Strangest or Funniest Golf Shot You've Witnessed

[ValuJet]

TommyMac's B. open thread got me to thinking about some of the wildest stunts I've seen on golf courses.

I've hit drivers off the toe of the club before, and the ball basically shot a line drive at a 45 degree angle and slammed into the golf carts parked at the tee box. I'm not sure of the PGA rules when the ball lies on the cart path underneath a cart.

I've bounced par three shots off the roof of condo's, hit an errant tee shot that landed on a tennis court, slammed a sliced drive into someone's metal patio awning that sounded like a canon firing, hit several ducks meandering across the fairway on a leisurely stroll, hit a drive so ferociously hard, and hooked it so horribly it landed (presumably) on I-595 (Alligator Alley in FL).

When I lived in Virginia I was playing with a buddy of mine. I don't know how he pulled this one off: He took a swat at one in the rough. I swear the ball went straight up in the air about 30 feet and came down and hit him in the head.

 

[bayoutider]

I was with a guy who killed a bird with his ball off the tee.

 

[It's On A Slab]

TommyMac's B. open thread got me to thinking about some of the wildest stunts I've seen on golf courses.

I've hit drivers off the toe of the club before, and the ball basically shot a line drive at a 45 degree angle and slammed into the golf carts parked at the tee box. I'm not sure of the PGA rules when the ball lies on the cart path underneath a cart.

I've bounced par three shots off the roof of condo's, hit an errant tee shot that landed on a tennis court, slammed a sliced drive into someone's metal patio awning that sounded like a canon firing, hit several ducks meandering across the fairway on a leisurely stroll, hit a drive so ferociously hard, and hooked it so horribly it landed (presumably) on I-595 (Alligator Alley in FL).

When I lived in Virginia I was playing with a buddy of mine. I don't know how he pulled this one off: He took a swat at one in the rough. I swear the ball went straight up in the air about 30 feet and came down and hit him in the head.

I used to play at a course South of Dothan that had a lot of tall pine trees lining the fairways. You'd hear a loud "THUNK" of a ball hitting a tree, followed by a loud bellowing eff word.

 

[specialkpntbl]

I used to play at a course South of Dothan that had a lot of tall pine trees lining the fairways. You'd hear a loud "THUNK" of a ball hitting a tree, followed by a loud bellowing eff word.

Which one slab? I'm curious if I've been there assuming your talking about dothan Alabama.

On a par 3 at my local course I've had the ball land no further than 1\2 an inch from the cup, and then it rolled about 20 feet past it. I was pretty mad. And then I've also hit a grill on somebodys back porch.
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[It's On A Slab]

Which one slab? I'm curious if I've been there assuming your talking about dothan Alabama.

On a par 3 at my local course I've had the ball land no further than 1\2 an inch from the cup, and then it rolled about 20 feet past it. I was pretty mad. And then I've also hit a grill on somebodys back porch.
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I forget the name of the course (it's been over 10 years). That one on Hwy 231 South that had the motel attached to it.

 

[Cape Tide]

TommyMac's B. open thread got me to thinking about some of the wildest stunts I've seen on golf courses.

I've hit drivers off the toe of the club before, and the ball basically shot a line drive at a 45 degree angle and slammed into the golf carts parked at the tee box. I'm not sure of the PGA rules when the ball lies on the cart path underneath a cart.

I've bounced par three shots off the roof of condo's, hit an errant tee shot that landed on a tennis court, slammed a sliced drive into someone's metal patio awning that sounded like a canon firing, hit several ducks meandering across the fairway on a leisurely stroll, hit a drive so ferociously hard, and hooked it so horribly it landed (presumably) on I-595 (Alligator Alley in FL).

When I lived in Virginia I was playing with a buddy of mine. I don't know how he pulled this one off: He took a swat at one in the rough. I swear the ball went straight up in the air about 30 feet and came down and hit him in the head.

Thanks for the read! It had me laughing out loud!

I played with a guy in high school who tee'ed off on the first tee and getting a very faint front edge, managing to hit the ball perpendicular to the fairway and actually curved backwards to land on the practice green. I think that was the last time I played that course...

I also saw a pro player about 15 years ago that was playing from the rough. He hit the ball straight into a tree in front of him, which came back to hit him in the leg, and I think he broke a bone. I guess when you are a pro, you arent as accustomed to playing in the rough as I am!

 

[It's On A Slab]

Thanks for the read! It had me laughing out loud!

I played with a guy in high school who tee'ed off on the first tee and getting a very faint front edge, managing to hit the ball perpendicular to the fairway and actually curved backwards to land on the practice green. I think that was the last time I played that course...

