re: What is the funniest thing you've witnessed on a golf course?

One of my friends flipped a golf cart and rolled it down a hill.


Did $900 in damages to the cart.

This happened about 2 months ago while playing TPC. On hole 18 I teed off and it landed about 250 yards up but in the water. As we were heading towards the water where my ball went in I noticed a Hispanic worker get out his cart and head towards the same area. Figured he was grabbing all the balls which went in the 18 pond so I thought nothing of it. As he steps foot in the pond a gator from the other bank jumps in and heads towards the middle of the pond. At this point I'm thinking I may need to save this fricker as there are probably 7 gators within 200FT of this guy. As I go to drop my ball I look over and he has stripped butt naked and I realize he is actually taking a bath. He only went in a few feet so the water doesn't even come up to his hips. He bends over and cleans his arse with his hands while keeping his head on a swivel due to the amount of gators in the water. I'm no more than 15 yards from the guy. Need less to say my next 2 shots go in the water as my concentration was gone.

I was there, that was my first time meeting KR. I liked his attitude

My dad and I went to the PGA event in Hilton Head, SC when I was 13. I was mad at him for some reason and started walking/stomping toward the green of the hole we were watching. I was so mad I was watching my feet instead of where I was going. All of a sudden I hear "Look out mate." I had interrupted Stuart Applebee's practice swing and came within 6 inches of stepping on his ball.

It wasn't my fault he hit it into the rough.

As a 20 plus year golf course superintendent, I could blow this thread up but I'll just add a couple that made me laugh. Don't know why this is my favorite...first thing in the morning the head pro and myself were drinking coffee at the clubhouse. The first group of the morning shows up completely plowed under from the night before(they never stopped drinking and this was myrtle beach). They manage to get checked in and headed to their tee. While we watched from the shop, the pro said in the most benign manner...something bad is going to happen. Sure enough, the really drunk guy lagged at the cart while the rest were an the tee warming up. Guy swinging two long irons(my go to if I can't hit range) to limber up. As he swang to and fro, dumb arse walk onto the tee totally unaware his teeth would not be in his mouth very much longer. The hospital did call later and asked if we might retrieve as many as possible. Seen lots of people with huge golf ball knots on their heads...always a good laugh after they leave.

I work as a volunteer for the Zurich in New Orleans as a walking scorer. About 10 plus years ago I had Fulton Allem (South African) in the group I was following. This was at English Turn before moving to TPC. He was not happy with some of his shots on the first few holes and had let a few choice words loose. He also buried his iron in the front of the tee box on the par 3 3rd hole. On no. 5 he pulled his tee shot into the pampas grass bushes that lined the left side of the hole. As we walked down the fairway to where the marshals were searching for his ball, he was cursing up a storm. His caddy reached the bushes before us and set the bag down to help with the search. When Fulton reached the area he was so pissed that he picked up the bag and dumped it upside down into one of the other bushes next to the one they were searching. I had to bite my tongue to keep from laughing. The caddy didn't think it was very funny because he had to dig all the clubs out of the bush. It was even less funny when on the next tee box he realized he was missing a club. He had to detour back over to the bush to dig out the missing club.

I played behind a blind guy one day and he was ducking terrible. They wouldn't let me play through and I finally quit playing after nine and they wouldn't give me my money back. I raised hell in the clubhouse and was actually rude to the blind guy and felt bad afterwards. I asked him why he didn't play at night. I was pissed!

A Guy hit driver and his playing partner was standing even with the tee'd ball. He hit it off the toe and it went 90 degrees sideways and hit his partner in the nuts.

We were playing this shitty course in Northport (Hidden Meadows), and there's this one par three (157 yards) that you have to carry about 125 yards of water. My buddy who isn't very good at golf, but always makes it a more enjoyable outing caught his tee shot thin and sent a low screamer at the water. We thought it would skip across and be alright. However, there was an unfortunate turtle sunning itself. We heard a loud crack, saw the ball bounce straight up into the air, and come straight back down into the pond. The only remaining trace of the turtle were the last couple air bubbles from where he sank to his grave.


At a course in Vidalia, Georgia I saw my playing partner's birdie putt get stolen by a muskrat that took it off the green and into a pond.