today i was playing as a single but a 4 some was behind us. the 1st hole happens to be a par 3 over water with the tee box high up on a ledge. you couldn`t drive the cart up on the ledge so you had to walk some stairs to get to the tee. the 4 some was on the tee and we were waiting behind them on the tee. one guy in the 4 some grabbed a club and walked up to the tee. he took about 10 practice swings and then wanted to change clubs, so he had to walk all the way down the legde and then back up. he then hit it poorly and found the water. turns out he didn`t have an extra ball in his pocket so back to the cart for a ball and back up the ledge. the 2nd guy then found the water himself. he didn`t have an extra ball in his pocket either,so back down the ledge to get another ball and back up. then thge 4th guy hit into the water also. HE didn`t have an extra ball in his pocket either. just plain rediculous. you should always carry an extra ball in your pocket at all times, and you should carry 3 clubs to the tee: the club you think you need, plus one long club and 1 short club. they wouldn`t let me play through, so i just skipped the 3rd hole because there was no one ahead of them.

I'm so confused I don't even know where to start.

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today i was playing as a single but a 4 some was behind us.

Are you 2 people?

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4 some was behind us...the 4 some was on the tee and we were waiting behind them on the tee

Were they behind you or in front of you? How many of you are there, since you are playing as a single?

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they wouldn`t let me play through, so i just skipped the 3rd hole because there was no one ahead of them.

Why didn't you just skip the 1st hole? I still want to know how many of you there are.

Last edited by mjaber on Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:53 am; edited 1 time in total

I think he was saying there was a group of 4 on the tee.
Him, a single.
4 behind him.

So we was him and the 4 behind him.

I wonder if you do something to provoke this stuff player... you seem to have a lot of bad experiences, or maybe its just the course

ok, i was a single, and drove up to the 1st tee, and saw the 4 some teeing off. i was behind the 4 some. and there is only 1 of me, duh. you should ALWAYS keep an extra ball in your pocket.

gpickin wrote:

I think he was saying there was a group of 4 on the tee. Him, a single. 4 behind him. So we was him and the 4 behind him. I wonder if you do something to provoke this stuff player... you seem to have a lot of bad experiences, or maybe its just the course

I run into stupid crap like this all the time. I don't let most of it get to me anymore. However, the day I saw a baby carriage being pushed off the first tee....I don't even know what to say about that.

player wrote:

and there is only 1 of me, duh.

player wrote:

i was playing as a single but a 4 some was behind us

player wrote:

the 4 some was on the tee and we were waiting behind them on the tee

You might either want to cool it with the "DUH" there, skippy, and proof read your posts. Also, you may want to consider a course in sentence-writing, since sentences are supposed to start with a capital letter.

Bryan K wrote:

However, the day I saw a baby carriage being pushed off the first tee....I don't even know what to say about that.

I've thought about taking my 10-month old with me to the course. I've been told that the car-seat fits perfectly in the basket on the back of most golf carts.

mjaber wrote:

Bryan K wrote: However, the day I saw a baby carriage being pushed off the first tee....I don't even know what to say about that. I've thought about taking my 10-month old with me to the course. I've been told that the car-seat fits perfectly in the basket on the back of most golf carts.

Plese, don't.

Bryan K wrote:

mjaber wrote: Bryan K wrote: However, the day I saw a baby carriage being pushed off the first tee....I don't even know what to say about that. I've thought about taking my 10-month old with me to the course. I've been told that the car-seat fits perfectly in the basket on the back of most golf carts. Plese, don't.

Since she dislikes the carseat so much, I wouldn't, but I thought it was pretty funny that someone had figured it out.

I dont understand why these people wouldn't let you play through on the 1st hole of a par 3

I agree about the writing course mjaber suggested. Your post was very poorly written Player.

Player, you either need to stop making up stories or grow a pair and speak up if something like this happens again.

