Ever Witnessed A "Whiffie"? What About A "T.C. Chennie"? How About A "Doggie"? What Else?

[EmperorPenguin]

In addition to birdies and sandies, we know what Arnies, barkies, gigglies, gurglies are.  I have been playing golf for over 30 years and these are a few of the rarest things I have seen.

 

A man is playing a match against another, and on a 200-yard par 3 he tees up the ball and completely whiffs it.  He looked to his opponent and asks, "That doesn't count, does it?" and his opponent shook his head and said, "Yes, it does!"  Miffed, he took a little extra time over the ball and made a perfect swing at the ball, which finished on the lip of the hole.  Tapped in for a whiffie.  Never saw it since.

 

Here is another one.  This happened about ten years ago under the previous Rules before 2019.

 

Player's approach shot carries on the green but bounces one step into the rough behind the green.  Left with a downhill chip, his third shot was a little fat and he double-hit the ball, which barely got onto the green, but the ball rolled into the hole for a 3 and a natural birdie, but because of the double-hit rule he was assessed a one-stroke penalty, thus a score of 4 and a T.C. Chennie.  I have yet to see that again.

 

Here is another one.

 

A man is seen walking his dog near a green.  Player slices his tee shot to the right and shouts "Fore!" to the man and his dog.  As the ball neared them it bounced and the dog instinctively catches it and starts running in the direction of the green.  The man stops his dog on the green and forces him to drop it, which he did.  The ball finished about fifteen feet from the hole.  The golfer cleans his ball, lines it up and rolls it up close and taps in for a doggie.  I have yet to see that again also.

 

Any of you have anything of the like?

 

 

[Nickb333]

I was playing with a guy that hit OB off the t on a short par 4. He re-teed and knocked it in for a 3. 
 

No idea if that one has a name. 

[st1800e]

Rocky

[b.mattay]

Rocky (by me): accidentally snap a shaft in half hitting out of water hazard rocks. Hit the shot to 2 feet and make birdie anyways. 

Snappy (by a friend): Following a chipping-yips-induced triple bogey on hole 9, hit a wedge on hole 10 from 50 yards to 70 feet. Snap club while ball is in mid air. Roll in the 70 footer for birdie and proceed to make 6 more consecutive birdies and shoot 29 coming in 😂.

Edited December 18, 2023 by b.mattay

[Foozle]

On 12/18/2023 at 2:57 AM, EmperorPenguin said:

In addition to birdies and sandies, we know what Arnies, barkies, gigglies, gurglies are.  I have been playing golf for over 30 years and these are a few of the rarest things I have seen.

 

A man is playing a match against another, and on a 200-yard par 3 he tees up the ball and completely whiffs it.  He looked to his opponent and asks, "That doesn't count, does it?" and his opponent shook his head and said, "Yes, it does!"  Miffed, he took a little extra time over the ball and made a perfect swing at the ball, which finished on the lip of the hole.  Tapped in for a whiffie.  Never saw it since.

 

Here is another one.  This happened about ten years ago under the previous Rules before 2019.

 

Player's approach shot carries on the green but bounces one step into the rough behind the green.  Left with a downhill chip, his third shot was a little fat and he double-hit the ball, which barely got onto the green, but the ball rolled into the hole for a 3 and a natural birdie, but because of the double-hit rule he was assessed a one-stroke penalty, thus a score of 4 and a T.C. Chennie.  I have yet to see that again.

 

Here is another one.

 

A man is seen walking his dog near a green.  Player slices his tee shot to the right and shouts "Fore!" to the man and his dog.  As the ball neared them it bounced and the dog instinctively catches it and starts running in the direction of the green.  The man stops his dog on the green and forces him to drop it, which he did.  The ball finished about fifteen feet from the hole.  The golfer cleans his ball, lines it up and rolls it up close and taps in for a doggie.  I have yet to see that again also.

 

Any of you have anything of the like?

 

 

No names but two shots stick in my mind from the dim and distant past.

Playing a match, I missed a par three and short sided myself with a fiddly chip over a bunker. Decelerating on it, i chunked and caught the ball again on the way through. Holding my finish, the ball bounced a further three times on the club face! The ref counted all 5 contacts and added one as a penalty and so declared I was now about to play my 8th! No point in debating as my opponents tee shot was 8 feet from the pin and the hole lost however you tried to cut it. I do wonder if I hold some kind of record for the most shots (6) recorded with a single swing?!

The other involved dumping two tee shots into a pond down the left, finding the fairway with my third ball and slam dunking an 8 iron for an unlikely double bogey 6!

[EmperorPenguin]

18 minutes ago, Foozle said:

No names but two shots stick in my mind from the dim and distant past.

