Dont you hate it when

[dugue4]

You are on the range and your second to last shot is beautiful.  You look down at that last ball and just know that you are going to follow it up with another terrific shot.  You take your stance, swing, then hit it 2 miles fat and you have to end there because you are out of balls.  

[tatertot]

You sign in at the clubhouse at 1:00 for your 1:15 tee time ... and there are 4 groups stacked up at the first tee.

[JJFWebster]

You show up for a relatively expensive round and find out, on #1, they just punched the greens.

Edited June 27, 2022 by JJFWebster

[elwhippy]

You are playing a knock out pairs and your partner turns up late and then tries to blame you for not holing every putt. 

[jordan2240]

You skull a chip shot.

[larrybud]

10 hours ago, dugue4 said:

You are on the range and your second to last shot is beautiful.  You look down at that last ball and just know that you are going to follow it up with another terrific shot.  You take your stance, swing, then hit it 2 miles fat and you have to end there because you are out of balls.  

 

There's a way to fix that: When you get to your last 5 balls, and you flush one, just end it right there. Leave the remaining balls (if any) for the next guy. Leaving a couple of balls on the table isn't going to hurt anything.

[Binson]

You're striking it the best you ever have and think you've turned the corner.  You've got your swing and you can start playing Golf rather than Golf Swing.  Your body and clubs have become a well oiled machine. 

 

Next week, you look like you just started golf a few weeks ago and literally can't even swing the club any more.  You spend the entire round unable to get comfortable over the ball and just do your best punch it down the fairway 100 yards at a time. 

Edited June 26, 2022 by Binson

[joeburger]

If that happens I will just hit a chip/pitch shot with ball in the back of my stance, preventing a chunk. Just get a sensation of clean contact and move on to the 1st tee to go pull hook it on to 10s fairway

[phizzy30]

12 hours ago, tatertot said:

You sign in at the clubhouse at 1:00 for your 1:15 tee time ... and there are 4 groups stacked up at the first tee.

+5 hour round.  Those are actually very common here during the weekends.  Welcome to LA. 

[phizzy30]

1 hour ago, Binson said:

You're striking it the best you ever have and think you've turned the corner.  You've got your swing and you can start playing Golf rather than Golf Swing.  Your body and clubs have become a well oiled machine. 

 

Next week, you look like you just started golf a few weeks ago and literally can't even swing the club any more.  You spend the entire round unable to get comfortable over the ball and just do your best punch it down the fairway 100 yards at a time. 

Been there done that.  Yesterday was an awful day for me off the tee.  Ended up shooting 82 with a lost ball and one in the water hazard.  All I remember is making par on the first and birdie on 18.  The rest was a blur. 

Edited June 26, 2022 by phizzy30

[BombinJim]

14 hours ago, dugue4 said:

You are on the range and your second to last shot is beautiful.  You look down at that last ball and just know that you are going to follow it up with another terrific shot.  You take your stance, swing, then hit it 2 miles fat and you have to end there because you are out of balls.  

I did this yesterday and the guy next to me heard me swear under my breath and was kind enough to toss me a ball and say “can’t let you leave like that!” 😂

[Springsteennut]

You hit a beautiful drive, have 90 yards left, hit the second shot fat and only goes 30 yards. I pulled that beauty twice this week.

[mantan]

8 hours ago, larrybud said:

 

There's a way to fix that: When you get to your last 5 balls, and you flush one, just end it right there. Leave the remaining balls (if any) for the next guy. Leaving a couple of balls on the table isn't going to hurt anything.

 

This. I've left a ball. A few balls.  A quarter of a bucket. When things are going well and I've accomplished everything I set out to do in the practice session, I won't hestiate to walk away and leave some bonus balls for someone else.

[jordan2240]

1 hour ago, Markrip said:

You hit a beautiful drive, have 90 yards left, hit the second shot fat and only goes 30 yards. I pulled that beauty twice this week.

You're just following the unwritten rule of golf - any great drive MUST be followed by a shank, skull, fatty, chunk, or whiff. 

[huskydawg]

11 hours ago, larrybud said:

There's a way to fix that: When you get to your last 5 balls, and you flush one, just end it right there. Leave the remaining balls (if any) for the next guy. Leaving a couple of balls on the table isn't going to hurt anything.

Or you can grab a club and fish some balls out from underneath the machine and try again.😉

Edited June 27, 2022 by huskydawg

[caniac6]

A three putt par on a par 5.

[Gdub17]

It’s been super hot here. Me and my 14 year old son went to the range anyway. We only hit 30 balls each alternating shots because his hands sweat a lot. His last shot that day was a straight missile with driver. He then says I’m good. I step up and proceed to hit a perfectly straight missile at our target then proceed to hit that identical shot again. We had half a bucket left and called it a day after those. We’re going back Friday when it cools down to 94 and we’ll try to pick up where we left off then practice some putting if it’s not brutally sunny. Lots of half empty buckets abandoned on the range tee box. We should have saved the 5 bucks and hit for free. It’s the range girl’s fault because she’s smokin. 

