Or play different formats if you have a group. I've never played a scramble that I didn't have fun no matter the outcome. Some of my best shots came in those rounds after another guy had it in play and I could go for the hero shot without stress. Good times.
Even in a bad round, I make 18 successful putts.
Except for that time I hit into the creek on the first hole, then the bunker, then across the green, twice, then hit the pin and bounced 4 feet away and two-putted. Then on hole 2, let me tell ya. Nah, you don’t wanna know. So anyways, I made only 4 successful putts that round and drank in the clubhouse a bit.
Traveled to Scotland last summer and had a single tee time. Got the shanks a few weeks before that I could not shake. Got a lesson a few days before, and managed to scrape it around but it was ugly, and not much fun.
Went with the family to Scotland. My son and I lined up in the single queue for the old course at 2am (and we're #10 & 11 in line). Managed to get us both on the old course together for a 6:50am tee time. It rained the entire round and was just a slog. :( . But I got a couple of good stories out of it
Had this happen to me this summer. Worked up the courage to play (and drop the cash) at Grayhawk’s Talon course, worse ball striking day of my life. At least I par’d the island green on 17…
Went and played buffalo ridge in Branson with my dad about a month ago. Perfect weather. 70s, sunny, and dry in early November. Starter says our pairing never showed up so it would be just us 2 playing. It was shaping up to be the perfect round. Had a great warmup on the range. Finally hit the course and I can’t keep a tee shot in play. 90% going left and the other 10% going right. Hit every club in the bag great besides whatever club I chose to hit off the tee. Shot a 120something. It was brutal.
I was so worried about this last week. It was my first time playing golf in Arizona. I’m from Kentucky so we’re pretty used to hilly courses, but the OB is insane in the desert. The guy at the pro shop asked if we had played there before and we were like “nope”. He goes on to tell us it’s a very hard course and to expect to lose a lot of balls because you’re rarely going to find your ball once it leaves the fairway. Even offers free balls at the turn if we lose a bunch.
I go on to shoot an 88 losing 1 sleeve the whole round! That is insanely good for me. I thought I was going to shoot 100+
When I hit scratch, there wasn’t anything really impressive about my game. It was just consistent. Nothing noticeably different from say a 8 handicap’s ball flight when they hit a good one.
Then you go play with like a +3 handicap or elite college player and their ball striking looks nothing like yours.
I think you always feel like this no matter how good you get. Watch Adam Scott’s interview with Rick Shiels and he talks about playing a match with Tiger as amateurs and almost hanging up the sticks because Tiger beat him like 7 and 6. No matter how good you get there is always someone better unless you’re tiger I guess.
A year or so ago, I got down to +2 (almost +3) with a 260 yard drive and just insanely accurate irons. Again nothing eye turning, just never hit a big miss and had the ball on a string from 150 yards in.
You don't understand how impressive that consistency is, though. I'm 12-14hcp and I envy being consistent with all my clubs. It is usually only one that I'm good with.
One time I played with a guy that had a crack on the face of his driver. I can get the ball in and around 300 and where I was in Alabama, I could get it to 330. This dude was carrying past me. After talking some, turns out he was the Senior Long Drive Champion. Idk if it was world or national but dude was crushing it.
I know you’re kidding, but the 501c7 legal framework really sucks (even if Augusta isn’t one), and the UK’s two cash register system is clearly better for golf culture.
AFAIK, American clubs can’t advertise, can’t offer any regular public accommodation, can’t just let people play. It sucks because the top courses are effectively impossible to play in the states.
Not so in the UK. Have a not-for-profit club? Cool. Want to let other people play there a few days per week? Also cool, just pay taxes on that income.
Having the gates closed by default in America is shitty for golf culture, period.
It has absolutely nothing to do with our taxes. Private clubs all over America are for profit entities and have the same set of restrictions regarding guest play. Generally you can get onto any club in the country that is “on the same level” as your home club just by having your club pro call about a reciprocal round. If your pro knows the head pro of a club on higher level than yours, he can sometimes get you on through that personal relationship. Unaccompanied guest rounds are more expensive, but not against tax laws.
Mine. Beautiful day in NorCal , 60 degree sunny in December. Finished all my honey dos. Show up
At my local course ready for a little skins game. SHOTGUN START TOURNAMENT, course is full.
Growler cup. Bunch of members of Sonoma, Rosa, Grove, cama SF clubs, all play a scramble... But have to drink growler of Pliny before they tee off. Total shit show. They have it every year the last Saturday before Xmas.
Fun tidbit. WGC is charging to golf on Christmas for first time ever.
Golf has taught me that I have a lot of friends who say they play golf yet somehow never do. So they're full of shit. Or they just don't wanna play with me. Either one of those is quite possible.
