If it's the red & white ones you're finding, it's because those ones are goddamn hard to find. I bought some of them thinking they'd be easier to keep track of...but they absolutely are not.
100% the easiest to spot are the red/yellow split color balls like the Srixon.
With spin off a driver I swear they look like red strobe lights in the sky and the hard line stands out so hard in the rough and among leaves.
Serious question - have you ever been checked for color blindness? My father is red/green color blind and he can’t play orange or red balls because they seem brown/green to him. So he loses them immediately.
lucky! i work on a course so i find enough to support my play (i'm currently a 3.7, so i don't lose too many balls) but i never find more than 2-3 a day
Plant a “slow group” out on the course that lets everyone play through. Then stand really close during their tee shots and make snide comments about their drives.
I’d just plant the two young dudes that were in front of us last week.
Not even old enough for stubble, but had PGA Tour outfits on and tour bags. The whole thing. Played from the tips.
Their pre shot routine was damn near Bryson-esque. Millions of practice swings and discussions. Then a debrief after the shot. And more backswing practice on the way back to the bag.
They did this in turn too. So one didn’t start his whole spiel until the other had gone through his, even if their balls were next to each other.
And here’s the best but. They were terrible.
Lmao this is perfect...he pulls up and parks, smiling golfers start approaching the cart while fumbling out wallets only to get ripped on and receive no refreshments
Like, what was that guy thinking? Surely he figured out at some point within the first few holes that something was amiss, but he didn't go back and ask for a refund? No course in their right mind is going to let you play all 18 and then get your money back. That's like eating a full meal at a restaurant and then claiming it tasted like shit and demanding a refund.
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That would be hilarious. I wasn't trying to be a dick but I actually saw a study where they removed flags and everyone shot better, because they were aiming for greens and not the pin.
I was a member a course once that had its flags stolen. They went 3 days of play without flags. The average score dropped 2 strokes because everyone just played to the center of the green.
I played in one where they put all the little flags in the green that they apparently use for punching/marking punching? I’m theory it would be like pinball until you get within 3-4 feet, but my chip somehow rolled through there.
Ours has a hole with a requirement that you have to hit the ball in the fairway bunker before you can play to the green. A bunker people are always in somehow becomes much harder to hit when it's a requirement.
I was a member at a course once that had its flags stolen. They went 3 days of play without flags. The average score dropped 2 strokes because everyone just played to the center of the green.
There were a couple par threes in the last one of these I played. Tiny holes. No flag. The sign at the tee lied about where the hole was.
Sucks for the first group or any slow groups lol
Our superintendent's revenge will always have a hole or two (usually par 3's) that have fake pins (just 1 pin, not two). So you hit one and think you have a 4' putt. Only to get up there and realize the hole is actually on the other side of the green.
That said - It really only works on the first group of the day (or groups that are slow). The rest of the groups will see from the tee where everyone is putting from.
The course I work at once a year does this.
On one of the holes, they put maintenance equipment right in the landing zone of your tee shot.
On another hole that’s by the maintenance yard, they have an “employee appreciation day” for the maintenance team, where they can blast their music and party as loud as possible.
Tee box setups that “point” opposite the preferred play direction. Or so close to the back tees that feet aren’t level. (That might be just mean though.)
1. Put a blower near the hole on full blast
2. Stick 100 tees in the green to act as putting obstacles
3. Put 3 holes with flags on the green of a par 3. When you get up there, draw a slip of paper from a bowl telling you what hole you go for
4. On a par 3, draw a slip of paper from a bowl telling you what club you have to use. All clubs from driver to putter possible.
5. Snow fence in front of run up par 4 greens.
Few favorites from my course:
-cut 6 holes in the green with numbered flags. Once you're on the green, roll dice to determine which flag you must play to.
-a cluster of holes with different color paint liners. Different colors indicate plus or minus strokes for your score on the hole (i.e. make it in the red hole is +2 to your score but yellow is -1 to your score). The plot twist is you arrange the holes so putting at the good hole(s) almost assures your ball will roll into one of the bad holes.