Edited June 27, 2022 by Gdub17

[rd1959]

4 hours ago, mantan said:

 

This. I've left a ball. A few balls.  A quarter of a bucket. When things are going well and I've accomplished everything I set out to do in the practice session, I won't hestiate to walk away and leave some bonus balls for someone else.

The balls you left could have been all the bad shots you didn't get to. I'm a pack a day smoker and when someone bums one off me and then says they owe me one I'll tell them don't worry about it, the one I gave you could've been the one that killed me. 😉

[Warrior42111]

On 6/25/2022 at 10:19 PM, dugue4 said:

You are on the range and your second to last shot is beautiful.  You look down at that last ball and just know that you are going to follow it up with another terrific shot.  You take your stance, swing, then hit it 2 miles fat and you have to end there because you are out of balls.  

And that's why I have a few garbage balls in my bag to 'donate' to the range need be.

[rd1959]

On 6/26/2022 at 6:42 PM, jordan2240 said:

You're just following the unwritten rule of golf - any great drive MUST be followed by a shank, skull, fatty, chunk, or whiff. 

Yep. No practice is complete without all of them.

[SnowbirdTom]

On 6/26/2022 at 9:03 PM, caniac6 said:

A three putt par on a par 5.

From six feet.  🤬

[Blaiser]

When you take out the shag bag to practice some pitch shots and you hit your first pitch way too short -- knowing that you're gonna hit that same ball about 10 times ruining everything.

[jamgam]

On 6/26/2022 at 9:03 PM, caniac6 said:

A three putt par on a par 5.

 

Parring a par 5 after hitting it OB off the tee..  I've done that twice this year but yet to make an eagle 

[MountainKing]

On 6/25/2022 at 9:19 PM, dugue4 said:

You are on the range and your second to last shot is beautiful.  You look down at that last ball and just know that you are going to follow it up with another terrific shot.  You take your stance, swing, then hit it 2 miles fat and you have to end there because you are out of balls.  

 

I rarely ever hit my last few balls.  If it's a warm up session once I'm warm up I'll hit a few of the club that I'll be using on the first tee and then call it.  If it's practice, I like to end on a positive note so when I get down to the last few once I feel like I have that I call it a day.  If it means I leave 5 or 6 balls behind, so be it. 

[alittleoverpar]

You shoot 34 on the front and 44 on the back!  😪

[AngryGilmore]

On 6/26/2022 at 8:26 AM, Binson said:

You're striking it the best you ever have and think you've turned the corner.  You've got your swing and you can start playing Golf rather than Golf Swing.  Your body and clubs have become a well oiled machine. 

 

Next week, you look like you just started golf a few weeks ago and literally can't even swing the club any more.  You spend the entire round unable to get comfortable over the ball and just do your best punch it down the fairway 100 yards at a time. 

  To piggyback off of this:

 

You've been hitting it great.  Your driver is working and you are hitting it on the screws every drive and you feel great about where that part of your game is at.   It's a nice morning.  You get to the course early, your warm ups are great.  You get to the first tee.  A few other groups are kind of milling around before their tee times.  You do your preshot routine, confidently step up to the ball.  Everyone goes silent.....

 

And you shank it into the woods.

[Nels55]

On 6/26/2022 at 5:39 AM, jordan2240 said:

You skull a chip shot.

That's the one shot that is infuriating for me.  All set up to pitch one close and make a par or maybe birdie and then skull one into the penalty area.  Arrrrrrrrg.

[8602081]

It's so dry lately that ball runs further on the ruff than on the fairway..

 

[jimb6golf]

You show up at the course to hit some balls before your round.  Range time is terrific and you're  hitting the ball nicely, then you step to the first tee and proceed to have one of the worst ball striking days.    Pretty discouraging and worse when you can't fix what is going wrong either.

[ND2005]

On 6/29/2022 at 7:46 AM, MountainKing said:

 

I rarely ever hit my last few balls.  If it's a warm up session once I'm warm up I'll hit a few of the club that I'll be using on the first tee and then call it.  If it's practice, I like to end on a positive note so when I get down to the last few once I feel like I have that I call it a day.  If it means I leave 5 or 6 balls behind, so be it. 

 

Exactly. 

 

For a warm up session, once I get down to about 10 balls or so I will pull the club I'm hitting on #1 tee and try to visualize the shot. Once I hit that shot well I am done. Doesn't matter how many balls are left. 

 

Then the last few balls I will just work on short pitches to about a 30-40 yard target focusing on good contact and distance control.