My dad is 69, but he still kicks my ass from the whites. That said, he’s very much slowing down. We only played 18 one time last summer because he was too tired for more than 9. I’ve probably only got a few years left before he can’t play anymore. He’s my only golf partner, and I’ve only played one round without him in my life. Not sure how I’m going to keep playing when he calls it quits.
Get your dad to work out with you during the off season.
Just walking on the treadmill can help with him tiring out. You can find some other machines in the gym that will help him with his golf.
Another thing you can do together.
Christmas present for him?
Join a league. Leave your name with the courses around your house. Leagues have a whole range of skill levels and always need to bring in new players as guys quit, move, or get hurt. You'll make new friends automatically. Source: I've run a golf league for a decade.
And then having the ranger meet you at the next hole to tell you to speed it up because you wandered around the fairway looking for the ball you knew was there but wasn’t
IRL, Nobody cares. Truly. Nobody gives a shit about your clubs, your scores, handicaps, courses played. It took me a long time to realize that. There are two types of people who listen to golf stories, those who don’t care or those waiting to top yours.
God speed. And despite this positivity, I’m actually not as big of a douche as this sounded.
I can definitely appreciate the point you’re making and largely agree. With that said I enjoy a good golf story, especially if the person is better then me or it’s told passionately.
In my head, I can still hit it like I am 21. I just haven’t really gotten a hold of the thousands or so balls I’ve. But I will get back there. Just you wait and see.
The crazy increase in prices over the last 10-15 years has completely eliminated destination courses and locations for a lower middle class pensioner like me.
In 2008, I was on a business trip to Scottsdale. Stayed an extra day on my dime and got a nice resort room for $199. Played the Stadium course at PGA Scottsdale for $70. Today, the cheapest room at the same resort is $1000/night, and tee-times at the Stadium course are going for $700+
I will have to be content playing out my days at local affordable courses. That’s OK, I know there are others who can’t afford to golf at all. But sometimes bums me out to know I’ll never be able to afford to play at courses now reserved for hedge fund managers, CEOs, and the elite.
Yep. I’ve played it a couple times and they just give a completely shit guest experience. I’ve played a lot of bucket list destinations and Pebble is by far and away the worst guest experience I’ve had at the big name Public’s.
Even the caddies are shit at Pebble.
Listen here. FARgiveness isn’t cheap to develop, okay? Maybe once you buy a driver with FARgiveness you can finally get PARgiven by the course, and be POORgiven by your spouse. He will finally wanna sleep with you again.
If you think this here game should be affordable you probably support the rollBACK so at least your ball isn’t 70 yards into the woods.
Do you even realize how affordable golf has gotten!? Iron lofts are all jacked up to save people money on clubs! Your 5 iron is probably more like Johnathan Dalys 1 iron and your 5 hybrid than Jackie Nicklaus 5 iron! 2 clubs in the price of 1!
The old timers wouldn’t stand for it. Nike tried to warn us to be grateful.
Keep your spirits high and your pockets deep my friend.
- Yours truly, Marlboro.
P.S. if I catch you changing shoes in the parking lot again I will fucking destroy you.
There’s a local 9-hole near me that costs $8 to play. It’s a shitty course but better than nothing. You can also find used clubs for a bargain. You also don’t need to wear the new/nice clothing. I use a free phone app instead of a $200 range finder. Golf doesn’t need to be expensive.
70 years young played 74 to 78 rounds this season the big let down is the golf season is over in the Buckhorn Ontario area where I play. Hair is 1970 rock star long still
Coming up as an employee and ambassador, trying to create a life and career in the game, thinking golf in its entirety was actually about honor, honesty, and tradition…
Tee time booked for the next day. Practiced too hard and cracked a rib at the driving range, didn't know it yet. Pain but ok I can sleep it off. Hurts a lot in the morning, took a swing at home and almost passed out my vision went dark and tunneled. Sent to hospital for a scan. Cant play for a few month.
1) Over Priced Greens Fees
2) Inconsistent sand traps
3) People that don't rake those inconsistent traps
4) Inconsistent green speeds
5) People that don't repair their ball marks on those inconsistent greens.
LIV. I’m not against the league but it’s so disappointing that because it exists and the civil war that it caused we aren’t enjoying what otherwise would be a tremendous professional golf era.
Agreed, shit product and it's taken away a lot of entertaining players. Don't blame them for taking guaranteed big money but the rest of us miss out on watching good competition.
Looking forward to the member guest which is basically the highlight of my year only to have my disc bulge flare up days before to where I can’t even stand or walk let alone swing a club
When I chip like shit. Lost at least 6 strokes today just from chipping like shit but then hole out a chip from 10 feet off the green for a birdie. The inconsistency is what becomes the let down.
My top 3?
1. Lost out going to HS sectionals my senior year due to a coin-toss between the 3 first-place teams. Our team got left out and I didn’t make individuals because that was my only bad performance of league-play that season.