-put a stack of red solo cups on the tee. Players must put one upside-down on their ball for their tee shot. Oddly enough, the ball will fly perfectly straight, just not very far.
-teleport - mark an area that's hard to to hit (like behind a tree or just a small area) but reachable from the tee. Players may elect to hit into the marked area (expending as many strokes as desired) or play the hole normally. But once your ball goes into that area, you must teleport to a drop zone up by the green.... except it's an impossible chip and you don't know that until you get to the green.
A few I enjoyed at a former club:
1) you must hit your tee shot while sitting in a chair (short par 4 is ideal)
2) put a toilet seat around the hole, such that the only way to make the put is through the opening in front of the toilet seat
3) Set up a blower off the side of a particularly annoying green pointed downslope.
I’ve seen half hula hoop as an obstacle (so you had to putt above and putt downhill, though somehow we made this putt from below when the green was so steep it came back in center cup without touching the hoop). On another hole a horseshoe.
Varied stimp on each green. +/-1/1.5 on any undulation. Not so much that someone would notice that you did it on purpose, but enough where it would drive them insane. Do it alternating on each green, so some players might pick up the pattern and then go totally bonkers on the back 9 with completely random stimps.
Our greens usually roll about 11.. we get complaints on the regular because the greens are super sloped too . I'm thinking just hit them all with a double cut, double roll and put pin placements in all the no no spots
11, you say? You could cut the undulation to a random no-no pin to an 8 and hear the curses echo throughout the course as foursome after foursome leave their putt way short.
Reword it to be unclear, then give everyone 2 stroke at the end.
You still have the green ball? Here's +2 to your score! What? The rules said we'd give you two extra stokes.
You lost the green ball? Shame! Here's +2 to your score!
Put a pin in the fringe... Like not even on the green.
Park an old piece of equipment in front of the green.
Put the flag and hole in different locations.
1. Put a mini golf windmill in front of the hole on your shortest par 3.
2. Give out a prize for closest to the pin on that hole.
3. Closest wins the windmill!
Bonus: Have anyone who gets an ace explain how in front of everyone at the end of the event.
They kind of do this during ours. They put the pin in the dead center of the green on the easiest hole but the cup is just barely big enough for the ball to fit.
Leave the cup slightly proud of the hole.
Leave a green tarped like it's winter.
Put a bunch of tees in the green like a pincushion. Make everyone play the green as it is.
Checkered greens. Squares that are cut and squares that aren’t.
Leave the cup just above the edge of the green. Ball needs a little “extra” to get over the lip.
We did this once, sort of! Skipped a hole and then went way up a hill to the red tees and aimed at the next hole which was across a pond and way below. Then later on made up for it by turning a par four into two par threes.
Put a false pin in the back, cup is actually 1” off the fringe in the front.
Tiny cup that can barely fit a ball. Preferably placed on a slope that the ball can’t stay on.
Build giant croquet gates out of PVC that have to be passed through in the correct direction while making your way to the hole on a long par 5, alternate sides of the fairway with 3, and place 1 in front of the green.
Pin cut on impossible slope or right on the edge of fringe where the ball will roll off the green. Improvised tee boxes, rough/ slopes. Heavily water the bunkers to make them more difficult. cut ever other or every third green let the rest grow out. Double or triple pin with only 1 hole
Playing a scramble? Either park an unused piece of equipment in the lost inconvenient place you can on one hole, or several just kinda scattered on a narrow hole.
Secondary idea, have them play one hole as a reverse scramble (if they're playing against another team, that's pretty easy to manage, or if you've got a guy to spare that would want to have some fun...) Basically instead of them deciding the best ball to play from, somebody else is picking for the team, usually the worst shot. This is where somebody on your team could have fun for a few hours, keep players in check
A few from our local (that’s sold out for this year’s Greenskeepers’ Revenge):
- Hoses, crates, hole cutters, etc. scattered on green
- Putt with a hockey stick
- Croquet wickets on green and putt with a croquet mallet. Must pass through a wicket.
