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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: RedTop on November 19, 2008, 04:33:13 PM
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I'm pretty hot headed. It doesn't take much to make me mad. On the Golf course over the years I have gotten much better at controlling my temper from my younger years. Broken shafts , throwing clubs. Generally being a horses ass.
Today I was playing. I wasn't hitting it all that well and for some reason I was getting more and more mad by the minute. By the time I got around to the 16th hole I blew up. It was a 155 yard par 3. I hit an 8 iron to 2 feet. But , I hit it kind of skanky. Much like I had been hitting it all day but the result was fine. I walked back to the cart and swung my 8 iron at my bag like I was hitting a fast ball. My temper finally let go. So did my Ping G10 driver. I hit the bag so hard that I ended up breaking my driver in half.
I couldn't even be mad about doing that as I had already acted like a fool.
107.00 later I had a new shaft put in the driver since I have a big game in the morning.
You would THINK a man of my age would NOT do stupid poop like that after all these years playing golf. Hell I have spent enough money on broken equipment that I could have a whole new set of irons.
Any of you Golfing types have tempers?
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I share Bill Cosby's opinion about golf. Dumb game.
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lol, steve almost walked off the course on me for blowing up. he is mr. calm, and the only time emotions show on the course is him getting mad at other golfers getting mad :rofl
one time we were paired up with this teenager who competed in long drive contests, had like a $800 driver. dumb bellybutton got mad and whacked the ground after slicing off a drive that he broke the head off the custom shaft. that was on the 7th hole, on the 9th Steve refused to make the turn with them, went into the pro shop and had us wait to be paired on the back with someone else.
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lol, steve almost walked off the course on me for blowing up. he is mr. calm, and the only time emotions show on the course is him getting mad at other golfers getting mad :rofl
one time we were paired up with this teenager who competed in long drive contests, had like a $800 driver. dumb bellybutton got mad and whacked the ground after slicing off a drive that he broke the head off the custom shaft. that was on the 7th hole, on the 9th Steve refused to make the turn with them, went into the pro shop and had us wait to be paired on the back with someone else.
lol....THis is really the first club I have broken in years. And I'm not bragging just wondering if I am the only idiot. I may hit the ground...or something...but today just boiled. No idea how I got the mad. I make birdie on the hole...and lose money on the day for being stupid.
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I'm pretty hot headed. It doesn't take much to make me mad. On the Golf course over the years I have gotten much better at controlling my temper from my younger years. Broken shafts , throwing clubs. Generally being a horses ass.
Today I was playing. I wasn't hitting it all that well and for some reason I was getting more and more mad by the minute. By the time I got around to the 16th hole I blew up. It was a 155 yard par 3. I hit an 8 iron to 2 feet. But , I hit it kind of skanky. Much like I had been hitting it all day but the result was fine. I walked back to the cart and swung my 8 iron at my bag like I was hitting a fast ball. My temper finally let go. So did my Ping G10 driver. I hit the bag so hard that I ended up breaking my driver in half.
I couldn't even be mad about doing that as I had already acted like a fool.
107.00 later I had a new shaft put in the driver since I have a big game in the morning.
You would THINK a man of my age would NOT do stupid poop like that after all these years playing golf. Hell I have spent enough money on broken equipment that I could have a whole new set of irons.
Any of you Golfing types have tempers?
uhh nothing like that, lol. at worst i'll merely drop my club (not toss, drop) or smack it down on the ground with middlin' force. i will toss a ball into a pond or somewhere sometimes (cheaper than tossing my putter).
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I feel your pain, I broke my driver this year as well (Taylormade R7 Superquad). The irony was, after the new shaft I hit it better!!!
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I feel your pain, I broke my driver this year as well (Taylormade R7 Superquad). The irony was, after the new shaft I hit it better!!!
I had a new shaft put in mine....GRAPHITE design YS-5+ 55 gram. I guess I'll see in the a.m. if it's better.
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I am just learning the game of golf at the age of 15, I have been playing for about a year and I get easily pissed off when I make a bad shot. It happens now more often than it use to because I am now to the point where I can make good shots but I can also duff a few.
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My bad shot habit (that I didn't realize I did until pointed out one day) is that if I hit a poor shot I release the club on the follow through and catch it with my right hand which is at my side over where I teed the ball. Someone caught it on video and showed me. If I could do it on purpose I think it would be a pretty nifty trick.
If you did that with me I'd not want to play with you anymore either, RT. I'd probably finish the round and if we were playing in competition I'd do anything I could to further annoy you ;)
I threw a club (I really only wanted to swing it hard out of frustration) on a rainy day this summer. I hit a poor drive, swung the club and it slipped out of my hand and ended up 90º left of the teebox up in a tree. I was embarassed but moreso because I needed to borrow another player's ball retriever to pull the club down. I was my copilot's guest in a charity event, was embarassed and even ashamed that the result was what it was.