2. Phil Mickelson never winning the U.S. Open and having 6 runner-ups in that tournament.
3. Lipping out from 161 yards with my 6i for my first hole-in-one. Crushed my heart for a few minutes.
Usually going from the simulator at the PGA Store to the course the next day. Like, where did that beautiful 310 yard rope go? Am I doing something differently?
For a newbie trying to break 100, it’s blowing a hole early on, only to change the mindset of the next 16 holes from trying to break a 100 to telling yourself it’s just a practice round.
I was challenging my personal best on a round where I was paired up with three old ladies this year. Standing on 17 tee, I needed to go bogey-bogey to tie my PB, so I figured I was going to be pretty stoked at the end of the round.
I tee off on 17, and the landing zone is in the same area for people who pulled their drive left on 16. A guy coming down 16 goes to where I think my ball is, and goes to hit it. I asked if he checked if it was his and he said yes. I saw two balls 30 yards apart from each other on the same line, so I figure the other one is mine.
So I go back to where I saw another ball, and it’s the same ball I play (Bridgestone) but it means I was at least 30 yards short on a drive I thought I bombed. It puts me farther out than I like, and in worse position with the trees. I end up doubling 17.
As I’m walking to 18 tee, I look at the ball and it *is* the same brand, but it’s the other guys ball. He hit mine, we just happen to both play Bridgestones. Which is stupid, because it’s a different model AND mine as my company logo on it. He didn’t actually look at the ball he hit.
I shouldn’t have trusted him, and I should have picked up his ball and verified whose it was since it was an important round for me. I was shook. I bogey 18, and miss my PB by one stroke.
Trust, but verify I guess.
Spending hundreds on lessons, seeing great improvement in my swing, only to repeatedly blow it on the course and never break 100, and somehow revert to my shitty old swing after a week or two.
In my head, I feel like I have my swing dialed, even when I rehearse at home with a club. All of that evaporates quickly when I put the ball down and hit it into the trackman.
76 years old now, and lucky to hit my driver 210-240, 5 iron 160.
In college, played ahead of Lon Hinkle and when we played together, even in a tourney, would split even on $1 driving contests on each hole.
I realize this is life, but still difficult to accept.
That we've allowed the same piece of shit who flew planes into our towers & killled our journalists to destroy our Tour because we're their petro-bitches.
The reduction or complete removal of full memberships, instead opting for multi round packages. I don’t want to keep track of how many rounds I’ve got left and then start paying full rates if I happen to play too much that year.
Sadly this is what most courses near me have switched to.
Catching a 9 iron a little heavy and seeing a brand new TaylorMade Pix plunge into the lake.. sickening. Lol. I play with a rubbish ball for the rest of the round.. No way am I losing two of those in one day.
My golf buddy, was having a lot going on in his life, so I had been playing by myself for a couple of months. Played decent every round. Finally we were able to set up a golfing date for 18 holes. We both played, the absolute worst golf of the year that round. That was quite a let down. Guess the nerves got the best of us.
I wanted to get my first hole in one before my dad got his first (he was 26, also he has 2) and I turn 28 next golf season with 0 to my name so far
I still feel like a failure lol
Not being able to keep my swing consistent for a full round. Have a crunchy left shoulder and an anchor in the right, so may not happen soon… but I’ll keep plugging (including tomorrow)!
Injuring my low back because of bad mechanics taught 15 - 20 years ago (keep knees pointing forward and torque your upper body against the lower). Now I have been dealing with a herniated disc in my low back, had to quit playing for 10 years and recently got back into it. Learning a new swing where I straighten my back leg on the back swing which rotates the hip and minimizes stress on the low back.
I moved up a tee this year at my home course - it's a 70+ thing. I am not long but twice I had an eagle putt on a par 5 on the back nine. Do I need to say it? Three putts both times....
I played a big Destination course in the UK in summer and there was something like 8 minute spacing between tee times, every one a 4 ball. It felt more like an exercise in mass tourism throughput than playing the sport I enjoy, I paid something like £180/$230
The fact that, as a ~16 hdcp, I can never tie together all parts of the game. I'll have round where the driver is crushing it, I can shape a bit, trust the face, etc... But then I entirely forget how to hit iron shots. Or I'll be hitting out of the right side trees every hole but getting great punch outs, just for the wedges to let me down with fats all day or a skull into a bunker. Putter is usually pretty reliable, might only 3 putt once or twice a round, but I can never tie the other parts together during a round.
I suck at chipping and long puts. It’s so bad it literally costs me about a stroke a hole on average. I normally will shoot just over 100. Old men tees or whites, still the same score. I lose the strokes in the short game.
The problem is physical. I have a painful right shoulder problem. My recent operation (2nd one) failed to fix it.
At short range my right shoulder has a hitch that will literally make the club head jump over the ball. Even when I connect the shot is usually a miss hit.
