The Proper Way to Throw Your Club

[Gozz]

A lesson you thought you would never get.

This pro has to much time on his hands.

http://www.golf.com/golf/video/article/0,2....html?xid=forec

[Bowker]

Hahaha looks like the Happy Gilmore throw.

[KevCarter]

Nothing new there, clearly an OPS release! ;)

[Tanner25]

As they say in NC, do what?

[Swingtheclub]

I think it was Tommy Bolt that said always throw the club forward so you can pick it up on the way to your ball.

 

Personally I wish I could lie and say I have never thrown a club. I have thrown a few and broke a few.

 

 

The problem is I am embarrassed everytime I do it.

 

Now in 44 years of golf I have broken maybe four putters I kinked and iron once throwing it at a cart (more like shoved it) and I once busted the hell out of a driver against some trees. I may have gotten a wedge once.

 

But I am not proud of it. I hate loosing control and I think club throwing is shameful.

 

Worse than that its embarrasing . The last one I threw was about ten years ago and the times before that were at least ten years before that.

 

How do you feel about club throwing.

[atlanta golfer]

I hate to judge, but I have never thrown a club and never plan to. If I hit a bad shot, it is me. The club has nothing to do with it. If I'm playing a person in a match and I see them getting mad, then I know I have them by the b ____. I think that club throwing is totally bush league. Poor winner, poor loser, what is the difference. This is bad sportsmanship. Sorry for the lecture but this is black and white to me. Just the way I was raised and this is not going to change.

[Bowker]

I think it's more that when someone gets mad, they throw their club because its in their hand and its a way to get out anger.

 

Most of the time I doubt its because they think it's their club's fault.

[Swingtheclub]

I hate to judge, but I have never thrown a club and never plan to. If I hit a bad shot, it is me. The club has nothing to do with it. If I'm playing a person in a match and I see them getting mad, then I know I have them by the b ____. I think that club throwing is totally bush league. Poor winner, poor loser, what is the difference. This is bad sportsmanship. Sorry for the lecture but this is black and white to me. Just the way I was raised and this is not going to change.

 

I agree its not with in the spirit of the game and sportsmanship. Like I said on the occassion I have done it I have always felt remorseful.

 

Most of the putters I broke were over my knee sort of a I am not missing with this putter ever again. The five iron I kinked the shaft I just wanted out of my hand.

 

When I windmailed the driver at the trees I was very upset at a woman I was playing with and hit a bad drive at the wrong time.

 

People who show no emotion on the golf course always appear to me not to care enough. Not that I want everyone tossing clubs but sometimes you got to let the demons out. At least in my opinion.

[stevestrike]

I have not thrown one, but I have tossed one aside, or flopped it down on the ground. People handle anger differently, and with varying degrees of success.

[Diesel]

i've only ever thrown one club, and that was my Titleist 585... Hole 13, i shoved one way out to the right, when i told myself 100 times i was going to take it down the left side... i was playing poorly the whole day, and just snapped... it happened so quick i just launched the thing...

 

i felt VERY stupid and childish afterwards, and don't think i would ever do it again... i play with some guys that make a habit of club throwing, cussing and whatnot... i find them humorous at times, but most times it's just downright annoying, and i don't want to come across that way on the course...

[jcrew]

i thought seeing the video was hilarious. i saw it a couple days ago and just laughed that they would actually put that up. good point about releasing the club to make sure it doesn't whip around or what not.

 

concerning getting mad etc. i'm a pretty open emotional person on the golf course. i'm definitely not proud of it but i curse a TON. i've never really thrown a club but i have slammed a couple into the ground on occasion. i'm so careful with my clubs in general that I could never bring myself to actually throw one or break one. i'm really working on trying to chill out after bad shots; i sike myself out after a bad hole or two, or even a bad shot. The best moment for me on the golf course was after i started a high school match with a double bogey then a triple. I got pissed as hell those two holes then I just literally said in my head " f*ck it, I'm already 5 over. just stop caring so much" The next hole, my drive was down the middle, hit the green, and JUST missed my 2nd putt by a bit for a solid bogey. The next 6 holes I hit 6 fairways and 5 greens, scoring par on all of them. That just goes to show how chilling out does wonders.

[hattrick3518]

hahaha looks like a slight variation of my pros club throw!!! ;)

[Ghost_Orchid]

I've never thrown a club, i've squeezed the $h1t out of the grips though. I figure that enough hurt to get the club's attention.

[LetsBe]

Awesome! Back in the day, we caddies could play the club on Mondays. We (well, me anyway) were known to toss a club or two along the way. After all these years I finally know how to do it properly. Thank you.

[AcesAZ]

I don't ever club throw but I'll club drop occasionally. You know when you come over it through impact and try and save it my letting the tension go in the swing but yet it's too late, drop the club right right after the finish. Just don't drop it on your ankle cause it hurts. ;) You can also kick the club when it's down (much rarer, have to be really mad). ;)

[TM golf guy]

That was funny. Some of you guys are taking this way to seriously. Its ok to laugh once in a while. And to those of you that have never thrown a club, you should try it once.