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I would like to ask you if it was frustration or competition that made you act like that? Your answer really doesnt matter though as its an introspective point you need to review on your own and then solve also. It is my feeling that golf should be enjoyed. Courses are designed to frustrate the best golfers so also ask yourself why you play if you know you are going to show your temper. Then resolve to change your perspective and it shouldnt happen again.
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I share Bill Cosby's opinion about golf. Dumb game.
Ha! Im sure the Pros agree... I think Annika has a good chance of besting the field at Trumps event this weekend. If so she will walk away $1000000 richer. My father once told me that pushing me away from golfing as a child (when I showed interest) was the dumbest thing he ever did. Of course in those days no one knew the prize money would be what it is today. Pros lose their pro status if they make less then $1000000 a year in prize money.
Dumb :rofl :rofl
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Pros lose their pro status if they make less then $1000000 a year in prize money.
Quite the opposite. Once you become a professional golfer you cannot go back to an amateur without jumping through a lot of hoops.
They can lose their PGA Tour cards if they fall out of the top 125 of the money list or are not otherwise exempt.
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Thats right and this year that meant $1000000 for the year. I was wrong to say 'pro status' and your right about losing the PGA tour card. I think most of them pick up sponsor exemptions anyway but for a lot of relative unknowns it means painful time at Q school.
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I knew that golf was a violent sport!
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I stopped letting my anger take over the day I threw a wrench down on the pavement and it bounced up and hit me square in the gonads! :cry
Now I try to find some other outlet or something. :rofl
The tissue is just too soft to survive too many of those!
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I feel your pain, My brother and I have golfed together for about 12 years, we usually go about 2 times a week when the weather works with us. Living in Michigan you have to take the whole winter off, sure there are times we play on simulators or go to the Dome but its not the same. I've seen and done it all temper wise on the course, only broke one club on the ground when i was 16 and that was after a qualifier in H.S tourney.
My brother and I go out and usually have a awesome time, drink beer maybe smoke a little. We are both really competitive though and usually shoot around the same. All the anger is usually at the start of the season because golf is all about tempo and taking the winter off does not help. Ive seen him (my brother) take a swing at the cart take a peice of plastic out of the side, break a club on a tree....lol...there is this course that has a wooden bridge about 4 feet high and you have to make a 90 % turn, we were pretty well buzzed and he was pissed and tried to take the turn like jimmy johnson and well damn near flipped us over, we had to get out and lift the donut end up and get it back on.
Slow play really gets up ticked off too. You can be a bad golfer and still play ready golf. One thing I hate is to watch a guy set up like he is on the PGA tour, stand behind the ball make 15 practice swings, throw grass in the air to judge the wing, then hit the ball 30 yards worm burning and repeat that process all day.
Just a few of my favoite things;) Golf is truely one thing that I truely Love in life.
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I golf way to much according to my wife, I have thrown clubs before out of anger but that was many years ago. I believe golf has many lesson to teach an individual. I quickly learned once the club face strikes the ball any violent reaction will not make the next shot any better. Now if I could only deal with the mental side I would be a better golfer. :salute
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Haven't done it yet and I suck at golf.
Although my brother has a very "awkward" stance when hitting off of a tee. Quite hilarious actually, one time he swung too fast, the ball went about 15 feet. The Driver went about 50 yards, dead nuts down the fairway. :rofl
I immediately felt bad as I had to laugh, but in doing so showered the golf cart with JW Black Label. I don't think that cart moved (I was driving) for a good 10 minutes. :rofl
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Not golf, I learned my lesson with tennis.
I was playing in a final against a really good friend and rival and both of us had bad tempers. About 13 at the time.
By the time we finished the entire crowd had all left in disgust. My mother was waiting for me in the car. She cried and said how ashamed she was that her son had behaved that way.
Never happened again.
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uhh nothing like that, lol. at worst i'll merely drop my club (not toss, drop) or smack it down on the ground with middlin' force. i will toss a ball into a pond or somewhere sometimes (cheaper than tossing my putter).
I'm pretty much the same way... I have little money for a new club; you can tell my $80 set is well used :)
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One thing I hate is to watch a guy set up like he is on the PGA tour, stand behind the ball make 15 practice swings, throw grass in the air to judge the wing, then hit the ball 30 yards worm burning and repeat that process all day.
give stang a break, he's been flying too much. :noid
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I'm pretty much the same way... I have little money for a new club; you can tell my $80 set is well used :)
Thats about my quarterly expenses on tees. :D
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Get your blood pressure checked, stress test, even if you are in great shape as you see it- hypertension is very common when carrying any high lofted clubs..
:lol
NwBie
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Golf, the way it should be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_OmnP527Dw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_OmnP527Dw)
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The real reason to golf
(http://www.computershateme.org/basement/img/pa-drunkgolf.jpg)
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The real reason to golf
(http://www.computershateme.org/basement/img/pa-drunkgolf.jpg)
:lol
That's a good one! :aok