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Date: 15 Dec 2006 04:01:54
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Subject: The day I broke the law on the fairway.
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One day I was playing on a golf course which was surrounded by houses
and found a ball in the rough while looking for one of my miss-directed
drives.
As it was not my ball and in fairly bad condition, I did what I always
do in this situation and hit it away with a short iron.
On this occasion I had made a bad decision as I creamed it with my nine
iron but caught it very slightly out of the hosel. It left my clubface
at about 45=B0 further right of my intended line but flew as high as a
normal nine.
It was definately heading for a row of houses.
"Don't hit a window", I remember thinking.
And it didn't. It came down on top of one of the roofs.
"Phew, thank goodness", I said to my playing partners who were already
laughing at my mad antics.
And then we all heard a strange rumbling sound and then a loud smash.
Then another, and another and then many more for the next 20 seconds or
so.
My ball had managed to displace an important slate that led to an
ear-piercing avalanche of slates and the loud smashing was caused by
them landing in an empty station wagon under the roof.
The tears were running down the faces of my playing partners as we
scarpered away and continued with our game. I could only start to see
the funny side of it on the way home when I realised that I had got
away with my missile launching antics.
If the person who owned that house happens to be reading this, "Dry
your eyes, it's was years ago and I'm sure your house inurance would
have covered any damages."
If not please read this disclaimer:
If for some reason this story resembles actual events relating to
something that happened to you...=20
Tough luck!=20
Awrabest=20
S=2EMacD.
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Date: 15 Dec 2006 23:56:04
From: uncle K
Subject: Re: The day I broke the law on the fairway.
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pmchugh@online.de wrote:
> One day I was playing on a golf course which was surrounded by houses
...............................
>
> If the person who owned that house happens to be reading this, "Dry
> your eyes, it's was years ago and I'm sure your house inurance would
> have covered any damages."
As the owner of a fairway home, I shall not seek revenge on the
pencil-necks who break windows and run like naughty teenagers. I'll
leave that to the golf gods.
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Date: 17 Dec 2006 01:16:22
From: Hunt
Subject: Re: The day I broke the law on the fairway.
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In article <1166255764.572903.83360@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com >,
yesigolfalot@hotmail.com says...
>
>
>pmchugh@online.de wrote:
>> One day I was playing on a golf course which was surrounded by houses
>...............................
>>
>> If the person who owned that house happens to be reading this, "Dry
>> your eyes, it's was years ago and I'm sure your house inurance would
>> have covered any damages."
>
>As the owner of a fairway home, I shall not seek revenge on the
>pencil-necks who break windows and run like naughty teenagers. I'll
>leave that to the golf gods.
I agree with you. My home is slightly beyond the green on my #8, but I find
enough balls "over" the house, to only guess, that they hit their second shot,
on a 342 yd/P4, with a 3-wood! I know that if their ball is in my pool, or
patio, they still have old #9 to play. It's a benign looking P3, that plays
120/100 yrds, but the green is in a bowl. There are no vertical or horizontal
references anywhere, and the green is heavily sloped, back to front, but you
cannot tell it, from anyplace, but my upper deck. I just let them 5 putt, or
laugh, as their little chip from slightly above the green, goes into the
rocks, well below the green. If they acknowledge their errant hit on #8, I'll
share the specs. on #9 with them - hit short and right of almost all pin
placements. The shalls park above #9 green, just to have a good laugh, as
folk walk off with 7's and cannot understand why. Yeah, the Golf Gods have
their way of getting back - they are NOT to be denied!
Hunt
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Date: 17 Dec 2006 08:35:59
From: Kenn Smith
Subject: Re: The day I broke the law on the fairway.
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My back yard is adjacent to our #1 fairway, a par 5. I get a few balls
out of the back yard but the house doesn't get hit all that often. A
couple of times when it did, however, were funny. I was mowing the lawn
a couple of years ago when someoe on #1 hit a big hook second shot which
flew well into the yard, bounced and hit a living room window (without
breaking it) and rattled around the patio before coming to rest. The
guy who hit the shot looked every where but the dirrection he hit the
shot, all innocence. He couldn't boogie on down #1 fast enough.
Second episode, I was playing in a scramble, shotgun start, to benefit
the scholarship fund at our community college. I was teamed with three
out of town players from other area community colleges. We get to #1
and one of the team rips a big high hook second shot which hit the
second deck balcony making quite a bit of noise. The guy who hit the
shot said something to the effect, "Boy, I hope nobody was home to hear
that!" I told him, "Probably not. My wife is out shopping and I'm out
here. No big deal."
Our other two partners almost rolled on the ground laughing.
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Date: 16 Dec 2006 07:39:31
From: Lloyd Parsons
Subject: Re: The day I broke the law on the fairway.
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In article <1166255764.572903.83360@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com >,
"uncle K" <yesigolfalot@hotmail.com > wrote:
> pmchugh@online.de wrote:
> > One day I was playing on a golf course which was surrounded by houses
> ...............................
> >
> > If the person who owned that house happens to be reading this, "Dry
> > your eyes, it's was years ago and I'm sure your house inurance would
> > have covered any damages."
>
> As the owner of a fairway home, I shall not seek revenge on the
> pencil-necks who break windows and run like naughty teenagers. I'll
> leave that to the golf gods.
Why should you, they weren't the ones dumb enough to build a house in a
hazard zone! ;-)
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Date: 15 Dec 2006 23:21:54
From: Da Ringer.
