Most Embarrassing Golf Moment

[Jeepthrills]

As a player there are a few.

I was playing with my father-in-law, my wifes grandfather and their regular group about 10 years ago. I tee up on the first hole and hit the toe. The ball shoots 90 degrees to the right and hits square into a metal bench where my wifes grandfather was sitting not 30 seconds earlier. Huge bang that seemed to echo forever. Of course we were in the first group so there were 15 witnesses.

Similar event about the same time ago. I was playing with my brother and some of his buddies. The tees were back from where the carts were parked for the hole. I snap one low anf left and drill the cart. One of our guys had gone back to his bag and it missed him by a foot. It left a big crack in the cart.

When I was a caddy, the first tee was on a big hill. Our group teed off and we start walking down. Instead of using the path, we all start walking down the fairway. There was dew on the ground and I slipped. I slid on my butt the entire way down the hill. It was great walking 18 holes with white shorts that now had a huge brown mark down the entire back.

One of the best stories ever came from my brother. He was playing on a weekend golf trip with his friends. This one is not for the easily offended. It was an early morning round after a night of heavy drinking. One of the guys farts on the third tee and proceeds to crap in his white pants. He is too far to go back to the clubhouse so he goes into the woods with his towel and attempts to clean up. He plays two more hole before he realizes that he has a rain suit in his bag. He threw his pants in the trash can. He finished the round, but every few shots one of the guys would make a fart noise in his back swing.

[FoosIason]

I'v got a good one. I was at a summer golf tourney. The first hole was a short one that was wide open. It had a fairway bunker about 250 out off the Tee. I proceeded to hit my drive a little thin and roll it into the damn thing. At this point I was about 100 yard out and elected to hit my pitching wedge out of the bunker. I bladed my ball right into the lip of the bunker, where the ball then proceeded to come back and hit me square in the face. The ball then shot straight up into the air about 20 feet or so and luckily I had enough sense to dodge it on the way back down. I took my penality, my demoralization, and all the stars that I was seeing for the next few holes with pride. As for I now have a good embaressing golf story.

[FoosIason]

yup thats right nobody can top me.

[Ogg]

A friend of mine got to play Spanish Bay out on the Monterey Penisula. He is not the most confident golfer in the world and tends to overclub. He is hitting his approach shot into a green that they are building condos behind. He of course grabs too much club and fires the ball through a picture window of one of the condos. The construction workers began to applaud and even threw his ball back to him. He didn't bother to finish the hole.

[lamebums]

10th hole at Sugar Bay Golf Course, in Warsaw, Kentucky. I don't know if I've mentioned this story elsewhere, but here goes. My buddy, who is plastered on cheap vodka, slices the hell out of his shot. It flies about 150 yards out, well to the right, at at the bottom of this 80 foot hill, on the 12th fairway. He drives the cart down the hill, ignoring the "No Carts" signs every 10 feet or so. About a minute later I hear a crunching sound, sort of like the sound effects they put into those cop car chase videos when the criminal T-bones oncoming traffic. I went back to look, lo, and behold, the guy's flipped the cart over, and all the gas leaked out.

His logic? If the cart got down the hill, it should've been able to get back up the hill.

[AMGfan]

I played in a fraternity scramble and as a rule they had all pledges have to play with their underwear outside of their shorts if they didn't hit it past the ladies tees...I know juvenile...BUT(t)...lo and behold the pledge in my group does said deed and proceeds to do the underwear flip and ended up playing the rest of the hole with tidy whities PLUS a nice skid mark for all of us to see...

[ProHacker]

Some of these are very funny, glad too see i'm not alone when it comes to making an arse out of myself on the golf course.

I have too many instances to list but my most recent (today). Hit a 250 yard tee shot that had a little too much draw and ended up pinned in between 2 trees. Imagine |.|
I really didn't want to chip out and thought for sure i could make it in between the trees. Too make a long story short i nailed the tree on the right and the ball landed back on the tee box where the group behind us was waiting. There where kind enough to let me have the honor.

[Sharkgolf]

This happened 8 days ago, on a beautiful spring afternoon. Two buddies and I head off in a competitive 3 ball. We've all been working really really hard this past winter to be up for team selection for our club, and a feisty match between us is on the cards......we all par the first two holes, and its my honour on the 3rd, a monster par 5. I slice my drive a bit, and it lands in a cow pasture adjacent to our course. I see it bounce in there, and because we don't have OB, I hit a provisional and reckon that with my trusty 8 iron I can turn this into a par with some careful course management and still kick my buddies butts.........ok, this is getting a bit long-winded so I'll cut to the chase: I didn't find the ball, so went across to the shin-high anti-wild-pig electric fence to clamber back into the fairway, but had to also get through the farmers' fence as well. And it was in this position, half-bent over to clamber over the mini fence and through the larger one, that I forgot I was trailing my 8 iron, which at that moment connected with the electric fence. kKKKKKkaaaazzZZZZZZamMMMM!! I was thrown up into the air, twirled, lost all my protective instincts - like being Tasered - and landed thumPpPPP on my right chest. My buddies jaws were hanging on the ground as they saw me roll to a stop, being stared at by some curiously bored cows. The result: several bruised ribs from the impact, and up to 6 weeks rest from golf. Nice eh? Please, repeat after me: I AM AN *************HOLE!!!

[ragontona]

This happened last time I went out.

It was a short par four, with a lake on the left side of the tee box that isn't in play, as it only extends down the hole about ten yards (it's more of a hazard for the previous hole).

I pulled out driver, just wanting to crank this thing out there. I gripped the driver hard, and with all my rage and fury proceeded to heel it so bad with an out-to-in swing that it literally shanked sideways towards me, screamed between my legs, and into the water hazard that was literally behind me in my stance.

Ugh.