Most Outrageous day of Golf?

[Cory Lewis]

This topic has probably been discussed on here before but I'm new to the site and wanted to see what kind of responses it would generate.  What I want to know is what is your most outrageous day of golf.  It could be the number of holes you played, the distance you traveled to play, the courses you played in one day or anything else.  Here is mine:
Left home at 4:30 am for 3 1/2 hour drive to Yale.  Teed off at Yale at 8:10, finished at Yale at 10:30.  Drove 2 1/2 hours to Kittansett, played Kittanset at 1:30.  Finished Kittansett at 5:00.  Drove 3 1/2 hours home.  Played both courses by myself.  One of the best days of golf I've ever had.

[JSlonis]

Most outrageous day of golf...

This year in mid-August I made my first trip to Scotland to play golf for 8 days.  Our fourth day was Tuesday August 19th, and our foursome got a 10:50 tee time through the ballot to play The Old Course.  I couldn't wait to step on the first tee, I had been planning how I would play that first hole for months...but...in my prior months of planning...

I had not accounted for the fact that the wind would be blowing 25-30mph constant with gusts up to 50 mph.  It was howling like I have never seen before, right into our face on the 1st hole. After a solid drive I was left with 110 yds to the middle of the green, I then hit a very "hard" 7 iron onto the green.  I normally hit my 7 iron about 165-170 yds, it was crazy.  We walked and carried our own bags, and after about the 2nd hole it became apparent that we shouldn't use the carry bag stand because our bags kept getting blown over, we had to lay them on the ground.  What was great to me is that even with severe wind like that, the course was still very playable.  Putting was the most difficult aspect, because it was hard to stand still and you actually had to account for the wind on all putts.  The 18th hole was dead down wind and easily drivable, the best part was two putting for birdie from just off the left side of the green and getting a round of applause from the tourists and onlookers that make up a gallery behind the home hole.

Then...as if we hadn't been punished enough by the elements ...later that afternoon we played another 18 at the Crail Golf Club-Old Course.  Stuck out at the end of a point, The Crail Links are even more exposed and the wind blew harder than it did at The Old Course.  As we passed the "cave" at Crail around the corner from the 15th tee we had little daylight remaining, we proceeded to play the final 4 holes very quickly and concluded our "outrageous" day in the waning twilight below the hill, in the shadows of the Crail clubhouse.

What a day!!

[Dan Kelly]

Every year for many years now, Rick Shefchik and I have played a season-ending, dawn-to-dusk marathon (between 72 holes and 81) at our home course -- usually early in November.

We look for a day when the forecast is not good but not terrible, so that all of our fellow crazy Minnesota golfers will not see this particular day as the day to play their last rounds of the year. A high of about 40, under overcast skies, is the perfect forecast -- so that the course will be absolutely empty, except for us.

We get two carts and just fly around the course -- in about two hours per round, pausing only for a cup of coffee or a bowl of chili between rounds. I think it qualifies as outrageous, and I'm sure it qualifies as a blast.

This year, alas, Rick's back has refused to cooperate. No marathon in '03 -- the poetic finish to a season when neither of us played nearly enough golf.  

[ForkaB]

A couple of friends of mine once poured themselves out of a bar at 4AM and played the first hole of famous course, buck naked.  They would have played more if they hadn't been arrested...........

[Jeff Fortson]

Shinnecock - AM

NGLA - PM


Tough to beat that.

Jeff F.

[THuckaby2]

Jeff, that works for "great", but I'm not sure it works for "outrageous".  For the latter, Goodale's mention hopefully is the topper.  

TH

[Dan Kelly]

A couple of friends of mine once poured themselves out of a bar at 4AM and played the first hole of famous course, buck naked.  They would have played more if they hadn't been arrested...........

I like to imagine that this sort of thing happens all the time at Augusta National.

Rich -- What course? What were the charges? What was the disposition of the case? Was C.B. Fry somehow involved? Details, man!

[ForkaB]

Dan

CB Fry would probably not have been amused (partly because he was dead at the time) but his grandnephew, Steven Fry, the actor/comedian/raconteur, probably would have been, if he were there, which he was not.  No charges were proferred, although my two friends were suspended by the club for a while.  The third member of the party, the son of a well-known pro/architect, got off scott-free and shall remain anonymous.  The only victim of the crime was the butcher's wife whose house overlooked the 1st green and who was out for a dawn stroll at precisely the wrong time......

[Dan Kelly]

The third member of the party, the son of a well-known pro/architect, got off scott-free....

I thought it was "Scot-free." Or has American-style hypersensitivity hopscotched (no offense intended!) back across the Big Pond?

[Bob_Huntley]

Back in May of this year I responded to a question from Tim Weiman on golf in Africa. It went thus:

"Tim.

I have a couple of old Africa hands that I can call to get more information. I think there must be some hyperbole here, because the best courses in Africa were in South Africa, Southern and Northern Rhodesia. The latter were particularly well maintained as there was an abundance of money and water lavished on the courses by  benevolent miining companies.