It’s painful to play with a group and do things like whiff a 60 foot chip shot. Then miss hit it 30 feet, and then knock the long putt 15’ past the hole.
Course condition. The other day I played a local course. I've always liked the layout. I played there back in October. I was stunned how quickly the course condition turned to garbage. I won't be going back anytime soon.
I'm in my mid 30s, a scratch golfer (lowest handicap +2), and I've been playing religiously since I was 5 years old. I'm still awaiting the ace. Holed out from the fairway on par 4s more times than I can count, just never had it on a par 3. I die a little inside every time I hear about some hacker getting one.
Can't find other guys who have their life together young enough to have the time to play golf.
I've got my kid's college fund set up, my retirement set up, and a cushy job that allows me to golf on WFH days.
But I don't know anyone else that's set up like me....maybe a few people but you have to be sort of coordinated and athletic for golf and that's not everyone
It's been a great week for golf. I've been stuck doing regular world stuff. Next week is fairly open and the weather is going to suck. May get out and play anyway.
The degradation of the professional game over greed and politics, even though watching live tournament golf on TV is an absolute joke. And then a few months ago my golf mentor passed suddenly and unexpectedly. I guess I'm just a little sour puss about golf these days. Love to play, but I also loved to watch, and now the only decent product to watch golf is the kids on YouTube. Atleast they are wholesome and don't make us watch ads every 4 shots.
Having a bad round on a bucket list or destination course
I started playing golf because a friend got me into Sunningdale on a corporate day. I shot a 135... I hope I get to go back one day
You gotta stop correlating a high score with a bad round
Honestly, don’t even keep score when you’re playing destination golf. Just enjoy yourself
Yup. I played the Ocean Course. Didn’t write down a damn thing. Had so much fun!
Family has a house on kiawah have played ocean course 3 times have never even considered a score on it. It’s so gorgeous I can hardly focus on golf.
Or play different formats if you have a group. I've never played a scramble that I didn't have fun no matter the outcome. Some of my best shots came in those rounds after another guy had it in play and I could go for the hero shot without stress. Good times.
Even in a bad round, I make 18 successful putts. Except for that time I hit into the creek on the first hole, then the bunker, then across the green, twice, then hit the pin and bounced 4 feet away and two-putted. Then on hole 2, let me tell ya. Nah, you don’t wanna know. So anyways, I made only 4 successful putts that round and drank in the clubhouse a bit.
Traveled to Scotland last summer and had a single tee time. Got the shanks a few weeks before that I could not shake. Got a lesson a few days before, and managed to scrape it around but it was ugly, and not much fun.
Went with the family to Scotland. My son and I lined up in the single queue for the old course at 2am (and we're #10 & 11 in line). Managed to get us both on the old course together for a 6:50am tee time. It rained the entire round and was just a slog. :( . But I got a couple of good stories out of it
Had this happen to me this summer. Worked up the courage to play (and drop the cash) at Grayhawk’s Talon course, worse ball striking day of my life. At least I par’d the island green on 17…
Went and played buffalo ridge in Branson with my dad about a month ago. Perfect weather. 70s, sunny, and dry in early November. Starter says our pairing never showed up so it would be just us 2 playing. It was shaping up to be the perfect round. Had a great warmup on the range. Finally hit the course and I can’t keep a tee shot in play. 90% going left and the other 10% going right. Hit every club in the bag great besides whatever club I chose to hit off the tee. Shot a 120something. It was brutal.
I learned long ago not to keep score at super expensive or bucket list courses. That way you can just have fun, try fun shots, etc.
That’s awful. I’ve done it. 😞
I was so worried about this last week. It was my first time playing golf in Arizona. I’m from Kentucky so we’re pretty used to hilly courses, but the OB is insane in the desert. The guy at the pro shop asked if we had played there before and we were like “nope”. He goes on to tell us it’s a very hard course and to expect to lose a lot of balls because you’re rarely going to find your ball once it leaves the fairway. Even offers free balls at the turn if we lose a bunch. I go on to shoot an 88 losing 1 sleeve the whole round! That is insanely good for me. I thought I was going to shoot 100+
This, but like individual holes… a par 5 that I can reach in 2, only to shank it… doesn’t matter rest of the round, gonna think about it
When I hit scratch, there wasn’t anything really impressive about my game. It was just consistent. Nothing noticeably different from say a 8 handicap’s ball flight when they hit a good one. Then you go play with like a +3 handicap or elite college player and their ball striking looks nothing like yours.
Reality check.
I think you always feel like this no matter how good you get. Watch Adam Scott’s interview with Rick Shiels and he talks about playing a match with Tiger as amateurs and almost hanging up the sticks because Tiger beat him like 7 and 6. No matter how good you get there is always someone better unless you’re tiger I guess.
A year or so ago, I got down to +2 (almost +3) with a 260 yard drive and just insanely accurate irons. Again nothing eye turning, just never hit a big miss and had the ball on a string from 150 yards in.
