My infamous golf story

[longshot]

I was playing one of my local courses when walking down the 6th on the edge of the semi rough on the 150 yrd marker i noticed something glint in the sunlight under my trolley (sometimes we get sun in england).
Walking back i saw some metal poking out of the ground from a rabbit scrape, when i investigated it turned out to be a bomb.I have a little bit of knowledge concerning the second world war and saw it was a incendiary device.Calling over my playing partners i explained what i had found.
The dads army antics from my partners that followed were hilarious .How this had laid for nearly 60 years 1 inch under the surface and never been disturbed or hit with a club was a miracle!I phoned the club house to tell them what i had found.
Needless to they say they needed some convincing.
When some one eventually came out to us we had moved on (standing with a bomb between your legs for 20 mins is hard work) no puns please.What amazed us was the fact people were being allowed on the course.Turned out the were being told there was a bomb on the 10th hole and they still played(bull dog spirit or what?).
When we got back a wpc came out of the pro shop to investigate the device(armed with a truncheon of course )would not want to face a bomb with out one.I live about 1.5 miles from this club at 10.15 pm we heard them blow it up.Turns out the area was a dummy air field for biggin hill during ww2 a bloody nose for jerry i think!

 

[Bravo]

Absolutely wild...

Shows that golfers will let Nothing stand in the way of their round..We all know what is really important!!

Wonder why they used 'live ordinance' in a training exercise? I never served in the military. Maybe that is what the standard procedure is...

Anybody out there know anything about this?

 

[longshot]

Absolutely wild...

Shows that golfers will let Nothing stand in the way of their round..We all know what is really important!!

Wonder why they used 'live ordinance' in a training exercise? I never served in the military. Maybe that is what the standard procedure is...

Anybody out there know anything about this?

It was the germans who dropped the bombs they thought it was biggin hill a major air field during the world war 2.It was set up to fool them.

 

[Bravo]

It was the germans who dropped the bombs they thought it was biggin hill a major air field during the world war 2.It was set up to fool them.

So was this one of those 'fake airfields' near London where the RAF set up balsawood and cardboard planes? And then the Luftwaffe bombed it by mistake?

How big was the bomb? I mean - was this something like - 3-5 feet long?

Shit.

 

[BentGrass]

I've had a few rounds where hitting a bomb with my 8 iron would have been an improvement.

 

[longshot]

So was this one of those 'fake airfields' near London where the RAF set up balsawood and cardboard planes? And then the Luftwaffe bombed it by mistake?

How big was the bomb? I mean - was this something like - 3-5 feet long?

Shit.[/QUOTE

Biggin hill was one of the major air fields during the battle of britain.Defending the coasts.Mainly dover as churchil had a secret war time bunker there.I have been in the bunker.You are correct the planes were made out of wood.I only saw the tail end of the bomb.Considering it was between my legs i think it was big enough to make me sing soprano and i am a baritone.

 

[Youngun5]

now that'll be some divot

 

[Kilted Arab]

I like this story very much!

 

[Dave Ireland]

Could find yerself with a new bunker or water feature on the 6th now longshot...

 

[DaveE]

Great story longshot.

I tend to think it's pretty great when I find a new Pro V1 in the rough but your bomb wins the contest for best find.

We all know it's best to keep it in the fairway, now there's no doublt.

"What's the penalty for losing one the rough? Yikes!"

 

[longshot]

The thing is this kind of bomb was dropped in large amounts all in the same bomb run.
About a month before finding the bomb i found the tail end of one and threw it in the bushes.
So could there be more out there?
The tail was only two holes away on the 4th.
Another member at our club helps on digs for crashed ww2 aircraft he dug up a loaded browning machine gun.He was the one who told me about the dummy airfield.
when i was a kid we used to play on a old victorian bottle dump smashing the bottles to get the marbles out.
When they dug the woods up to extened the car park for the local pub they found 2000 home made bombs,manufactured by the home guard in case of invasion.
The bombs were only 18 inches below the surface and half a mile from my house or maybe less.
It was all over the news.It took two weeks to clear them by the bomb squad.
I posted the story because i dont know anyone who has ever found a bomb on a golf course it dident even make the papers.

 

[Bama Duffer]

And I thought poison ivy was the worst risk about wandering off the fairway. Your explosion tops my itch.