Crazy Golf Stories
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I played Torrey Pines in March and loved it. I’ll be back next Feb and should be able to play it again. Lots of walkers on the course, but they keep things moving.
I believe non-resident fees are ~$225 (walking) during the week but there’s also the tee time fee of $47/player just t make the tee time. Some people I was with were residents and they paid about $70 to golf.
Speaking of cow. I was playing with two gals as we were forced to join them. Horrible golfers. 2nd hole a par 5 along a cow pasture. One gal smokes her drive along the pasture fence so I drive over there mumbling this day is going to suck. I look and look and then I see a bright white object in the a** of a cow! So I hop the fence. Sure enough it's a golf ball. They pull up and see me standing next to the cow and I call the gal to the fence. I lift the cows tail and say ... "hey does this look like yours?".
I woke up 3 days later in the hospital with a massive wound to my skull caused by her 3 wood.
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Last summer while playing at Otter Creek in Ankeny I scored 2-2’s in a row. I holed out from 120 on the par 4 12th then holed a 25 foot putt for birdie 2 on the par 3 13th. Didn’t really think about how rare consecutive 2’s are at the time (at least for hackers like me), but someone mentioned it in the clubhouse.
How so? We were playing match play and even if we weren't, par\eagle vs eagle\par is still a push.
He was thinking stroke play. Your friend would be up 2 going into 18 and you got both back to push.
Before my wedding 32 years ago a NY buddy of mine I met in the Navy came back for the wedding. We played a round at Grandview and needless to say he had never played. He was using his 1 wood even out in the fairway. He hit a 1 wood on the par3 4th hole 90 yards. It came with in an inch of a hole in one.
My best friend and I were golfing at Grandview years later and in the foursome ahead of us included Iowa Amateur Champion Mike McCoy. They all hit amazing first shots at the par 4 1st hole. We waited a bit for them to clear the green but you can’t tell because of the hill. My friend hit a bomb and me not so much. We went looking for his ball by the green and couldn’t find it. McCoy holler’s back to check the hole. He said the ball hit his foot as he was putting and went in. We apologized for hitting and asked if it was a hole in one. McCoy said it absolutely was a hole in one and not to apologize for a great shot.
My best friend and I were golfing at Grandview years later and in the foursome ahead of us included Iowa Amateur Champion Mike McCoy. They all hit amazing first shots at the par 4 1st hole. We waited a bit for them to clear the green but you can’t tell because of the hill. My friend hit a bomb and me not so much. We went looking for his ball by the green and couldn’t find it. McCoy holler’s back to check the hole. He said the ball hit his foot as he was putting and went in. We apologized for hitting and asked if it was a hole in one. McCoy said it absolutely was a hole in one and not to apologize for a great shot.
I haven’t seen a hole in one, but the closest I got was last year. Playing a scramble, the girl in our group smokes a drive but the hole is so uphill you can’t see the green, had no idea she put it inside a foot.
I was golfing at Woodside with a couple of old timers. We were on a par 3 with a creek in front. A mother goose was walking in front of the t-box with her little ones. I told her she needed to get out of the way and not to trust me. I ended up hitting the ball straight into her side. She was honking mad. One of the old guys didn’t miss a beat when he said, “I don’t know why she’s so mad you warned her.”
Kid my wife babysitted for, ended up being a very good player. In high school, he decided to raise money for this one kid who had a lot of health problems. He wanted to see how many holes he cold play in one day. He ended up playing over 20 rounds of golf in one day in the middle of June.
20 18 hole rounds? In a day? I think that's a world record...by quite a margin. Even 20 9 hole rounds would be tough to pull off (but could be done).
A few different stories. Two I witnessed and the other two had multiple people tell me about them.
At Homewood in Ames, the guy I was golfing against put his shot into a dead tree. Ball went between the bark that was falling off and the tree. Pic attached.
Last year when tailgating at the RV lots, a kid got a hole in one at Coldwater while we were hanging out.
My dads buddy was out golfing for his birthday with buddies. They were having a surprise birthday party for him up at the clubhouse. He got a hole in one that day and had a spend birthday.
Lastly, I heard that there was someone at Veenker last year that slammed a club out of anger on a hole and it broke the club. The club apparently then his the guys leg and caught an artery.
At Homewood in Ames, the guy I was golfing against put his shot into a dead tree. Ball went between the bark that was falling off and the tree. Pic attached.
Last year when tailgating at the RV lots, a kid got a hole in one at Coldwater while we were hanging out.
My dads buddy was out golfing for his birthday with buddies. They were having a surprise birthday party for him up at the clubhouse. He got a hole in one that day and had a spend birthday.
Lastly, I heard that there was someone at Veenker last year that slammed a club out of anger on a hole and it broke the club. The club apparently then his the guys leg and caught an artery.
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My dad, who was an avid golfer after I introduced him to the game (I created a monster), was so proud of himself that he was able to do 64 holes when he turned 64. He did that on his birthday. He was more into golf than I was even. I played regularly for maybe 10-15 years and then off and on after that, but I haven't played golf now in at least 20 years. Dad played every weekend until he died of cancer at age 66.
I looked, the twilight rate for a resident during the week is still only $30-$40. Back in the 1990s twilight golf started at like 3pm or something much earlier than you would expect. Considering the difficulty of the course, pace of play was pretty good.
I golfed with a guy named Kinch one time at the Preserve at Rathbun Lake. He kicked my a$$.
This didn't happen to me personally thank goodness but I saw an insurance claim for a guy who was riding on the back of a golf cart, fell off, essentially did the splits, and broke both of his hips.
Last summer we planned on pranking our friend with the “World’s loudest golf ball” and we succeeded-ish.
We went to a public Chicago course along the lake just north of Downtown. Sydney Marovitz for anyone familiar. The friend we were pranking just absolutely shanked his first shot on the first tee and we think it went into Lake Michigan. I was planning on doing it later in the round but I give him a mulligan and throw him the ball and tell him to hit the red as it’s a “self correcting” ball so he doesn’t **** up again. The marshall was a little mad but he understood sort of.
The friend smokes this one and hit it right on the sweet spot for one of the loudest bangs I’ve ever heard from these prank balls. The marshall gets furious, kicks us all off, and says we’re banned (not true, we played a few weeks later).
It was worth the joke as we went back to the bar and just crushed beers on my tab and I paid the boys back for the round.
This video doesn’t give the loudness Justice because the mic’s on phones actually limit that type of noise. But it’s EFFING LOUD
We went to a public Chicago course along the lake just north of Downtown. Sydney Marovitz for anyone familiar. The friend we were pranking just absolutely shanked his first shot on the first tee and we think it went into Lake Michigan. I was planning on doing it later in the round but I give him a mulligan and throw him the ball and tell him to hit the red as it’s a “self correcting” ball so he doesn’t **** up again. The marshall was a little mad but he understood sort of.
The friend smokes this one and hit it right on the sweet spot for one of the loudest bangs I’ve ever heard from these prank balls. The marshall gets furious, kicks us all off, and says we’re banned (not true, we played a few weeks later).
It was worth the joke as we went back to the bar and just crushed beers on my tab and I paid the boys back for the round.
This video doesn’t give the loudness Justice because the mic’s on phones actually limit that type of noise. But it’s EFFING LOUD
