OOPS !!!!!

[RobotDoctor]

This is GolfWRX so I shouldn't have to ask this question because many of us have done this. But, how many of us caused damage to a club in a small bit of rage after a poorly executed shot? I've done it. Fortunately I can repair any damage I have caused but there is a price for that. Here is my last fit of rage on a 5 iron I did 4 or 5 years ago. Great drive on the closing up hill par 5 of a local course. Was going for the green with a 3 wood but pulled (left), topped, hooked the shot and it rolled on top of a grassy hill about 60 yards. I was going for the green with a 5 but shanked it almost dead right under a small bushy tree. I chucked the punch shot with the same 5 iron then proceeded to whack the trunk of the tree with it. The following image is the result.

Iron was reshafted with the same shaft but $38 into my pocket. The next image is the result of the fix.

 

[brew4eagle]

You need to work on your club head whacking speed if whacking the trunk of a tree only caused a bent shaft

[cadoipi]

Please learn to control your temper, such behavior reflects poorly on you and is unpleasant for your playing partners.

[Windlaker_1]

I last did it probably 10-12 years ago.

Slammed my pitching wedge into the ground after "chunking" a shot. Next time I used it, my shot went 45 degrees off target. THEN, I looked at the shaft, and I did slightly bend it.

Being the cheapskate I am, I don't slam clubs any more because of the cash needed to repair my outbursts.

[RobotDoctor]

I was playing alone. I rarely ever exhibit temper issues, almost never. I would never want to be a poor example to others who lose their tempers. I am not nearly as perfect of controlled as others here.

[Seidinho]

Don't take it so seriously that you feel like you need to let real anger out :)

[brew4eagle]

One of the best golf quotes I've heard- "you're not good enough to throw clubs"

[RobotDoctor]

LOL, I almost always don't. This was a few years ago and I don't remember the time before that. I had a legitimate birdie opportunity on the closing par 5. A birdie would have been an even par round and that was a very rare thing at that stage of my game. I was frustrated because I had been playing so well up to that point and a lapse of execution and judgement was irritation since I thought I had overcome that in my game. Two damaged clubs in 34 years of golf isn't too bad. The first was not an overt exhibit of anger but a firm tap of the driver on the ground after a bad drive. This was back in 1992 with a J's Professional Weapon and I tapped the ground firmly after a poor drive. There was a rock just under the surface and the shaft snapped. Not sure how that happened as I wasn't angry or hit the driver down too hard. Graphite shafts back then were not the best or strongest in the tip. Again, a simple reshaft corrected that issue as well.

 

I'm sure that there are a lot of people who lose their temper. I play with a few every year. We've all been there.

[Springsteennut]

I’d be broke if I reacted that way on my bad shots.

[ArtMBgolf]

Clubs can break and hurt someone. There are stories about it.

[NoTalentLefty]

Use words to express your anger . Share your frustration with your playing partners using four letter words. It will give them a good laugh and you a way to vent. And even maybe cause you to have a giggle.

Or

You take the name of a person, in your playing group, in vain. Let’s say a guys name like Tucker. You can do a lot with that.

We got a guy who plays in our group of 20 or so name kinda sounds like a dirty word . I use it as a release of anger on the course. The name was changed to Tuck to protect the innocent.

[golfandfishing]

When I was younger I learned all of the skills necessary for club repair, I broke a shaft a month one year. The pro I worked for made sure I did all of those repairs myself. Snap one off clean at the hosel and you will put in some real work. Haven’t thrown a club since I was in high school though, just got past it all I guess. I did toss a fishing rod into a lake last week though. Cheap piece of sh.......

We all have character flaws, you are man enough to own up to yours here. Breaking clubs isn’t awesome, but at least some of the folks disparaging you on this thread are likely guilty of way worse.

[RobotDoctor]

It doesn't bother me if anyone is critical of my very rare faux pas. Keep in mind this happened a few years ago and I was playing by myself. Also keep in mind none of the critical naysayers know me personally so to make for them to assume is a little sanctimonious, don't you think? I'm human and rarely utter a harsh word when I play and don't execute the shot I planned. Regardless I don't care.

[Ferguson]

 

I once saw a guy accuse another guy of cheating at a company scramble (not my company). The guy turned in a team card of -21. It was funny. A guy from another group got really mad and tossed a club at him, hitting him in the ear resulting in part of the ear skin to be torn loose. The blood and expletives were flowing. No club damage. I commented, "it's just an ear, let's move to the prizes." Those events are always so slow.

[Lincoln_Arcadia]

Admittedly, there’s some entertainment value, as long as it’s from a couple fairways over.