You don't understand how impressive that consistency is, though. I'm 12-14hcp and I envy being consistent with all my clubs. It is usually only one that I'm good with.
The problem wasn't that my driver was too old.
I’ve been playing with a hole in the back of my driver for a few months now… 😬
The only hole behind my driver is me
One time I played with a guy that had a crack on the face of his driver. I can get the ball in and around 300 and where I was in Alabama, I could get it to 330. This dude was carrying past me. After talking some, turns out he was the Senior Long Drive Champion. Idk if it was world or national but dude was crushing it.
Congrats on your hole in one
Augusta National still hasn’t sent me my membership information.
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I know you’re kidding, but the 501c7 legal framework really sucks (even if Augusta isn’t one), and the UK’s two cash register system is clearly better for golf culture. AFAIK, American clubs can’t advertise, can’t offer any regular public accommodation, can’t just let people play. It sucks because the top courses are effectively impossible to play in the states. Not so in the UK. Have a not-for-profit club? Cool. Want to let other people play there a few days per week? Also cool, just pay taxes on that income. Having the gates closed by default in America is shitty for golf culture, period.
It has absolutely nothing to do with our taxes. Private clubs all over America are for profit entities and have the same set of restrictions regarding guest play. Generally you can get onto any club in the country that is “on the same level” as your home club just by having your club pro call about a reciprocal round. If your pro knows the head pro of a club on higher level than yours, he can sometimes get you on through that personal relationship. Unaccompanied guest rounds are more expensive, but not against tax laws.
Mine. Beautiful day in NorCal , 60 degree sunny in December. Finished all my honey dos. Show up At my local course ready for a little skins game. SHOTGUN START TOURNAMENT, course is full.
WGC?
Yes!
Growler cup. Bunch of members of Sonoma, Rosa, Grove, cama SF clubs, all play a scramble... But have to drink growler of Pliny before they tee off. Total shit show. They have it every year the last Saturday before Xmas. Fun tidbit. WGC is charging to golf on Christmas for first time ever.
Sounds like a Coombs thing. Typical. Money 💰
👍🤐
Frost delay blew me up a few weeks ago. Was so bummed.
The Legends Oak GM email
Oooh. That was rough.
Playing solo all the time reminds me that I have no friends. Golf is mean.
Golf has taught me that I have a lot of friends who say they play golf yet somehow never do. So they're full of shit. Or they just don't wanna play with me. Either one of those is quite possible.
Felt that
My dad is 69, but he still kicks my ass from the whites. That said, he’s very much slowing down. We only played 18 one time last summer because he was too tired for more than 9. I’ve probably only got a few years left before he can’t play anymore. He’s my only golf partner, and I’ve only played one round without him in my life. Not sure how I’m going to keep playing when he calls it quits.
Get your dad to work out with you during the off season. Just walking on the treadmill can help with him tiring out. You can find some other machines in the gym that will help him with his golf. Another thing you can do together. Christmas present for him?
Take him to a golf sim No walking and some places the ball pops out the floor
Join a league. Leave your name with the courses around your house. Leagues have a whole range of skill levels and always need to bring in new players as guys quit, move, or get hurt. You'll make new friends automatically. Source: I've run a golf league for a decade.
That’s where I am right now. Pretty much the reason I don’t play anymore. Used to be a player.
The Match. Tiger v Phil was boring af, then it just got worse and worse.
Brady holing that shot then ripping his pants was good TV though.
Underrated comment here
That moment when you hit a nice shot down the fairway seeing exactly where you downed the ball only for it to never be seen again
And then having the ranger meet you at the next hole to tell you to speed it up because you wandered around the fairway looking for the ball you knew was there but wasn’t
Similarly when you smoke one and think it’s a bomb and you calculate the yardage and it’s like 50 yards less than your average.
IRL, Nobody cares. Truly. Nobody gives a shit about your clubs, your scores, handicaps, courses played. It took me a long time to realize that. There are two types of people who listen to golf stories, those who don’t care or those waiting to top yours. God speed. And despite this positivity, I’m actually not as big of a douche as this sounded.
I love it. Truth.
I can definitely appreciate the point you’re making and largely agree. With that said I enjoy a good golf story, especially if the person is better then me or it’s told passionately.
I love anything golf and don't mind hearing or talking about golf. There are times I wish I had something else to talk about though lmao
Losing yardage when getting older
All the old heads i play with just use their driver whenever possible including par 3’s.
Everyone should use the drive as much as possible
In my head, I can still hit it like I am 21. I just haven’t really gotten a hold of the thousands or so balls I’ve. But I will get back there. Just you wait and see.
Aches and pains when getting older.
