[Jon Spaulding]

Anytime, MC. I'll get him this year.

Tobias says....""If I may, let me take off my assistant's skirt and put on my Barbra Streisand in 'The Prince of Tides' ass-masking therapist pantsuit."

Or, "oh Tobias, you blow hard".

For some reason I notice a resemblance between Tobias' work and this site.

[PThomas]

In the 2005 Kings Putter at Stevinson Ranch - or was it 2006? - Paul Thomas won the first six holes and beat me 7 & 6 in a singles match on the Sunday.  On #16 I made the only hole in one of my 50+ year career.

It was that kind of day.  I woke up with a serious blister under my right big toe and had to perform surgery in the pro shop with a box cutter and a box of Band-Aids.   

But no excuse, Paul played great. 

Ace, i think i played over my head that day and you played poorly

and your ace is the first and still only one i've seen in person...and a DRIVER into a 30mph wind!   what a great shot for a hole-in-one

and yes folks, Bill did buy us all drinks!

[Jed Peters]

I got beat 4 and 3 by a 9 handicapper who shot 79 (on my course, first time seeing it, is quite the accomplishment for a 9 handicap!) that day--and he finished the last two holes in +3.

[Steve Wilson]

In golf league (I know it doesn't really count) I was beaten by a woman to whom I was giving 20 shots for nine holes.  She shot a gross 45 and netted 21.  I managed to halve one hole with a birdie 2 on a long par 3.  For the entire round she kept saying "This is the best I've played, I just can't believe it."  And, in truth, it was hard not to enjoy her best round ever.  So, out of a possible 10 points, one for each hole plus the net medal score, I was beaten 9½ to ½.  I kept an eye on her scores from that point forward, and she never approached that score again.  Indeed, I don't think she played after that year.  Perhaps she decided she could no longer scale the lofty heights of nearly shutting out opponents and so gave up the game rather than fall short of her once (and in this instance I do mean once to mean one time) impeccable play.

Once your brains are on the ground and being stirred around by your opponents clubs, you might as well just enjoy the spectacle.

[Dan Herrmann]

This is why Philly's GAP matches are so fun.  Getting back to Tom's original post - yes, match play is a total grin!

[Doug Wright]

Five years ago I was a hotshot new-lease-on-life SENIOR GOLFER ready to blow away the competition at my club's senior match play. First match straight up against a 75 year old gent: I went down 7-6 and it wasn't even that close. I learned later that this guy shoots his age about every week, and he's still doing it now at 80+.

[Padraig Dooley]

The worst I was ever beaten was in a foursomes match at the European Youths Championship in Maderia 1996. It was a match against Switzerland, both my partner and I played rubbish, whenever I played a good shot he followed it with a bad one and vice versa with more bad shots coming from me.

We were 8 down after 9. I hit the tee shot on the tenth onto a bank of a bunker, my partner had to play the approach with the ball nearly 2 feet above his feet, he hit a wondrus shot onto the green, we escaped with a half and the embarrassment of losing on the tenth, we then won the 11th and only got beaten 7&6 which was much better then the 9&8 we were looking at.

My best victory might have been a couple of years later when I beat a guy 7&6 in an inter club match. He was level par for the 12 holes.

[cary lichtenstein]

My wife beat me so badly one day that I didn't see her for 4 days, on the 5th day I was barely able to see her when the swelling in my right eye started to go down

[Kirk Stewart]

Here's a trick question and if somebody doesn't get it in the first five posts, I'll be shocked but the question is---how bad can you technically lose a match?

Here's another trick question---how can you win a match from the tee?

11 and 9...

Player A loses first and second hole and discovers he has more than 14 bats. Player B is 4 up after 2  and would need to run the table on the the remaining front nine.

[Steve Burrows]

I remember playing in a "B" team exhibition match in college, and, I was playing well, but I didn't realize how well until, when I went to shake my opponents hand on the 11th green, thinking that I beat the guy 9 and 7, he informed me that I had actually beat him 9 and 8 on the 10th green. 

