Post your personal golf bloopers or funniest golf moments! :)

[Clambake]

My home course has a nice facility where they do upscale weddings and receptions, with a nice grassy area on a knoll overlooking the par 5 8th hole (near the tee end of the hole) where they'll set up an alter and conduct the ceremony.   The tee shot is particularly challenging, with water right and OB left.

Last year I was sitting on the nearby patio having lunch after my round, and there was a nice wedding going on, with probably about 150 guests all seated and listening intently to the minister giving the vows.    During a quiet point in the ceremony, we suddenly heard from down below the muted thwack of a driver followed immediately by a bellowing voice screaming "F@#%!    Sh@#!   F#%&!   Arrghh!   F#@%!!!"  followed by the sound of a nearby splash.

The minister momentarily lost track of what he was saying, and the poor bride looked like she'd just been shot.     Half the guests looked mortified, while the other half were trying, not very successfully, to keep from laughing their butts off.    Like I was.

[showtime583]

About 8 years ago my buddy and I were right out of college and back in the Detroit area playing at the old Partridge Creek. We're rushing to get the last few holes in before a giant storm blows through....starting to rain, blowing real hard, and thunder rumbling in the distance. We're on a par 4 and declare it the last hole. Anyway, my buddy tees off into 30 mph cross wind and hits an elephant ass.....almost whiffs, but the ball goes straight up in the air about 125 yards. The wind catches the ball and starts taking it sideways right to left, tracking straight for a green where a twosome is putting out (had to be 60 yards left of where the ball started)....we start yelling "fore" but the wind is blowing so hard they can't hear us. So the ball keeps on tracking like it has radar-lock  for the green then drops straight out of the sky....next thing we know we see the guy holding the pin just melt on the green...looked like he had been snipered by a sharp-shooter!

We drive our cart up to the scene of the crime and immediately start apologizing....as you can well imagine the gentleman that was hit was not having any of it. He was a "triple threat" (wife beater, jean shorts and tennis shoes) and furious beyond belief. We spent a minute or two apologizing and trying to explain what happened....and finally, while rubbing the huge welt on his forehead he said, "You gotta give me something, $20 anything! I could've been killed!!!" My buddy opens his wallet and only had $5 on him at the time...the "victim" begrudingly accepts it, and then adds, "That's all you got on you? Fine! But I'm keeping your Titleist!"

[marengo]

I was at the driving range in downtown SF when I first started playing.  I was hitting balls when a guy plops his bag in the stall next to mine.  He was all decked out with a huge staff bag with all brand new Callaway Hawkeye gear. This was when they first came out.  He pulls out his driver and 3 wood and starts swinging them back and forth trying to loosen up.  I have seen people do this with a couple irons but never with woods/drivers.  His swings start getting longer and faster then.. BOOM!  Both clubheads just exploded.  It sounded like a car crash.  Pieces of the heads flew everywhere like shrapnel.  One piece flew by me and stuck in my bag.  I dont know how he managed to keep from being shredded.  The flex of the graphite shafts kicked the heads together so hard that both were obliterated.  Imagine teeing up a titanium wood head then taking a full swing at it with your driver.

[yatzr]

I was in a 4 man scramble this weekend with some buddies.  On one hole, our best drive ended up in the rough about 200 yards out.  About 25 feet ahead of us and a few feet to the left was a little tree being held up by those big metal stakes (that look like a 'T' when viewed from the top).  The stake wasn't really in our line, so we all should've missed it.  Before we start hitting our shots, we joked a little about what would happen to a ball if it hit that stake.  My 3 buddies all hit and miss it just fine.  I get up there, mishit my shot, my shot hits the stake and ricochets back at me toward my left shoulder.  Without even thinking, I just reached out with my right hand (left was still holding the club in my follow through position) and caught it!  My buddies nearly fell over in disbelief of what just happened.  We all had to take a few minutes to stop laughing about it.

For anyone wondering, the ball was still in tact.  I used it for the rest of the round.