee off before our match -- at least that's what I'm going with.
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Didnt you get the memo? Everyone ran into buzzsaw's in round 3
 
mikedean441 said:
Didnt you get the memo? Everyone ran into buzzsaw's in round 3
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Mines name was Canadan. Legit buzzsaw.

I was up one through 2 though. Then....well....
 
I can't remember any particular hole, but I can remember in High School at a tournament, I started off with +7 in three holes. As the number 2 golfer on the team, on a relatively easy course, that was just not a good start.

But then again, I shot -5 over the final 6 holes to finish +2 for the 9 hole round, so I guess it all worked out.

~Rock
 
My 3 foot drive (well maybe more like 2 foot) at Lake Charles THP event :)
 
Would like to hear any bad starts from a big event with hundreds of onlookers . Anyone have a state open or county tourney flubs ?
 
Mystery Meat said:
Would like to hear any bad starts from a big event with hundreds of onlookers . Anyone have a state open or county tourney flubs ?
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I think a lot of these people are talking about events like that with the Morgan Cup.
How about not just spectators, but tens of thousands watching via video.
 
Mystery Meat said:
Would like to hear any bad starts from a big event with hundreds of onlookers . Anyone have a state open or county tourney flubs ?
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After discussing just how bad a swing you had to make to put your first tee shot on the range at PGA National Champion course, I predicted that I would do it as karma for discussing it, then did it. That was in front of 40 people or so.
 
I was one of those 40, your follow through looked really good though :p

Hawk said:
After discussing just how bad a swing you had to make to put your first tee shot on the range at PGA National Champion course, I predicted that I would do it as karma for discussing it, then did it. That was in front of 40 people or so.
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I will try : Arkansas state open 2005 , 4 day event . Started 78 / than 2nd day was a 39 followed by a 50 on the back . 15 th hole 420 yard par 4 as narrow as a mobile home in an Arkansas trailer park . I pull hooked 2 drives in a row ob with my 3 wood. When all said and done , a 15 . Not an opening hole but still a catastrophy.

78/89/85/88. Was my biggest flub tourney . I actually quit golf for a year after that , that stung very very bad . And still stings , why I avoid big events all together . Not worth the hassle

And topper my boss was my caddy and his sons followed . Talk about an embarrassment .. I will not read this post ever again
 
More I look back , I folded in every big event i played in . I'm a cool fun guy , but pressure tourneys aren't my thing :)

please lock thread ,
 
I've had my moments of good play, but for the most part I agree with you MM. I like the focus that match play brings forth, but clutch golf isn't my thing.
 
In a high school tournament, I hit 4 straight 2-irons OB onto the driving range on the 1st tee and WD'd. My coach was PISSED (and rightfully so).

Later that year, I played in a big junior tournament with a crowd of people on the 1st tee. 2 days in a row, I topped my first drive and didn't make the ladies tee. It was a par-5 and I parred it both days, but I was humiliated!
 
Hawk said:
I've had my moments of good play, but for the most part I agree with you MM. I like the focus that match play brings forth, but clutch golf isn't my thing.
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I love those matches Hawk.. And I especially love money games ( even those aren't really tourneys )
 
About 30 years ago, one of the Consulting firms that I dealt with had an annual outing at Forsgate CC in NJ. It was a pretty big deal, with a lot of participants. I triple-bogeyed the opening par 4, but ended up shooting an 81. Whatever handicap system they used, got me low net for the day.
 
ATLGolfer said:
Howzat and I backed up that performance with a similar display in round 3.

I think both of us got a little too much sun watching everyone else tee off before our match -- at least that's what I'm going with.
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Haha I'll buy that


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