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Rameek · 07-05-2006, 10:50 PM

While on a golf trip to Miami just this memorial day I sliced a shot in the rough near a tree. I was near the fence but had a nice little alley way between the tree and the green. So I figure I could hit the green with a nice 3 iron shot (i pretend to be a pro golfer on the course this day). The prudent thing would have been to lay up. Well I take a few practice swings but quickly realizing I cant follow through because my club will hit the tree. So my 4 practice swings I got it down if I dont get to the green I am a chip away. For some reason I zoned out and forgot that I was not to follow through because I was near the tree. Hit the shot but on the follow through I smacked my 3 iron into the tree. I bent it like a huge U.

white_tiger_137 · 07-07-2006, 07:47 PM

I once winged an 8-iron a good 100 yards at a driving range. (It was really wet and rainy and i was stiff from a long bus ride.

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Working at a golf course, i have a lot of time to lounge around in a cart and wait for someone to show up. I have a nice view of the 9th hole from my little perch. If has a hill behind the green, and if you hit the downslope of the hill, it will most likely bounce into the parking lot. The course is nice, but not too fancy. Most of the guys who play here are middle aged 15 handicaps who play in league on wednesdays and maybe get in 18 on Saturday - not retired bankers who drive Cadillacs (sp?) and wear $554874784.99 clothes. There are exceptions though, and on this particular day, a beautiful, yellow mustang was parked in the lot. Some young dude from Canada grabs what he THINKS is his 9 iron. Oops! I guess it was the 6! The ball takes one look at the green, flies over a pine tree, bounces once on the concrete and SMACK! right into the nice shiny mustang. No broken windows or permanent dent, just one embarrased drunk guy from canada.

**fitz-uk** · 07-12-2006, 12:35 PM

Had a very similar experience.

Near me there is a very posh course, costs somethiing stupid like £20k debenture then a few grand a year. Most of the members are judges, doctors, solicitors, managing directors etc.

Anyway, their 17th tee runs parallel to the car park, now being the sort of place this is the cars seem to follow a trend, Ferrari, Range Rover, Rolls Royce, Jaguar, Porsche etc etc.

I had been playing consistent golf all day, kept all drives in play and was making a nice round. Up comes the 17th and bbbbbbbbbbbooooooooiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnggggggggg gg
straight out into the car park. I didnt have the heart to go and look and see what damage it had done.

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Originally Posted by white_tiger_137

I once winged an 8-iron a good 100 yards at a driving range. (It was really wet and rainy and i was stiff from a long bus ride.

)

Working at a golf course, i have a lot of time to lounge around in a cart and wait for someone to show up. I have a nice view of the 9th hole from my little perch. If has a hill behind the green, and if you hit the downslope of the hill, it will most likely bounce into the parking lot. The course is nice, but not too fancy. Most of the guys who play here are middle aged 15 handicaps who play in league on wednesdays and maybe get in 18 on Saturday - not retired bankers who drive Cadillacs (sp?) and wear $554874784.99 clothes. There are exceptions though, and on this particular day, a beautiful, yellow mustang was parked in the lot. Some young dude from Canada grabs what he THINKS is his 9 iron. Oops! I guess it was the 6! The ball takes one look at the green, flies over a pine tree, bounces once on the concrete and SMACK! right into the nice shiny mustang. No broken windows or permanent dent, just one embarrased drunk guy from canada.

golfermatt91 · 07-24-2006, 10:58 PM

freshman year i was in a match last hole par 3 comming in i was like 38 so par would give me 41 and i decide on the first shot il hit the ball on top of the club house hit another one almost hits my dad

hit another one it hits a car then finally knock one way left chip tap in for a horrible score i was teased for a few weeks definitley embarrassing but i can laugh now a little less then a year later.

den9 · 07-27-2006, 01:24 AM

not an accident but every year we go to a golf outting and usually some1 unhooks the other carts bags at the tee, then when they drive off the bag goes flying off the back, then the victims wait a few holes when its all forgotten, and they do it to the guy who started it. its a good laugh

golfermatt91 · 07-27-2006, 01:30 AM

lol thats preatty funny

JBHOLMES · 07-27-2006, 07:56 PM

I have never let my emotions out of hand however, I bought an odyssey putter on ebay that had OBVIOUSLY been bent over a golfers knee after a missed putt. It was straighted out pretty well but what pee-d me off was the listing didn't mention it it just said "may show signs of wear"

jolt-tsp · 11-03-2006, 01:32 PM

I had about a 45 foot putt for birdie, and it came within about two inches. I pretended to get upset that I would miss such an easy putt, then proceeded to pretend to break my putter over my knee. My putter failed to realize we were just pretending and broke in half.

Police · 11-04-2006, 04:01 PM

This was down to very very very very bad practise session up at the range.

I took out my 5 iron in order to practise with it as i have not yet really used it and every shot i hit was fat.
After about 45 balls i took the club and bent it over my knee.
I then had to explain to my dad by saying that i took a shot and caught behind the ball and bent the shaft.

JPsuff · 01-09-2007, 11:04 AM

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The worst "accident" I ever had also turned out to be the best lesson I ever learned and it just happened this past season as well.

I was playing very poorly - my drives were all over the place and I was really messing up my short irons due to "pressing" in an attempt to compensate for my poor drives. I teed off on the eigth hole, (a short par 3), and I chunked yet another short iron. I was really pissed off and I flung my eight iron at my bag and scored a direct hit on my driver shaft, snapping it in two.

I played the rest of the round teeing off with a three-wood and I was hitting it rather well. I noticed that many of my tee shots were leaving me with decent approaches but since the round was shot to pieces on the front nine, I paid little attention beyond that. I ended up shooting something like 88 which is really poor by my standards.

It was early and the course was empty and I began to think about those three-wood tee shots. So I signed up for another eighteen and off I went.
I played the entire round teeing off with that three wood and I was amazed at how accurately I could place my drives. This sparked a renewed interest in scoring and I began to focus more clearly and began to execute more precisely.

Well, I ended up shooting 75 with only three bogeys and I hit 11 greens and the ones I didn't actually hit were just off the edge leaving easy chips. I even had a beautiful sand-save on a par three. This was easily the best round I'd played in months and if it weren't for a balky putter, I might have broken par.
This happened not too long after Tiger won the Open using only his three wood for tee shots and I guess that must have been in the back of my mind.

The lesson I learned was that accuracy is far more important than distance. Mind you, my three wood distance isn't too shabby, but what amazed me was the control I had. After a few holes, I actually began to think in terms of shaping tee shots. This is something I haven't thought of for quite a while because I was having so many issues with my driver - probably because I was more concerned with distance than anything else.

So I have a whole new way of looking at things now. I still acknowledge the need for being able to hit a driver properly, but I only use it now on holes where I really need the distance and the risk/reward ratios are good.
This single adjustment has worked wonders for my approach to the game.

So while distance may impress people and boost one's ego, accuracy and placement will produce lower scores.

I'll take that anyday!

-JP

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