Funniest Thing Seen On A Golf Course

Mine happened last year during a twilight two-man alternate shot weekly tournament.  Buddy of mine, unknown to me, took some vicodin and was drinking vodka tonics.  On about the 8th hole he is walking towards the trap, talking to our playing competitors.  Takes one step on to the top of the bunker loses his balance and does a swan dive into the bunker.  Might have been he only time I've fell over on the course from laughing so hard.  Luckily he didn't get hurt.

mine was 2 summers ago,  a friend and I were playing and after our tee shots on #10 got into the cart to proceed to our balls for our 2nd shots and lined down the left side of the fairway were 2 homes roughly 50-60yds off the course and a older gentleman came out of his sliding glass window onto his deck butt naked...I thought I was seeing things so we backed up and sure enough he was naked and getting into his pool, all this was during broad daylight hrs...funny thing was the group in front of us was 4 elderly women lol

On a par three, my golf partner was about ready to hit his tee shot and a chipmunk went dashing between his legs. (We thought the chipmunk was just looking for nuts.)

On another occasion we were going from our green to the next tee, and on an adjacent hole saw a golfer looking up at his putter that had become lodged between branches on a tree. Apparently he had just missed a 3 foot putt and had tossed his putter in disgust.

My wife is a 6th year player this coming season.  Last summer we get paired up with an older dad and his son after the 6th hole.  'Dad' makes a comment about not liking to play with women as a rule, but since my wife was so 'pretty' he'd make an exception.  My wife still isn't keen on playing with people she doesn't know  ... especially a guy who would make a comment like that!

Seventh hole is a par-5.  Wife's 4th shot ends up in fairway approach area to green on a really tight lie.  She pulls the putter and drains about an 80' putt for PAR.  It hits stick and drops like a bag dirt.  'Dad' proceeds to 3-putt for a double.

Next hole, a par-3, my wife under clubs and comes up short, then proceeds to duff the chip shot. 'Dad' says, "go ahead honey, we'll wait on you."  Wife chips it to about 12" and taps in for bogey.  'Dad' 3-jerks it for another double.

#9 comes up and the wife has about an 80 yard tee box advantage.  Hits her best drive of the side.  She's in front of all of us by at least 50 yards.  'Dad' is right in the middle of the fairway, pulls out the 3-wood and tops it about 30 yards.  My wife yells back to him, "Go ahead honey, we'll wait on you!"

Love my wife's attitude about golf.  She's a fast learner out on the course!

dave

We are standing on the tee of a short par 3 that is adjacent to a road. I have a friend who is easily distracted by any noise or movement and has no problem pointing it out, even when it isn't warranted. So he tees it up and as he goes to take his stance, a guy stops his car on the road and decides that he is going to watch. My friend sees him and stops his routine and gives him a death stare that says, "WTF is your problem? Get out of here!" There is a standoff for about 20 seconds and the guy isn't leaving so my friend shakes his head in disgust and goes into his routine and hits the shot. It's a dead shank that hits a tree across the street, bounces back into the street, takes two bounces and hits the windshield of the guy's car. My friend looks at him with another death stare and the guy speeds off. The rest of us were on the ground laughing our asses off and my friend finally lightened up and smiled. I laugh even now when I think about it.

I've seen streakers, carts in the water, funny "bad" shots, exploding balls, clubs thrown, clothing problems, sun burns, whole bags thrown in the water. Bad, and good jokes too. Even a couple of 19th hole arguments that bordered on hilarious.

One that comes to mind is a round where I was paired up with Dad and his two sons. They were from the mid west some where. The oldest son from the get-go seem to be of the smart asset variety, but he did hit ball well. About the third hole he asked what a desert southwest Roadrunner looked like. I told him they look just the one in the cartoons, and that he would probably see one in the next few holes. Well, he gave me bad look, like I was fooling with him, while muttering something under his breath. Sure enough, a couple of holes later, there were three Roadrunners chasing bugs on the green. After eyeballing them for a while, the oldest son looked at me and said "you were right, they do look just like cartoon version". "Now I want to see the Coyote that's going to chase them".

Blackhawk GC in Chippewa, PA.  A cheap 36 hole muni.  Largely lousy course but not bad for it's low price tag compared to others in that range.

One of the nines is next to a road.  Playing partner shanks a drive and it deflects off one car and hits another.  The first car's driver was a Priest.  The second a state trooper.

Sounds like a good joke,  a priest and a state trooper were driving down the road.....

I've played Blackhawk. Fair assessment on your part.

As for the priest and state trooper, did your partner have insurance, or wasn't the damage that severe?

A couple weeks back at high school golf practice we broke up into groups to go play and the group in front of me consisted of two stoners out of the 4 players and after about 4 holes my group caught up to the guys in front. We walk up to the tee box to find the 2 guys stoned out of their mind with their pants down because they didn't hit their drives past the ladies tee box and they followed the rule. They proceeded to whiff and chunk the ball up to the green and then they disappeared, just went into the woods and didn't come back to practice.

The damage wasn't bad.  He gave them his info but I don't remember the outcome.  This was like 15 years ago.

I've seen so many strange things, it's hard to pinpoint any one thing.

Nature?   I've seen an eagle take my playing partners ball only to fly it 30-50yds further down the fairway and dropping into a perfect lie.   My partner asked.......... "play it where it lies, right?"

Idiocy?   I was playing in a corporate scramble when playing partners tried to drive a cart across a walkers bridge.  Golf course maintenance had to be called for a tow to get the cart dislodged from between the handrails.  It was wedged very tight.............LOL

We had a men's league with a "dick out" rule. If you didn't hit past the ladies tee, you played the rest of the hole with your "dick out". I never had the invoke that rule on myself (might have gotten it tangled in the shaft), but I saw plenty of swinging meat. It's pretty funny to watch a guy crouched over on a put with that second shaft hanging there. :-) We had a men's bowling league where one of the guys from our golf league threw a bad gutter on his first ball (in the gutter a foot or so down the lane) and yep, played the second ball with his "dick out". He obviously wasn't Jewish! :-)

And, what course would this be, please?

That was many years ago on a course far, far away. The course was owned by the local police chief, so we never had any problem with the law. :-) Coolest police chief ever. Nowadays, they would put you in the slammer as a child molester. Ah, the good old days....

Mine was on a flukey warm day December 27, 2014 in Southeast PA.  I recently bought an iPhone 6 that records video in 240fps, and I decided to film my buddy without him having any idea.  This was the result:

The course was jammed up on the back nine but we didn't care, it just gave us more time to keep watching it on a loop at every tee box.  Hysterical!

Well played by her - outstanding! [quote name="phan52" url="/t/80383/funniest-thing-seen-on-a-golf-course#post_1109237"] It's a dead shank that hits a tree across the street, bounces back into the street, takes two bounces and hits the windshield of the guy's car. My friend looks at him with another death stare and the guy speeds off. The rest of us were on the ground laughing our asses off and my friend finally lightened up and smiled. I laugh even now when I think about it. [/quote] That's hysterical - couldn't plan it any better.