[Gripit N Ripit 54]

LMAO! This goes for my post of the day (ok...so maybe its only 12:04am...but still)

 

Thats too funny

 

"Make sure you take a running start..."

 

Brian

[EJ Mac]

Used to do it a lot until it cost me $200 and 2 weeks w/o a driver temper solved just not worth it to get that mad I made myself a promise that if I could not harness my emotions I would give up the game.

[StaffBag]

Remember...

 

When throwing a club make sure that the shaft is parallel to the ground and not perpendicular to the ground!

 

This will help to avoid shaft breakage.... unless you whip it into a tree!

 

;)

[mjc694]

Fear not occasional club throwers you are all in good company. Yes its foolish, and silly, and childish, but it happens, and occasionally it happens even to people who care about, and love the game. Unfotunately i have fallen into the tomahawk club a couple of times myself, and even own a broken hybrid (snapped the shaft under the tip of the grip) and keep it to remind myself how expensive a temper tantrum can be.

 

I do however take solace in the fact that none other than Bobby Jones himself had to on more than one occasion write to apologize to the USGA for throwing clubs in tournaments. He worked on his temper, and I work on mine, but that passion is part of what makes SOME people better players (obviously you can be a better player with a different outlet for your passion, this just happens to be mine).

 

(post edited for spelling error)

[Swingtheclub]

you no throwing clubs anc cursing are not the only way to show temper.

 

Somepeople do the self induced pain bit . Like hitting themselves in the foot with the putter or slapping themselves I saw a guy damn near knock himself out once

 

I play with a guy who will beat his head with the shaft of a putter occasionaly

 

I used to smack the putter head landed that wrong once and broke that habit. There are also those guys that are into breakage.

 

I know a guy who breaks a lot of clubs but he out did himself a couple of weeks ago and broke every shaft of every club but one in his bag he did not break his TM driver.

 

I am sure there are other ways to display temper.

[8thehardway]

Been tempted a few times but I've never thrown a club.

 

Trevino was playing in a Pro-Am where one player went ballistic after every blunder. Finally he asked the guy what his handicap was and the player said 18. Travino replied "Start cursing on your 19th bad shot."

[The Ultimate Spin]

i hold the shaft of the club and give my club a solid backhanded slap and say, now why are you making me do this?

[Metalhead]

True story:

 

I was attempting to demostrate the act of releasing the club through impact to one of my fellow foursome in a effort to help him.....I suggested(after we all hit our tee shots) that perhaps we try to actually completely release the club from our hands and let it go................................................................

 

there was a net, after the net there was water all to my Left, I didn't factor in the the "glove effect" and my 2i got wet!

At least my point had and will have a lasting memory for everyone present on that hole and that day!! LOL!

My new 2i just arrived yesterday!

[Bomb and Gouge]

I stopped throwing clubs when I turned 20.

 

But I definitely got more power from the over the head tomahawk throw.

[stage1350]

My main victim is wedges. Chunk or chili-dip a few, and it's getting thrown.

 

I presonally prefer to try and stick it into the ground, blade first. If you hit it just right, the shaft will shatter.

 

Since I do my own reshafting, my punishment is in the time it takes to rebuild the club and set the loft/lie.

 

I can't throw putters. They cost too much.

[bk4]

I had a pretty good temper when I was younger. I broke a few putters slamming it into my foot, broke a three wood shaft, and some wedges. After I slammed a wedge into my bag and broke the shaft on my driver and 3 wood I stopped. One of my best friends in high school who was an AJGA All-American and played at Ohio State could throw a golf club tremendous distances, espcially considering he was all of 5 foot 7. He helicoptered it because he was convinced he couldn't break a shaft that way. He did break a few clubs now and then, but I guess when your dad is one of the main guys at Citi Group, money isn't a huge issue.

[mat562]

I've never been one for full-on, 100%, all-or-nothing throwing of clubs, but I'll confess to having been a bit of a tosser in my time. ;)

 

Just to clarify any misunderstanding from that statement, I'll expand it by saying I developed a habit when younger of gently lobbing my putter towards my bag, usually in disgust after missing yet another makeable birdie putt. I broke a Ping putter quite early on in my tossing days which cost me 60 quid (a small fortune for a 16 year old at the time) and spent the rest of the round putting with a sand wedge and waiting for the inevitable 'words of guidance' from our team captain since it was in a junior club match. Not a good situation from any angle.

 

I can still occasionally be seen lackadaisically floating a putter bagwards even today, but it's very much the exception rather than the rule these days. I think a gentle lob is just about acceptable - but hurling drivers down the fairway or demolishing the turf with a wedge looks a bit silly in my opinion.

 

I do, however, reserve the right to quietly use language that would make a sailor blush when amongst suitable golfing company.

[Ronzo]

I was playing with a friend last week who is a big Pulp Fiction fan. He hit a poor driver shot and helicoptered the club. I asked him why he did that, and in a perfect Bruce Willis voice, he said, "I had to throw that driver, honey."

[cubuffs]

That was funny. Some of you guys are taking this way to seriously. Its ok to laugh once in a while. And to those of you that have never thrown a club, you should try it once.

 

Taking this too seriously??? Did you happen to see how late his release was? Way left of his target

 

I would have expected better from an instructional video