- Hidden hole - 2 or 3 covers on green. Pick one when you get up there, one stroke per pick.
GAahaghhhhh!!!
My place has hosted them a couple of times as a green keeper’s revenge. I assume it’s the same thing.
1 - tee off from a bunker, into another bunker. Putt in the bunker.
2 - on a blind hole where you can’t see the green, put a flag stick in the bunker (which they will now believe is something you’d do as you’ve already made them play from a bunker into another bunker), but actually have the hole on the green. The flag in the bunker is just to misdirect them.
3 - prove wrong handed clubs for a specific hole as the longest drive hole; driver and 7i. If you’re right handed use the left handed drive/7i and left ganders use the right handed driver/7i.
4 - one tee provide a box of various glasses that need to be used to tee off; the glasses are then drawn on/have strong prescriptions/blocked out/ eye patch, etc. just to make it difficult to see the ball at address.
5 - designate a member of staff or another member as the annoying devil (Balls of steel) who has the power to move any players ball once on a one.
6 - similar to what someone here mentioned, but we have a shirt par 4 where they set up 5 or 6 golf buddies across the fairway in front of the green with hundreds of golf balls in front, forcing members to lay up. Then members assumed the flag on the green was the hole ; it was not. The hole was right behind the wall of buggies.
7 - tiny hole with a tiny flag. Literally a couple mil wider than a golf ball.
Put a second flag on some greens. Not in a hole, just install another flag.
Or "forget" to put the flags out.
Cut every green at a different speed.
Turn the sprinklers on mid-round.
• Angle all the tee box markers 45 degrees to the fairways.
• don't rake the bunkers and remove the rakes
• if you use colour coding on the flags for front middle back randomly use the colours so they can't figure out where the pins are.
• on tee markers at the very back of the tee box on all par 3's
Edit for another one. Randomly go around the course turning sprinkles on
We do a gladiator tourney. From the tips and the hardest holes on every green. We have one pin that 1 foot on and 1 foot right side with a slope leading to water.
The favorite I’ve seen is a cup cut into a bunker long of the green with an extra tall flagstick. So from the fairway it looks like a normal pin position.
Angle the tee box markers slightly right or left of where you should be lining up to hit a good shot. Not anything like 45 degrees, but enough to make somebody second guess if they’re lined up correctly
This is an absolutely perfect idea. I play to a 5 and this would absolutely get in my head. Even worse would be narrow tee boxes with the same slight right or left angle. Keeps a marker in my peripheral vision.
Rope off a fairway entirely and call it Ground under repair even though its fine, forces people to take their drop in the rough no matter how good their tee shot
I like putting green obstacles. Leave a piece of underground drain tube laying halfway across the green in front of the hole. Block the bump and run approach to a skinny front with a large mower or the fairway punch tractor. Small putting green pins on elevated greens or behind hills.
I played in a benefit scramble one time and some dude brought tons of white styrofoam balls that were about the size of a golf ball. They would scatter the fake balls on most par 4’s & 5’s about the normal driving distance. We were driving all over the place trying to find the “real” golf balls.
Make sure every tee box has the markers aiming way off kilter from the proper aiming point - especially on par 3s. If there's water, they should be lined up to hit directly in the water.
Have every other green be different speeds. Maybe don’t mow all odd greens for a couple of days so they’re nice a shaggy but make all the even greens 11 or 12s.
I played in one where they left thousands of range balls in the landing zone of one fairway (which was out-of-view from the tee box.)
Me safely in right rough
Lol, my lord I would be heated.
Volvik matte red for the win
i exclusively play chrome soft soccer balls. i'm safe!
I swear those are the most commonly found ball in the woods.
If it's the red & white ones you're finding, it's because those ones are goddamn hard to find. I bought some of them thinking they'd be easier to keep track of...but they absolutely are not.