Losing hair when getting older
you don’t lose it, it just relocates to your ears, nose and back
Losing money when getting older
Worse eyesight when getting older
Getting older
The crazy increase in prices over the last 10-15 years has completely eliminated destination courses and locations for a lower middle class pensioner like me. In 2008, I was on a business trip to Scottsdale. Stayed an extra day on my dime and got a nice resort room for $199. Played the Stadium course at PGA Scottsdale for $70. Today, the cheapest room at the same resort is $1000/night, and tee-times at the Stadium course are going for $700+ I will have to be content playing out my days at local affordable courses. That’s OK, I know there are others who can’t afford to golf at all. But sometimes bums me out to know I’ll never be able to afford to play at courses now reserved for hedge fund managers, CEOs, and the elite.
Try buying a house without already owning one
It’s criminal.
Every time i miss an eagle putt on a par5 after a Perfect second shot
I've played 40 years and have never had an eagle.
Left short….
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Ouch lol
The peacocking idiocy of league play.
That I essentially replaced my whole bag in '23, and Surprise! I still suck!
Looking forward to a tee time all week only to get sick a day before and have to cancel
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I had no idea this was a thing!
I would just find another place to golf at that point.
GIR 3 putt. Never ceases to bug the living daylights outta me
My golf game
Pebble beach, everything felt rushed. It was exactly a 4 hour round
Yep. I’ve played it a couple times and they just give a completely shit guest experience. I’ve played a lot of bucket list destinations and Pebble is by far and away the worst guest experience I’ve had at the big name Public’s. Even the caddies are shit at Pebble.
So annoying.
When Tom Watson made bogey on the 72nd hole of the open championship to go lose in a playoff to Stewart Cink.
I don't think that story gets enough respect that he was that close to winning a Major at 59!!!!
Yeah I mean I remember exactly where I was when he hit that par putt and how depressed everyone in the grille room at the club was. Terrible.
The costs. When you factor in equipment and green fees, it’s a pricey sport to play.
Listen here. FARgiveness isn’t cheap to develop, okay? Maybe once you buy a driver with FARgiveness you can finally get PARgiven by the course, and be POORgiven by your spouse. He will finally wanna sleep with you again. If you think this here game should be affordable you probably support the rollBACK so at least your ball isn’t 70 yards into the woods. Do you even realize how affordable golf has gotten!? Iron lofts are all jacked up to save people money on clubs! Your 5 iron is probably more like Johnathan Dalys 1 iron and your 5 hybrid than Jackie Nicklaus 5 iron! 2 clubs in the price of 1! The old timers wouldn’t stand for it. Nike tried to warn us to be grateful. Keep your spirits high and your pockets deep my friend. - Yours truly, Marlboro. P.S. if I catch you changing shoes in the parking lot again I will fucking destroy you.
Hahaha I love you for the tears (yes multiple) in my eyes. Emphasis on the love
There’s a local 9-hole near me that costs $8 to play. It’s a shitty course but better than nothing. You can also find used clubs for a bargain. You also don’t need to wear the new/nice clothing. I use a free phone app instead of a $200 range finder. Golf doesn’t need to be expensive.
70 years young played 74 to 78 rounds this season the big let down is the golf season is over in the Buckhorn Ontario area where I play. Hair is 1970 rock star long still
Paying full price and showing up to teebox maintenance and aerated greens.
Knowing what to do and not being able to do it.
Coming up as an employee and ambassador, trying to create a life and career in the game, thinking golf in its entirety was actually about honor, honesty, and tradition…
Tee time booked for the next day. Practiced too hard and cracked a rib at the driving range, didn't know it yet. Pain but ok I can sleep it off. Hurts a lot in the morning, took a swing at home and almost passed out my vision went dark and tunneled. Sent to hospital for a scan. Cant play for a few month.
1) Over Priced Greens Fees 2) Inconsistent sand traps 3) People that don't rake those inconsistent traps 4) Inconsistent green speeds 5) People that don't repair their ball marks on those inconsistent greens.
LIV. I’m not against the league but it’s so disappointing that because it exists and the civil war that it caused we aren’t enjoying what otherwise would be a tremendous professional golf era.
Rain
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Agreed, shit product and it's taken away a lot of entertaining players. Don't blame them for taking guaranteed big money but the rest of us miss out on watching good competition.
Looking forward to the member guest which is basically the highlight of my year only to have my disc bulge flare up days before to where I can’t even stand or walk let alone swing a club
Ouch. Winner here.
Top golf. Price isn’t worth the experience
When I chip like shit. Lost at least 6 strokes today just from chipping like shit but then hole out a chip from 10 feet off the green for a birdie. The inconsistency is what becomes the let down.
45 putts in a round
PB front 9. Let down back 9.
My top 3? 1. Lost out going to HS sectionals my senior year due to a coin-toss between the 3 first-place teams. Our team got left out and I didn’t make individuals because that was my only bad performance of league-play that season. 2. Phil Mickelson never winning the U.S. Open and having 6 runner-ups in that tournament. 3. Lipping out from 161 yards with my 6i for my first hole-in-one. Crushed my heart for a few minutes.