I also saw a pro player about 15 years ago that was playing from the rough. He hit the ball straight into a tree in front of him, which came back to hit him in the leg, and I think he broke a bone. I guess when you are a pro, you arent as accustomed to playing in the rough as I am!

I quit playing golf regularly a few years ago when, invariably, I'd get stuck behind a foursome that was playing too slow, and a guy in the group behind me would start complaining....thinking it was us holding everyone back. A guy I played with had a short temper, and I almost had to pull him off a complainer on more than one occasion.

I also had a guy hit a shot at the green while our foursome was still putting. The ball dropped right out of the sky while one of us was putting. Luckily no one got hit.

 

[BamaSC]

I'm pretty sure this happened at The Legends in Myrtle Beach. They use pcv pipes stuck in the fairway vertically to mark 150 yards to the green. They stick up about 2-3 feet. One of my friends was about 30-40 yards behind this marker and really hit a hot, low shot that hit the marker. Nobody saw what direction the ball went after it struck. After a little searching, the guy that hit the shot went to the marker and noticed a perfectly round hole where the ball went in. There was no exit hole, so he lifted the pipe and there was his ball.
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[rhYno]

Youtube "jackass-golf course airhorn"

 

[bamanut_aj]

1. My cousins and I were playing Municipal in Huntsville (the same one that in a previous thread, I mentioned we told the Pro that my cousin got a hole in one and he got his name in the paper). It started sprinkling one day, but we pressed on. We were on the back...maybe on 14 or 15. It's a long hole with a pretty decent hill in the fairway. We're at the bottom of the hill, my cousin hits a wood over the hill and down. Well, it apparently hit a non-English-speaking Chinaman on the umbrella. I say this because he was Chinese, whatever he was yelling, he was NOT speaking English, and he was pointing violently at his umbrella.

2. Also at Muni, some of the grounds guys were hacking around one day, and we rolled up on them as they were teeing off. Like in a previous post, this one dude winds up and takes a might hack...sending the ball directly sideways into the GOLF CART RIGHT BESIDE HIM and hits his buddy in the ribs.

 

[Atlmetroguy]

This was about a year ago and I'm golfing with my wife and another couple who are good friends of ours. We're on the par 5 10th fairway which at the end of the longest section is a lake you have to hit across to get to the green. Probably 100 yards from the waters edge to the center of the green.

Twas a sunny day and beers were going down pretty good, we'd hit our lay-up shots and were ready to jump the lake to the green. Around that lake there is always 20-30 ducks that like to swim and hang out on the short section of the fairway before you get to the green.

Jokingly I tell everybody in the group that the "duck rule" is now in effect.

My wife asks what's the duck rule? I told here and the other couple, $1 for every duck they hit in the arse. I'm laughing because there is no way this is going to happen.

My wife takes her iron and get's ready to hit....she pulls back into her backswing and then cuts loose with a mighty blow as she is not sure she'll get over the water.

The ball launches off the club face and kinda skips across the water hits the bank on the other side and pops straight up in the air. The ball then comes down and ....

Yep...hit a duck right square on the arse. Million to 1 shot that could actually happen right?

I produced a dollar bill and paid my wife!!

:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

 

[AllTide]

We were camping at Point Mallard in Decatur a couple of years ago with three other families. Us guys talked the women into taking the kiddies to the wave pool for the day so we could go play a round of golf.

One of my best friends in our foursome has not played in years becouse of in his words "I suck". What really makes the story funny at least for the ones there is he is really funny and can laugh at himself.

At the first tee we are all in the fairway with decent shoots when it's my friends turn to tee off. We tell him there is no pressure becouse we are all in the fairway (wink, wink). He winds up like a cheap timex and slices one into the woods. We all laugh and joke around about squirrel hunting yada, yada, yada. We all go into the woods to find his ball. He has a pretty decent lie with a big opening to get the ball out. We tell him to just punch the ball back out on the fairway and not to kill any squirrels becouse its not hunting season. He lines up the shot and (he only has one sing speed hard) gives it a whack. The ball is a worm burner traveling about 200mph heading for a giant oak tree. The ball hits the tree and instead of bouncing back or sideways it goes straight up the tree, about 1 secound latter I am not kidding a squirrel comes falling/jumping out of the tree. The squirrel jumps up and ran up another tree and by this time we are all laughing so hard we were crying.

We horse laughed him the rest of the day. He has been a good sport about it even bringing up the subject himself and we still laugh about it.

 

[JagTider]

Had a buddy get chased off the green by geese. They were nesting close to the side of the green where his shot landed. He even tried shooing it away with his putter put that goose wasn't giving up. He eventually quit trying to get his ball but watching him getting chased by that goose was hilarious.