One course that comes to mind was the Elizabethville Golf  Club in Katanga Province of the Belgian Congo. A good layout but the last time I was there the bunkers were occupied by mutinous remnants of the Force Publique, a triggerhappy lot if I ever saw one."

I didn't finish the story. A friend and I decided we would try to play a few holes, carrying our own bag. Going out to the first tee we met the head honcho of the troops, who questioned us in fractured French and Chibemba, asking what the f*** we thought we were doing. I told him that we were going to hit this little white ball toward the hole some way down to the green by the sand. His laconic reply was that the only balls going to be hit that day, were ours, with an AK 47 unless we got out of his F*****g way. Discretion overcame valor and we retreated to the Leopold Hotel and then returned to Northern Rhodesia. As we all know,the Congo then retreated into a miasma of unpleasantness.

[Mike Hendren]

Two come to mind this year:

Playing w/ 7 clubs including wooded woods and my dad's rusted blade putter at Pajaro Valley in a downpour w/ JakaB, Mike Benham and the Forstonator with absolutely no concept of who exactly was playing who.  

Emergency nine at Sand Hills after 36 w/ a four man scramble team including Shivas, dehydrating/rehydrating with a Jack Daniels/Gatorade mix, dubbed "Gator Jack," a snockered Paul Turner and teatotaler Ed Gedka going 8 under and thoroughly trouncing a FIVESOME of uppity Long Islanders.  

More to follow.

Mike

[Mike Hendren]

Paging Forrest Richardson.  

Aren't we on the 7th tee at Foulpointe?  Seems this thread fits.  

Mike

[Joel_Stewart]

Its outrageous that certain companies I have worked for have payed via expenses account for crazy travel that I have done to play certain golf courses.  The first time I went to Bandon I stayed in Coos Bay to expenses my hotel.  Had a business trip to Chicago once from San Francisco with a stop in Traverse City to play Crystal Downs  

Probably the craziest trip was when I wa a stock broker and I arrainged for a group of 12 to play Shadow Creek on Putnam Investments.  This is when it was $1,000 per person and we all received these 2,000 square foot suites at the Mirage.

[Geo._Tenet]

Its outrageous that certain companies I have worked for have payed via expenses account for crazy travel that I have done to play certain golf courses.  The first time I went to Bandon I stayed in Coos Bay to expenses my hotel.  Had a business trip to Chicago once from San Francisco with a stop in Traverse City to play Crystal Downs  

Probably the craziest trip was when I wa a stock broker and I arrainged for a group of 12 to play Shadow Creek on Putnam Investments.  This is when it was $1,000 per person and we all received these 2,000 square foot suites at the Mirage.

And some people wonder why populist politicans still can find an audience.

[Jeff Goldman]

Dave,

Perhaps its time for a re-telling of the Big Run - Big Cart spill story.

[Doug Wright]

12 years old, played golf for a couple of years and totally hooked. One summer morning, got up, rode my little bike with canvas bag and clubs on handlebars 4 miles to our 9 hole course, first off at 7:30 am. Eight rounds and 72 solo holes later, I'm too tired to ride that bike home, had to call Dad to pick me up. Think I lapped people during some of the rounds.

Prospective "most outrageous day": The World Ice Golf Championships in Greenland.  

Best,

[A_Clay_Man]

Would that be on the 15th at Big Run? We had our own spill there, one day.

There are just too many outrageous days to recount, but ive enjoyed reading these.

[Jeff Fortson]

Shivas,

Classic.


Jeff F.

[Mike Benham]

Playing w/ 7 clubs including wooded woods and my dad's rusted blade putter at Pajaro Valley in a downpour w/ JakaB, Mike Benham and the Forstonator with absolutely no concept of who exactly was playing who.  

I think we were playing against the group in front of us ... or was that behind us ... and we wonder how Huckaby got the reputation of "fixin'" the KPII ...

[Jeff Fortson]

The way I played I should have stayed home and played with myself.


Jeff F.

[Mike Hendren]

Jeff,

Classic your ownself.

Mike

[Michael Moore]

mr. sssssssssupershiv -

CLASSIC!!! Post of the year!

[Paul Richards]

How about this one for outrageous?


Three of us started out and played all three courses at Firestone.  Since there was still daylight left, two of us continued on and played the South course a second time.



Final tally - 72 holes at Firestone in one day!



Then we drove home 400 miles that evening!!!!


Goofy or outrageous?

[Paul Richards]

 :)Forgot to add, since this makes what we did really OUTRAGEOUS:

The 72-hole-at-Firestone-day came on the heels of a 19 courses-in-9-days golf-fest!!!

 

[RJ_Daley]

I had a few outrageous days of morning to evening golf marathons.  But, maybe my most outrageous time period was this spring.  I played Men's club Thurs afternoon, and was slightly overserved with the guys that evening.  I got up and left Friday morn and drove 13.5 hours (some 910) miles to Gothenburg NE to meet up with Brad Swanso to play Wild Horse.  Slept, and then we played 36 Sat., had some grub, slept, played 18 Sunday, I had a lunch and few drinks at Wild Horse, then drove straight home, another 15 hours, since I had to pull over and sleep about 90 minutes or so at a roadside.