Question:
Reading some of Randy’s posts crack me up, so I thought it would be amusing for people to contribute some funny stories on the golf course. I’ll start with two about my dad. We were playing Royal Colwood in Victoria BC. On the first tee, my dad is getting ready to tee off. About six feet in front of him, off to the left of the tee box is a guy waiting to tee off after us, sitting in his cart. My dad tees his ball and proceeds to heel whap one so badly, it goes almost horizontal off his driver – a reverse shank! The ball, travelling about 90 mph, flies into the golf cart and rattles around before finally settling down in the cart. My dad, ducking at the sound of the ball meeting plastic and plexiglass, is horrified. He quickly goes over the cart to check on the old guy. The poor bastard looks like he is in shock. My dad asks if he is OK, and guy replies, "Yes, but I’m scared shitless." Next story. We’re playing the Kelowna Golf and Country Club, my home club back then, on a hot summer afternoon. The 13th hole is a par 3, 170 carry over water the whole way to the green. Off to the right, over water about 60 yards away is the 12th green, a par five, surrounded on three sides by water. My dad tees it up and proceeds to shank it onto the 12th green. I mean, it carries over all the water and comes to rest about 10 feet from the pin. Me and my brothers cannot contain ourselves and start busting a gut laughing. My brother says, "Nice shot Dad, but you hit to the wrong green!" I then said in between chuckes, "Yeah Dad, you’ve got a 10 footer for a two on a par five. You can three putt for an eagle." — F. Blaine Dickson Kelowna BC Canada
Response:
My dad decided to take a friend from work golfing with us one day and it turned out that he had just bought his first set of clubs. We have no proof but we both think that his tee shot on the first was the first ball he ever hit. Absolutely painful watching someone on their slow and steady way to shooting a 150+. Well midway through the first nine we had already let a couple foursomes play through us and we were doing everything we could to try to speed things up. My dad was tending the flag and if one of his putts came anywhere near the hole he would smack it back to him conceding it. Well unbeknownst to us this guy got it in his head that Dad was playing goalie blocking shots that, in his mind, had every chance in the world of falling. So on the ninth green which was just a good LW away from the clubhouse my dad is lining up a 25 footer for birdie and as he strikes it this cat comes running full steam towards the flag from our blind side and executes this bizarre feet first baseball slide across Dad’s line to block his ball leaving a this monstrous gash in the green maybe 3 feet from the hole. He gets up giggling his butt off thinking he’s one upped my Dad in this game of block the ball and turns around to see us both with our jaws hanging open looking at him like he’s just killed a puppy. I mean we were both probably in a state of semi-shock trying to decide how we were going to handle this. Well we headed into the clubhouse to get the pro who was already on his way out the door ended up with a nice little group on the green with us shaking their heads surveying the damage. They ended up getting a greenskeeper over to change the pin position and try to repair as much of the damage as he could with the whole lot of them just glaring at us the whole time. We were all politely asked to leave the course, which was probably a good thing because if any of the ten groups on the ninth tee had caught up with us they would have probably strung us up from a big ole oak on the back nine:) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Reading some of Randy’s posts crack me up, so I thought it would be amusing for people to contribute some funny stories on the golf course. I’ll start with two about my dad. We were playing Royal Colwood in Victoria BC. On the first tee, my dad is getting ready to tee off. About six feet in front of him, off to the left of the tee box is a guy waiting to tee off after us, sitting in his cart. My dad tees his ball and proceeds to heel whap one so badly, it goes almost horizontal off his driver – a reverse shank! The ball, travelling about 90 mph, flies into the golf cart and rattles around before finally settling down in the cart. My dad, ducking at the sound of the ball meeting plastic and plexiglass, is horrified. He quickly goes over the cart to check on the old guy. The poor bastard looks like he is in shock. My dad asks if he is OK, and guy replies, "Yes, but I’m scared shitless." Next story. We’re playing the Kelowna Golf and Country Club, my home club back then, on a hot summer afternoon. The 13th hole is a par 3, 170 carry over water the whole way to the green. Off to the right, over water about 60 yards away is the 12th green, a par five, surrounded on three sides by water. My dad tees it up and proceeds to shank it onto the 12th green. I mean, it carries over all the water and comes to rest about 10 feet from the pin. Me and my brothers cannot contain ourselves and start busting a gut laughing. My brother says, "Nice shot Dad, but you hit to the wrong green!" I then said in between chuckes, "Yeah Dad, you’ve got a 10 footer for a two on a par five. You can three putt for an eagle." — F. Blaine Dickson Kelowna BC Canada
Response:
You have GOT to be kidding me! I find trouble believing it, but then I find that it’s often the most unbelievable stories that are the true ones. As Bennett said to Dan Hedaya’s evil character in Commando: "You make me laugh, Hobbesy. If Matrix were here, he’d laugh, too." Even if this were fake, I’d give you kudos for Tall Storytelling. Michael
<snip So on the ninth green which was just a good LW away from the clubhouse my dad is lining up a 25 footer for birdie and as he strikes it this cat comes running full steam towards the flag from our blind side and executes this bizarre feet first baseball slide across Dad’s line to block his ball leaving a this monstrous gash in the green maybe 3 feet from the hole. He gets up giggling his butt off…
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