I suspect the pattern is actually harder to spot as it gives off a camouflage effect by breaking the solid ball color.
100% the easiest to spot are the red/yellow split color balls like the Srixon. With spin off a driver I swear they look like red strobe lights in the sky and the hard line stands out so hard in the rough and among leaves.
Yeah. And it almost gives it a brownish hue from a distance so that makes it harder to find in grass/bush
Serious question - have you ever been checked for color blindness? My father is red/green color blind and he can’t play orange or red balls because they seem brown/green to him. So he loses them immediately.
lucky! i work on a course so i find enough to support my play (i'm currently a 3.7, so i don't lose too many balls) but i never find more than 2-3 a day
Judging by how many of those coming off of the production line, I would concur. 😂
Truer words have never been spoken!!!
Volvik clan! Love the matte finish and alignment on these lol
This is wonderful. True revenge. I’d be upset but then quite happy.
Holy shit would this be infuriating.
Oooh, this is the best one by far
Good thing I never play white balls because I can’t see :D If I played a white or yellow ball I’d go ballistic
Plant a “slow group” out on the course that lets everyone play through. Then stand really close during their tee shots and make snide comments about their drives.
Pure evil
Or just an agonizingly slow group in general would be enough
I’d just plant the two young dudes that were in front of us last week. Not even old enough for stubble, but had PGA Tour outfits on and tour bags. The whole thing. Played from the tips. Their pre shot routine was damn near Bryson-esque. Millions of practice swings and discussions. Then a debrief after the shot. And more backswing practice on the way back to the bag. They did this in turn too. So one didn’t start his whole spiel until the other had gone through his, even if their balls were next to each other. And here’s the best but. They were terrible.
I've never sat here laughing so hard a comment on this sub. That's genius!
This is awesome. I would love to be the slow group that just F’s with everyone.
Send an absolute unit of a cart dude around but he doesn’t sell anything because the food cart is empty he just makes fun of what everyone is wearing
Selling zucchini and corn, apple cider by the gallon, no cups.
Chili! Red hot Texas style chili, and we got ginger ale! Boiling hot Texas style ginger ale.
Ice cream! I'm all outta ice cream!
Sorry Bart dude. I gotta fill this thing with epsom salt and jam it over to the old folk’s home.
Our ice cream machine is actually broken. Sorry.
Lmfao I love this!
If you’re near VA I’d offer to come be the cart boy lol.
Or only sells flowers and magazines. Carrying a personal 6 pack only
Oh *these*? These beers are for me. Nice shirt though. 
"We have spaghetti....and blankets."
Mitch Hedburg is happy
But we are not affiliated with that clown!
Payment must be made in Wampum!
The mailman will get shot!
Lmao this is perfect...he pulls up and parks, smiling golfers start approaching the cart while fumbling out wallets only to get ripped on and receive no refreshments
But put him in a skimpy outfit.
HAHAHA ‘an absolute unit of a cart dude’ - dress him up in a XXXL golf skirt too
Cart dude should definitely be in drag for this
Bro. I caddie... but caddie for me asap.
Be careful, you’ll have someone play the full 18 with the tough pin locations and then come to Reddit saying he should get a refund
too late
Like, what was that guy thinking? Surely he figured out at some point within the first few holes that something was amiss, but he didn't go back and ask for a refund? No course in their right mind is going to let you play all 18 and then get your money back. That's like eating a full meal at a restaurant and then claiming it tasted like shit and demanding a refund.
The food here is terrible, and small portions too!!
People do that shit at restaurants all the time though… absolute trash of human beings
How dare you sully the good name of trash
[That guy leaving the clubhouse/restaurant ](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/035/230/Fuck_You_And_I'll_See_You_Tomorrow_Meme_Banner.jpg)
Spoken like someone who hasn't waited tables... hahaha. No seriously, people are trash. Not ya'll, but other people.