[GSDriver]

LOL, reminded me of a guy who used to play with us, he wasn't nearly as good as he thought he was and certainly wasn't good enough to throw or slam clubs.

He misses a shot, slams club into the ground so hard snapped shaft, and the shaft end crimped itself where it broke, so it's a jagged sharp edge. He starts fiddling with the 'defective shaft' and slices his finger open on the shaft edge he needed stitches.....tisk, tisk, tisk. Of course the shaft was defective he said, he claimed he hadn't slammed it that hard.

[Carl Spackler3]

My dad used to say you’re not good enough to be mad

[Lmcjaho]

 

Not a golf story but I played in a pool league a couple decades back and one of the psychos in the league lost a match in a big tournament we traveled to and he snapped his graphite cue ON HIS FOREHEAD. When you snap a graphite shaft in golf it’s usually reasonably clean because the speed it happens at shears it fast enough to prevent splintering for the most part. The graphite pool cue is much thicker and snapping it across your own forehead makes it tough to do quickly, so this thing splintered into a hundred razor shards and sliced open Mr. Nutcase in half a dozen places. He was lucky not to get his eyes at all.

Worst part was we had car-pooled and were sharing accommodations for the weekend of the tournament so I was stuck with this unstable freak for another 36 hours or so.

[aenemated]

When I was maybe 13 or 14 - when my game was really coming together - I hit a particularly nasty tee shot while playing with my dad and a couple of his buddies, got steamed and flung my driver down the fairway. (Definitely not the first time I'd done something similar)

Dad immediately jumped in the cart, sped down the path, grabbed my driver and stuck it in his bag. Then drives to the forward tees, takes my bag off the cart and drops it on the ground. As I run up, he says to me in that frighteningly calm way of his "If you're going to act like a child, you're going to play like a child. 3W should be plenty from the red tees" and speeds off.

Learned my lesson about abusing clubs that day.

[Juice1121]

This type of stuff is just embarrassing. Imagine getting so worked up over a game to the point where you break a club over a tree. Honestly, the fact you were by yourself playing for literally no stakes makes it even worse.

[Roejye]

My cheapness usually keeps me from trying too hard to damage any clubs. I have been so annoyed with myself lately that I did toss my sand wedge about 3 yards once, immediately felt bad. It had treated me really well earlier in the season, and I think I'm getting it back. The one thing I probably need to keep in mind is I'm not as good as I think I am. My handicap says 19, but that was with generous scoring for myself. Now that I'm scoring myself harder I'm seeing more mid and high forties for my rounds (par 34), still in the 90's but disappointing for how well I can play for a stretch of holes.

[LukeDonaldsTiger]

I gave up throwing clubs after having to climb a tree to retrieve my sand wedge from a branch.

 

Hope this translates, not a native speaker:

Other incident: bad day on the range. I was there alone with my two best buddies and couldn’t hit it straight after a swing fix in a preceding lesson. Hook city. After one more bad hook, I fling my 5i down range. Deadpan commentary: „Even that one goes left.“ Ouch!

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[Nels55]

I was guilty of throwing clubs occasionally when I was younger maybe 30 or 40 years ago. I don't do that anymore. If I am hitting the ball so poorly that I am very angry then my pride has gotten the best of me. Hey, it happens. I need to realize that I am getting exactly the shots that my swing at the moment says I should get. Time to reset and become humble. A humble golfer will never throw a tantrum of any kind. And I have found that at least in my case a humble golfer will hit the ball a lot better then Mr. Angry golfer. Pride precedes a fall.

[Justsomeguy]

Yeah seriously, a Real WRXer would have hit that tree trunk 300 yards.

[andrue]

I'm no where near good enough to justify anger and anyway I play golf as a hobby. What happens, happens and I just deal with it. I might swear occasionally but that's as far as it goes.

[andrue]

Didn't someone kill themselves by throwing a club? Golf Club DeathNow I wish I'd never read that:

"In 1951, Edward Harrison was playing a round at Inglewood in Kenmore, Washington, when the shaft of his driver broke and pierced his groin. He staggered 100 yards before collapsing and bleeding to death."

[Ngjg21]

Whoa.

[GMR2iron]

In my group, we do not allow players who break or throw clubs. We prefer gentlemen that swear so loud that neighboring homeowners call the pro shop to complain.

[andrue]

On 7/27/2020 at 4:27 PM, GMR2iron said:

In my group, we do not allow players who break or throw clubs. We prefer gentlemen that swear so loud that neighboring homeowners call the pro shop to complain.

I have the same problem with Visual Studio. Working from home is great but sometimes I need to remember to close the window.

[1mcozik]

I once threw my club but proceed to slice 15yards to the other fairway.