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this is out of hand and i cant for the life of me understand how somone who has played the game of golf even a small amount of times could not have the respect for the course to stay off of the fairway for the most part. looking behind them and seeing the turf and not giving a crap? Ignorant? whatever i dont think so.. i am not a fan of the cell phone but i would put a call into the clubhouse on this one to bring a ranger out. i would think they would have driven down the noumber 1 fairway to start with? the starter should have sent out a messenger to catch this also.. and at the front desk when the keys where handed over... NO Excuses it shouldnt get that far into the course.. thanks for speaking up~!

Total disrespect for the golf course and fellow golfers!

I agree 100% total disrespect. However, I am one who speaks my mind in public, so I wait and ask what the heck they are doing. I use a cart, when it is cart path only I strictly obey it. Believe it or not, most of the people I confront are members. YEAH...They are total attitude and they feel they can do whatever they want. Golf course usually does nothing about it when members are breaking the rules. Members are looked @ as a high commodity. Fair, NO, but real, YES. If they are not members, they also live on the course. It is a common thing to see out here in Phoenix. So I ask you, what is the right thing to do with these yahoo's? I have a short fuse for arrogance, I let them play through and get out of site before I do something stupid.

They were young ( younger ) and in their 20's and early 30's.
One guy in my group ( 75 years old ) told them they should keep the cart on the cart path, and they said OK they'll do so.
I hope they really obey the cart path only rule for the rest of the round.

I agree totally, unfortunately, it kind of reflect on the moral standard today. More and more have believed the only way to get ahead is to go outside the rules which everyone else obey.
I'd bet you, many of the golf etiquette which are just common sense and respect for the others, are known by the rule breakers

Now I did not see this happen but I was on the course when it occured. Apparently some guy was so pissed about hitting a bad shot he broke his shaft over his knee. Unfortunately the broken shaft was extremely sharp and stabbed him in the chest upon breaking.

True story.

Oh, My !
I hope he's not hurt badly.
I read a news clip some years ago, where this fellow golfing with his friend unintentionally hurt his buddy really bad.
He did not have a good golfing day and out of frustration, wrapped his 5 wood around a tree, the broken shaft with the club head flew off and stabbed his friend standing near by in the neck. His friend was sent to the hospital and was recovered later.
However, he suit the guy whom threw the club on his insurance policy and got a million dollar compensation. If anyone wonders why the home owner's policy does not cover incidents on the golf course, this might be one of the reasons.

I don't know if this constitutes bad behavior, but definitely bad etiquette. The other day I played at the par-3 course near my house. I was playing by myself, and the course wasn't packed so I was expecting to enjoy a nice relaxing day on the course. I walk up to the first tee and there's a group of young kids (maybe 19/20) - two guys and two girls. The guys hit their shots, and then it starts.

First of all, I notice they only have one bag of clubs between the four of them. I thought, the course is short so it won't be too bad because I'm thinkink the girls are there just walk with their boyfriends and to watch them play... no big deal. I thought this was a very good assumption because both of the girls were not wearing anything closeto golf attire: tight jeans, high heels, purses... the deal.

Well, they start walking off of t he back tees and I'm thinking they're going to walk to their balls. I was wrong. They walk to the red tees and start to "teach" the girls how to hit! I didn't see this at first because I'm staring in the other direction making some practice swings. I finally look after a few minutes and they are STILL on the tee box. I'm starting to get a little upset, but I tell myself "it's a nice day, you're not here to rush anyway... it's ok"

WRONG! They FINALLY get the green and then I really lose it. The girls who were wearing high heels step on the green and I can tell one of them sank into the green! It takes them a while to even start putting because they break out a camera and start to take "action" shots of them putting and chipping! They are posing for the camera with each other for another five minutes, and I've had enough. I whistle at them and put my hands up in the air, and they just shrug me off!

So, off I go to the pro shop and complain about what's going on. It turns out they only paid for two people playing. The guy at the pro shop went to them and proceeded to kick them off the course!

Nice job Pete.
One on them for not offering you to play ahead; two because they tried to cheat; three for being dumb to bring a date wearing high heels to the golf course.
Those boys deserve to get no one smart.

I didn't witness it personally, but it happened while I was at the golf course: a guy was pissed off because the group following his foursome was too close for comfort. He warned them, I think. But they were still too close. So he drove with his cart toward the offender and broke one of his knees by smashing his golf club into it. He was obviously arrested for assault.
Other than this freak experience, as you guys, I'm often confronted with people who totally disrespect the "no cart" signs. It really frustrates me when very good players do that (sometimes beginners don't know better and when you tell them they shouldn't do that, they immediately comply). I'm expecting low handicappers to be role models, not punks.