There's a lot of really rude people on golf courses these days. it's tough not to let them get to you. I remember (i think it was last year) when i was playing locally, i tee'd off at 15 and hit a tree. Now the tee at 15 and the green at 16 are dangerously close. Not deathly, mind you, but you can't see if there's anybody on the green and if you send a shot to the right, odds are you'll nail someone on 16. SO i hit my tee shot on 15, just right of center and it knicks an overhanging tree branch and we (there were 2 other guys with me) lost it. I didn't yell because to our eyes it wasn't anywhere near the 16th. Well we were wrong and these irate (probably drunk) guys start flipping out and yelling from the green all sorts of nasty things and swearing and i tried to apologize and they weren't having any of it. It didn't hit anybody BTW, just came about 5 yards off the green. They basically continued to throw insults my way until i just couldn't take it and dropped the fbomb on them. boy did that set them off. I dunno. something about the biggest guy having already been in prison and he doesn't mind going back for beating the ^#*( out of someone like me. Like that's something to be proud of, i guess?

Long story short, accidents happen as well as slow play. It's a way of life now because most people have no knowledge or very little, of proper etiquette. Swearing at people and just generally not being aware of one's position on the course is one in the same as far as i'm concerned. I'm upset that i lost my temper at the guy, i've since mellowed out and let stupidity like that just blow itself out, but i still don't tolerate absurdly slow play. I just use the cell and call a marshal, there's no sense trying to convince someone to let you through. They would just let you go if they knew better.

birdieXris wrote:

There's a lot of really rude people on golf courses these days. it's tough not to let them get to you. I remember (i think it was last year) when i was playing locally, i tee'd off at 15 and hit a tree. Now the tee at 15 and the green at 16 are dangerously close. Not deathly, mind you, but you can't see if there's anybody on the green and if you send a shot to the right, odds are you'll nail someone on 16. SO i hit my tee shot on 15, just right of center and it knicks an overhanging tree branch and we (there were 2 other guys with me) lost it. I didn't yell because to our eyes it wasn't anywhere near the 16th. Well we were wrong and these irate (probably drunk) guys start flipping out and yelling from the green all sorts of nasty things and swearing and i tried to apologize and they weren't having any of it. It didn't hit anybody BTW, just came about 5 yards off the green. They basically continued to throw insults my way until i just couldn't take it and dropped the fbomb on them. boy did that set them off. I dunno. something about the biggest guy having already been in prison and he doesn't mind going back for beating the ^#*( out of someone like me. Like that's something to be proud of, i guess? Long story short, accidents happen as well as slow play. It's a way of life now because most people have no knowledge or very little, of proper etiquette. Swearing at people and just generally not being aware of one's position on the course is one in the same as far as i'm concerned. I'm upset that i lost my temper at the guy, i've since mellowed out and let stupidity like that just blow itself out, but i still don't tolerate absurdly slow play. I just use the cell and call a marshal, there's no sense trying to convince someone to let you through. They would just let you go if they knew better.

Yeah...I don't lose my temper anymore, either. It never did me any good. But I don't just keep my mouth shut, either. If I say something and they still don't listen, I'll call the clubhouse.

But I think my greatest skill in life is turning tempermental situations into mellow situations. What I hate is the group that plays extremely slow through 90% of the course, and they know it so they speed off the teebox on every hole so I can't catch up to them.

Hey....usually all it takes is a simple, "hey guys. Mind if I play through?"

Banker85 wrote:

I dont understand why these people wouldn't let you play through on the 1st hole of a par 3 I agree about the writing course mjaber suggested. Your post was very poorly written Player. Player, you either need to stop making up stories or grow a pair and speak up if something like this happens again.

Listen, banker, I`m not making up stories!

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Listen, banker, I`m not making up stories!

Entirely possible that you are not making them up. Also possible that they happened to someone else, and you heard the story and decided to pretend it was you.

mjaber wrote:

player wrote: Listen, banker, I`m not making up stories! Entirely possible that you are not making them up. Also possible that they happened to someone else, and you heard the story and decided to pretend it was you.

Nevertheless, it IS time to grow a pair and speak up if this stuff happens again on the course. I mean, you're 27.