Crazy Golf Stories

[cycloneworld]

I've played a lot of golf and witnessed 3 holes in one - one when I was in junior high walking nearby the green on a different hold, another one in high school golf where a guy skulled it, it nailed the pin and dropped straight in the hole, and last year at a conference/work best ball tournament with a guy who has played less than 50 rounds of golf in his life. Never had one myself. One of these days...

Craziest bad thing was in high school PE class our PE teacher thought it would be fine to hit golf balls into the baseball field batting cage (netting on the sides). Someone drove the ball directly into a support pole and it ricocheted backwards, hit a girl in the head, and knocked her out cold. She had memory issues for a long time and our high school never did that again (surprised they didn't get sued, they should have and would have in this day and age).

 

[Lexclone]

… Never had one myself. One of these days...

Amen, friend. Amen.

 

[keepngoal]

No idea why people take mulligans. Who are you fooling other than yourself? How can you tell when you had a great round in comparison to any other?

I don’t care if you want to hack around and use mulligans, even with friends in a version of golf you all agree on. Having fun is the most important. Just don’t use it on a scorecard to turn in, nor to talk about birdies, eagles, or HIOs.

 

[cycloneworld]

I don’t care what rules you play by with your friends, but if you tell me you got a hole in one after a couple mulligans you didn’t actually, regardless of what number you put in the card. Just like if you told me you shot a 65 but took 17 mulligans, that’s cool but it’s not actually true.

This. You can't get a bucket of range balls and fire away until you get a "hole in one". One attempt - its IN THE NAME!

 

[somecyguy]

I don’t care if you want to hack around and use mulligans, even with friends in a version of golf you all agree on. Having fun is the most important. Just don’t use it on a scorecard to turn in, nor to talk about birdies, eagles, or HIOs.

Agreed. Even playing just for fun with friends, mulligans (1 per 9 IMO) help move things forward. You save them for that brutal drive that would otherwise require 3 extra shots just to reach the green.

 

[mywayorcyway]

A friend and I had a wager, tied going into 16. He made a hole in one, I made par.

He's still one up on 18, I dunk it from 110 yards for eagle. He makes par, we push the round.

Hole out from the fairway on the last hole and didn't even get shot of the day. I did get a couple beers out of the deal.

 

[BoomerClone]

Played a 2-person best ball tourney on a short par 3 course with my wife. I’m at best a very average golfer and my wife is new to the sport. We had the option to pay $5 per person extra to enter the winner takes all prize purse. We of course declined because there was no way we were going to win. Long story short, I was red hot that day and we shot 6 under on the 9 hole course including my one and only hole in one. Let’s just say, I wish we would have paid the extra $10.

 

[Cyclonepride]

I don’t care if you want to hack around and use mulligans, even with friends in a version of golf you all agree on. Having fun is the most important. Just don’t use it on a scorecard to turn in, nor to talk about birdies, eagles, or HIOs.

I agree, I just feel like it's cheating yourself out of knowing how you actually did. When I was a kid, I was better than I am now, but I used the occasional mulligan, or sometimes kicked it out from behind a tree or whatever, so my best scores from back then have an asterisk attached. I have no idea if they really surpassed my best scores as an adult.

 

[cyfanatic13]

Have never seen a hole in one although a buddy was about 3 inches from one the other day at a 4th of July best shot tourney.

Last year at a best shot tourney, we were a few holes behind a guy that hit one on a pretty short par 3. Most people use a pitching wedge or at most a 9 iron. This dude used a 7 and apparently topped the hell out of it, hit the ground halfway to the hole and just never stopped rolling all the way into the hole. He was loaded and bought multiple drinks for a ton of people that day. I’d hate to see his bar tab but I’m sure he didn’t give a ****

 

[Cyclonepride]

I don't know if this is crazy, but I play 2 on 2 best ball once a week with my buddies and we score it by holes won.

A couple years ago, we were playing our last round of the year in October, and we somehow managed to be tied for the year going into the last hole. It was a par 3, and it was late enough in the fall that it was damn near dark by the time we got there. Everyone hit their shots, and it was like the ball disappearing. No one had any idea where any of them went. Each team managed to get one shot on the green. My shot was from about 35 feet, and theirs somehow ended up at 8 feet. Too dark to read the break or anything like that, but we got ours within 3 feet and got the par. They made their birdie putt to beat us by 1 hole on the year

 

[Cy Hard]

I saw a couple bikers over in the woods off the 10th green having sex. How am I supposed to putt with that going on, huh Doug? Doug gives me some BS answer.