Wouldn't call this bad behavior, but it really does not fall in the ranks of "proper golf". Ohh where do I begin,,,,give it to you short and sweet....I have played in a couple "florida scramble" format charity events, that have been sponsored by adult nite clubs. Need I say more...Forgive me, I have sinned. $300 per person to join, donations start @ $500.00 and I have no idea what charity it went to or how I got where I got @ the end of the night.

How were they dressed?? Eliteism my eye.

hole 17,my friend threw his S.W. in the water.i was laughing so hard.and on 18,my friend 4 putted and broke his putter.and that was FUNNY,LOL

I just returned from Albuquerque, New Mexico on my annual golfing triip. I played with "The Golfer From Hell" on Tuesday. I met him at the first tee and we introduced ourselves. This guy was probably in his mid-40's, very husky, balding and crude. We were riding in seperate carts when our third showed up and rode with TGFH. TGFH had loaded up with about four 16 ounce beers to start. He was a poor golfer and chugging his beer. I would estimate a 20 to 25 handicap. He rarely hit a shot where he was aiming and we had a difficult time following his shots because they generally went where we weren't looking. We were trying to follow his shots but we had an "envelope of view" towards the hole and he usually skied or popped one way left or way right. As he drank more, his shots got progressively worse. His ettiquette was terrible. If he didn't like his shot, he would just pull another ball out and hit again. On the greens, whenever he missed a putt (which was virtually all the time) he would just set another ball down and putt again.

By hole number five he's pretty much drunk. He hit an approach shot and had no clue where it went. We were playing our second and third shots to the green so were seperated. When he arrived at the green, he asked me where his ball was. I had just played my ball out of a bunker and did not see a ball anywhere near the green I told him I had no idea. He started yelling and using loud vulgar profanities and complaining that we weren't watching his ball. He complained that he was watching our golf balls but that we weren't watching his. We increased our efforts to monitor his shots but they were some of the worst I have ever seen. The ball literally could go anywhere.

Every time the drink cart came buy he bought more beer. The third time the cart girl came up and asked if we wanted anything, he responded crudely and vulgarly. I was surprised she didn't just drive off. By the time we made the turn the young guy that was riding with him was looking for a reason to leave, He did not like the fact that TGFH was drunk, filthy-mouthed, crude and lacked any kind of social graces. He got the chance to leave us when a friend of his came by playing on an adjacent hole. He went with his buddy and I was left alone with TGFH who by now is totally drunk.

We continued on the back nine and he continued to drink, belch loudly, play whenever he wanted without regard to whether someone was in the way or it was his turn and he frequently urinated in whatever bush was handy even though there were restroom facilities on the course. As he and I played the back nine he constantly asked me "did you see my ball" whenever he hit a shot. I was able to track most of his shots or at least the direction that they took. Then he started to argue with me. He would tell me "No way, my ball didn't go there. Are you serious?" This went on all afternoon.

On eighteen, I hit a beautiful drive on a par five and only had 185 to the green My ball was dead center of the fairway and he had hit two seperate drives. One wide to the left and one wide right neither of which he saw. I had to point them out to him and then lead him to his ball because he wouldn't believe me. Before I could get to my ball, he had hit three additional shots from his second drive while I was picking up his first ball because he had no clue where it went. He was too drunk to rememeber that I had pointed the ball out to him when we left the tee, When I drove up to my ball he was addressing a ball and I asked him if that was my ball he was preparing to hit? He bent over (nearly falling on his face) and said "oh yeah." I thought that was my ball." He drove off looking for his ball I assumed and I played my shot to the green. I hit the ball left of the green into a bunker and went to play my next shot. I looked arounf for him but didn't see him. I finished my shot on eighteen and looked around for him but he had disappeared. I contemplated calling the clubhouse and warning them that a "drunk golfer" might be getting into his car and driving but when I topped the hill I saw him getting into a car in the parking lot. Fortunately a lady was driving and he got into the passenger side, He never said bye or told me he was leaving.

And so ended my day with The Golfer From Hell. You might wonder why I stayed? I was having a very good day golfwise. I ended up shooting a 77 on my second eighteen that day. I birdied eighteen out of that bunker I mentioned.

Fortunately I am back in Houston and probably won't bump into TGFH again I hope.