Luchnia
You will never conquer golf.
On our local course there are a group of guys that are very good golfers. I have watched them play quite a few times now and am impressed with their skills. Me and two other guys were out yesterday while these guys were playing and we saw something I never expected to see.
There is a Par 4 around 386 yards hole that you have to hit over water on your second shot to an elevated green sitting slightly between two bunkers. Most of the time these guys are on the green in two. Here is where it gets weird. We hit off the tee behind them and then proceeded to our second shot once they cleared their second shot to the green. We noticed a cart and several people to the left of the green under a tree and we thought it was the grounds keeper as they had been out moving the cups.
As we got closer we noticed these guys were looking up in a tree and appeared to be throwing things up in the tree. One of the guys with us said that one of those guys has been known to have a bad tempter and throw his clubs into the woods, so he was guessing that was what happened.
That wasn't the case. Come to find out one of them hit the golf ball up in the tree and the ball hung there on some limbs and did not drop down and they got the idea to toss a golf club up and hit the limb and knock the ball down. Piece of cake, right? They threw the club up and sure enough the ball came down, however the club lodged in the limbs. Next they decided to throw another club up to knock that club down. Guess what! The next club hung there.
Now it gets even crazier. They threw yet a third club up to knock those two clubs down and that club hung up there. Yes, not one club, not two clubs, but the guy said they had all THREE clubs hung out on the limbs of a pine tree while they stood there gazing on trying to figure out how that happened!
What are the odds? We are standing there watching this and could not believe what we were seeing. So one of the guys goes and gets one of those long ball retrievers and climbs up on top of the golf cart, fully extends the ball retriever and barely manages to get one of the clubs to come down, but the others won't budge. It is as if they are locked in there between two limbs.
I cannot tell you how crazy this looked while we were looking on. Next, they take one of the cart path ropes about 20 feet long with the pig iron stake attached to it and pull the stake out of the ground. They manage to throw that iron stake over the end of the limb like a grappling hook with the rope attached. Now two of them grab each end of the rope and they are really shaking the limb up and down with a lot of force and the clubs finally come down!
I told one of the guys I was golfing with that I don't imagine I will ever see anything like that again. I have heard of balls lodging in trees and someone throwing a club and hanging in a tree, but never saw three clubs lodged in a tree! Just goes to show you might see anything on a golf course.
There is a Par 4 around 386 yards hole that you have to hit over water on your second shot to an elevated green sitting slightly between two bunkers. Most of the time these guys are on the green in two. Here is where it gets weird. We hit off the tee behind them and then proceeded to our second shot once they cleared their second shot to the green. We noticed a cart and several people to the left of the green under a tree and we thought it was the grounds keeper as they had been out moving the cups.
As we got closer we noticed these guys were looking up in a tree and appeared to be throwing things up in the tree. One of the guys with us said that one of those guys has been known to have a bad tempter and throw his clubs into the woods, so he was guessing that was what happened.
That wasn't the case. Come to find out one of them hit the golf ball up in the tree and the ball hung there on some limbs and did not drop down and they got the idea to toss a golf club up and hit the limb and knock the ball down. Piece of cake, right? They threw the club up and sure enough the ball came down, however the club lodged in the limbs. Next they decided to throw another club up to knock that club down. Guess what! The next club hung there.
Now it gets even crazier. They threw yet a third club up to knock those two clubs down and that club hung up there. Yes, not one club, not two clubs, but the guy said they had all THREE clubs hung out on the limbs of a pine tree while they stood there gazing on trying to figure out how that happened!
What are the odds? We are standing there watching this and could not believe what we were seeing. So one of the guys goes and gets one of those long ball retrievers and climbs up on top of the golf cart, fully extends the ball retriever and barely manages to get one of the clubs to come down, but the others won't budge. It is as if they are locked in there between two limbs.
I cannot tell you how crazy this looked while we were looking on. Next, they take one of the cart path ropes about 20 feet long with the pig iron stake attached to it and pull the stake out of the ground. They manage to throw that iron stake over the end of the limb like a grappling hook with the rope attached. Now two of them grab each end of the rope and they are really shaking the limb up and down with a lot of force and the clubs finally come down!
I told one of the guys I was golfing with that I don't imagine I will ever see anything like that again. I have heard of balls lodging in trees and someone throwing a club and hanging in a tree, but never saw three clubs lodged in a tree! Just goes to show you might see anything on a golf course.
You never know what you’ll find out on the course!
