Have you played with anybody famous?????

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The only famous person that I have played golf with is John hume in greencastle golf club in co.Donegal.Wasnt the best golfer but he was a very interesting man and good craic as well.

If we're going to include sharing a fairway, then while out playing golf I've seen... Mark Hughes, Ruud Gullit, Dennis Wise (in a 3 ball together!), Ian Botham (hit it miles), David Seaman (and pony tail), Matt Dawson (was in a 4 ball with 3 other England players who I didn't recognise at the time).

I used to play with Tiger Woods all the time. He would also be my wingman when we went out afterwards. It was fun at first, but he got a bit fed up with me beating him on the course every week (even though I gave him 2 or 3 shots) and then also getting all the best girls while he went home on his own again.*



* I may have made this bit up. It just sounds more interesting than listing some non-famous Euro pro tour golfers or low level amateur footballers.

Doon the Water wrote:Gael ~ How did the game go~ did you win?

& kwini!

I was afraid someone might ask that! I can't remember! We played with a couple of R&A members and played a sort of mixed 4-ball - rubbish format really - don't think mixed 4-balls really work.

Laura Baugh was only 17 at the time but had already been lauded as the next great american female golfer so it was pretty shocking to learn in due course that she had succumbed to the demon drink. Although she started her professional career promisingly enough, I've often wondered if her lack of length (she had a prodigious short game) ultimately led to the drink rather than any off-course problems.

She was obviously a gal who didn't do things by half measure (sorry about that ) what with seven kids n'all but wonder how her life would have turned out had Stanford had a golf team at that time to combine with an academic career which she was clearly clever enough to pursue.

Nevertheless, it says a lot for her that she was able to come back from some pretty traumatic times and lead a productive life.

Anyway, I had a very enjoyable round made all the more so as I do recall edging her in the putting department!

A lot on this board seem to want to pick on Gael, no matter what she states, had anyone else stated what she had, no one would have commented on it.
I think Gareth is a bit of a wind up merchant, and is looking for friends, you have just become one of his

oldparwin wrote:A lot on this board seem to want to pick on Gael, no matter what she states, had anyone else stated what she had, no one would have commented on it.
I think Gareth is a bit of a wind up merchant, and is looking for friends, you have just become one of his

Are you really 63? This is playground stuff, OP.

gael, Doon, Gareth,
She also has a brother, Beau(!), who played on the PGA Tour for a short while.

Marcus wrote:
Ok... Nick Price, Steve Redgrave, & Barry McGuigan.

What you doing playing with my cousin Barry ?

kwinigolfer wrote:gael, Doon, Gareth,
She also has a brother, Beau(!), who played on the PGA Tour for a short while.

Beau Baugh? No wonder she turned to drink, I'll get off Gael's case.

Goodness me, are we not all getting a bit precious.
I did not see anything 'catty in Gaels comment'
If it was about a male golfer who had shugged a thousand women then I suppose that would be normal debate!

Doon the Water wrote:Goodness me, are we not all getting a bit precious.
I did not see anything 'catty in Gaels comment'
If it was about a male golfer who had shugged a thousand women then I suppose that would be normal debate!

That's how I read it, I didn't feel the need to comment at the time as it is no skin off my nose if Gael has another dig at somebody. I just didn't think it was fair for a couple of others to turn on Gareth for seeing something in it he didn't like.

Precious indeed Doon. The background information on Laura Baugh was necessary because I doubt very much if the likes of Gareth and his new friend Redrage would ever have heard of her.

gaelgowfer wrote:....the likes of Gareth and his new friend Redrage ....

Catty? no never!

Alan Brazil Mav?...I trust that you didn't have to share a buggy, there wouldn't have been much room on the seat for you as well these days!

Just a couple of ex-footballers for me also...Julian Dicks and Ian Marshall. Oh and a long time ago Patrick Mower, the best bit being that a youthful and lovely Suzanne Danielle was his girlfriend at the time (before Sam of course!) and she was caddying for him.

gaelgowfer wrote:Precious indeed Doon. The background information on Laura Baugh was necessary because I doubt very much if the likes of Gareth and his new friend Redrage would ever have heard of her.

gael

that comment implies that Laura Baugh was only famous because of her kids and alcohol, not her golfing exploits.

Sorry but I'm with Gareth on this one.

I see gaels extra info, drink and kids, on Baugh as part of revealing a character to us who most of us would never have heard of. I do not see what is wrong with this and god knows what is up with redrage today, stop acting like a plonker.

It is not about defending the old guard it is about ensuring civil conduct between all posters. I should know how important this is given my issues with S_R, the board does not need more relationships like that.

Why are the tales of John Daly’s excesses ok but reporting on the same issues about Baugh not?


I will add that playing with a pro of even challenge tour level is a great experience. I have played with a few people of this level and tartan tour level and it is such a great way to learn. They don’t look spectacular tee to green but it is noticeable how well they read a course and how solid they are around the greens.

D4S ... The point (which you also seem to have missed) is that had it not been for her alcoholic addiction, she may well have become one of the greats. She was quite simply, in terms of expectation, the Michelle Wie of her day.

