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Most Expensive Thing You Have Broken When Practicing at Home?

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FlappyGilmore Established Member

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Were you practicing your swing and knocked down a chandelier? Did a ball go flying and break your TV? Did someone sneak up on your and you whacked them in the face?

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Patch Incredible Member

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Fortunately when practicing at home I have never broken anything.  Just lucky I guess.

I can't say that when playing, which of course is another story. 

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Double Mocha Man Super Member

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31 minutes ago, Patch said:

Fortunately when practicing at home I have never broken anything.  Just lucky I guess.

I can't say that when playing, which of course is another story. 

In college I used to practice swinging a 3 iron in my basement apartment.  Lightly grazed the ceiling once.  Thinking I had a repeatable, compact and flatter swing then.  Wish I had that now.


David in FL Incredible Member

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Any number of windows hitting wedges around the yard as a kid.  Nothing like catching it a groove low when trying to play it over the house to a tight pin in the backyard...  :8)

As an adult, I somehow managed to catch the marble top of my wife’s 19th century washstand, again, with a wedge.  No bueno...   :no:

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GolfLug Incredible Member

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Chunk of the  corner of the frame of my wife's favorite painting. I caught in the follow through with my driver. The piece was half inch thick and 3-4 inches long but she didn't notice for a few days. 

She was terribly upset for a day but got over it in a few days. She did not want me glue it back on as it had splintered a bit on the face side. 

Baaaaahhh... 

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Vinsk Incredible Member

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Practicing? Hell I’ve broken windows while playing.

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mellison24 Well Established Member

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Practised chipping into the washing machine. Fatted a chip up onto the worktop where a set of 6 plates were in a drying rack.

2 plates survived.

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woodzie264 Super Member

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An overhead light at a timeshare place; I went to a hardware store a replaced it and fortunately never got any charge

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Double Mocha Man Super Member

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15 minutes ago, CarlSpackler said:

Nothing. I’m that good. 

Then you must have "broken" some course records....

Just now, Double Mocha Man said:

Then you must have "broken" some course records....

... or broken some hearts...


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26 minutes ago, Double Mocha Man said:

Then you must have "broken" some course records....

I have! Let's see, I have the record for most geese hit in a round. Most trees hit. Most cuss words... It's a long and distinguished list, but my secret for not breaking stuff at home is that my wife scares the :poo: out of me, so I am extremely careful.

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Nothing with golf, but as a kid I broke the same basement window in my neighbor’s house many times playing baseball. I got really good at fixing windows. Another neighbor offered me a job to reglaze his windows over the fall.

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Knaresborough Newbie

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Had a workshop when I was living near Spokane. Had a couple of large canvas tarps in front of me to hit into. Terrible shots tend to go right......huge dent in a tall speaker (still worked), but ticked my wife off when I put a ball through a rather expensive cat travel box. Right through it and it just shattered the end of it. On the positive side of things.... I missed the other one. As a side note....my workshop was about 1000sf there....my whole detached house with garage here is about 950sf.

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JGus Dedicated Member

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3 hours ago, Knaresborough said:

As a side note....my workshop was about 1000sf there....my whole detached house with garage here is about 950sf.

Sounds about right, and the courses aren't close and it's always raining, but the pub's are really good! 

Haven't broke anything yet inside, but have came close to hitting a couple tables.

Gus
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dagolfer18 Great Member

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Fortunately, I haven’t broken anything while practicing yet. However, when I’ve been chipping inside, it’s been known for a few of my balls (plastic, no doubt) to hit our living room TV. No damage, mainly because the balls I use are so light. Heck, when I’m playing a hole over my couch to a tight hole location, I often use the TV as a backboard!

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FlyingAce Great Member

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Nothing broken but I dropped a golf ball in the garage and it hit my husband’s car. Darn car is made of aluminum and the ball made an indentation on the side. No one has noticed it yet....shhhhhhhh!

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mcanadiens Super Member

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19 hours ago, CarlSpackler said:

Most cuss words

Not f---ing likely. 

 

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Knaresborough Newbie

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1 hour ago, JGus said:

Sounds about right, and the courses aren't close and it's always raining, but the pub's are really good! 

Haven't broke anything yet inside, but have came close to hitting a couple tables.

Huh? I have at least 5 courses inside 10 miles.....pretty normal. Rain...it is what it is. Pubs? dying out.


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