Why do people shout fore , when making a bad shot in golf , that heading towards other golfers or crowds?

Question

Why do people shout fore , when making a bad shot in golf , that heading towards other golfers or crowds?

Answer 1

it's believed it was originally "Forecaddy!", the guy who'd stand down the fairway to keep an eye on his golfers shots.  Thankfully, someone figured out that that's a mouthfull when there's a golfball screamin' at sombody's head at 100+ mph.

Answer 2

maybe "Your in FOR it"

Answer 3

Fore is the warning call for heads up,so that people can avoid getting injured.

Answer 4

I believe it hearkens back to olden times on the shores of Scotland where the links courses lie close to the sea.  Fore being a shortened version of afore or forewarned as opposed to aft or below.  It has now just become a custom that it is the warning call.  Why do they yell Geronimo when jumping out of a plane?

Answer 5

From the early days of golf "fore" was a warning to players who were foreward or in front an errant shot.

Players "aft" or afterward were rarely in danger from flying golf balls.

Answer 6

people shout fore wen hitting a bad shot to warn people that the ball i coming near them,

they also shout were the ball is eg"fore right"

it warns other golfers to get out of the way

Answer 7

To warn other golfers that they hit a bad shot and it is coming right at them. It is more of a saftey thing.

Answer 8

so people dnt get hit by golfballs

Answer 9

Fact:  It's short for "Forward"

(to indicate to those forward of you that they are playing too d**n slow!)

Answer 10

It is due to the gentry that founded the game, when playing they realised that on occasion, the golf ball could strike a bewildered bystander.

Thus the warnings to onlookers begun with;

'Dear sirs, i must forewarn you that a ball is heading your way with the certainty of knocking the stuffing out of you'.

It became apparent that this warning was way too long, and by the time the person issuing the warning got to the word forewarn, the ball had already converged with the bystanders heeed!.

Because of this the whole warning was abbreviated to 'Fore'.

Answer 11

Back in the day, there were two caddies. On that carried your bag and a fore caddie that watched for the ball in the fairway. So when the ball sailed away the golfer or caddie whould yell, FORE!!! to the fore caddie for short.

That's the real answer.

Answer 12

Maybe that's the number of people they expect to hit with the ball.

I believe it is a warning cry to tell people to watch out.

Answer 13

It is not known for sure where the term "fore" came from. However, the most plausible is that back in the early days of golf, when golf was only affordable to the rich class, that golfers employed forecaddies to go ahead and stand near where the ball would land so the ball would not be lost. Replacing equipment back then was expensive since the ball was hand crafted.

When the golfers hit the ball they would yell to their forecaddy and they would find the ball where it lands. And, of course, it is much easier to yell fore than it is to yell forecaddy.

Below is a link to a couple of other explanations that could also attribute to the word fore, but they are not nearly as likely as the afore mentioned theory.

Answer 14

lookout