It was a bit embarrassing, since he had been thinking for about 10 minutes that I was being an ass, trying to rub in the defeat by not acknowledging the victory, but once everything was explained, we had a cordial afternoon playing out the remaining holes.

[igrowgrass]

I played in a junior tournament in HS.  USA vs. Canada.  I beat a kid 9 and 8, but ended up losing the back nine one down.  You could score points for your team, by winning the front, back and overall. 

[Jeff Fortson]

Here's a trick question and if somebody doesn't get it in the first five posts, I'll be shocked but the question is---how bad can you technically lose a match?

Here's another trick question---how can you win a match from the tee?

11 and 9...

Player A loses first and second hole and discovers he has more than 14 bats. Player B is 4 up after 2  and would need to run the table on the the remaining front nine.

I will look into it but I heard a USGA official once tell me that you can technically lose 13 or 14 down.  There is a way to lose 2 holes on 1 hole.  I didn't believe it until he showed it to me in the Rules.  I'll look it up.


Jeff F.

[Scott_Burroughs]

I was beaten by Tobias Funke, the local "analrapist " in our club championship last year, 3&2.

I didn't know David Cross played golf.




I once got beat in WFGC's Ryder Cup either 8&7 or 7&6 by a guy who had a handicap 6 or 7 strokes higher than me (he was a 13), and was 1 or 2 over through the 11 or 12 holes.  He was just on fire, I'd played with him before.

[Tom Huckaby]

In high school we used to play 9 hole matches.  I recall twice losing 5 and 4.

Worst ever in an 18 hole match was 9 and 7. 

I also won once 9 and 7, so I figure all is well with the world.

 

Since we're talking match play oddities... in a recent NCGA team match - 12 man teams, in each group you play a head to head match concurrently with a better ball of partners, 2 points per match, 6 total groups, add up the points - my partner and I lost the first six holes of the better ball, hung on a little, but ultimately lost 6 and 5.

Yet I went on to win my individual match 2up, and my parter took his to 18 before losing 1 down.

Interesting how these can go...

TH

[Patrick_Mucci]

At Inniscrone, some bozo from North Carolina beat me quite handily.

But, he played well, probably beyond his ability, which was very surprising.

As bitter as the defeat was, I reasoned that even a clock that's stopped is right twice a day.

Another good friend of mine, who had never beaten me, closed me out on the 14th or 15th hole at Seminole.

We had played about 20 times and from the begining I insisted that whomever lost had to pay by check to certify the outcome of the match.

I held every one of his checks.

This way he could never balance and reconcile his check book with his monthly statements.

When he called and asked what happened to the checks, I told him that I used them to paper my den.

[Bill_McBride]

In high school we used to play 9 hole matches.  I recall twice losing 5 and 4.

Worst ever in an 18 hole match was 9 and 7. 

I also won once 9 and 7, so I figure all is well with the world.

 

Since we're talking match play oddities... in a recent NCGA team match - 12 man teams, in each group you play a head to head match concurrently with a better ball of partners, 2 points per match, 6 total groups, add up the points - my partner and I lost the first six holes of the better ball, hung on a little, but ultimately lost 6 and 5.

Yet I went on to win my individual match 2up, and my parter took his to 18 before losing 1 down.

Interesting how these can go...

TH

That's the way we played college golf matches in the '60s.  Our #1 played their #1, #2 their #2, and a fourball #1 and #2 vs their #1 and #2.  Sometimes you had to be on your toes.

One of my few career highlights was a match at Virginia CC against Long Beach State.  We only had 5 players so I played #5.  I beat their #5 pretty handily but also beat their best ball on the back nine.   When they figured out they were 1 down playing #18 there was some wailing and gnashing of teeth, and maybe a club tossed, when I was safely on the last in 3 and made a par 5 to win the point! 

