Every golf club has its quota of numpters, but geez am I going through a rare spell with the ones at my club. Far out…
To evidence, a few nights ago I’m playing a few holes on my bung leg. Anyway, I spray a drive onto the opposite fairway that’s coming the other way. A guy is on the tee of the opposite fairway. I wait for him. He sees me waiting. But he continues to stuff around for another minute or so on his phone, doing exercises, yapping to his girlfriend. Whilst he’s stuffing around and seemingly not ready to play, I make the courteous decision to walk over and pick my golf ball up and not play it, and just get out of the way. Anyway, as I pick my ball up and turn to go off 20m back to my fairway, BOOOMF ! this ball suddenly goes flying over the top of my head. *** ahole hits a driver over my head maybe 180m off the tee. I couldn’t believe it. Despite being on the wrong fairway I have right of way coz I’m at my ball before him and ready to play. He was not. Everybody waits on that tee when you’ve got that situation (which happens a lot at my club) but clearly this ahole wasn’t prepared to wait 15 seconds. I should have pulled him up and/or reported him but I must have been in a good mood or maybe too shocked to do anything but stare at the ahole as he walked off the tee.
A few holes later I’m playing a par 4 and come up behind a guy who’s playing a par 3 on the next hole in front of me. He sees me…I see him. I notice he’s hit 4 golf balls off the tee. Anyway, I play my hole, have a bit of a chip and putt around the green, then walk over to the next hole, but here’s this guy again. He’s turned around, walked back, and has decided he’s gonna play the hole again. I stand just off to the side of the tee whilst he’s firing off one golf ball after the other. Then he stops, looks over at me and says “Oh…did you wanna play this hole mate ?”
WTF ? Nah mate, I’m just aimlessly wandering around the course playing whatever hole doesn’t get in your way you moron. Ffs.
And that’s not the half of it the last few weeks. Rant over !