Kujo

Love that cart girl comment, so true and people still just try try try. Hahaha

It looks like this topic is not something new for most here but not all that common either and that’s good to hear. But it seems that almost everyone has been hit into at some point and no one appreciated it so why do people keep doing it? As a collective group we can all hold off for another couple seconds and let people move out before you tee up. Yesterday I went to the clubhouse to see if they had found my lost 6i (found it in my friends bag today, woops). I talked to them about what happened on Sunday. The just nodded saying yeah yeah that will happen, it can get rough out here at times. Rough!? This is golf not boxing folks. I golf to mellow out, relax and have fun with the game. If that’s not your intention I say go get another hobby. One thing about golf is no one is all that good at it. Sure you have people that can play a nice clean round and all and I’m in that group if I’m lucky but the guy who hit into me had one excuse that was this. I was over on the left side and he says if he had hit the ball in the center of the fairway the way he did 99% of the time it wouldn’t be an issue. That’s just crap in my book. If you hit 99% of the fairways you would be on tour and not playing a crap course at 8:00 with me. I know I’m not that consistent and that’s why I wait for people to move out. Even if they are on close hole one over I’ll wait a second or make sure they see I’m on the tee. I’m ok with the game but I am not great and I know it. I know my game so if someone is on the fairway next to me 150-200 yards out I have a chance at shanking a ugly one at them. Most go straight but 1 of 10 are nasty. I’d like more golfers to admit the skill they have or the lack of it. And why are the links so packed anyway? I thought we were in a recession? And that leads me to my last point about private play as some have mentioned. Not an option for me period. I loved to play private clubs in California when I had friends that would let me get a free game in at the end of the day but no way could I pay to play. That resection as I mentioned above has us all in limbo. I really don’t see how anyone can justify it unless you have worked hard and retired well. I’d like to have that in my future but public is my domain for now. Thanks for the advice and comments from everyone. Stay safe, have fun and if you need to drop a club from your bag to have space for a good attitude please do so. If you still don’t have room try leaving your ego in the trunk and that will free up some extra space for sure. Wink- Cheers, Kujo

Greetings all, I'm new member but have spent some time digging threw the boards. I thought I would introduce myself with a good old rant. First I'm still young at 26 and have been playing on and off for 15 years. I played more at private clubs that friends worked at in CA. then didn't play for a while when I moved back here to MN. I'm not the best but have a lot of fun and enjoy the game and play it as a gentleman's game the way I was taught. I have been playing a lot this year and am really improving my game but have dealt with a surprising amount of jerks on the links. I thought Id post this to see if others are having the same type of behavior on courses or if I just seem to attract flies. Note this is long winded and not all that constructive so If you are looking for a read and a chuckle please move forward. If not, sorry for chewing up the bandwidth. Part 1- I played three rounds this weekend and was surprised at what poor etiquette players have these days. All the game play was a little slow but not too bad, one hole we were waiting to tee off and single comes up behind us and asked "Are you selling those puppies?" Honestly I didn't see what he was getting at so I asked and again, "you selling those puppies?...Because your F-ing the dog". Now I see he is being a jerk when we were just waiting to be able to safely hit. I told him I'm selling if he's buying but if he wants to just play first that's fine too. He mumbles something so I tee up and smack 275 yards dead bullet on the fairway. I'm not a bad golfer. Not great but when the game is slow its not because of me. So the guy makes a smart remark and I brush it off and tell him have a good round. The guy was a jerk for no reason, I obviously am not the issue and when you are a single on a Saturday you know you are going to wait for all the groups that are playing a 4 hour pace. Why not just relax for a minuet or ask if you can play with us? Part 2, Sunday, Tee time of 5:15 so you know its not the best folks out at the end of the day and it's going to be slow. I'm fine with that and understand I'm may not get a full 18 before dark. Husband and wife in front of our 3. They play slower but not bad or frustrating. I'm a group of 3 with one beginner but hes playing best ball with us so we are not too slow. The front 9 we have two rushing us and running around in a cart trying to jump a hole or two to pass but that's the pace of the course and its all the same and everyone is playing that pace. Annoying but hey, you must have started at 5:30, You aren't going to get in 18 holes so relax. They brake off and call it on 13 when we have plenty of sun so i don't see what the rush was. Part 3, The last of my rant here was the worst. This almost escalated to a ugly point. We tee off and 2 of our 3 have good shots but not too long at about 230. Our beginner clips it into deep rough in front of the tee and says he will look for it, pick it up and come drop where I'm at. So I go to spot my ball. I hear a ping! Thwack! I look back and guys are hitting at us. Now I'm only out 230-240 and visible but I have another player that's only 60 yards off the tee by a tree and that thwack was a ball hitting the tree he was at. So my buddy sprints out of the place just not to get hit by these guys. I'm just trying to put this all together as to whats happening out here. My friend gets to me and he says they are hitting balls at him! I hear another PING! and a ball comes flying by us within 10 feet at waist level. I yell and throw my hands up. My group gets together and were pissed. They play the hole close behind us so when we finish we left the pin out of the hole. If your going to hit balls at me I'm not going to make it a nice hole for you. Part 3.5, Next hole, 18. We are on the fairway, they were well behind now probably because they couldn't find the pin. Then loudly comes a guy on a cart yelling on a phone straight up the fairway. It was one of the four behind us. He is all fired up about the pin and we were fired up about having balls hit at us. He says that they did it intentionally because they thought we had cut in front of them. We sorted out that we did not cut them off and he was still mad at us. We were polite and just told the guy that there is no reason to rush the game and if it's getting late for him he should just go in. Beyond whatever he thought we did there is never a reason to intentional hit balls at someone. The guy explodes about how hes got kids older than us and that he would hit into us again if he could and all this trash. We told him to just get off our hole and go home, he barks back about he will be waiting at his car to settle this in the lot. We are all a little confused because he is an out of shape older gent and we are three 26 year old guys 6-2 plus and in good shape so why a guy would want to fight us for something he did wrong? We play the hole and get to the lot, his friends show up and he is still talking trash. His friends try to calm him down and I remind him that he is mad all because we left the flag out of the hole and we should be ready to rip his eyes out for hitting balls at us but we wanted to let it go. Anyway, my friend is sick of this so he asked him calmly if what he ultimately wants here is to fight someone because that is just ridiculous. The man barks back that he is going to whop us all etc. etc. So again, my fried states it, "you mean to tell me that the only way you are going to get in your car and leave is after you fight one of us?" "YES!" So Tim unwillingly takes his shirt off ( built like brick sh*t house ) and says, "I sorry but you got one last shot to get in your car and go or I'm going to brake your nose. I'm not going to fight an old man but I WILL punch you once and I WILL brake your nose. If you want a broken nose come get it." So the guy realizes hes an idiot and his friends all bail on him telling him he needs to apologize and go home. He figures out he is picking a fight with people who don't want to fight but if it happens hes going to get hurt and that's an ugly reality. He calms down and says he sorry for hitting balls at us. I told him to just go home and never do that to anyone again and hes gone. I'm just amazed that any of this is happening on the golf course? last night I was really upset because I like the game and all but I'm not going to go play if every round you have someone trying to make a mess of the game. So what do I do here? Do I just call it a wrap and quit because stuff like this is happening more and more or do you think this is just an isolated incident? I ask because I haven't been playing public courses a lot in the last 6 years or so because I played free at clubs but now that's not an option I'm playing at decent public places and its just a mess. Sorry for the rant but is it like this everywhere?