Children, calm down.






........although, what's Michelle Wie's excuse, has she got 7 kids and a fondness for Tennents Super?

gael

I think you are missing your own point. The thread is about playing with someone famous, you state that you have played with this lady. You then mention that she had 7 kids and a drink problem. What does that have to do with her being a famous golfer? Either she is a famous golfer or she isn't? Is she famous for her golfing ability or is she famous because she was fertile and liked a bevvy?
John Daly is a famous golfer. Famous for what he achieved on the golf course. He is infamous off it because of his broken marriages and drinking habits.

Two entirely different things.

With D4S on this. Don't get what it's got todo with the OP

drive4show wrote:gael

I think you are missing your own point. The thread is about playing with someone famous, you state that you have played with this lady. You then mention that she had 7 kids and a drink problem. What does that have to do with her being a famous golfer? Either she is a famous golfer or she isn't? Is she famous for her golfing ability or is she famous because she was fertile and liked a bevvy?
John Daly is a famous golfer. Famous for what he achieved on the golf course. He is infamous off it because of his broken marriages and drinking habits.

Two entirely different things.

Surely the point is that if we wanted to be pedantic and rude we could pick holes in a great number of posts on here, but by and large we dont. Or if we do its usually done in a jokey way. It wasn't this time.

gaelgowfer wrote:The point (which you also seem to have missed)

Never heard that before....

Of course Laura Baugh was famous.

I thought that was the poiint of the thread.

If not, would someone please redefine the final word, spelt f a m o u s?

Played in a 4 ball behind Norman Wisdom a few years ago in a charity event. They let him play off the juvenile tees as he was a bit frail and the course had a few long forced carries off the tee.

kwinigolfer wrote:Of course Laura Baugh was famous.

I thought that was the poiint of the thread.

If not, would someone please redefine the final word, spelt f a m o u s?

No has said she wasn't famous Kwini, I think their more asking what the point of bringing up her issues off the course was, or did I miss what they were getting at

d4s, mav

Are you just choosing to be difficult because it is gael?

Gael brought up an example of someone who although famous to some extent may not be known to a wider audience than those with knowledge of 70’s golf. Baugh it would seem started of as someone famous for golf, a Wie type character, but now may be better known as someone who did not quite make it and should have done. Two important elements to her fame (remember the title of the thread guys?) relating to not reaching her potential are alcoholism and having many childcare commitment.

Is it not ok for geal to report these facts?

So what part of making us aware of someone who is famous, but potentially not known to us, is so offensive to you?

If some idiot like Gary (what a terrible name by the way) or whatever the dumb ass was called has an issue with someone stating relevant facts they can either dispute them civilly or not at all. There was no need for him to be so rude to gael out of no where.

oldparwin wrote:A lot on this board seem to want to pick on Gael, no matter what she states, had anyone else stated what she had, no one would have commented on it.
I think Gareth is a bit of a wind up merchant, and is looking for friends, you have just become one of his

OldParWin, I've been on the board pretty much since it was mentioned as an alternative to the original 606 (give or take a month). Granted I don't to post that often.

If I'm a wind up Merchant as you so put it, prove it via any of my past comments. I don't know Gael nor have I picked on her (or anyone else for that matter) on any of her posts.

Looking for friends? Get a grip, I pointed out a comment to which I didn't agree with, you and other have taken offense as you don't agree with it in return.

Geez some terrific nit picking on here today. Surely extra narrative is better than none. To me I'd rather Gael mentioned it than didn't, I now know a little more about someone I hadn't heard of before. I think people are, yet again, being offended on the behalf of others.

So playing devils advocate here Gael has stated that she played with the golfer Laura Baugh, who if you don't know her for that, some of you may know her as Laura Baugh, the famous town drunk who makes the ghastly permanently pregnant Davina McCall look chaste.

Mav,
I may be missing something but I thought the rest was just contextual; very few items on John Daly, for instance, merely alude to his golfing skills - if they did, he'd be bracketed with Lee Janzen or Andy North.

In her own way, Laura Baugh was the John Daly of her sex, albeit with more close shaves (unfortunate turn of phrase I know) than Majors. Most likely if she was a man, she'd still be teeing it up on the Champo Tour - different rules for women though as we all know.

Doon,
She was married to Bobby Cole. Twice!!

McLaren wrote:
If some idiot like Gary (what a terrible name by the way) or whatever the dumb ass was called has an issue with someone stating relevant facts they can either dispute them civilly or not at all. There was no need for him to be so rude to gael out of no where.

I love irony me. Not commenting on Gareth_Gael_Gate...that's just two people falling out in the internet. Oh look.. there's golf to discuss.

Mac get off your high horse. its an internet forum and if we simply dont see the relevance then were entitled through freedom of speech to say so. it has nothing to do with it being gael.

as for calling gary and idiot and insutling his name thats far more offensive than someone saying they disagree or dont see the relevance of a post.

So take yourself off somewhere and grow up alternitevly long walk short pier!

