Sneaking on Private Courses

[DavidFehertysBike]

Sneaking onto your local private course is sorta lame. Who cares? But if you had the chance to sneak on Pine Valley or Augusta or someplace like that... then the risk is warranted. Plus you would gain man points for the display of 100% grade A steel balls.

[cody west]

not gonna lie iv gotten into plenty of places. if you walk around like you know what your doing. dont ask questions and dont look confused and youl be fine. just make sure you dress properly, most people at private courses dress in all name brand clothes so if you dress in name brand clothes you will be mistaken for a member usually.
i work at a course and i dress like i do for tournaments some days and some members mistake me for a player occasionally.
edit: i learned from one of my good friends that if you act like you belong and have a confident personality you can usually get into any course without "sneaking" on

[James_Black]

  DavidFehertysBike said:

Sneaking onto your local private course is sorta lame. Who cares? But if you had the chance to sneak on Pine Valley or Augusta or someplace like that... then the risk is warranted. Plus you would gain man points for the display of 100% grade A steel balls.

Augusta......

What'd happen if you were caught? How would you manage to sneak onto augusta? Would anybody be playing?

[Elsfan]

  DavidFehertysBike said:

Sneaking onto your local private course is sorta lame. Who cares? But if you had the chance to sneak on Pine Valley or Augusta or someplace like that... then the risk is warranted. Plus you would gain man points for the display of 100% grade A steel balls.

Exactly. My aunt has a house about 1 minute from Shinnecock Hills and I have thought about sneaking on many times. I am more at the stage where I drive around the course and look at the holes from different streets by the course. I am more like a stalker at this stage. It sure looks lovely though.

[cody west]

  James_Black said:

Augusta......

you just like walk to the 1st tee and join a 3 some as if you belong

[DavidFehertysBike]

  James_Black said:

Augusta......

I dont know. That would be the trick. If you could somehow manage to sneak on, play 18 holes, and then escape with none the wiser...then you would be a god among men. At augusta it would probably require a tag-team effort, as im sure that you are required to use a caddy. So you would have to employ a friend to assist in the caper. Im not sure if youre allowed carts, there

[James_Black]

  cody west said:

you just like walk to the 1st tee and join a 3 some as if you belong

lol, and then the starter says "who the F are you?"

what do you say? i'm bill gates's brother?

[brgolf]

  Slammin' Sam said:

So is the inevitability of people trying to justify bad behavior.

I see what you mean "Spare me all the "unethical behavior" or "thats stealing" talk because I could really care less."

[DavidFehertysBike]

  James_Black said:

lol, and then the starter says "who the F are you?"

Yeah...why not? hahahaha! that place probably has hundreds of members spread all over the world.

[James_Black]

  DavidFehertysBike said:

I dont know. That would be the trick. If you could somehow manage to sneak on, play 18 holes, and then escape with none the wiser...then you would be a god among men. At augusta it would probably require a tag-team effort, as im sure that you are required to use a caddy. So you would have to employ a friend to assist in the caper. Im not sure if youre allowed carts, there

I think you own your own cart if you play in augusta.

You can't even pay off the starter, they're either rich or a pedantic old guy

[clubchamp]

  cody west said:

you just like walk to the 1st tee and join a 3 some as if you belong

This would be after you've turned away by several security guards before you even reached the first tee. It's pretty much impossible to sneak on pine valley I had the honor of playing there and it's a private community with it's own police. So first you would have to manage to sneak into the community not get caught by the police and then hope you can get to the first tee. Pine Valley has a cool par 3 course so you might have some luck there but I'd doubt it.

[James_Black]

  clubchamp said:

This would be after you've turned away by several security guards before you even reached the first tee. It's pretty much impossible to sneak on pine valley I had the honor of playing there and it's a private community with it's own police. So first you would have to manage to sneak into the community not get caught by the police and then hope you can get to the first tee. Pine Valley has a cool par 3 course so you might have some luck there but I'd doubt it.

Then try sneak through the forest to another teebox?

would be pretty tough with your clubs on your back though

[brgolf]

Just reading that when Seve was young he used to sneak onto his local course before dusk and was that true of Tiger as well?

[James_Black]

  brgolf said:

Just reading that when Seve was young he used to sneak onto his local course before dusk and was that true of Tiger as well?

doubt it for tiger.

He was given clubs when he was 2, I'd say he played on the course regularly.

[c. lassiter]

When I played Pebble Beach I saw a couple of teenage idiots (possibly the OP?) hop a fence with their clubs and start playing.

They were a couple of holes behind us, didn't get in our way and I never saw what happened to them.

Had they been in front of us, and interfered with a round that we had paid a lot of money for, I think i would shoved my 6 iron up [ moralizing removed from this space so as not to offend the OP ].

[OCdude12]

  iacas said:

I beg to differ. You seem as if you

Jesus Christ, criminal? Really? I'm not talking about stealing the neighbors car or breaking and entering. Have you done anything in your life you weren't "supposed" to do? You guys completely missed the point of the thread I guess. Thanks for correcting my grammatical error too. You guys can find a way to take the fun out of anything I'll bet.

For the record, I was raised in a great home with plenty of rules. Rules were also meant to be broken or else they wouldn't be called rules. Call me a criminal if you want for stepping over a fence to see a top 10 course in the world that I will otherwise never have the chance to see in my lifetime, but you won't find me feeling bad about it anytime soon. Enjoy playing the muni the rest of your life. After I sneak on San Francisco Golf Club I'll be sure to make a complete write-up of it just for you so you can see what you're missing.

[James_Black]

  OCdude12 said:

Jesus Christ, criminal? Really? I'm not talking about stealing the neighbors car or breaking and entering. Have you done anything in your life you weren't "supposed" to do? You guys completely missed the point of the thread I guess. Thanks for correcting my grammatical error too. You guys can find a way to take the fun out of anything I'll bet.

Can I just ask, how old are you?

[OCdude12]

  James_Black said:

Can I just ask, how old are you?

24, what does it matter?