Evil yardage marker yesterday...

[Dub]

Playing my home course yesterday...waited on four holes for the guys ahead of me to poke along.



I was standing on this tee box of this 316 yard par 4 watching them hit there approach shots. One of them had taken a drop due to slicing his driver out into the water. His dropped shot also went into the drink. His reaction was almost comical...even a couple hundred yards away.

The wind was up a bit so I knew that my normal strategy (carry to the flat space over the bunkers...hidden from the tee....and hit back sideways on the hole to the green...gives you the full run of the green to work with) was most likely gonna leave me with a shot out of one of the bunkers.

I opted to back off and hit my 4 wood from the tee.....my target being to run it over the 150 & 100 yardage poles and leave me an easy wedge to the green. The wind was running left to right....so I could see how the fella wound up in the water.

I aimed a bit left of center and made a good pass at the ball.

It was a well struck shot that got up a bit and rode the wind back to center easily carrying the 150 pole and landing just short of the 100 pole....hit the pole and bounced dead right.

This hole slopes downward to the right from the center....feeding shots right into the drink as it did my ball.

I guess that's what I get for laughing at the guys ahead of me.


I've always liked having these yardage markers sticking up....makes for great targets off many tee boxes. This is the first time I've ever had any type of ball contact with them. I never would have thought it'd resulted in a waterball, though.

Oh well....win a few....loose a few. Water was not my friend yesterday.

[Dub]

hard to see the detail in that first pic.

[PiKapp23]

I've never hit a yardage marker and had that type of deflection. I guess that's what they mean by the old term "rub of the green". My guess is the golf gods felt you deserved it for laughing at a fellow golfers troubles. They teased you into thinking it was a good shot, then BLAM! Oh how the golf gods love to tease and torture.

[kfowler]

See you wouldn't have had that problem if you would have used your driver and went for the green. ;)

[mirv]

i somehow cut a yardage marker in half once a couple of years back. hit a 3-wood off the tee, and it was really low and powerful, and it nailed the 150 dead center and snapped it in half. ball just stopped dead in its tracks and was about 4 feet away from what was left of the marker.

[JonnyGolf]

i somehow cut a yardage marker in half once a couple of years back. hit a 3-wood off the tee, and it was really low and powerful, and it nailed the 150 dead center and snapped it in half. ball just stopped dead in its tracks and was about 4 feet away from what was left of the marker.

Oh man, I would have taken that thing home as a trophy!

[mirv]

haha, that didn't even occur to me. i was like "ooooh, glad no one saw that, doodly doooo... wasn't meee...." and scuttling along. on a slightly related note, when i first started playing four or five years ago, i went to a driving range up the road that has these big signs with the yardages on them, and on the 50 yard signs, they have these little lightbulbs in the center. so i'm making shots that are flying all over the place, and i somehow hit the 50 yard sign and break the bulb. i was like, oh. Crap. i was afraid someone was going to come out and yell at me. found out like a year later that if you break the bulb, you get a free bucket of balls.

[ganjagolfer]

only saw a yardage marker ran over by a golf cart

[flopdarock]

excellent story an pics dub...

ive only hit the yardage markers with my backswing... scuffed the back of my hybrid pretty nicely too

[polodinks]

i hit a yardage marker somtime in april it was my second shot to the par 5 i cut thru the trees on my first shot and gave me 240 to the flag and 200 to cross the water ravine...... so i said hell ill go for it i swing for thr gusto and hit it thin and i said loudly NO!..... it hit the stick and stopped in that second i said loudly YES! it was so funny it was me and my cousin we died laughing from it that whole day

[golferman]

I have only hit one yardage marker. The marker was about 15 feet into the rough (next to the fairway). I drove, and hit the marker before my ball bounce. It deflected right into the fairway!

[Dub]

i hit a yardage marker somtime in april it was my second shot to the par 5 i cut thru the trees on my first shot and gave me 240 to the flag and 200 to cross the water ravine...... so i said hell ill go for it i swing for thr gusto and hit it thin and i said loudly NO!..... it hit the stick and stopped in that second i said loudly YES! it was so funny it was me and my cousin we died laughing from it that whole day

I can picture that one.....ah....a game of contridictions. Funny scenerio.

[Dub]

I've never hit a yardage marker and had that type of deflection. I guess that's what they mean by the old term "rub of the green". My guess is the golf gods felt you deserved it for laughing at a fellow golfers troubles. They teased you into thinking it was a good shot, then BLAM! Oh how the golf gods love to tease and torture.

No doubt about it.....I was being humbled for laughing at those cats ahead of me. I was a freakish round due to the wind.....even solidly struck shots that really felt good were bashed about. The greens were really rolling beautifully, too....except for the fact they were covered with pine needles and leaves. You could carefully clear your line to the cup and then address your ball only to have the stuff blow right back.

See you wouldn't have had that problem if you would have used your driver and went for the green. ;)

[Monsieurgolf]

I've never hit a yardage marker but I have hit....

1. Power line running across the fairway
2. Bird standing in the fairway
3. The deck...as my brother drilled me from 100 yards away with a 3W right in the side.

[shortgrass lover]

this spring I was on the 18 teebox only two over par, and absolutley murdered a drive. #18 is a short par 5, and my drive ended up 150 out. However, I was under a tree limb, so had to sort of "bump" a 7i to the green, which landed about ten yards short, one-hopped off a "no carts past this point" sign, and kicked into an akward bunker about 30 yards from the green. ended up making bogey and shot 75... i still get mad about that. lol

[smith5606]

And people wonder why we play golf!

[flopdarock]

I've never hit a yardage marker but I have hit....

lmao... this reminds me of my buddy... he was in a greenside bunker and accidentally picked the ball clean... launched off the lip... over the creek to the green on the other side hitting an lil ole lady that was putting... i felt like diving in the bunker like it was a foxhole an hiding... hahaha

[Fat Slice]

I went golfing last week with a guy from my club (an OLD guy) and his two sons, one of whom is a good friend of mine. The friend could not hit a fairway with his driver to save his life, and he was averaging 50 yards per drive, with the longest drive going maybe 100 or 120 yards. This went on until the 18th hole - a WIDE OPEN par 5. He winds up and actually hits a good long stright drive....right into this:



It bounced back 40 or 50 yards. It was still probably his best carry of the day!