It's perfectly normal behaviour for Mac to get offended on others behalf. I remember getting a PM from him, pulling me up and rebuking me for daring to profer an opinion that Roger Federer's wife was a bit of a boiler.

But Federers wife is a boiler

How dare you have an opinion Mav. What would The Guardian say?

super_realist wrote:How dare you have an opinion Mav. What would The Guardian say?

Probably run off and cry offended in a corner somewhere

McLaren wrote:No1yankee

Not played with anyone famous but have met the New York Yankees, I didn’t even know who any of them were. shame.

Nice,I once met George Steinbrenner,very funny man.

Maverick wrote:But Federers wife is a boiler

Not strictly correct, he could do far better... McIlroy is proof of that haha. If he wasn't the Fed Express and just a fellow golfer at your club house you wouldn't call her that. Your expectations would be different.

Federers wife would till be a boiler if he was just one of the guys from my club imo she is not attractive her being the wife of a famous tennis player is totally by the wayside.

Maverick wrote:Federers wife would till be a boiler if he was just one of the guys from my club imo she is not attractive her being the wife of a famous tennis player is totally by the wayside.

You must be one handsome barsteward, Mav.

It has been said yes..........

Have played a full round with Tony Jacklin in the late 60's, but before his majors and as I have said before, he remains the sweetest, crispest striker of a golf ball I have ever had the pleasure to watch.

Also a few holes with Dai Rees and Harry Weetman - that'll be three Ryder Cup captains then. I'll wait in expectance for the captains pick later on this year, I'm obviously perfectly qualified!

oldshanker wrote:Have played a full round with Tony Jacklin in the late 60's, but before his majors and as I have said before, he remains the sweetest, crispest striker of a golf ball I have ever had the pleasure to watch.

When you played with him, was he using the Slazengar K1 Speed driver?

McLaren wrote:If some idiot like Gary (what a terrible name by the way) or whatever the dumb ass was called has an issue with someone stating relevant facts they can either dispute them civilly or not at all. There was no need for him to be so rude to gael out of no where.

I'm not even going to bother responding with an insult to match the above, though as far as I'm concerned its far more offensive than anything I've said, with the difference being that you have undoubted intent. It also craps all over a couple of your "high and mighty" posts on this thread.

My point regarding gaels original post is that didn't feel it was an appropriate statement, as an example it would be like saying "I once played a round of Golf with Gareth Thomas. He was hopeless at golf, could have been a world beater at Rugby. Is the most high profile sportsman to out himself as gay".

I've also already apologised in a prior post if Gael or other was offended, I accept it should have been worded better.

Cheers Gareth and amen to the petty squabbles.

I think OS has won the bragging rights.
3 Ryder Cup Captains. Dai Rees was a great player and good guy.

raycastleunited wrote:

oldshanker wrote:Have played a full round with Tony Jacklin in the late 60's, but before his majors and as I have said before, he remains the sweetest, crispest striker of a golf ball I have ever had the pleasure to watch.

When you played with him, was he using the Slazengar K1 Speed driver?

You know, funny as it may seem, I paid no attention to his equipment at all. I was a 14/15 year old callow youth who was lucky enough to play golf with his idol and even more fortunate, he didn't disappoint either. But then it wasn't work for him that day, he was just having a bounce round with a some mates.

Doon - as far as I can remember, Dai was very friendly towards the local reigning junior champion, who had difficulty getting anything airborne that day - I still blame the weather - but Mr Weetman was not quite so full of the joys of spring.

Wheetman was a bit of a big hitting bad boy, I think he tried to model himself on Tommy Bolt.

Redrage wrote:

Maverick wrote:Federers wife would till be a boiler if he was just one of the guys from my club imo she is not attractive her being the wife of a famous tennis player is totally by the wayside.

You must be one handsome barsteward, Mav.

Nah, she is rough, but then she must have some special qualities to pt up with his smugness, fair enough he's got reason to be smug, but I'd never tire of punching his face, it's in the same league of annoyingness as Heston Blumenthals, Ricky Gervais and Davina McCall.

Not jut me then that thinks she has a face like a bag of spanners...

SR Please add, Gok Wan, Russel Brand and Louis Walsh to that list of thrush like irritants

super_realist wrote:

Redrage wrote:

Maverick wrote:Federers wife would till be a boiler if he was just one of the guys from my club imo she is not attractive her being the wife of a famous tennis player is totally by the wayside.

You must be one handsome barsteward, Mav.

Nah, she is rough, but then she must have some special qualities to pt up with his smugness, fair enough he's got reason to be smug, but I'd never tire of punching his face, it's in the same league of annoyingness as Heston Blumenthals, Ricky Gervais and Davina McCall.

She is a major let down, she has a proper baw face... but I bet you and Mav would, and sober too.

You guys are so shallow.

I Bet i wouldn't, and wouldn't do it after a skinful either. In RR I wouldn't touch it with yours mate.

Certainly not to my tastes or liking, besides why go out for a cheap rat burger when you got a prime lean steak at home....