A Yogi hitting his first ever pure 5 iron from 100 yards out, which carried a little farther than he thought into this beautiful Mercedes parked behind the 18th green at Flamborough Hills golf course. I actually don't know who hit this ball and cannot confirm if it was a 5 iron or if the said person in question has been confirmed as a yogi but whoever it was sure missed the mark. I can sympathize though because I too have taken a little too much club on this par 5 and launched one into the parking lot, thankfully not taking out any vehicles. The funny thing about this predicament is that it occurred at Flamborough Hills, which is a public course (quite a decent one I might add) and rarely sees cars of this calibre. This Mercedes was by far the nicest car in the parking lot and parked next to an 89 Dodge Shadow, some piece of crap cavalier and my (by my I mean my parents) modest 2009 Camry. I'm no car expert but I'm guessing anything to do with Mercedes isn't cheap and you can't get this repaired at any Apple Autoglass like you could with the aforementioned vehicles parked next to this one. If you look close enough you can actually see the golf ball sitting on the rear dash. I do have to give the person credit though because they did acknowledge their fault from what I understand and did not run off or jump in the lake next to the green. For that I give them a little bit of respect but I'm still questioning the birdie they marked down on their scorecard.
Editor's note: Fore those not familiar with the term Yogi read further and you'll understand. Perhaps you are one?
Yogi- A golfer with substandard golf etiquette and poor playing abilities. The following are typical Yogi traits.
- Does not tuck their golf shirt in
- Has a ball retriever and spends a considerable amount of time trying to fish balls out of the water hazards or woods while holding up groups behind them
- Wears cargo pants with knee high socks
- Marks their golf ball on the green with a tee
- Considers a gimme any ball that comes to rest within 7 feet of the hole
- Puts a carry bag on a pull cart (most likely their own pull cart from home, which they bought from K Mart)
- Uses multi colour balls
- Will try to finish their round in the pitch black dark of the night and claim they pured their last shot and drop a ball by the hole or green because that's where it likely ended up
- Don't wear collared shirts
- Plays from the championship tee blocks because they want to get a true test of golf (despite their 40+ handicap and inability to hit a ball more than 100 yards in the air)
- Will wait for the group ahead to get at least 300 yards in front of them before they will hit their tee shot despite the fact a career drive is in the 220 yard range. They will also wait for the group ahead to get off the green on par 5's so they can 'go for it', even though their well struck drive on that hole travelled much shorter than the distance they are away from the green.
- Putt with the flag stick in
- Take practice swings in the bunker (displacing sand) and then ground the club behind their ball in the bunker
- Line up putts for quadruple bogeys like they were a putt to win the Masters
- Knock out a pyramid of balls on the range in 15 minutes (a pyramid has 204 balls)
- Wear metal spikes
- Consider a 5 hour round a good pace
- Walk across other golfer's lines on the green
- Have a bag full of range balls for 'water holes'
- Sole purpose on the driving range is to hit the range cart picking up golf balls
- Leaves their cigarettes on the putting green
- Roles their pull cart across the putting green
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