Hey guys, I'm new to the site but wanted to get some other golfers thoughts on a situation i had a few weeks ago.
I was playing a local military course, Admiral Baker's in San Diego about two weeks ago when a weird thing happened. I showed up by myself midday on a Saturday and got paired with an older gentleman and his 16 year old son. The kid was pretty good and me and the dad were so-so. Anyways we had not been slowed at all by the golfers in front of us, all day. We had not had to wait once. Well i think it was the 15th hole and we got to the tee box and the young man went to tee off. Hit his shot and about the time we were following the shot we noticed a man and woman in a cart sitting under a tree about 250-260 yards down the fairway, just off to the left. We yelled FORE but the man didn't seem to hear. Well the shot landed about 20 yards behind him and ran up in a bunker and settled probably 25 feet to the carts left in the sand. The man jumped out of his cart, looked towards us and waived his arms all over. The he decided to run into the bunker, grab the ball and throw it into the adjacent fairway, get in his cart and drive to the green. I was very confused because i never saw him on the course before, and still didn't see him hit a shot before he drove off. I met up with him on the next hole as he was getting in the cart from the tee box. I said " Hey man what was that all about?" in an actually pretty non confrontational way. He started screaming and cussing saying we almost hit him with the ball and we shouldn't be allowed to golf if we were so bad we were hitting it in bunkers haha.... Overall it wasn't not a big deal but it just kinda struck me the wrong way.. Ive never had a situation like this on the golf course before.. Even if someone ACTUALLY hits me with a ball i find it pretty hard to get mad.. we're all standing around an area that people are hitting little balls with sticks.. its bound to happen eventually.. Any thoughts?