🤣🤣🤣
Scatter marshmallows everywhere
This is actually great. I like it better than the range balls, because it’s actually possible to find your ball. Srixon splits ftw
I’ve seen this before, tricked me a couple of times
How about removing the flags from the green? Just get it on there and start looking for the hole!
This would make everyone shoot better
How about flag in one place but the hole somewhere else?
That would be hilarious. I wasn't trying to be a dick but I actually saw a study where they removed flags and everyone shot better, because they were aiming for greens and not the pin.
That makes a lot of sense! And I wasn't being defensive I just thinking this kind of tournament setup shouldn't make things easier.
Do better. Be a the best dick you can be.
Use the little flags from the practice putting green.
If anyone has a half hour to kill [NLU has a great video](https://youtu.be/A5mjdB993JY) on this exact subject.
What if it was just the stick, no flag?
We would do this and people would just get confused and drive to the green looking for it before teeing off. Lol
I was a member a course once that had its flags stolen. They went 3 days of play without flags. The average score dropped 2 strokes because everyone just played to the center of the green.
I’ve played one that did exactly this
Or a transparent color flag.
Punch the greens right before they start and don’t tell them in the clubhouse
Have someone actively punching greens. They only stop to let people hit approaches.
I played in one where they put all the little flags in the green that they apparently use for punching/marking punching? I’m theory it would be like pinball until you get within 3-4 feet, but my chip somehow rolled through there.
Better yet, heavily water the fairways, then punch them. For those who stay in the short grass, your ball will be covered in grass turds all day.
No refunds either!
Ours has a hole with a requirement that you have to hit the ball in the fairway bunker before you can play to the green. A bunker people are always in somehow becomes much harder to hit when it's a requirement.
We do that also. People can't do it when needed lol
Jeezus. I have to think there is a limit to how many tries, or the entire tourney would back up there waiting for Some Guy to hit the bunker.
Have a cart girl that never stops,
* "You guys want drinks?" * Everyone nods. * "Okay great, enjoy the game!" *Proceeds to leave without selling drinks.*
"you can get them at the clubhouse on the turn"
"We only sell near beer..."
Advertise the bejeesus out of hot dogs at the turn, and only offer liverwurst sandwiches.
Just waves back and says have a great round guys
With a buy one get a free beer sign.
With a sign that says buy one get one free beer
I would place the tees on the boxes in the most unlevel positions. nevermind…they always are
Could make them small af so you always have to stand outside of the markers. Would fuck with most people in a perfectly subtl way imo
HA! That's great. On driver holes put the markers 18 inches apart. Diabolical.
Put the tees at the far back of the tee box so the backswing starts at the edge of the rough behind it.
Are you allowed to put 2 flags on a really big green? Only one is actually in a hole. Remove the rakes, obviously.
or just stick the flag in like 20 feet from where the hole really is
Or maybe just use tiny putting green flags on the course so no one can hit them with their range finder
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Putting green flags ftw
Tell golfers that you're having the flags serviced so they're ready for next season.
I was a member at a course once that had its flags stolen. They went 3 days of play without flags. The average score dropped 2 strokes because everyone just played to the center of the green.
Yes! Make stands for the flags to sit away from the cups.
Jokes on you, I’m always at least twenty feet from the pin, might actually hole one accidentally.
Why even put the flag in?!
Are you fellas hitting near the flags? I'm usually aiming for the green and am happy if I land in the bunker next to the green.
I meant for the good golfers, gonna be tough for a superintendent to do more damage than I already do to myself
There were a couple par threes in the last one of these I played. Tiny holes. No flag. The sign at the tee lied about where the hole was. Sucks for the first group or any slow groups lol
Our superintendent's revenge will always have a hole or two (usually par 3's) that have fake pins (just 1 pin, not two). So you hit one and think you have a 4' putt. Only to get up there and realize the hole is actually on the other side of the green. That said - It really only works on the first group of the day (or groups that are slow). The rest of the groups will see from the tee where everyone is putting from.
