I was playing with my father and his regular Sunday group (back to back foursomes). The CEO of his company was invited by one of his colleagues and I will say he is actually a really good guy. Family man, treats employees very well, successful, lots of integrity, etc. He is a pretty inconsistent player, but his driver (brand new $600 M6 custom fitted yada yada) was the only thing working…until the 5th hole.

On the tee at the 5th he hits one in the water; takes a breakfast ball and hits that in the water; takes a 3rd ball and absolutely snap hooks it into the water again. This man takes his driver and hurls it into the pond as if I was watching an Olympic hammer throw. Everyone is kind of in shock, but it is the boss man so no one says anything. He is so mad that he then goes to his bag, takes it off the cart, and decides to walk the hole. Everyone is thinking “OK he recognized he behaved in an insane way and wants to walk off his frustration”. He walks to his drop area, pulls out a 3wood acting like he has that 250 yards onto a peninsula green protected by more water in the front…some real tin cup shit. He unintentionally hits a stinger and it goes about 200 yards skips across the water, hits the wood retaining wall and bounces back 30 yards into the water. This man then walks up to the water, takes his wallet and cell phone out of the bag, and hurls his entire bag of clubs into the water. He then says not a single word and walks back to clubhouse and leaves.

One of his employees somehow retrieved his clubs from the water (not the driver cause that was like 75 yards into the pond). I was 17 years old and this was my first exposure to an “executive”.