I have always heard stories of verbal altercations on the course, but never seen one. That is, until yesterday *cue dramatic music*. I was playing with a scratch junior in college. Also with my was my close friend and teammate who is an 8 handicap. The course reopened a few days ago, and was absolutely packed so the play was excruciatingly slow. There is an upcoming tournament at this course, and the first couple days you play from the whites, then you play from the blues for match play. So the scratch golfer had a cart while me and my friend were walking and he would play a ball from the blues, and the whites.
So on the 14th tee we heard and saw a golfer absolutely flip out about missing a short putt, like he brought the whole Holy Trinity in one curse... We were halfway through teeing off when he said to the scratch golfer "HOW MANY F***** BALLS ARE YOU GOING TO HIT?" To which he politely explained the situation and that he isn't holding up play any, and we were ahead of the pace of play. Then the hothead said "WELL IF YOU WANNA F***** PRACTICE, GO TO THE F***** RANGE THEN!" We decided to ignore him and finish teeing off. Me and my friend looked over in disbelief to which he then said "AND WHAT THE F*** ARE YOU TWO LOOKING AT?". Thankfully his playing partners calmed him down and one came over to apologize. The Ranger ended up taking him back to the clubhouse. Crazy crazy day, but I think we are all ending up going to get free balls out of it.