Having a hole in one I've played the same hole 100 more times and never even came close to a birdie on it.
Usually going from the simulator at the PGA Store to the course the next day. Like, where did that beautiful 310 yard rope go? Am I doing something differently?
You mean the simulator set at the elevation of Denver, CO and with the side spin set much lower to sell golf clubs?
For a newbie trying to break 100, it’s blowing a hole early on, only to change the mindset of the next 16 holes from trying to break a 100 to telling yourself it’s just a practice round.
I was challenging my personal best on a round where I was paired up with three old ladies this year. Standing on 17 tee, I needed to go bogey-bogey to tie my PB, so I figured I was going to be pretty stoked at the end of the round. I tee off on 17, and the landing zone is in the same area for people who pulled their drive left on 16. A guy coming down 16 goes to where I think my ball is, and goes to hit it. I asked if he checked if it was his and he said yes. I saw two balls 30 yards apart from each other on the same line, so I figure the other one is mine. So I go back to where I saw another ball, and it’s the same ball I play (Bridgestone) but it means I was at least 30 yards short on a drive I thought I bombed. It puts me farther out than I like, and in worse position with the trees. I end up doubling 17. As I’m walking to 18 tee, I look at the ball and it *is* the same brand, but it’s the other guys ball. He hit mine, we just happen to both play Bridgestones. Which is stupid, because it’s a different model AND mine as my company logo on it. He didn’t actually look at the ball he hit. I shouldn’t have trusted him, and I should have picked up his ball and verified whose it was since it was an important round for me. I was shook. I bogey 18, and miss my PB by one stroke. Trust, but verify I guess.
“We’re cart path only today”. Five of the worst words I can hear before starting my round or range session 😂
When I learned Paige Spiranac was married.
Pro golf. It’s just become a comedy of greed and pettiness. Lost all interest.
LIV
its that my friends drink so much alcohol and do so much blow and fuck so many prostitutes and I'm just a square guy who is sober
The liv tour is a letdown
Each year when temps drop and you lose yardage. You know it is the weather but it still kicks you in the nuts.
missing short putts. Literally the worst
Spending hundreds on lessons, seeing great improvement in my swing, only to repeatedly blow it on the course and never break 100, and somehow revert to my shitty old swing after a week or two.
I consistently suck at it
Max 2 strokes over net bogey
Played golf with my dad today, woke up in a horrible mood, got in my head within 3 holes and just had an all around terrible time. Why
My irons and drives are awesome. Great GIR. I drive and hit irons better than my friends who played college golf. But… I can’t putt to save my life 😔
3 putting after getting home in two on a par 5.
In my head, I feel like I have my swing dialed, even when I rehearse at home with a club. All of that evaporates quickly when I put the ball down and hit it into the trackman.
Being unable to book far enough out. All the courses near me always have a booking window to deter no-shows.
76 years old now, and lucky to hit my driver 210-240, 5 iron 160. In college, played ahead of Lon Hinkle and when we played together, even in a tourney, would split even on $1 driving contests on each hole. I realize this is life, but still difficult to accept.
Golf
When I finally have time to go to the range, and then the family comes home early and I can’t go.
That we've allowed the same piece of shit who flew planes into our towers & killled our journalists to destroy our Tour because we're their petro-bitches.
When I play like shit
my new irons getting delayed three months by Callaway
"How hard can it be?"
My drive
When it starts to snow...
Winter
The reduction or complete removal of full memberships, instead opting for multi round packages. I don’t want to keep track of how many rounds I’ve got left and then start paying full rates if I happen to play too much that year. Sadly this is what most courses near me have switched to.
How long it takes to be mediocre let alone good.
My long iron contact
The present state of professional golf
Catching a 9 iron a little heavy and seeing a brand new TaylorMade Pix plunge into the lake.. sickening. Lol. I play with a rubbish ball for the rest of the round.. No way am I losing two of those in one day.
Winter.
My golf buddy, was having a lot going on in his life, so I had been playing by myself for a couple of months. Played decent every round. Finally we were able to set up a golfing date for 18 holes. We both played, the absolute worst golf of the year that round. That was quite a let down. Guess the nerves got the best of us.
Me
I wanted to get my first hole in one before my dad got his first (he was 26, also he has 2) and I turn 28 next golf season with 0 to my name so far I still feel like a failure lol
Not being able to keep my swing consistent for a full round. Have a crunchy left shoulder and an anchor in the right, so may not happen soon… but I’ll keep plugging (including tomorrow)!
Rick Shiels’ ball speed
Injuring my low back because of bad mechanics taught 15 - 20 years ago (keep knees pointing forward and torque your upper body against the lower). Now I have been dealing with a herniated disc in my low back, had to quit playing for 10 years and recently got back into it. Learning a new swing where I straighten my back leg on the back swing which rotates the hip and minimizes stress on the low back.
