OOOwwwwwww!!!!!!

[limpalong]

Let me set the stage for this. Son-in-law hasn't played the game too long. Accompanied me for 18 holes last weekend. The courses he is accustomed to playing do not have near the trees as does our course. One of his drives ended up with the ball laying on the wrong side of a tree for a right-handed player to make a swing. I showed him how to turn a short iron upside down and swing left-handed... contacting the ball with the toe of the club. He hit an okay shot and was amazed at the idea he could use a right-handed club from the left side. So...

My daughter calls earlier this week and she is excited. She, too, wants to take up the game and has just purchased a complete new set of irons and woods. She has signed up to take lessons and "get good enough to beat Dad"!!! I congratulate her. My wife and I make arrangements to go visit the kids over this long weekend that is upcoming.

I get quite an e-mail this morning! My daughter, son-in-law, and grandkids were in their backyard last night. Daughter was practicing batting around a whiffle golf ball with her newly acquired 7-iron. She knocked a whiffle ball up close to the neighbor's privacy fence. As she was about to retrieve the ball, her husband hollered that he had learned a "new" shot from her Dad. He would show her how to "get out of trouble".

The son-in-law took the daughter's 7-iron, turned it backwards, and prepared to hit the ball lefthanded. The daughter, anticipating him just "bumping" the ball forward was not a safe distance away. The 7-iron collided with my daughter's face!!!

Nothing broken... no teeth missing... sounds like it caught her on the cheekbone. She says her jaw is swollen and her eye is puffed up. Thinks she looks like she was the loser in a good bar fight! Her diet, this morning, has been the few Advil she can force down, through a mouth that does not want to open and close. (And, she's never one to keep her mouth closed!!!)

It takes special people, like those on ShotTalk, to play this dangerous sport of golf... but, someone has to do it! And, even though we journey into harm's way each and every time we tee it up... just to preserve the heritage of this sport... most of us do survive. In fact, many of us play this game for years and years and have no scars to show for it. Other clutzes... like my daughter... can't even get to the beginner stage before becoming a casualty!!!! LOL

[gpo]

Three things on your post.

First I hope your grandchild is OK.

Second I take my two girls 7 & 3 to the range with me all the time. It is always tough when the young ones first come to the range. You have to keep one eye on them and one on the ball. I went through the same thing with my oldest. She finally got it that she has to well out of my way. The young one is learning that now.

Third being LH I never get to try anyone's new clubs. So I took up hitting my friends RH clubs LH. Just turning the club over like you said. I'll do it with new golf friends' drivers and 90% of the time I smash it down the middle of the fairway. Usually they are amazed, but in reality it is an easy shot most of you could do. I'll also do it on a par 3 with an iron sometimes with the ball slightly teed up.

I have always wanted to make two bets. First one is tell someone give me 5 chances to their 1 and I will out drive them using their RH driver. Second bet is I would use their driver the whole round and I would still beat them.

[eclark53520]

Thats rough...

When i was maybe 6 or so i was in my uncles front yard hitting a whiffle ball with his 50's era driver and didnt realize the neighbor kid walked up behind me and i took a mighty swing and hit the whiffel ball great and then connected with soemthing a bit more solid...teh nieghbor kids head, more specifically his ear and he was bleeding quite profusely from the ear...he ran home crying and thats the last i ever heard from the kid, i didnt even know his name.

[DaveE]

You may as well let your sil know that this will never, ever in 100 years be forgotten.

I learned this from shutting my wife's hand in a car door.

[clemsonhacker]

dag limp thats gotta suck, but... you live and learn...hope she dont decide to quit b/c of this...

[warbirdlover]

limpalong, you're right. This is a dangerous sport. See the thread on funniest shots...

[Jlaw1987]

Man a club to the face ouch!!!! i hope shes ok. And you're right it can be dangerous especially when people forget how to say fore.