I have sent one flying off to right so far that it crossed a vacant parking lot next to the fairway and landed in the playground of a daycare. Very glad none of the little tricycle motors got hit.

One really wet morning we (same buddy and I) got paired up with another two-some that we didn't know. Two nicely dressed older gents. We're standing near the tee box of the first hole waiting for the group ahead of us to clear and talking. So we're taking a couple a practice swings trying to warm up when my buddy's swing goes haywire and he buries the head of his club in the ground on his down swing. A huge spray of mud and grass fly up and cover the two old guys we were playing with. I mean from head to toe and all over their faces. I didn't even tee off on that hole because I was laughing so hard. I've never seen a guy apologize so much for next four hours.

 

[BamaNation]

Probably my own a couple years ago.

I play golf 1X per year and it's usually with a friend who flies in from NYC to play during late fall. He came down a couple years ago and we played a really nice course with 2 other friends. It was about 30 degrees outside but promised to warm up to 50's. But, the fog was as bad as I've ever seen. I hit a shot off the first tee that was PERFECT (it went straight, in the air and didn't hit any trees which lined the fairway for 250 yards). However, the fog was so bad, I lost the ball and had to take the penalty

 

[BigTex]

I didnt just witness this, I did it.

A friend of mine and I went with our girlfriends at the time to Barbados. Ladies went shopping , we went to play golf. We were at a hole , dont remember the one , where a road in the resort ran in front of the tee box. The way the course was layed out, it looked like the resort was built and the golf courss was added years later.

I told my friend , I would hit the curb on the other side of the street. I am not a good golfer. Well...I tee'd up and hit the ball, it hit the curb across the street, ricoched left, hit the side of an adobe house, hit a tree behind the teebox and landed a few feet in front of where I tee'd up from previously.

As I said, I am not a good golfer. We had a mid afternoon shower that day. Buddy and I went to the clubhouse and got soused on Rum Punch. The rain let up , I went out and had the best 9 holes of my life. Got loaded many times playing golf after that in the hope I could duplicate it...never happened.

 

[TommyMac]

This didn't happen to me, but it's pretty funny and is even sorta Bama related.

I worked with a guy on the fire dept in Orlando named John Woodward. John was an outstanding athlete, a WR in HS and was good enough to get an in-home from Coach Bryant. To say that he was laid back would be a huge understatement and he admitted that he was intimidated by Coach and that he was leery of his hard nosed approach to football, therefore he went to Florida under Ray Graves. He wrecked his right shoulder his freshman year and eventually dropped out.

Anyway, John was about a scratch golfer and a bit of a hustler. He loved this one executive course in Winter Park because it had a lot of rich old farts there and he could usually hustle a few bucks out of them.

Well, one day he showed up and got paired up with a geezer who asked John what his handicap was, John said that he was an 18. The geezer said that he was about the same so they set up some bets, a Nassau and some side bets. After 5 holes, John was 1 under, but he was 2 down to the geezer. It turned out that the old guy put a serious dent in John's wallet and followed him out to his car trying to find out when John would be back.

The next morning at the fire station, I was having coffee with John's ex HS QB when John straggled in, (He was always late.) He sat down and told us the whole story and just as serious as could be, he said....."The more I think about it, I think that old SOB sandbagged me." Steve and I cracked up.

Sad footnote..........John died of AIDS in his early 40's, 43 I believe.

 

[rizolltizide]

Every shot I take is one of the funniest you've ever seen.
:eek2:

 

[NashTIDE]

I've hit drivers off the toe of the club before, and the ball basically shot a line drive at a 45 degree angle and slammed into the golf carts parked at the tee box.

I've done this too.... Short par 4 295 yards...Im gonna try to drive the green!! I swing real hard and open the club face enough to fire the ball right in the cart where it hit my wife in the ankle, with my brother and a friend from work as witnesses....I still hear about this several years later. My wife is ok but gets behind me when im on the tee--LOL

 

[MrsNashTIDE]

I've done this too.... Short par 4 295 yards...Im gonna try to drive the green!! I swing real hard and open the club face enough to fire the ball right in the cart where it hit my wife in the ankle, with my brother and a friend from work as witnesses....I still hear about this several years later. My wife is ok but gets behind me when im on the tee--LOL

He did this on hole 12ish. My brother in law drives me to the clubhouse to get some ice. They finish the round as a threesome, while I'm in PAIN at the clubhouse!

I walked funny for a week. Now I stand behind everyone when I play.

 

[wardaddy]

Shot hit by my dad.

Par 3 160 yards. Raised tee box with 30 yards of water to clear just before the green. Dad takes a 6 iron and hits a worm-burner. The ball skips three times off the water and squirts onto the green and into the hole. An ESPN shot if there ever was one.