What is your golfing pet hate?
Any little thing
Mine is guys who take 5 minutes looking for a friggin 2c wooden tee
gets me really buzzed really quick

mine is guys who repeat the same stupid one liner all game.
I recently played with an old guy who thought he was the funniest guy who ever swung a club, I was unfortunately having an ordinary Putting game (leaving most putts short on our Furry greens) and every time I did leave one short, he would pipe up with ” looks like we’ll have to get this guy some Viagra, he can’t get it up to the hole”
I would have accepted it if he beat me that day and moved on, but he had 17 points with 8 wipes.
Maybe I just need to toughen up but I will not take crap from someone who obviously doesn’t have a clue.

He probably screams out ’ that’s one’ when the ball falls of the tee.

i hate when people say ‘thats in’ on a putt and it lips out. I swear they put some voodoo curse on my ball by saying that.

Crap golfers who think they are great by waiting 10mins for a par 5 green to clear so they can have a lash in two despite the fact that they have shown no semblance of the skill required to play the shot and nothwithstanding the fact that it would require a carry 50metres longer than the one they just achieved with their driver off the tee! They then proceed to hit it on the head and dome it 20 metres up the fairway while several groups bank up behind them!

Slow play & people with no clue who try to give you advice.

People who teapot down the fairway while your on the green then duff it as you walk off.

People who steal your balls while you are on the range… Ours is more a practice fairway and there and runs parallel to the 9th.. People always pick up one or two as they walk past thinking you won’t notice… but you always do.

I think not raking bunkers properly,
i have been chastised by mates for doing my prints and divot then proceeding to do the rest of the whole bunker.
I like to leave it nice for my fellow choppers..

People who are careful not to walk on your line, then, while picking the ball out of the hole, lean on their putter leaving a neat dent right in your line.

Players that book for a 4 ball and don’t turn up….leaving you on the first without a partner, happened to me in the 4ball club champs two years in a row. That is way above disappointing….

Players that book for a 4 ball and don’t turn up….leaving you on the first without a partner, happened to me in the 4ball club champs two years in a row. That is way above disappointing….

Cliff Manley

3 bad shots and 1 good shot is still a 4….
Golf is played in a very small area, the 6 inches between your ears…

One swing to hit the ball,
one swing to find a score,
One swing you bring to all,
And on the fairway find them.

If that happened to me I would be getting paranoid

I don’t like it when people start swearing at themselves, I recon some people at my club have touretts syndrome

I also hate blokes who scream ‘great ball’ just because it’s airborne
and dont even wait to see the huge tail on it and it sail out of bounds

Players that book for a 4 ball and don’t turn up….leaving you on the first without a partner, happened to me in the 4ball club champs two years in a row. That is way above disappointing….

Cliff Manley

3 bad shots and 1 good shot is still a 4….
Golf is played in a very small area, the 6 inches between your ears…

One swing to hit the ball,
one swing to find a score,
One swing you bring to all,
And on the fairway find them.

If that happened to me I would be getting paranoid

I don’t like it when people start swearing at themselves, I recon some people at my club have touretts syndrome

Yeah like I said, way above disappointing. Last year I organised a partner, we made the semis, then the booking got stuffed up and I missed the tee time, we should have made the final, but my partner struggled without me there….. THAT was even more disappointing….

I dislike people who do not fix up their pitch marks on the green or tap down some spikes marks after they have finished putting, even as a social player. It is so easy to do. I dislike people who take a practice swing, take a divot and do not repair it as well as their real shot? But that is social players at times, they are there for fun and are the bread and butter for so many courses. Just wish they had a think about things at times. Members are guilty as well but not as much.

I hate slow play…Especially choppers with high handicaps thinking they’re playing for a Green Jacket.
They flubb every other shot then proceed to blame the course, the greens, the fairways, the bunkers, the committee, the ‘new’ ball they’re trying out, someone moved etc, etc.

I’ve got news for you clowns:- IT’S YOUR FAULT, GET BETTER.

Also what was mentioned earlier, these dreamers who stare you down from 230+ out waiting for the green to clear promptly axing it OOB or cold top it 50m.

Greenie, whaddya mean by teacup?
I haven’t heard that b4.

Yes, 5 hour comp rounds are painful. Luckily, I do not play in them. It does amaze me and the other people I work with that we get the blame for it though. With 8 minute intervals between tee times, people turning up late, not turning up at all, sitting in the bar until the last minute and other things…what should be a 4 hour 15 minute round turns into a 5ver. You get your choppers who dome it, you also get you good players who do have to wait for a par 5 to clear but then dome it. It would be great for the comp to be on time all the time but it does not happen much. Then you have to explain to social players that their booked teed time is 20 minutes late and you get attitude from them. At the end of the day, that is golf, you have to smile and love it. It is kind of like giving a lesson, a person turns up 10 minutes late so the next person booked has to wait longer, you say sorry and most people will understand but there is always that customer who takes the approach anally about it. That is golf! A storm in a teacup!

my intermittent slice! and guys who spend the whole round trying to give you advice

oh people who don’t repair pitch marks or divots..or ones who DAWDLE of the green and then stand next to it marking their card.
More recently, greenskeeper watering the green on the first PAr 5 at Bonville who called me up but still left his little truck front and right of the green. Shouldn’t have been surprised when I landed it in the back of his truck!!!

Mixed events.

come to think of it – women golfers in general

Hibore….people who stand with hand on hip leaning on a club….lok like a teapot

People who think they need to finish 18 holes in three hours by jumping your group, the group in front of you, the group infront of them, and the group in front of them. Slow the hell down a bit any enjoy the game!

People who think they own the course.

People who think they are better golfers then you because they did this or that 5+ years ago on the high school golf team.

Private course members on public courses. Stay the hell on your private course if you are so miserable playing with us common folk.

ANY league nite. I’m paying damn good $$$ to be a member at the course. I don’t expect to not be able to play the course three days a week because there is league play

People who think they need to regulate your golf game. I’m out there enjoying a round with my wife. Leave us alone. We aren’t following the rules. Get over it.

People who think they are the regulators of the course. Sorry you aren’t. And if I have my dog in tail, there is probably a reason I’m allowed to do so. My uncle in law is the club pro. Back off!

I’ll think of more later

A 27 handicapper plumb-bobbing his put, then inspects the line from behind the cup, then side on, then from behind again and diligently takes 3 practice puts only to putt half way to the hole..

That certainly tests your patience!

People who shove their putter in the hole to get their ball out.

Buy a suction cup if your to lazy or old to bend over and pull your ball out.

The 20+ handicapper who, in an ambrose event, can reach all the par 5’s in 2 and putts like a demon…...