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I've been pretty lucky in this area.

I've never hit anyone, although I've been close a few times.  Luckily those times I've been close, my ball has been rolling and already on the ground by the time it gets near someone.

I've never been hit either, although I've been sitting in a cart twice that's been hit.  One time we were just driving along and a ball came out of nowhere and hit the roof of our cart.  It wasn't our group or the group behind us, but it was an impressive shot to hit us on the fly, though.

I used to be in a regular foursome and on one of the days I wasn't there, one guy hit one of my other playing partners.  Massive hook and caught him in the eye.  He was in the hospital for a while, but has fully recovered by now.

Have you ever been hit or hit anyone with a ball?

Got hit in the back by a massively sliced 3 wood once.

Stung a bit.....

 [sm_buddies]

Grazed once last year.  Ball was hit with a driver and it went right between my legs and nicked me on the inner thigh.  If I'd been a few inches shorter it would have castrated me.  Of course, any shorter and I'd have to have a parent with me to even get on the course. 

I bitched hard at the dude later in the round.  Afterwards he bought me beer. 

Also last year, I was with a guy who nailed a dude right in the head with a 3W shot on the fly.  Felled him.  I thought for sure he was dead.  The guy's meth freak son, after spending exactly zero seconds checking to see if his dad was alive, sprinted up the hole and proceeded to challenge all of us to a death match with knives.  Not that I blame him for being upset.  The guy who played the shot handled it well.  He couldn't have felt worse.  I wouldn't have played myself but he was 265 out and in the rough.  He didn't think he could reach.  Apparently he caught a flyer.   ::)

They left the flagsticks laying on the ground for the rest of the round.  So it evened out.

I had a tricky little chip to the green, which my brother decided to stand right behind before I took my shot, and I ended up skulling it right into his thigh. He danced around a bit, and my ball came to rest about 3 feet from the cup. Luckily he acknowledged that he probably should have been standing somewhere else, but I still think he was pretty pissed about it.

This the son?

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aaaaah.....I'm sorry....just couldn't help myself  [sm_devil]

EXCELLENT! but begs the question why you are saving pictures of him.

I hit a lady once on my 2nd shot into the green on a five par  ;) when I was a solid 225 away ( I didn't think I could hit a ball that accurately), needless to say I wait until the green is clear now.

side note:
My buddy was dropped like a sack of taters last year from shot that you would have to see to believe, the guy was teeing off (he is right handed) and he hit my friend who was standing on the green (#3) we were playing which is almost 150 degrees from the tee shot of a right handed player. Does that make sense? You had to see it too believe it, the other 2some we were playing with bought my buddy drinks the rest of the day.

Yes and no.  Kev's hit me three times (that I remember) - only once on purpose - All were practice pitch shots in our backyard, and none of them hurt.

Got pegged in the stomach on the fly when serving as forecaddie at age 14 or so.  Never saw it after it broke the treeline.

Nice welt.

Bad boy Fuzzy.   [sm_poke]

Forgot about the time I hit myself and woke up 10 seconds later on my back with 11 guys staring down at me.  That was a real trick alright.  I've recounted this elsewhere but somehow the telling doesn't quite get the story across.  The guys who were there can't get throught it without busting their guts.

* Bountiful Ridge Spacey.  You probably heard them laughing at your house.

You hit yourself?

That's a must-share story. :D

Just 2 days ago ;) Been hit.... by my OWN WIFE  [sm_devil]

Little princess trying my 60* Spin Milled on a pracy green and she try a flop  ??? I ball goes toward me and I catch it with my hand before it hit my forehead, before Christine unleash the F word  ;D

Now she tell everyone I am a "very quick man"  [sm_devil]

I've hit more shots than I care to remember, when I yelled "Look Out!".  Never hit anyone.  I have not been hit.

I have a terrible (embarrassingly) tendency to leave the blade open/shank a less than full wedge.  [sm_anon]

If we ever play together, and I'm 65 yards out..........stay on my left flank. ;)

Two instances--one involving me and one involving a good friend.

My wife is really a saint and is on the board of directors of United Cerebral Palsy of Oklahoma.  We have a daughter with CP, and since her husband plays golf, she was elected to chair their annual golf tournament.  She's done a great job with it, and due to her efforts, my best friend from church, and my brother-in-law both played in it 5 years ago.  My BIL played weekly and loved the game.  During the tournament, my friend putted out on the green, and walked to the next tee box, which was very close to that green.  My BIL was in the group behind my friend, and was about 60 yards off the green.  He pulled a lob wedge, and bladed his shot and pulled it left (he golfs like I do.)  The ball screamed through the air, hitting my friend in the forehead.  He went to the emergency room, and wound up being OK.  My brother-in-law put up his clubs that day and hasn't golfed since.  Several of our courses in the area have striped poles in the middle of the fairway marking the 150 yard point, and I joke with my friend that he should stand out by the pole so that golfers could hit the target.   But he and I am both saddenned that my BIL gave up on the game due to an accident that could happen to most of us.

