Golf Dorkism is a terrible thing to waste

[Mike_Young]

I can speak of golf dorks because I am/was one.  Now there is a big difference between a golf dork and a golf nerd.  I am not a golf nerd.
Anyway, I need you guys to help me compile a list of golf dorkisms you have seen or performed yourself.  I'll start.  I have a golf dork leather bag and it is a really bag but I carried it one day in the rain and it got heavy and then it rained the next day and it was 15 pounds heavier.  Been there; done that.  Never again. I just got home and it is still wet.  And all my gloves are wet.. I am done with the golf dork stuff. 

[Bill_McBride]

When I wear full rain gear, as I did at Kinloch Saturday, I look - and swing - like the Michelin tire guy.   

[Mike_Young]

When I wear full rain gear, as I did at Kinloch Saturday, I look - and swing - like the Michelin tire guy.   

Nope nope nope Bill.  That don't count.  I mean stuff like using sand instead of wooden tees....and various other dork stuff

[Bill_McBride]

When I wear full rain gear, as I did at Kinloch Saturday, I look - and swing - like the Michelin tire guy.   

Nope nope nope Bill.  That don't count.  I mean stuff like using sand instead of wooden tees....and various other dork stuff

Oh, you mean like Ran with his hickories.   

[Mike_Young]

When I wear full rain gear, as I did at Kinloch Saturday, I look - and swing - like the Michelin tire guy.   

Nope nope nope Bill.  That don't count.  I mean stuff like using sand instead of wooden tees....and various other dork stuff

Oh, you mean like Ran with his hickories.   

Yea.  that kind of stuff.  FYI one guy told me his hickories got wet and it could ruin the shafts...I never knew that.   

[Bruce Wellmon]

Do Brush Tees count?

[Mike_Young]

Do Brush Tees count?

Of course...as do score clickers and the little tee holders on shes etc....

[Anthony Gray]

I got engaged at Pebble Beach. Dork city.

[David_Elvins]

Mike,

I think there is a very strong inverse correlation between golf dorkism and golf architecture dorkism. 

[Anthony Gray]

If you travel across the country just to watch Garland and Kalen to golf, you are a golf dork.

[Michael Goldstein]

I've played with two true Golf Dorks (not in the GCA treehouse sense).  They had carabina clips from their belt with golf towels.  They had clips on their hat for their markers.  They talked about their equipment (from shoes to grips to gloves to hybrids) all the way around. And on the tee they hurriedly pulled their scorecard from a special score card holster and marked it with their special golf pen. Cringe.

[RJ_Daley]

There was a guy, very bad haircut irregular bangs, large forehead, used to arrive at county course to be about the last to be able to tee off at a late twilight time, old bagboy pull cart, with a 1950s-60s vintage dial portable radio that used about 4-6 Dcell batteries, that he'd hang on the handle, and had a portable search-spot light.  Because he came so late, he always just teed off alone and played until too dark for most folk; walking and playing and listening to his radio.  Then when it got too dark to tee off and see ball, he'd just skip tees, and drop a ball 100 or so yards from a green, and point spot light towards the green.

I played with him for a few holes once.  He could play very well (probably about low single digit handi)  He had old wood woods, and I doubt ever bought a ball (fished them out of water hazards at end of day when pickin is good).  He wasn't real chatty.  He was around a few years, then never was seen again. 

[Jim Nelson]

There was a guy, very bad haircut irregular bangs, large forehead, used to arrive at county course to be about the last to be able to tee off at a late twilight time, old bagboy pull cart, with a 1950s-60s vintage dial portable radio that used about 4-6 Dcell batteries, that he'd hang on the handle, and had a portable search-spot light.  Because he came so late, he always just teed off alone and played until too dark for most folk; walking and playing and listening to his radio.  Then when it got too dark to tee off and see ball, he'd just skip tees, and drop a ball 100 or so yards from a green, and point spot light towards the green.