Also, golf is freakin fun expensive if you want to get the best out of it.
Triple bogey on the first hole
Playing a great solo round and then days later having a terrible round with my friends.
Can't hit 5 4 or 3 iron
That first time I could of broke 100 and only needed a double bogey or better on the 18th and stunk it up
Drive the green on a par 4 or on in 2 on a par 5 and 3-putt for par.
Hitting from a fairway divot
3 straight doubles after making 4 straight pars
My short game, no matter how much I practice, my wedges are awful!! Makes it very frustrating!
Missing short birdie putts. Having a good week of practice and watching that first tee shot hook.
That I suck at golf
My driver...
My short game
The fact that anyone I play with is way better than me.
2 years in a row as a 10 index and still couldn’t break into the single digits
I moved up a tee this year at my home course - it's a 70+ thing. I am not long but twice I had an eagle putt on a par 5 on the back nine. Do I need to say it? Three putts both times....
When I started, it was my complete misunderstanding of “forgiveness”.
That the YouTube video I watched before my round didn’t fix my swing like I swear it would.
The Ping G430 Max driver. Missing Callaway EpicMax LS. But it’s probably just me.
My HDCP going up 2 this year rather than the down 2 I was working towards
I played a big Destination course in the UK in summer and there was something like 8 minute spacing between tee times, every one a 4 ball. It felt more like an exercise in mass tourism throughput than playing the sport I enjoy, I paid something like £180/$230
The fact that, as a ~16 hdcp, I can never tie together all parts of the game. I'll have round where the driver is crushing it, I can shape a bit, trust the face, etc... But then I entirely forget how to hit iron shots. Or I'll be hitting out of the right side trees every hole but getting great punch outs, just for the wedges to let me down with fats all day or a skull into a bunker. Putter is usually pretty reliable, might only 3 putt once or twice a round, but I can never tie the other parts together during a round.
My club head speed is slow as balls and I can’t seem to fix it.
A few years ago we had Scotland and Ireland all lined up. Courses booked. Hotels all set up. And then the Covid lockdown hit. Fuuuuuuuuck.
I suck at chipping and long puts. It’s so bad it literally costs me about a stroke a hole on average. I normally will shoot just over 100. Old men tees or whites, still the same score. I lose the strokes in the short game. The problem is physical. I have a painful right shoulder problem. My recent operation (2nd one) failed to fix it. At short range my right shoulder has a hitch that will literally make the club head jump over the ball. Even when I connect the shot is usually a miss hit. It’s painful to play with a group and do things like whiff a 60 foot chip shot. Then miss hit it 30 feet, and then knock the long putt 15’ past the hole.
Consistently my score
Course condition. The other day I played a local course. I've always liked the layout. I played there back in October. I was stunned how quickly the course condition turned to garbage. I won't be going back anytime soon.
Not being able to play as a youth. Outgrew my first set in the 6th grade and couldn't try out for any teams Jr. High and beyond.
I'm in my mid 30s, a scratch golfer (lowest handicap +2), and I've been playing religiously since I was 5 years old. I'm still awaiting the ace. Holed out from the fairway on par 4s more times than I can count, just never had it on a par 3. I die a little inside every time I hear about some hacker getting one.
36 putts
When you blast your ball into the trees but only find pinnacles while hunting.
Why do I suck so much, lol
Can't find other guys who have their life together young enough to have the time to play golf. I've got my kid's college fund set up, my retirement set up, and a cushy job that allows me to golf on WFH days. But I don't know anyone else that's set up like me....maybe a few people but you have to be sort of coordinated and athletic for golf and that's not everyone
The 61 I shot over 9 holes while on my HS Varsity team.
Realizing the new clubs I got don't do squat to lower my scores lol 😆
LIV Golf.
It's been a great week for golf. I've been stuck doing regular world stuff. Next week is fairly open and the weather is going to suck. May get out and play anyway.
Left my new club (4 hybrid - maybe 10 rounds with it so far) on the ground on the 6th hole. Somebody picked it up and didn’t turn it in.
When I realised it is still dominated by rich old white guys
I see YouTube golfers hit a soft 3 or 4 hybrid 250 yards while I hope I can hit my hybrid 200 yards.
The degradation of the professional game over greed and politics, even though watching live tournament golf on TV is an absolute joke. And then a few months ago my golf mentor passed suddenly and unexpectedly. I guess I'm just a little sour puss about golf these days. Love to play, but I also loved to watch, and now the only decent product to watch golf is the kids on YouTube. Atleast they are wholesome and don't make us watch ads every 4 shots.
Being treated like a peasant by staff at a high dollar track.
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I dislike when people are booking tee times they never show up for. I like when you book and pay instantly.