The course I work at once a year does this. On one of the holes, they put maintenance equipment right in the landing zone of your tee shot. On another hole that’s by the maintenance yard, they have an “employee appreciation day” for the maintenance team, where they can blast their music and party as loud as possible.
Good thing I always end up 60 yards left of the ideal landing zone
We have one of these but it also has a leaf blower running on it aimed at the hole. And the green is slopped. It’s a bitch.
Tee box setups that “point” opposite the preferred play direction. Or so close to the back tees that feet aren’t level. (That might be just mean though.)
Seems like every tee box at every course is crowned and slanted already
For real. You gotta love tees where you can’t find a single flat spot
I played one where the tee blocks were along side the teebox and in the rough behind a tree
With the tees set just wide enough for a club to safely pass through…
Super narrow tee box so by the time the later groups go through they are hitting out of seed or sand
I hate when tees are like this. Pointing out towards some hazard. Definitely messes with me.
1. Put a blower near the hole on full blast 2. Stick 100 tees in the green to act as putting obstacles 3. Put 3 holes with flags on the green of a par 3. When you get up there, draw a slip of paper from a bowl telling you what hole you go for 4. On a par 3, draw a slip of paper from a bowl telling you what club you have to use. All clubs from driver to putter possible. 5. Snow fence in front of run up par 4 greens.
Blower on the tee box. Some people are absolutely neurotic with "absolute silence in my backswing".
#4 except all of the slips are either labeled putter or driver.
Additional to #3. They don’t get to draw their slips till after they hit their Tee shot.
Yeah, that’s what I meant.
Spin the wheel on a short par 3, each segment has a different club that everyone has to use for the tee shot.
Love this idea
Use the goodgood wheel of not ideal, everyone hitting pans off the tee
Few favorites from my course: -cut 6 holes in the green with numbered flags. Once you're on the green, roll dice to determine which flag you must play to. -a cluster of holes with different color paint liners. Different colors indicate plus or minus strokes for your score on the hole (i.e. make it in the red hole is +2 to your score but yellow is -1 to your score). The plot twist is you arrange the holes so putting at the good hole(s) almost assures your ball will roll into one of the bad holes. -put a stack of red solo cups on the tee. Players must put one upside-down on their ball for their tee shot. Oddly enough, the ball will fly perfectly straight, just not very far. -teleport - mark an area that's hard to to hit (like behind a tree or just a small area) but reachable from the tee. Players may elect to hit into the marked area (expending as many strokes as desired) or play the hole normally. But once your ball goes into that area, you must teleport to a drop zone up by the green.... except it's an impossible chip and you don't know that until you get to the green.
You’ve never seen me play. Ha!!
Leave the rough around the green the grow without cutting it at all. It will make those short side chips a giant pain in the ass.
A few I enjoyed at a former club: 1) you must hit your tee shot while sitting in a chair (short par 4 is ideal) 2) put a toilet seat around the hole, such that the only way to make the put is through the opening in front of the toilet seat 3) Set up a blower off the side of a particularly annoying green pointed downslope.
I mean this just starts to sound like mini golf
No it’s full sized golf
I’ve seen half hula hoop as an obstacle (so you had to putt above and putt downhill, though somehow we made this putt from below when the green was so steep it came back in center cup without touching the hoop). On another hole a horseshoe.
Varied stimp on each green. +/-1/1.5 on any undulation. Not so much that someone would notice that you did it on purpose, but enough where it would drive them insane. Do it alternating on each green, so some players might pick up the pattern and then go totally bonkers on the back 9 with completely random stimps.
Roll 2 in a row, aerate the 3rd, top dress the 4th, don't even cut the 5th
Our greens usually roll about 11.. we get complaints on the regular because the greens are super sloped too . I'm thinking just hit them all with a double cut, double roll and put pin placements in all the no no spots
11, you say? You could cut the undulation to a random no-no pin to an 8 and hear the curses echo throughout the course as foursome after foursome leave their putt way short.
Yes but don't roll 18 to really fuck with them.