 

[4cy16]

I saw a couple bikers over in the woods off the 10th green having sex. How am I supposed to putt with that going on, huh Doug? Doug gives me some BS answer.
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It sounds like he won the hole in one contest.

 

[cyclonestunners]

My favorite experience was with wildlife. The course I play always has alot of cool birds and deer on it. One day, I was hitting the ball on a 350 yard hole, and when the ball landed, a Canadian goose flew up to the ball, sat there, and honked.

I got up to the ball and the goose moved, but stared at me, expectantly. I hit the ball again. What did the goose do? That crazy goose flew up to the ball and sat by it again, honking. He did it a third time too.

 

[cyclonespiker33]

I don't know if this is crazy, but I play 2 on 2 best ball once a week with my buddies and we score it by holes won.

A couple years ago, we were playing our last round of the year in October, and we somehow managed to be tied for the year going into the last hole. It was a par 3, and it was late enough in the fall that it was damn near dark by the time we got there. Everyone hit their shots, and it was like the ball disappearing. No one had any idea where any of them went. Each team managed to get one shot on the green. My shot was from about 35 feet, and theirs somehow ended up at 8 feet. Too dark to read the break or anything like that, but we got ours within 3 feet and got the par. They made their birdie putt to beat us by 1 hole on the year

I know where you play, and I play there pretty frequently as well. I've experienced that hole at dusk several times too.

 

[keepngoal]

I agree, I just feel like it's cheating yourself out of knowing how you actually did. When I was a kid, I was better than I am now, but I used the occasional mulligan, or sometimes kicked it out from behind a tree or whatever, so my best scores from back then have an asterisk attached. I have no idea if they really surpassed my best scores as an adult.

I’ll add when friends wanted to play their version of golf, I would say, let’s just play by the rules. How you react to a poor shot(s) and it’s recovery(ies) impacts the rest of the round.

That usually was on deaf ears.

 

[cjs24]

A little over a month ago, I was out golfing with a huge group for my birthday. We get to a short par 4 that you can't see the green. I was the first to tee off, I hit a good 3 hybrid with the wind at my back and figured I'd be just short of the green. 15 minutes pass before the rest of the group is far enough forward to look for my ball and my brother in law pulls a ball out of the cup and says I cashed it.

I gave all 3 strokes back on the next two holes to come back down to earth a little.

 

[WhirlyBird]

First story is one I actually witnessed, my little brother was probably 10 at the time and we were playing a local course that has an elevated tee box that overlooks a small pond you hit over. The tee box has a brick boundary right at the front that is the top of a retaining wall, that sticks up probably a quarter of an inch above the grass in the tee box. My brother hits his driver and it travels exactly a quarter of an inch above the ground, hits the bricks, misses his head by about 2 inches on the way backwards approximately 50 yards.

That same brother was golfing with his friends in high school, and one of his friends hit his driver about 4 inches off the ground and nailed a robin in the head about 150 yards away. The ball ricocheted off that first robin and hit a second that was about 4 feet off the ground trying to fly away from the chaos. Both of the birds were dead immediately and I'm not sure they could even finish the round they were in so much disbelief. Talk about killing 2 birds with 1 stone!

 

[cyclonespiker33]

A little over a month ago, I was out golfing with a huge group for my birthday. We get to a short par 4 that you can't see the green. I was the first to tee off, I hit a good 3 hybrid with the wind at my back and figured I'd be just short of the green. 15 minutes pass before the rest of the group is far enough forward to look for my ball and my brother in law pulls a ball out of the cup and says I cashed it.

I gave all 3 strokes back on the next two holes to come back down to earth a little.

Was it hole #10 at Grandview?

 

[Hoggins]

I have 2 hole-in-ones but have never broken 80

 

[Texbudman]

Grew up golfing on a short, very simple 9-hole course in North Dakota. One gorgeous day me and a buddy were for some reason just about the only people there, I think we saw 6 other people the whole day so we never had to wait to hit. We started just after noon, flew through the first 9 holes and kept going.

Most holes were a driver and a wedge, so we didn't have to spend any time picking a club....knew the greens like the back of our hand and they weren't terribly complex to begin with. Already knew what we hit into every par 3. Just kept playing......and playing......never rushing just playing ready golf with one cart, could pull right up next to every tee and green. Both of us were playing well, par was 34 and we were both consistently shooting 35-37 all day.

Around 8pm we called it a day, counted the score cards....we had knocked out 90 holes in just under 8 hours. ~45 minutes per round for 10 rounds. Youth is a fantastic thing because my current lower back surrenders about 5 minutes after finishing 18 these days.

Grew up on a small 9 hole course in north Iowa and we used to do that a lot. Not necessarily 90 holes but sun up to sun down golf. Loved it!