2nd story.  Last fall, I club ho'ed (again), and went to a local 9 hole pasture course to try out my new driver.  The first hole is a par 4, dogleg right, with water on the right side.  A course worker was working on the left side of the fairway, which would normally be my target area as this weak hitter doesn't have enough stick to carry the water over the dogleg on the right.  The course worker is oblivious to me.  I wait for five minutes, and decide to go ahead and try to carry the dogleg on the right, even though it will result in a wet ball.  So, of course, I pull my drive left, heading straight for the worker.  My first thought is that I hit that ball so well, it will fly over his head.  That's of course is the rational of most golfers who think that they hit their drives 270 when it's more like 230.  I still yell "fore", and think the ball will fly over him, then see his head jerk sideways suddenly as the ball goes by him.  It's a very long walk to him, and he's got blood on his cheek.  The ball hit him on the cheek and I offerred to take him to a doctor, but he said that's what he gets for working on a golf course and not paying attention.  I still feel bad about it to this day.

I've never hit anybody, which is pretty amazing. I can spray balls with the best of them, and my home course is (and always has been) one of the best known 'shooting galleries' in the Seattle Metro area, given that it's ALL pretty narrow with fairways running adjacent to each other and not much protection on alot of them.

I have scattered  a few groups, and a couple of years ago I pulled an 8 iron (which is one of my best shots  ::)) into a golf cart as the group in front was leaving. They said it bouced once off of something in the basket, and landed on the seat right between them. They were actually pretty nice about it, because at first they thought it fell out of one of their bags.

I got hit in the calf a last spring, hard enough to knock me off my feet. I walked into some trees looking for my ball, completely oblivious to the fact that one of my group was setting up with a long iron 15  yards or so behind me. He bladed/pushed it, and it hight me right in the meaty part. The bruise actually had a dimple pattern in it!!

My own fault, really.

Never been hit, or hit anyone. (Nat doesn't count :D)

No, that was the guy who did the hitting into.

And it was 290, not a mere 265....

 ;)

It's all written up on FIGS somewhere.  Search on "scramble" and "angle iron" with author Funk#49 and it should pop up. 

I've never hit anyone, although I've had some close calls. I've been hit twice. The first time was on one hop so it didn't hurt, but it did piss me off because there was no warning or 'fore' and I was standing in the middle of the fairway so it's not like I was out of sight. I hit the guy's ball into a pond out of retribution which may be a bit of a prokrop move, but I was only 17 or so at the time.

The second time was on Masters Sunday in 2005. I have a habit - bad or not - of walking ahead of playing partners. I do it because I walk whenever I can and most players ride so I need to keep pace, but also because I just tend to move and play fast on the course. I was playing with my brother who had a nasty side hill, downhill lie on the edge of a pond. I had walked around to the opposite side of the pond when he hit a god-awful shot that started down toward the water, hooked, rose up, and tracked right toward me in a rising trajectory. As I moved to get out of the way the ball continued hooking in my direction so I tried to jump over it and it caught me square on the boney bump on the inside of my ankle (the tibia?). It sounded like a wooden bat hitting a baseball. It broke the skin and swelled immediately so I was pretty sure there was some kind of break. Fortunately it happened on #18 and I wasn't playing great so I picked up and headed straight to the hospital. The xrays were negative and I was back on my feet the next day but the bruise took close to a year to disappear.

I didn't really learn my lesson though; I still walk ahead of people.

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watch out for the driveby

haven't hit anyone... closest I've come is bout 5 yard when as a single a group ahead let me play through while they were standing on the green.  I had about 110-120 yards and thinned a 3/4  9i   right at a guy, but short of hitting him. bounced off safely to the side....  and again at a long downhill par 4 where I hit driver,  got a cartpath bounce, and the ball rolled up just behind a group about 380-400 yards out....


have been very close to being hit several times.  one time  , about 200 out in the center of the fairway at schitty park #17 in pgh, group behind tees off and no warning, a ball just lands about 1 foot in front of Sal.   got in a big verbal fight, almost got physical.... they claimed 'it looked farther than 200 yards'... and I said did you check the tee marker or your scorecard   blah blah and they refused to take any fault for it.

another is GrandView where there are several blind dogleg approach shots around the hillsides .  you're supposed to wait 5 minutes behind the group ahead of you....  someone gave us about 2 minutes. ball missed me by about 3 yards  (i could hear the incoming hiss... but not in time to cover up).

I've hit two people.

The first was my mother when I was about 18 (no, I wasn't playing a gutta percha ball).  I shanked a shot, it flew low and right and hit her just below the knee.  She still reminds me of the incident.

The second was about 10 years ago.  We were playing in an early season two man scramble.  The other team in our foursome was a husband and wife.  We were hitting our approach to the green, maybe about 60 yards.  My buddy hit first.  Then I dropped my my ball, lined up my shot, took a practice swing and then hit.  I hit it thin and it was a line drive toward the green.  I look up and the woman had walked in fron of me and it was heading right at her.  It hit her in the side of her back and dropped her like a rock.  Fortunately, since it was cold that day, she was wearing several layers and that cushioned the blow.  She said she forgot it was a scramble, and after my partner hit, she forgot that another shot would be coming from the same spot.  She had a bruise, but she finished the round.