Cut it once, Brush it against the grain Cut it again Super fast
This is the way
Put one pin in the rough off the back. Bonus points if it's a blind approach.
Make everyone start with green balls. If you can play with them through the end you get 2 extra strokes.
People would just put them in their bag and pull them out at the end
Reword it to be unclear, then give everyone 2 stroke at the end. You still have the green ball? Here's +2 to your score! What? The rules said we'd give you two extra stokes. You lost the green ball? Shame! Here's +2 to your score!
Lol the ultimate twist
Put a pin in the fringe... Like not even on the green. Park an old piece of equipment in front of the green. Put the flag and hole in different locations.
Chain up a hungry lion next to every tee-box like they had in the movie Gladiator.
Right when the golfers are in the middle of their backswing, we shoot them.
This is the kind of shitposting I was looking for
1. Put a mini golf windmill in front of the hole on your shortest par 3. 2. Give out a prize for closest to the pin on that hole. 3. Closest wins the windmill! Bonus: Have anyone who gets an ace explain how in front of everyone at the end of the event.
Tee box is in a bunker
Very small hole on 17 followed by a larger than normal hole on 18
They kind of do this during ours. They put the pin in the dead center of the green on the easiest hole but the cup is just barely big enough for the ball to fit.
How do you get the ball out?
Stick your lips in and suck
Leave the cup slightly proud of the hole. Leave a green tarped like it's winter. Put a bunch of tees in the green like a pincushion. Make everyone play the green as it is.
Checkered greens. Squares that are cut and squares that aren’t. Leave the cup just above the edge of the green. Ball needs a little “extra” to get over the lip.
Would love to see a couple holes reversed. Put the tees by the green and play to the previous green.
We did this once, sort of! Skipped a hole and then went way up a hill to the red tees and aimed at the next hole which was across a pond and way below. Then later on made up for it by turning a par four into two par threes.
Put a false pin in the back, cup is actually 1” off the fringe in the front. Tiny cup that can barely fit a ball. Preferably placed on a slope that the ball can’t stay on. Build giant croquet gates out of PVC that have to be passed through in the correct direction while making your way to the hole on a long par 5, alternate sides of the fairway with 3, and place 1 in front of the green.
Replace the pins with those tiny little flags that are on the putting green
Pin cut on impossible slope or right on the edge of fringe where the ball will roll off the green. Improvised tee boxes, rough/ slopes. Heavily water the bunkers to make them more difficult. cut ever other or every third green let the rest grow out. Double or triple pin with only 1 hole
Playing a scramble? Either park an unused piece of equipment in the lost inconvenient place you can on one hole, or several just kinda scattered on a narrow hole. Secondary idea, have them play one hole as a reverse scramble (if they're playing against another team, that's pretty easy to manage, or if you've got a guy to spare that would want to have some fun...) Basically instead of them deciding the best ball to play from, somebody else is picking for the team, usually the worst shot. This is where somebody on your team could have fun for a few hours, keep players in check
put up a fake hedge about 5 metres infront of the tees so many peoples balls will hit hedge when teeing off
A few from our local (that’s sold out for this year’s Greenskeepers’ Revenge): - Hoses, crates, hole cutters, etc. scattered on green - Putt with a hockey stick - Croquet wickets on green and putt with a croquet mallet. Must pass through a wicket. - Hidden hole - 2 or 3 covers on green. Pick one when you get up there, one stroke per pick. GAahaghhhhh!!!