I played with him for a few holes once.  He could play very well (probably about low single digit handi)  He had old wood woods, and I doubt ever bought a ball (fished them out of water hazards at end of day when pickin is good).  He wasn't real chatty.  He was around a few years, then never was seen again. 

Was this a while back?? Just before the filming of Caddyshack??

[RJ_Daley]

1992-3?  Are you the Jim Nelson I know here in GB? 

[Jim Nelson]

1992-3?  Are you the Jim Nelson I know here in GB? 

Sorry.  Lots of us around.     I'm in Vegas.

[Bill_McBride]

There was a guy, very bad haircut irregular bangs, large forehead, used to arrive at county course to be about the last to be able to tee off at a late twilight time, old bagboy pull cart, with a 1950s-60s vintage dial portable radio that used about 4-6 Dcell batteries, that he'd hang on the handle, and had a portable search-spot light.  Because he came so late, he always just teed off alone and played until too dark for most folk; walking and playing and listening to his radio. 

True story, Dick.  The only time I remember taking a radio on the course with me was 4/30/61.  Not sure why I did, but Willie Mays hit four HR at old County Stadium in Milwaukee that day.   And we finished in the dark!

[Adam Clayman]

Here's one. Tell me if it qualifies, Mike?

Back 10 years ago, before the pain from my deformity precluded it, I use to bend down to mark my ball on the green, and at the same time, wipe any dirt or mud from my ball, off onto my socks.
  For Christmas one year, I asked for little towels to be sown on my socks. I got my wish, little Terry cloth strips that hung down from the top of the sock.  They ended up not being worth the effort and looked really DORKy.

[Bill_McBride]

My buddy Drinkin' Joe always stuffs a towel in the back of his pants or shorts while playing. That is OTT dorky.

[JMEvensky]

My buddy Drinkin' Joe always stuffs a towel in the back of his pants or shorts while playing. That is OTT dorky.

Thanks--I always thought it only bothered me when people do this.

[BCrosby]

My buddy Drinkin' Joe always stuffs a towel in the back of his pants or shorts while playing. That is OTT dorky.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why?

[Kalen Braley]

A golf dork becomes one when he walks into a bar full of beautiful women..only to go hang out with his other golf dork friends....

I think a few GCA post match events might slightly resemble this!! 

[Sam Morrow]

The other night my girlfriend and I went to dinner, I was wearing an Aronimink hat and wearing Brown True Stealths with my jeans.

[BCrosby]

The other night my girlfriend and I went to dinner, I was wearing an Aronimink hat and wearing Brown True Stealths with my jeans.

And.....?

[John_Cullum]

The other night my girlfriend and I went to dinner, I was wearing an Aronimink hat and wearing Brown True Stealths with my jeans.

Did you keep your hat on during dinner?

[Brent Hutto]

I either change my shoes in the car or just put the golf shoes on before leaving home to drive to the course. Either way when I get out the car I'm already wearing hat, sunscreen, golf shoes, golf sunglasses and carrying some tees and a divot tool in my pocket. Basically I could hit a tee shot within 90 seconds of exiting the parking lot. And would do if nobody else were there to slow me down.

I don't need a golf towel stuff in my pants or anywhere else when playing. If the ball is dirty when I reach the green I usually just rub the mud off in the fringe or rough while waiting for the other guys to putt. If it's already my turn to putt first when we reach the green I go ahead and putt with the ball dirty.

I think the best response to playing a really good round is to get in another nine holes while you're hot. I think the best response to playing a really awful round of golf is to get in another nine holes and see if you improve...and if so you might as well go ahead and make it eighteen.

Speaking of good rounds and bad rounds, I usually know in advance what my new handicap index will be before typing a score into the computer. To the nearest tenth stroke, of course. In fact I look at my last 20 scores some time during the and figure up what effect various weekend score-posting might have on my index. Dork or nerd?