3 funny / strange things in one day...

I went golfing yesterday afternoon and saw three very funny / strange things happen. What are some of the funniest things you've seen on the golf course?

1. 2nd hole, water in front of the green. The group in front was on the green. The local weatherman was in the group and his rental push cart rolls backwards into the lake and his clubs/bag flies off and goes in upside down about 10ft away from the shore. He just stood there looking, trying to figure out what to do. We saw him later after we played through and he apparently got it out and caught back up with his group.

2. 3rd hole, other player's ball goes in the fairly deep rough on the left of the fairway. It was a hill, so the ball hit at the top and bounced down almost all the way and was sitting on top of some fairly long grass. He swings at it and out comes 2 balls , his went about 50yds down the fairway and the other one went about 20yds. Must have been right underneath his ball, I guess. I had looked at his lie and didn't see anything.

3. 12th hole, same guys as #2, was 175yds out in the middle of the fairway. Hits a very well struck shot, nailed the 'fairway 150yd barber pole' . We have no idea where it went, happened so fast. He's looking around dumbfounded. I go examine the pole to see if I can figure out which way it went. There's a scuff mark from the ball on the right hand side of the pole. We end up finding it about 20yds forwards and right of the pole. He makes a very nice bogey.

My first ever par and birdie both came after drives hitting trees and landing in the fairway. Maybe not funny, but definitely strange and lucky!

The only funny one was #1. Epic that it catapulted his clubs 10ft from the shore.

I once saw one of those motorized pull carts just cruising the wrong way downt he middle of a 550yd par5 with nobody else in sight. Thing was just chillin I guess.

1. Playing usual golf with co-workers on a Saturday morning. On a Par 3, co-worker hits a shot off the tee box and slices it to the right near the trees. The ball hit a hanging branch so precise the ball bounced right back to him. The ball landed literally a couple feet away from his foot.

2. Another Saturday morning on hole #9 par 4, my 2nd shot to the green was over a small pond with a rock barrier around it. With PW, I hit the ball but it went short. The ball landed on the rocks on the other side, bounced up directly back towards me but landed on the rocks in front of me .... ricochets to the right off ANOTHER rock .... and then into the pond.

I fell to the floor laughing on both instances ! lol....

I have hit a low screaming 4 iron into one of the metal ball washers on a forward tee. It cracked the metal but I have no idea where the ball went.

I saw something very similar earlier this year. The thing came out of some trees and crossed the fairway about 50 yards ahead and kept going down this par 3 and vanished over the hill. We looked around for someone but nobody could be found. It eventually crashed in a bunker so we called the club house and told them about it. A few days later I was talking to the guy in the pro shop and nobody came by and claimed it. Weird.

#1 A few years back, a lady had a remote controlled push cart that (apparently) she lost control of and it went into a pond next to the green. It was too heavy for her to pull it out of the pond and she fell in trying to pull it out. Got totally soaked.

#2 A buddy of mine and I were playing during a light drizzle day. He hits a good drive and goes to hit his second shot from the middle of the fairway. Because of the rain, his grip was slippery and his 7 iron flew out of his hand on the follow through and went about 30 yds. If it had gotten about 10 yds further, it would have landed in water as there was a water hazard in front.

#3 Went to Las Vegas with a buddy to play some golf. On one of the tees, a cart girl pulls up and waits for us from about 30 yds behind the tee box on par 3. There is a tree about 50 yds out and just to the right. I told the cart girl I will get something and asked her to wait. I hit my drive hits the tree and the ball flies backward landing right in front of the cart girl. My buddies think I did that on purpose to get nearer to the cute cart girl... (subconsciously, maybe)

We have an annual golf trip to the same course every year and the first tee has a maintenance access road that crosses about 50 yards in front of the tee box. There are stop signs on both sides of the hole and a sign that warns drivers to watch for people teeing off. This teenager that was obviously lost had driven across without stopping three times right when someone was about to hit. Finally one in our group hits a low burner just as soon as the kid makes his fourth pass (totally unintentional) and it drills his front driver's-side door. Probably wouldn't have been funny if it were two feet higher, but I couldn't help but laugh when it happened.

wow that's one messed up course design!