The closest I've come to be hit was having a ball land in the basket of the cart behind the seats while I was sitting in it.  It made quite a racket as it bounced around and stay in the basket.

So that's who you are. 8)



Now, has Wishicouldhit figured out who TFT is yet? ;) :D

Never hit anyone but I came close to drilling myself once. My one and only foray into night golf had us at a course with lights mounted on telephone poles. I lined one of my tee shots directly off one pole and it came back at me so fast I just barely was able to duck under it. Gave my group quite the laugh.  ;D


I'm surprised I have never been hit but had some close calls. At the goat track muni I play guys regularly hit into my group. We use pull carts but play pretty fast so I don't think thats the problem. I think most of the guys there are in a hurry to make their shift at the refinery and the rest are just ignorant.  [sm_devil]

"There, there, lie quiet now. You just had a bad dream."
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I forgot: I almost donked the guy next to me once at the range when I had the shanks.  After about the fourth ball that just missed him, I packed it up and left.

A friend and I were missed by two shots in nine holes, one by about ten feet (we were walking off the tee, player hit from the tee of the par-3 we'd just played) and the other maybe three feet (we were on the PRACTICE GREEN and the player was coming up #9).  Not a peep out of them either time.  Almost came to blows after the second one.  Would have been 2 on 4, so not good for us.  Happily, his friends didn't want to fight, either.

Damn near certain that means something you don't want it to mean in some part of the world. 

If not, it oughta.

No, I'd been told it was a remedy for the shanks.

You should try it.

I've came close to hitting someone a couple of times but missed.  And I've never been hit (knock on wood).  Closest I came to getting hit was on the first hole of the muni in Norman.  It was a par 5 and I was standing on the front fringe about to play my 3rd shot.  Then I hear a ball land a few feet from me and roll onto the green.  Some guy in the group behind me apparently hit the best 3 iron of his life 200+ yds and doesn't know how it reached the green.

[sm_shock] Hi! (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/Minnesnowta_Girl/Smileys/Waving.gif) It's been quite a while since I've read a post by you (well over there, anyway).  I still remember your welcome post to us in the thread I started to introduce us to you all.  lol
Anyway, it's nice to really know who I'm talking to - mores specifically than someone who used to post over there. 8)  And now your tech posts finally make sense. :D

BTW, nice story. lol

Never hit anyone else, but hit myself once.

I was at the driving range and the grass was better BEHIND the line of mats.  You would need to know that there were also strongly constructed (square steel tube) bag stands built and embedded into the concrete at each of the hitting areas.

I hit a 6 iron out of the grass behind one of the bag stands, hit a line drive into the metal stand, and it came straight back at me like a bullet.  Struck me square in the chest and doubled me over for a couple of minutes.  Hurt like hell.  Had a bruise for 2 weeks.   :-[

It was at a built up par 3, it was my turn to hit, Russell, and the other two players were on the green.  I did a beautiful big flop shot with a sand iron, Russell was standing at the hole,talking to the other players, not watching, and my ball landed on his head....................it was beautiful!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D

I haven't posted there in a LOOOOOOONG time.  Too much animosity.  I honestly haven't been going around incognito though.  I thought all of GolfHos knows who I am.  Anyway, nice to make your reacquaintance.  :)

I don't remember that introduction thread.  What'd I say?   :fear:

http://www.freegolfinfo.com/forums/fb.aspx?m=848387

LOL.  I love jnolan/funk.  That dude ruled.   

lol! ;D

Nope, didn't know.  Now that you've said, it's obvious.  I was racking my brain trying to remember who would give such thorough answers to comp questions.  But was coming up blank?  [sm_dontknow]  Anyway, hello again! 8)

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That thread is definitely a throwback - showing just how computer illiterate we were.  The only redeeming fact is that we'd only had teh internets for about 5 months.  lol at "I looked on GOOGLE", didn't even know to call it a google search or just plain ol' googled - and in all caps, no less.   :D

James Gang fan, or just Joe (Toasted) Walsh?

The latter mostly.  Like the James Gang but don't know all their stuff. 

Funk #49 is a great song plus I've been told I look like this guy so why not.   ;)

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edit:  Here's one of me.  You decide. 

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Well, I guess I'd have to see you in the pink skirt first. [sm_shock]

Kinda thought it was a R&R thing. ;D

Fi' dolla mista.

I've been hit twice, at the local indoor range. 

The first time I got hit in the head by a ball that came down from the far end of the upper level.  Nobody came down to apologize or anything silly like that.

The second time was yesterday.  Someone hit a screamer that hit the ball-cart and bounced directly at me.  I had my back turned at the time and got it between the shoulder blades.  I was very surprised. [sm_shock]