I can't think of any scenario where someone getting in a brawl on a golf course doesn't look like a complete nutjob.

I wasn't there, but this one happened just a couple weeks ago at my course. #17 is a really cool drivable par 4. But you have to decide between either hitting driver or 3 wood over water, or layup to the left with an iron and having 100-150 in. The guy who lives right next to the tee box (who I'm pretty sure is a legit alcoholic) had an afternoon party where people were getting way out of shape. Dude begins heckling golfers as they come through. "$100 you hit it in the water...." "hey, why are you laying up you pussy..." etc, etc. One of the groups really took issue with it and words were exchanged. Another guy I know who was at the party hopped the fence and went out to fight them, and another guy who was inebriated also went to "back him up". Fortunately no punches were thrown.

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Yes, he was advised--mostly by the guy in the cart with me and I think by the others in our group. I was too mad to say anything as I knew that no good would come from that. The emotional reaction I was having at the time was as if I had just been punched in the face. I think he was more concerned that he lost 80 yards or more on the shot as he would have been in the wrong fairway but with a wide open third shot. We were coming over a small hill as he was hitting from the bottom from the other fairway or rough. You can almost always see the tops of oncoming carts in the fairway we were in, so that is why I am almost certain that a "fore" was in order. Looking back on it, I'm lucky that I didn't have a broken cheekbone--or worse.

I've reached the part of my golf career where any time I'm in a spot where I could be driving into an oncoming ball I put the cart windshield thing up, just in case.

Smart move. I wish I had had the option, but not sure I would have been smart enough to bother.

I've been golfing for 30 years and it took me 29 years to think of putting the windshield up.

And man, your incident sounds absolutely awful.

Given that every cart I've seen in recent memory has a warning label that the windshield doesn't provide protection against flying objects, specifically golf balls, I don't know how much comfort I would take. I'd probably be more worried about plastic shards.

Being a club pro has to be an awful job, every course I've ever belonged to or played frequently had a group of thoroughly miserable members or other persons who just made their life hell.

I would agree. I have never belonged to a golf club that didn't have at least a few very entitled members who were smarter than everyone else. Nature of the beast, I guess.

thanks a lot, here i was thinking i was a genius

Warning labels do not mean much - they're mostly there to protect the manufacturer in case some freak accident should occur. Obviously a windshield provides some protection, even if it doesn't mean you're bulletproof.

The only situation such a warning would be remotely relevant was if someone was launching golf balls straight at the windshield.

I've never heard of anyone seriously injured by plastic shards (or the ball) from a golf ball hitting a windshield.

If given the choice of taking a golfball in the eye or having it hit a windshield first, would anyone really prefer an unhindered eye-shot?

The same people who decide to raw dog because they heard condoms aren't a 100% guarantee might.

simple moral to all of these stories: yell if you aren't 100% positive your ball in landing in a safe area, and by 'yell' i mean yell at a volume that someone at least 300 yards away can hear.
if i'm on a parallel hole and hear someone yell from another hole, i know how to duck, turn my back and protect my head. i have no problem if a ball comes whizzing over me as long as i've been properly notified. we all know it wasn't intentional.

Have my first individual tournament since my hand surgery. No expectations, just want the reps. We shall see how it goes. I'm sure the inevitable triple or quad will come, just move on and play the next hole without it carrying over.

My much more minor hand injury from work resulted in me practicing hours and hours of short game since I couldn't do full swings, so overall my game has improved quite a bit. I finally was able to do full swings recently and had a couple of good range sessions and hit my 3-wood particularly well. Undoubtedly I hit some further than I ever had previously. I was thinking to myself could I really have carried some 250? Before it was just like hopefully it lands past the 200 flag.

As for yelling fore, that is some good advice REDeYeS00. What do you think about "fore right" and "fore left"? That doesn't seem to help me personally.

Oh yeah, just meh on this one. Too faint, a little small, and sometimes smudgy. But the clicgear watch clip is legit. I fasten my watch to the clicgear handle every time I practice to keep time without having to wear it. Not sure if I would or wouldn't still wear it on my wrist during a round though.

does this shaft bend mean I need a stiffer one? Or not necessery?

Just dont look at my position, I'm fighting to eliminate my slice

During a scramble someone in our group sliced his drive and hit a golf cart. They were two holes ahead of us, but the two fairways shared a cart path. There might have been a fight had we not known someone in the other group.

Someone once teed off and put one in the green side bunker on a par 3 while we were on the green. I went to throw the ball into the water that you needed to clear. I'm really laid back and one of the biggest hot heads that I know stopped me. We weren't playing slowly. Very weird all around.

That's not what your shaft looks like, it's a camera shutter issue.

I've seen and heard about the phenomena about the shaft bending forward contrary to what one's intuition would expect. I saw it drastically in a video of Tiger Woods' swing with a wood and less so in another tour player's swing. I heard Stan Utley talk about it to Chris Como in a Golf Channel episode as according to him it even pertained to putting, at least as he teaches it.

Anyone use one-length irons? I feel like I strike my irons well generally, but am very inconsistent with longer irons. The idea of the whole set feeling like my 7i is very appealing, and every swing feeling the same regardless of iron seems to make a lot of logical sense. That being said, I still see very few people using them, either on tour or among recreational players.

I got this question a lot when I was fitting, and the answer for 99.9% of golfers is don’t even think about doing it.

Two big issues: 1, you won’t have a clue how to control your short irons with the much longer shaft, especially less than full shots. 2, unless you’ve got tour type ball speed you won’t be able to get any loft or distance out of your long irons with the shorter shaft.

Ah good points, thanks.

I don't know the ins and outs of it but didn't they take weight out of the longer irons to counter this a little and also put some weight in the shorter irons.

It's defo a interesting concept imo but I'd think making such a switch you really need to get on monitor and see what numbers you can get with them, but yeah you make some good points I've never really thought about regarding them.