Share your most embarrassing golf course moments...........................

[BuckeyeNut]

This wasn't an embarrassing moment because I was playing with a regular group, but this shot fits the topic of funny/terrible shots.

I topped a drive many years ago that hit the women's tee marker in front of us.  The marker was a firmly planted steel plate leaning away from us at a 45'ish% angle so when my ball hit it, nobody saw where it went.   After the obligatory "where it it go" questions, a few seconds had already elapsed when I had already lost hope of finding it.......... "then" the ball drops straight down on the ladies tee box in front of us.

The timing of this was priceless!!.  Ball clanks marker....nobody sees where it went....I thought it was lost....then...PLOP!!...there it is. Hahaha...PRICELESS!! ...I guess you had to be there to appreciate! That ball must have gone REALLY HIGH!!

[inthecup]

I was playing in my first invitational event at the club I had joined that year.  I had played well the first day and the second day the wheels came off completely.  I was totally rattled.  On a elevated tee box there is a tree to the left.  It is not really in play.  I somehow jack the ball left it bounces off the tree 20 yards behind me into the heather.  The carry from there to anywhere playable is more then you can hit a ball out of a bad lie in the heather.  I chip back to the tee box.  Awesome.

I am playing with my partner from that day and he tells the story to the guys we are playing with and has a good laugh.  Then proceeds to hit the tree.  Carma's a bitch.

[YnotMcFly]

Some of these stories are pretty funny....and as a new/inexperienced golfer its nice to hear that these kind of things happen to everyone.

[jcm011]

My most embarrassing moment just happened two days ago. Our course is only made up of nine holes so, obviously, the ninth hole is headed back towards the clubhouse. It's a pretty long par 5 and there are bunkers to the left and right of the hole. I was about 90 yards out, flubbed a 52 degree and ended up plugged in the right bunker. I had a bad day so this was one more to make me unhappy. I keep the 52 degree (instead of my 60 degree) and line up for the bunker shot. My line of sight is: bunker lip, flag, 50 yard gap to clubhouse. The ball looked like it wouldn't even come out so I take a swing... I don't know if anyone has played Hot Shots but "LOOK OUT FOR FLIERS". The ball flies way over the green and is speeding directly towards a truck parked beside the pro shop. Somehow it carries the truck, hits the pro shop, ricochets back over the SAME truck, catches some spin and bounces into the parking lot luckily missing every car. Not only does EVERYONE know my dad (scratch golfer) but there happened to be an 8some waiting to tee off and watching me. Classic.

[Tifosinumerouno]

  Paradox said:

Originally Posted by Paradox

I ALMOST went deuce on myself one time.  For some reason a bad case of the bubble guts hit me on the 17th hole and I think I hit EVERY bump on the course on the way back to the clubhouse.  It was torture..I didn't think I'd even make it back there but luckily I made it to my car and home(only 2 miles away) with no accidents lol

Thank God I was playing solo that day or I would have still not heard the end of it.

I understand this totally!!! I was walking, which was worse, and started feeling it on the 16th tee, which is a dog leg left, and the FURTHEST point from the clubhouse on the entire course. I hit my drive and second shot (Par 5), and as I walked up to the ball, I couldn't take it anymore, so I had to go as deep as I could into the woods and drop trou.

[MSchott]

About 15 years ago on the 10th hole at Hilltop GC in Plymouth, Mi a course with devilish greens, I 4 putted #10, a short par 4. At the next tee I threw my putter in the air and the grip became lodged in the v of a branch of a tree. Couldn't get it down.

[darkhunter139]

About 2 months ago I was playing as a single and joined up with someone on the 4th hole...I think that was my worst day of golf ever, including the first time I played.  I have no idea what was wrong but I do not think I got the ball into the air one time.  On the 7th hole I hit two in a row into the woods and then said goodbye to the guy and proceeded to rage quit.

[inthehole]

  darkhunter139 said:

Originally Posted by darkhunter139

rage quit.

This I can relate to & am one less 5 wood for it (it's swimming with the fishes) ... some days it's better to stop the bleeding & just pick up and leave, than to lose your cool

[Leftygolfer]

I sh*t my pants one time.  I was with my wife and this is something we don't talk about (pooping) so I was just trying to hold it.  We were on 17 and I couldn't hold it anymore.  We were driving up 18 and she says something about the smell, and I told her.  I should have just manned up, told her I had to go and use a bush.  Would have been much better.

[ohiolefty]

I almost slipped and fell on a tee box today (early morning dew). I topped the drive and it went about 15 yards. It was a d*ckout, but I was playing at the crack of dawn, alone. Someone on an adjacent hole did see, chuckled a bit, and said "are you alright?" - probably because I yelled out "Holy sh*t, I almost fell over" without any self-awareness. I just laughed and said thanks...but I didn't feel so proud and/or manly hitting a 3 wood into a 340 yard par 4. I did make a scrambling par...so I guess it wasn't too bad.

[Duff McGee]

Anyone ever hit into 3 separate bunkers next to the green on the same hole? Well, I have as of today! Par 5, blind shot to a huge hill with a big time down slope. Second shot pulled a 5 iron into the first bunker. Greatest course I've ever played, yet the bunkers were cement. I swung hard and couldn't get even half an inch under the ball. It land into a bunker I didn't even see about 20 feet away to the left. I then go up and think "no way they are all that hard. It must have just been that bunker (award winning expensive course so I assumed the bunkers would be great) same result but there was ANOTHER bunker in front of that one! Landed right in it. My uncle tried to hide his face but he was laughing hysterically at this point and even I had to bust out laughing as I bladed the next shot into the giant face of the third bunker. It was a nightmare but kind of worth the memory. :)