A 120 yard par three with water and trees to the left. Tee-off with a pitching wedge, and she goes left... HARD left. Ready to take my drop when it hits the tree, bounces right and lands on the green.

Now that was a member's bounce....

~150 yard par 3 with a power line running across the hole about mid way. My ball hit the line and went straight down, no member bounce for me.

I did something similar on a similar length par 3. 10th hole at Greenview in Centralia IL back earlierin the summer this year.. Take a 9 iron and hit worm burner that skips 3 times across the water hazard and bounces up onto and rolls just off the back of the green. I had already assumed it was a lost ball when i hit and was about to tee off again. Ended up 3 putting and getting a 4, guess the golfing gods didnt think i deserved a par on a shot like that. Another one was on the 5th hole at Crooked Creek in Mt Vernon il back in summer of 08, hadnt been playing very long. 150 yard par 3 with elevated tee to an elevated green, basically hitting over a valley below with woods to the left. Well I hook a 7 iron into a tree just left of the green, figure the ball is lost. I hear it hit a couple branches on the way down and the last one pitches it to the right about 7 feet from the hole. Missed the birdie putt but still made the most unlikely par ive ever gotten.

This happened at a Bridgestone fitting stall, at my local golf expo on the weekend!

The guy in front of me, told the pros he was off 30 or something. He steps up, nails a couple of drives which show up as slices. Shot # 3 however, he shanks it straight into the ground, it hits the pole on the net and shoots up into the roof. Thats alright, im sure we have all shanked one before.

Shot # 5, he shanks again, but this time it misses the net, smashes into the Bridgestone trailer and projects the ball about 30 meters over the other side of the expo. Luckily no one got hit, but damn did me and the 4 guys waiting have a good laugh. Cracks me up just thinking of it!

My buddy, hitting a seven iron, took a big whack at it and took a beautiful divot. Problem was, the divot started about seven inches behind the ball and simply folded up and over it (ruling please). After replacing the divot,unfolding it back that is,he takes another whack this time hitting two trees and ricocheting back to within one foot forward of the previous lie(hey I'm not making this up). So third whack, catches it clean I see it slicing toward the next tee box( looking through tears of laughter) wham right into the garbage can. I was literally sitting on the fairway in uncontrolled laughter. Strange but true.

This doesn`t compare with the pull cart stories, but I found it odd the other day when I saw an older woman walk past the putting green with her husband and over to the driving range with about 6 clubs and begin her warm-up by hitting 1/2 to 3/4 chop shots about 20 yards WITH HER PUTTER before proceeding on to the rest of her clubs.  She really hit down on the ball and was able to get it up in the air almost as much as she did with her next club (a wedge or short iron) and just about as far.

It was obvious that she had played for a while as she was quite consistent with her ball striking even if she only hit it about 120 with her metal wood off a tee.

I have one, I take a pitch shot and the damn cart was in the way. The ball ends up landing in the back of the cart in a metal rack they put behind your clubs. I just put the ball down in the exact spot it landed, just moved it on the grass. And told my playing partner to never park a cart in my way again

On Saturday when I was playing in a men's league tournament... We were on #17 at Los Serranos (North Course) which is a short par 3.  The hole is a very basic par 3, with a small water hazard in front of the green - and a bunker tucked to the right side.

The guy I'm playing against - we're all square in our match - he proceeds to hit an 8i that looked cleanly hit... But I knew it was going to go into the hazard after seeing it balloon into the air (we were playing the hole into the wind).  So the ball comes flying down out of the sky into the water - and then takes a  bounce - like someone hit it with a little lob wedge and flops up onto the freaking green.  Leaving him with a 15ft birdie putt.

I couldn't believe it.  The pond must only be 5" deep or something because the ball should've never bounced out.  I mean I've seen balls skip across water - but never seen a ball come bounding out like that before from a pond - that has no visible rocks - other than a small concrete wall.  The thing was - the ball didn't hit on the side of the pond - it looked like it was squarely in the center of the pond.

Here was my face...

Followed by...

He gets par.  I made bogey on the hole.  I ended up losing the match.