What was your most frustrating golf experience?

By frustrating, I mean long delays at every hole, idiots on the course, rude people, weather, or anything else you can think of.

Mine was at a course in Rochester NY. I was at a very popular public course on a nice summer day and everyone and their mother's brother's uncle was out there. We decided to go for it anyway, and it took 6 1/2 HOURS to play nine holes. At every hole there was a 6 or 7 groups waiting to tee off. I took out a plastic bag and went ball hunting for much of the time I had to wait. Needless to say, I was set for golf balls for the next 4 yrs.

Mine was this summer. I thought I could get out on a beautiful Wednesday to get 27 or so holes in before dark. Wound up stuck behind a junior tournament and the last group was unbelievably slow. As in they were more than a hole behind and constantly losing ground. A lot of coming back to the tee to rehit shots I could tell from the putting green of the hole before would need a provisional. The were dicking around on the greens, marking balls like 3 inches from the hole and playing in order. Real dummy stuff considering how bad they were. Finally a tournament official started riding with them and basically giving us a bunch of "I'm really sorry" looks. I think it was like 3+ hours for the front 9. Might've been 4, I don't remember. Something similar on the back 9.

I was so pissed that almost out of spite, I circled back to play the front 9 again after the round and played 9 holes in about 55 minutes, with a better score than either 9 during the round. Granted, I was basically sprinting with my push cart, having my club out before I got to the ball and barely stopping, but I had a lot of anger to work out on that 9, haha. Sweated through my normal glove and my spare.

I was in a scramble several years ago and one of our golfers was a recently divorced smoking hot babe. She could put her tee in the ground and not bend he knees! :-O It was all you could drink for the scramble and she was flirting like hell and totally wasted. I "volunteered" to take her back to her apartment after the tournament, but she was rescued from my clutches by one of her female friends. That's frustration! I was tortured by her hot pants for 18 holes!

Mine was at a course in South NJ. I was hooked up with a threesome of people who knew each other. One guy was doing business in his phone the entire time. It's a Saturday morning and he is talking while everyone else is hitting and he puts his phone down to play his shots and then picks it up and starts talking again. Anyway on 15 he was getting loud on it and bothered me every shot. Finally on the green I made some sarcastic remark and all three of them began getting on my case and when I basically said "It's rude and I'm sick and tired of hearing it" , one of them took my bag off the cart and told me to play on ahead since I was a jerk. I was then told "let's think about this. You are a single, you don't have any friends. What does that say about you?" For the tape, I was visiting the area for the weekend. Thank goodness I didn't live around there!

Father in law

6 and a half hours for nine holes?  That has to be exaggerated.  45minutes per hole i don't see it not matter how busy the course and if there was 6 groups waiting on every hole there would be 216 people playing the front nine alone.  there isn't even close to being enough tee times for that.

Back in the 1990's at a charity golf tournament, I was scheduled to caddie in a group that included Arnold Palmer. The day before the event I caddied for an amateur who shot a career best round. (What I didn't know is that this guy was playing in the charity event.) On the day of the charity event I showed up at the course and was told by the caddie master that I was requested by my previous day golfer and ended up in a group with Steve "1996 US Open Winner" Jones. To top it off, my friend Jim, who did caddie in Mr. Palmer's group, gloated what a wonder day he had with "The King." Not to have spent 18 holes with my all-time favorite golfer was very frustrating.

I have no reason to exaggerate or lie. You have to take into consideration that there was a lot of duffers out there losing balls, sculling shots, and just generally being slow. It wasn't a country club, it was a public course where they would let you out wearing cut up jeans and muscle shirts.

Several years ago my niece was working as a cart girl at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Verde and was able to score 3 free rounds on The Valley Course and while it wasn't The Stadium Course, we were all very appreciative and really looking forward to our round. Being that the rounds were complimentary, we had no choice when it came to our tee time and were given 12:30 on a Friday In January and even tho it was winter and it gets dark early, we figured we'd be fine until we got to the first tee. It turned out that there was a junior girls tournament going on and it was slowwwww. What killed me was that it wasn't the kids who were making it slow, it was the parents. Some of them would go up and talk to their kids before and after every single shot so of course, we waited on every single shot.5 1/2 hours later we were still on the course, hitting shots that we knew we had no hope of seeing where they went. Needless to say we never got to finish the round and had a 2 1/2 hour drive home without being able to record an actual score.

6 hrs for 9 holes? I think I would have made a U-turn for the club house on the third hole, complained of a medical problem, and got a rain check.

Most frustrating? Let's see. Spring of last year. Late March it was. The course was a bloody swamp. I should have quit on the third hole, but we pressed forward. It was my first score entered in GHIN. I wanted to call it a "practice round." My competitor told me I had to start somewhere. I shot an 84. For 9 holes. Lost 9 balls. My pants were a muddy mess after the 1/2 round. I couldn't get the ball up in the air. My confidence was shattered. When the entire fairway is casual water, where do you drop no nearer the hole? You find a spot, and set your ball on it and pick it clean. I learned this. You don't do a drop you set your ball. Funny part was I had 17 putts. Extremely frustrating.

I went out two days later and played 9 on another course and shot 52.

I hate playing in real rain, and won't unless it's a tournament I paid advanced money to enter. Light rain doesn't bother me, but the heavy stuff? I'm not playing for big bucks. Forget it.

I played a company tournament in a driving rain like the one in Caddyshack. There was no hint of lightening and we wanted to finish that day so we played on. Every conceivable thing we owned was soaked. Thank heaven for rain gloves. Many didn't have them. :-P The worst part was putting through standing water. We would move the ball to a comparable distance that didn't have standing water. The beer was extra refreshing in a nice toasty clubhouse.

Much of my golf frustration has been (by far and quite often) self inflicted.

E.g, I went to a course on a busy Saturday to play and it turned out that I've made a tee time reservation for the next day by mistake.

How about all those rounds I forgot to bring my putter b/c I practiced with it in my living room the night before and forgot to put it back in the bag?

How about playing to par (36) on the 1st 9 followed by 56 back 9?

3 birdies in a row followed by a quadruple?

And let's not forget all those round when my cart decided to die on me (damn those battery run carts) in the middle of the course and I had no cell phone to call for replacement cart.

Then there were few rounds which I played through the hard rain for some number of holes, finally gave up, and as I was leaving the parking lot the weather started to clear never to shed another raindrop afterward.

Got a bunch of new clubs for Xmas and haven't had a good time to go try them out. Back on MLK Day I had off and my wife gave me the go ahead to hit the range (it was unseasonably warm) while our son took his afternoon nap. I was soooo excited to have some approved ball hittin time. Little man went to sleep, I grabbed the back went out to the car....and my battery was dead.

Golf wise it would be having a 9 iron shot, but grabbing my 6 iron by mistake. Also, when needing my 6 iron, I grabbed my 9. Done these brain farts way too many times over the years.

I've had some awful back nines, but I had a buddy do this in a tournament he was like a 5 handicap was 2 under for a 34 on the front and followed it with a 46 on the back nine for an 80... Didn't even get in the money.

i 4-putted for bogey once.  do the math.

then another time, i 5-putted after hitting a par 3 green with my tee shot.  putted out, turned around to the woods and chucked my putter into a tree.  it never came down.

I 5 putted for a double bogey a couple of years ago. Putting for eagle and walking off with a double bogey.