How do you handle someone in your foursome who throws his club in anger? Steven Cohen, president of the Negotiation Skills Company, suggests dealing with the club-thrower the way you would with a child. “Try reasoning,” he says. “Ask, ‘What will you gain by ruining a $400 driver?’ Or just ignore him. Keep playing and enjoying the other guys’ company. He might feel left out and try and rejoin the group.”
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Swede Carl Pettersson earned two nice gifts by winning Jack Nicklaus’s 2006 Memorial Tournament. First, the $1,035,000 victory meant Pettersson wouldn’t have to scramble the next day for a section qualifier to secure a coveted US Open spot. But Pettersson was now stuck with airline tickets to a place he didn’t want to go when all he wanted was to celebrate with his wife DeAnna and daughter Carlie. When Nicklaus, the Memorial’s classy sponsor, found out, he told Pettersson, “Where do you need to go? We’ll call you a Citation (a private jet). I want to pay for whatever it costs.”
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PGA Tour player Patrick Sheehan, who has a penchant for misplacing things, became even more worried about losing things after he scored an ace at the 2006 Buick Championship. He won a $20,000 Rolex for making the hole in one. Said Sheehan, “I’m afraid I’m going to lose it. I’m on my fourth cell phone this year, and it’s only July.”
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The Eisenhower Course at Industry Hills Golf Club in Industry, CA, didn’t mind in 2006 when people referred to it as a “goat track.” Despite having hosted LPGA events and US Open qualifiers, the course became a true goat track when they began to employ 399 hungry goats to help as part of a renovation. Their job was to eat native grasses that were encroaching on the course.
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Steve Elkington withdrew from a 2006 US Open sectional qualifier at Lakeside Country Club in Houston after being told he couldn’t play wearing shoes with metal spikes in them. Elkington complained that golfers were allowed to wear metal spikes at qualifiers in New Jersey and Ohio. But the USGA stood its ground, claiming that if he was so adamant about wearing metal spikes, he should have played in one of those states. Besides, the USGA pointed out, Elkington had signed a sheet agreeing to the rules at Lakeside before the tournament.
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It’s unwise to casually drop a ball on Oakmont Country Club’s garganuan putting green and turn to chat with a buddy. The ball is apt to vanish. Head pro Bob Ford says one of thhe favorite pastimes at the fabled course is for members to watch guests drop balls and expect them to be lying at their feet. “They don’t know that the greens are so fast the balls will usually roll right off the green while they’re not watching, ” Ford says.
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One of the concerns about the Champions Tour participants was that their ability to compete and win would begin evaporating when they hit fitty years old. But few feel that way now. By 2006, more than a dozen players sixty years or older had been to the winners circle. In fact, the oldest winner ever is Mike Fetchick, who won the 1985 Hilton Head Seniors Invitational on his sixty-third birthday.
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Tiger Woods won the 2006 British Open at Hoylake’s Royal Liverpool without hitting into a single fairway bunker. By using only irons and no woods, he led the field in driving accuracy and missed just eight of fifty-six fairways. The striking fact led playing partner Nick Faldo to ask Tiger for an audacious item in the traditional post-tournament gift swap. Usually players give signed balls and gloves. Instead, Faldo asked Woods if his son Matthew could have Woods’ driver. “Why not?” said Faldo. “Tiger wasn’t using it.”
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Golf Magazine reported that 600 million range balls were struck in the United States in 2006. Most of them were slugged without aiming at a specific target. That’s why Curt Siegel, pro emeritus at Laurel Valley Golf Club in Ligonier, Pennsylvannia, is on a mission for driving ranges to divide their expanses with stands of trees to give each practice tee a simulation of the definition found on a real fairway. “To improve, you need to visualize your shots,” he said.
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Here’s a story a golfer shared on badgolfer.com: “On a 165 yard, par 3, I teed off over the water. My ball hit the rocks on the other side and made a return flight across the water, almost to the green. {playing partner} John laughed and took great pride in poking fun at my unusual attempt. John then stepped up to the tee box, took a beautiful swing and sent the ball flying. The ball landed in the water but only after his huge, fat divot landed on his head, perfectly centered from back to front and grass up. So much for laughing at others’ misfortune.”
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