Just recently read that apparently golfers fall into at least eight categories which fit the type of golf they play or the type of player they are. Everyone has their quirks and foibles which can be allied to themselves or their golf.

Here’s a list of likely identification traits – see if any of them fits you or someone you know. And if you can create even more let’s have them. Please comment if one of these personalities hits you to a tee!

The Steady Eddie/Edwina

Plays off a handicap of between six and 14 (or 18-28 if a woman) and hardly ever misses a fairway off the tee although never long enough to ruffle the longest drive adjudicators. Has a decent compact swing and is irritatingly consistent with 32 -38 points and never seems to get rattled.

The Intimidator

Always arrives an hour ahead of schedule and joins the group, directly from warm-up on the range. Doesn’t say a lot but focusses on his or her game with the occasional ‘good shot’ thrown in to show they’re not mute. Everyone aspires to their single figure returns but doesn’t enjoy handing over the sweep to such a single-minded person. Is there a Tiger Woods-type in your group?

The Barmy Arnie

This Hot-head could turn in scores of anything between 75 and 105. Goes for everything off the tee and very occasionally it comes off for several successive holes. Mostly, however, everyone tends to spend much of their own time searching for his balls in deep wet rough. This guy will also tend to bury clubhead after clubhead into the ground as he seeks perfection from an ultra-fast swing.

The Vagabond

Don’t ever turn your back on this one! He or she will be up-to all kinds of tricks – mostly intentional, others born out of ignorance of the rules. They’ll toss an extra coin nearer the hole and replace their ball there when it’s their turn to putt, improve a dodgy lie in the rough and favorably miss-count when recalling their score. Some have even been known to play a wrong ball found in the rough, which they know isn’t their’s!

The Joker

Lee Trevino could be accused of this type of behavior… never stopps chatting and can putt you off your stroke with incessant commentary, jokes and asides. But usually they’re such good company you can never accuse them of doing it on purpose as a form of gamesmanship. They just can’t help themselves.

The Accumulator

Obsessed by numbers and will add up your shots – indeed the whole group – as well as their own (e.g. ‘I had a 5 with two putts; you had a 6 with three putts and Fred had a 5 with two putts and we’ll give him the tap-in.’). He or she will spend so much time adding up and working out who’s won, they’re always at the back when it comes to buying the post-round beers.

The Automaton

Has a set pre-shot routine for every stroke and will not be deflected from it – on the tee, in the fairway, from a bunker, on the green. This is the player who thinks he’s Sir Nick Faldo in his prime and causes following groups to get frustrated with your group’s pace of play. But they’re such nice people socially no one has the heart to mention it.

The Neurotic

Nearly every roll-up group has one; they’re never satisfied with their own performance. They hit the green with a raking 3-iron from 200 yards… you say ‘Good shot!’, to which the retort comes back ‘yeah but I’ve left myself a downhill putt.’ They fade a high left-to-right hybrid around the trees and on to the green. ‘Good shot!’ you say, to which they reply ‘yeah, but shouldn’t have left myself that blind shot off the tee.’

Any of the above sound familiar? Or, horror-of-horrors, you feel you might fall into one of the less attractive categories?

Have you ever wondered how many golf balls can fit in a Jeep Grand Cherokee? This unsuspected guy gets surprised by his friends after work with thousands of golf balls packed in his car.

Could be an expensive prank, unless of course they bought the golf balls from LGB!

Do you think he got to keep of all them?

First, there was ”planking.” Then, there was ”owling.”  After that, we cracked up some more for ”horsemaning.”  Now, the newest trend is “stocking.”

The premise behind the new photo fad is simple: find a stock photo from image services like istockphoto and Getty Images, and recreate it. Post the pictures side by side, and voila.

It caught on quickly, and now there’s a Tumblr called ”Stocking Is the New Planking“ to keep you updated on the latest “stocking” photos to hit the scene, and believe us, every post is LOL-worthy.

So we’re challenging the golf community to give “Stocking” a try – but choosing a golf stock photo (like the ones below) and recreating it!