[Tom Huckaby]

Bill:  love it!  I had a similar situation with Santa Teresa a few years ago... partner got whipped 6&5 in his head to head, and bagged out with us 2down in better ball - something about having to be home at a certain time.  So there I was on my own against their better ball, 2 down with 5 to play... and I went out and won 2 of the next four holes to get it square on 18.....

Only to then realize "hey, this would be one great achievement" and thus gag my mind out on 18 and lose.

Darn it.

 

[Garland Bayley]

I got beat in a handicapped match 6 and 5 by a player that appeared to be playing much better than his handicap. Since I had been told in the pro shot that he had shot net 52 earlier in the week I put up a wager on the remaining holes to make sure we got a true score posted for the match. Somehow he appeared to just make enough mistakes to halve each of the remaining 5 holes. He had managed a net 59. I thought I had run into the sandbagger of all sandbaggers. Turns out he heads off to Alaska for many months to work and plays no golf. When he comes back he is not working so he posts several scores right away while he is trying to get his high handicap game back. I just happened to catch him at the beginning of this cycle where his handicapped had ballooned, was on the cusp of starting down again. He is quite a nice fellow, but the circumstances had me thinking quite the opposite when we first met.

[Greg Tallman]

Not played much match play. Won one event and lost both matches on Virginias/Carolinas Team Matches waaaaaaaaay back in the day.

Tripp Isenhour and someone else spanked Fred Widicus and I... 4&2 I believe. Lost individual match on 18. Boonesboro Country Club near Lynchburg, VA. Anyone familiar with the course? Believe Donna Andrews grew up there.

[Bob_Huntley]

it wasn't a golf match at all. Over fifty years ago I thought I was a hot shot  amateur boxer. I had just won the Lord Wakefield Novice Boxing Light Weight Championship of the Royal Air Force of Great Britain. I was invited to box against the team that had won the right  to represent Britain in the 1948 Olympic Games in London.

My opponent was Charlie Tucker. I was just a schoolboy boxer who had gotten lucky against some rank amateurs. Round one, Tucker came at me and landed a punch that almost severed my head from my neck and I realized that  discretion was the better part of valor and got on my bicycle. I lasted three rounds and felt lucky. Tucker went on to become the professional featherweight champion of the British Empire and Europe. I never boxed again.

Bob


Bob

[James Bennett]

I recall playing reasonable golf on a wind-swept NSW GC in Sydney.  I was 20, playing a drip of a kid that was perhaps 15 or 16.  Absolutely thrashed me.  5 and 4 I think, despite some reasonable golf (given the weather).  Steve Elkington was his name.  His swing hasn't changed much, nor his putting.  Just stronger these days!

I have had larger losses, but they were self-inflicted through my own bad golf.  Elkington's performance was my biggest 'beating'.

James B

[Matthew Hunt]

4 and 3 is my worst ever and 8 and 6 is my biggest victory.

[Jay Flemma]

While I can't remember the worst losing score (6&5 maybe?  5&4?), there's several ways to define bad...

I think the worst defeat was whn i lost a junior golf match play round to a kid clearly inferior to me 1up when I turned 18 into chopped salad.

[Brian Cenci]

I got beat in a member-guest match 6 & 4.

Now this isn't the worst loss but a neat story:
This occured in what is called the "Challenge Cup" in Lansing, MI which puts the 13 best guys from Walnut Hills C.C. vs. the 13 best from Country Club of Lansing (two captains pick and then the pro at each club) play twosome matches and single matches.   I lost the first 6 of 7 holes (6 down on #8 tee), came back and had it tied on 18th tee.  Point to note, Walnut Hills has won the cup the last 17 years.

[Glenn Spencer]

7&6 twice. Sweet 16 of Cincinnati Met and Quarters of Dayton Amateur. In the Met, I eagled the par 5 first and then proceeded to lose the next 50 holes. The guy plays on the Nationwide now, but still, I thought 7 birdies in 9 holes was a little much. Plus, I threw a nice shank in there off a damn par 3. Didn't kill anybody though.

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