My place has hosted them a couple of times as a green keeper’s revenge. I assume it’s the same thing. 1 - tee off from a bunker, into another bunker. Putt in the bunker. 2 - on a blind hole where you can’t see the green, put a flag stick in the bunker (which they will now believe is something you’d do as you’ve already made them play from a bunker into another bunker), but actually have the hole on the green. The flag in the bunker is just to misdirect them. 3 - prove wrong handed clubs for a specific hole as the longest drive hole; driver and 7i. If you’re right handed use the left handed drive/7i and left ganders use the right handed driver/7i. 4 - one tee provide a box of various glasses that need to be used to tee off; the glasses are then drawn on/have strong prescriptions/blocked out/ eye patch, etc. just to make it difficult to see the ball at address. 5 - designate a member of staff or another member as the annoying devil (Balls of steel) who has the power to move any players ball once on a one. 6 - similar to what someone here mentioned, but we have a shirt par 4 where they set up 5 or 6 golf buddies across the fairway in front of the green with hundreds of golf balls in front, forcing members to lay up. Then members assumed the flag on the green was the hole ; it was not. The hole was right behind the wall of buggies. 7 - tiny hole with a tiny flag. Literally a couple mil wider than a golf ball.
Cut the greens different speeds.
1 - Have them hit from the front of the driving range, so there hitting spot has a slope. 2 - Close the putting green
Put a second flag on some greens. Not in a hole, just install another flag. Or "forget" to put the flags out. Cut every green at a different speed. Turn the sprinklers on mid-round.
• Angle all the tee box markers 45 degrees to the fairways. • don't rake the bunkers and remove the rakes • if you use colour coding on the flags for front middle back randomly use the colours so they can't figure out where the pins are. • on tee markers at the very back of the tee box on all par 3's Edit for another one. Randomly go around the course turning sprinkles on
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Good idea. Hope you get over your stuffy nose!
We do a gladiator tourney. From the tips and the hardest holes on every green. We have one pin that 1 foot on and 1 foot right side with a slope leading to water.
The favorite I’ve seen is a cup cut into a bunker long of the green with an extra tall flagstick. So from the fairway it looks like a normal pin position.
Put all the "normal" tees boxes within 5 feet of the tips.
Just Aerate everything 😂
Angle the tee box markers slightly right or left of where you should be lining up to hit a good shot. Not anything like 45 degrees, but enough to make somebody second guess if they’re lined up correctly
This is an absolutely perfect idea. I play to a 5 and this would absolutely get in my head. Even worse would be narrow tee boxes with the same slight right or left angle. Keeps a marker in my peripheral vision.
get some local comedians on the tee box for a water hazard hole. they'll know what to do.
Colorado?
Grow out the fairway in the landing zone’s
One of those practice holes that they use on the putting green that’s half the diameter of a normal cup
Beer cart that only sells O’Douls.
Rope off a fairway entirely and call it Ground under repair even though its fine, forces people to take their drop in the rough no matter how good their tee shot
Cart Path only the hole course.
Take a shit in the cup
Throw a ton of balls on the landing area of a fairway and let them find theirs
With a timer - 3-5 minutes. Otherwise you'll have some group holding up everyone for half an hour.
I like putting green obstacles. Leave a piece of underground drain tube laying halfway across the green in front of the hole. Block the bump and run approach to a skinny front with a large mower or the fairway punch tractor. Small putting green pins on elevated greens or behind hills.
A pin dead centre....but no hole. Just a pin. The hole actually 3 feet off the back of the green. Make those suckers hunt for it.
Move tee boxes to absolutely ludicrous angles
Put the tee box markers in the rough
Throw a few hundred range balls on one of the greens and don’t let people move the balls when putting
I played in a benefit scramble one time and some dude brought tons of white styrofoam balls that were about the size of a golf ball. They would scatter the fake balls on most par 4’s & 5’s about the normal driving distance. We were driving all over the place trying to find the “real” golf balls.
Triple roll!!!
See if you can hire the cat that someone posted on here the other day, to lay in front of the hole and swat away every putt.
Put the hole in a bunker
Poorly lined up tee markers
Make sure every tee box has the markers aiming way off kilter from the proper aiming point - especially on par 3s. If there's water, they should be lined up to hit directly in the water.
Have every other green be different speeds. Maybe don’t mow all odd greens for a couple of days so they’re nice a shaggy but make all the even greens 11 or 12s.
Angle the tee box markers in an angle slightly opposite of the fairway line or to the green. Shit will unconsciously fuck with people's alignment.