Swinging golf clubs in the house..

[RONDAL]

When we recently moved into our new apartment downtown my gf was away in europe for 11 weeks on business when I did the move (ya nice of me to do it alone i know).

I got all the important things unpacked, the Plasma, the computer, digital cable box, surround sound, couches, coffee table. Rest of the stuff sat in boxes in various rooms in the apartment.

It was the middle of summer and i had just got a 60* and wanted to work on putting and chipping so i set up a little chipping area down the carpeted hallway and putting in the living room.

Moving boxes make great backstops for stopping errant chips, which I only learned after I put a golf ball dent in the hallway after skulling one.

Needless to say gf was a little confused when she came back and there was close to 50 golf balls kicking around the place. Under couches, in random boxes, in the bathroom under the cupboard.....

[flopdarock]

i got plenty of room to swing any club in my bag... so the ceiling isnt a concern... its the tile floor... i put a healthy chip in one and my girl wasnt too happy about it... so i have a lil piece of old rug down now and i try not to touch it

[glenntwo]

We just bought a home with vaulted ceilings, some as high as 12 feet. Problem solved. I can swing my driver in the living room! My wife wasn't too happy when I suggested a net in there...

[atrapasuenos]

In my parents' room I use to practice... full swings... but the carpet started to show some black marks like if it was burned or something like that so my parents told me... enough with practicing in the house LOL!

Cheers!

[RIduffer]

Let's see, I have smashed 2 ceiling lights at work and 1 at home. I have put multiple gashes in a doorframe in the spare bedroom. When I used to swing out on my porch I put a 9-iron through a screen door, demolished some wind chime contraption, and damaged siding on the house. Trying to stick to putting on the carpet now.

[Shanker]

I've came pretty close to hitting my tv...scared the crap out of me...so i take it to the basement nowadays...

[WUTiger]

I have 9 ft ceilings and I can swing my 5 iron

I have 8' ceilings and can do swing drills with my 6 iron in the family office room. The room is long and narrow, and I have a putting mat strip along one wall. I also do my swing drills over the strip to avoid taking divots out of the rug.

I have the picture of a golf green on the wall at the far end of the room to line up for my swing drills. I used to hide all this stuff when company comes, but leave it in place now.

[nickswan]

I'm lucky that I can swing any club in my house. The only time I have done damage is when standing in a doorway and using the wall to make sure my back swing doesn't get too flat. Flat back swing equals a mark on the wall and an unhappy missis! :)

[Doctorfro]

Yep. Plenty of room in the living room. Can't get crazy or anything but I can swing the whole bag. Have to keep from taking a divot out of the rug though! Do more putting than anything. Would like to have a hitting net in the garage but wife is worried we'll break, dent, destroy something.

[safetrip]

I bought a kid club set for my 5 year daughter. It turns out that I was using it more than she did at home since it was short enough for our ceiling.

I do practice 1/2 swings with 9 iron from time to time. Of course when I'm getting hang of it, it becomes 2/3 swing and I have a few clipping marks on the ceiling.

[Parker0065]

In 35 years I've only had one incident that involved a golf club and a house, but this happened in the summer time outside. I was about 12 years old I was swimming in our pool and I jumped out still soaking wet and decided to give a golf club a few swings before I dried off and went inside. It was an old wedge that my brother and I used to pitch around the yard and the grip was really worn down and pretty slick.

As I swung the club, to my suprise it went flying out of my hands and smashed into a window in the back of the house. Needless to say my father was not to happy, but thankfully he didn't take my clubs away.

It was a dumb-kid not thinking type accident, but miraculously as much as my brother and I hit balls in the yard and around the house, that window was the only thing that every got broken!

[Rexmaster]

Fortunately, I can swing any club in my house (9' ceiling). However, I imprinted 7 iron on a newly painted wall (less than a week) by accident. Still, I hit foam balls from living room to family room and my dog loves to fatch the balls. Nothings been broken with the foam balls so far.

[rckwd]

Yea I have a few dings in sheetrock from that...I thought I was the only one..LOL

[PS90]

Happened to me just about three days ago

I have a spot in the house that I can swing and not break stuff, at least if I use a PW or 9I or something short. The other day, however, my lazy-a__ dog was laying right in my swing spot. Turns out he's old and blind, so I feel kinda bad for the guy, and didn't want to make him move.

So, like an idiot, I not only decided to move to the dining room, I decided to swing a 5W around as well.

No surprise what happened - took a backswing and completely shattered the glass fixture on the hanging light/chandelier thing. Took a bunch of little dents out of the expensive dining room table and got glass everywhere .

Can't wait for spring around here.

[Chas]

What an entertaining thread.

I've never had hitting-the-ceiling issues, or even close. That's either because our ceilings are pretty high or it's because my swing is much too flat - or a bit of both.

About 5 yrs ago when we moved into our spanking new abode my wife was very nervous about my doing damage to furniture or walls etc. She is now much more relaxed about the whole thing. Is that because I haven't caused significant damage yet, because the house is that much older and she cares less, or because she's (very sensibly) just given up worrying about something beyond her full control?

No, it's the cats that I really worry about. One false move in the family room with the 3-hybrid and one's a gonner .....

Later: Parker, your post reminded me of something. Aged about 15 I was swinging an iron of some kind in the small back yard of my father's condo in England. I did this safely for about ten minutes and suddenly and most unexpectedly made clean contact with a small stone that had managed to hide itself in the grass. It made a neat little hole in the window to the dining room that I had been facing, maybe 25 feet away. My father was not amused.

[Mr Eagle]

Not strictly in the house but close enough. Came back from the pub in the early hours with a friend who was kipping on my couch as his wife had chucked him out.Both a bit worse for the drink we decided to get some golf practice in.Standing on the front porch we were betting each other on our golfing skills.
"Bet you cant hit a nine iron over that roof opposite"
Bet you cant hit a 3 wood between those houses
Bet you cant do a flop shot into the nieghbours trash

As you can imagine it wasnt long before half the street was awake and the police turned up
"Have you got any drugs on you sir" one copper asked my mate "No offsir I have done all the drugs but can offer you a beer" ,,,, "OK sir I am going to have to take your name",,,,,"Why dont you like your own"

We were let off with a warning and went indoors.The next day was spent appologising to nieghbours and fixing broken tiles,one smashed window and a you should have seen the state of the guys opposite truck,that was definatly my mate as I remember him saying he was topping the ball with his driver!

[flopdarock]

Not strictly in the house but close enough. Came back from the pub in the early hours with a friend who was kipping on my couch as his wife had chucked him out.Both a bit worse for the drink we decided to get some golf practice in.Standing on the front porch we were betting each other on our golfing skills.

i actually LOL'd

[montru]

Many years ago my brother was practicing his chipping down the hallway of his apt, he start with small chips thaen graduated up to 3/4 swings and took a huge divot out of the carpet, his mrs went absolutely crazy.

I have never attempted anything more that putting in the house, we have a room that we call the kids tv room/den that measures around 14x14, I am trying to talk my wife into letting me put in a simulator like the one they have in the golf stores, my 12 year old daughter is taking lessons and is very keen on the game and she a a beautiful swing, her coach says that if she really wanted to she could go all the way and be very good if not a pro, so I am working on that angle to talk the wife into getting one put in, that would be awesome!!!