Playing a match, I missed a par three and short sided myself with a fiddly chip over a bunker. Decelerating on it, i chunked and caught the ball again on the way through. Holding my finish, the ball bounced a further three times on the club face! The ref counted all 5 contacts and added one as a penalty and so declared I was now about to play my 8th! No point in debating as my opponents tee shot was 8 feet from the pin and the hole lost however you tried to cut it. I do wonder if I hold some kind of record for the most shots (6) recorded with a single swing?!

The other involved dumping two tee shots into a pond down the left, finding the fairway with my third ball and slam dunking an 8 iron for an unlikely double bogey 6!

I thought that for a multiple hit, the Rule was one stroke no matter how many times you hit the ball.

[Foozle]

1 hour ago, EmperorPenguin said:

I thought that for a multiple hit, the Rule was one stroke no matter how many times you hit the ball.

This was 30 years ago but I am pretty sure you are right - that was my thinking at the time - but with me about to play 4 and my opponent guaranteed a 3 there was no point in arguing with the "referee". The record showed me conceding the hole after playing 7! 

[DoughBack18]

This happened a few decades ago at a course called Par Line, so named for the high tension Power Lines from Three Mile Island that traveled right down the middle of the first hole. My dad hits a high cut and it clips one of the lines. Instead of just dropping down, it somehow catches the line and launches down it like its caught in the current. Ends up flying a couple hundred yards down and lands just right of the green, close enough where he could use a putter. 2 putted for a birdie with a slightly charred golf ball. Not sure what to call that one, maybe a Voltie? 

[mukster]

Played my course in the winter. On the short par 3, I hit a poor PW and it headed for the bunker surrounding the whole front of the green. Everything was frozen, so the ball bounced out of the bunker onto the green, a few more bounces to pretty close to the hole. 
Wish I could say I made the birdie...  

A frosty maybe? 

[EvanH]

Late 80s, aged 13 or 14, playing Teven Golf Course in NSW (Australia) with a mate. We're on the 3rd green, which has a deep creek beside it.  My mate misses his put and instantly hurls his putter into the creek.  Bad enough, except it was his Dad's putter.  He's mortified and starts stressing.  A few seconds later bubbles start to appear on the surface and a scuba diver emerges from the creek.  This guy is looking for golf balls.  My mate fesses up to throwing a putter into the drink, this guy retrieves it, and we go on our way.  A scubie ?

[ColinKelvin]

Playing a difficult links course in northern Scotland a few years ago, I snap hooked a drive on a long par 4, SI1 (i.e. , the hardest hole on the course) - definite lost ball. I then reteed, but hooked my second ball towards gorse - saw it bounce, but dodgy.  Hit a lovely long provisional 3rd drive straight down the middle - and right enough, didn't find the second ball. So, 5 off the tee.  I then took a deep breath to dispel the anger, and hit a dart of a 6-iron with shot 6, which tracked the pin all the way, bounced once, and hit the flag dead on to drop in for a double bogey.  A twoforsix?

[Hickory4ever]

A couple of years ago, playing during a brief March warmup. The course is in good spring shape, but ice still covers the ponds. Playing a par three over what is normally a pond, a buddy hits his shot short, bounces off the ice to three feet. He makes the putt for birdie. We called it an ICY.

[biglou11]

On 12/17/2023 at 8:57 PM, EmperorPenguin said:

In addition to birdies and sandies, we know what Arnies, barkies, gigglies, gurglies are.  I have been playing golf for over 30 years and these are a few of the rarest things I have seen.

 

A man is playing a match against another, and on a 200-yard par 3 he tees up the ball and completely whiffs it.  He looked to his opponent and asks, "That doesn't count, does it?" and his opponent shook his head and said, "Yes, it does!"  Miffed, he took a little extra time over the ball and made a perfect swing at the ball, which finished on the lip of the hole.  Tapped in for a whiffie.  Never saw it since.

 

Here is another one.  This happened about ten years ago under the previous Rules before 2019.

 

Player's approach shot carries on the green but bounces one step into the rough behind the green.  Left with a downhill chip, his third shot was a little fat and he double-hit the ball, which barely got onto the green, but the ball rolled into the hole for a 3 and a natural birdie, but because of the double-hit rule he was assessed a one-stroke penalty, thus a score of 4 and a T.C. Chennie.  I have yet to see that again.

 

Here is another one.

 

A man is seen walking his dog near a green.  Player slices his tee shot to the right and shouts "Fore!" to the man and his dog.  As the ball neared them it bounced and the dog instinctively catches it and starts running in the direction of the green.  The man stops his dog on the green and forces him to drop it, which he did.  The ball finished about fifteen feet from the hole.  The golfer cleans his ball, lines it up and rolls it up close and taps in for a doggie.  I have yet to see that again also.

 

Any of you have anything of the like?

 

 

We played with a guy who's shot was long left of the green on a par-3.  We could see the ball sitting up on a small hill just behind the green.  Two Labradors were just strolling around, one picks up his ball and continues walking on the cart path towards us.  After the rest of us finish teeing off, the dogs finally approach us and drop his ball at his feet.  We said, "play it as it lies!"