Subject: Re: The day I broke the law on the fairway.
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Sometime around 1980 I was playing the par 5 18th which was reachable in 2
with a parking area just left of the green.
My playing partner (just met him that day) said I should go for it.... so I
launched a 3 wood which started hooking.
As luck would would have it..... the ball headed straight for a group of
cars and hit with a loud thump.
I asked the other guy what should I do about any damage to the car. He told
me not to worry about because "only an idiot would park over there next to
the green".
Well...... when we got to the green it was his car I hit. His wife had came
to pick him up after she got off from work.
He was a little steamed about the broken windshield, but he told me to
forget about it and he was going to have a few words with his wife about
parking there.
I was only about 19 at the time and got out of there in a hurry.
Da Ringer
<pmchugh@online.de > wrote in message
news:1166184114.017123.119440@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com...
One day I was playing on a golf course which was surrounded by houses
and found a ball in the rough while looking for one of my miss-directed
drives.
As it was not my ball and in fairly bad condition, I did what I always
do in this situation and hit it away with a short iron.
On this occasion I had made a bad decision as I creamed it with my nine
iron but caught it very slightly out of the hosel. It left my clubface
at about 45° further right of my intended line but flew as high as a
normal nine.
It was definately heading for a row of houses.
"Don't hit a window", I remember thinking.
And it didn't. It came down on top of one of the roofs.
"Phew, thank goodness", I said to my playing partners who were already
laughing at my mad antics.
And then we all heard a strange rumbling sound and then a loud smash.
Then another, and another and then many more for the next 20 seconds or
so.
My ball had managed to displace an important slate that led to an
ear-piercing avalanche of slates and the loud smashing was caused by
them landing in an empty station wagon under the roof.
The tears were running down the faces of my playing partners as we
scarpered away and continued with our game. I could only start to see
the funny side of it on the way home when I realised that I had got
away with my missile launching antics.
If the person who owned that house happens to be reading this, "Dry
your eyes, it's was years ago and I'm sure your house inurance would
have covered any damages."
If not please read this disclaimer:
If for some reason this story resembles actual events relating to
something that happened to you...
Tough luck!
Awrabest
S.MacD.
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Date: 16 Dec 2006 08:12:41
From: Douglas Siebert
Subject: Re: The day I broke the law on the fairway.
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"Da Ringer." <DaRinger@nowhere.net > writes:
>Sometime around 1980 I was playing the par 5 18th which was reachable in 2
>with a parking area just left of the green.
>My playing partner (just met him that day) said I should go for it.... so I
>launched a 3 wood which started hooking.
>As luck would would have it..... the ball headed straight for a group of
>cars and hit with a loud thump.
>I asked the other guy what should I do about any damage to the car. He told
>me not to worry about because "only an idiot would park over there next to
>the green".
>Well...... when we got to the green it was his car I hit. His wife had came
>to pick him up after she got off from work.
>He was a little steamed about the broken windshield, but he told me to
>forget about it and he was going to have a few words with his wife about
>parking there.
>I was only about 19 at the time and got out of there in a hurry.
Now THAT is HILARIOUS! Got to admire the guy's character though, I'll bet
99 out of 100 people in his position would have changed their tune from
"don't worry about it since only an idiot would park there" to "let's
exchange insurance information" once he found out it was his car that got
nailed.
--
Douglas Siebert dsiebert@excisethis.khamsin.net
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
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Date: 15 Dec 2006 15:02:47
From:
Subject: Re: The day I broke the law on the fairway.
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Play golf...
I eat, drink, sleep, dream, and lorve
golf!!!
Awrabest
S.MacD.
Miss Anne Thrope wrote:
> Gee, a spineless pissant who plays golf.
>
> What a rarity.
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Date: 15 Dec 2006 14:51:59
From:
Subject: Re: The day I broke the law on the fairway.
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Ha Ha!
I see you managed to dislodge that five iron that was effecting your
sense of humour.
Awrabest
S.MacD.
fiveironisnot@webtv.net wrote:
> <pmchugh@online.de> drooled in message
> news:1166184114.017123.119440@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com...
> >and found a ball in the rough while looking for one of my miss-directed
> >drives.
> <drivel about roof collapse due to negligent ball striking snipped>
> >and I'm sure your house inurance would
> >have covered any damages."
> >
> >If not please read this disclaimer:
> >
> >If for some reason this story resembles actual events relating to
> >something that happened to you...
> >
> >Tough luck!
> >
> >Awrabest
>
> S.MacD.
> ---------------------------------------------
> If you had played bogey golf I'm sure none of that would have happened.
>
> --
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Date: 15 Dec 2006 15:38:09
From:
Subject: Re: The day I broke the law on the fairway.
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<pmchugh@online.de > drooled in message
news:1166184114.017123.119440@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com...
>and found a ball in the rough while looking for one of my miss-directed
>drives.
<drivel about roof collapse due to negligent ball striking snipped >
>and I'm sure your house inurance would
>have covered any damages."
>
>If not please read this disclaimer:
>
>If for some reason this story resembles actual events relating to
>something that happened to you...
>
>Tough luck!
>
>Awrabest
S.MacD.
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If you had played bogey golf I'm sure none of that would have happened.
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Date: 15 Dec 2006 10:40:07
From: Miss Anne Thrope
Subject: Re: The day I broke the law on the fairway.
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Gee, a spineless pissant who plays golf.
What a rarity.
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