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re: Golf pet peeves
Posted on 6/3/12 at 8:00 am to LSUandAU
Posted on 6/3/12 at 8:00 am to LSUandAU
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It really pees me off when people are constantly hitting second balls after hitting a shot they are not happy with and people not finishing holes saying "just give me a snowman."
My uncle picks up at least once during a round and then will say just mark it double......no matter how many times he has struck the ball.
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Posted on 6/3/12 at 8:14 am to Bho
On the flip side, it also sucks when you have a guy who chips back and forth across the green ten times. After two of those, I will stop his ball and tell him it checked up nicely.
Posted on 6/3/12 at 8:21 am to TiGeRTeRRoR
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We were stuck behind a.group of kids today, and one played the entire round barefoot.
I have played barefoot before when I had a horrible blister on my heel from a new pair of shoes.
You can't swing very hard, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing for me.
Posted on 6/3/12 at 8:32 am to Bho
If you have a certain handicap, there's a maximum number of strokes you can card on a single hole. The chart has been posted around here several times. I think the max you can take if you're between 20-30 is 10, not sure though.
People picking up is a good thing, IMO.
People picking up is a good thing, IMO.
Posted on 6/3/12 at 8:39 am to bunky
Yeah I'm a decent golfer, not good by any stretch and play bogey golf. Every few rounds you just butcher a hole and need to pick up for time and your sanity.
Posted on 6/3/12 at 8:50 am to bunky
I once met a guy who was becoming a pro golfer. He was complaining and bragging like he was the only person in the world that had to "work" on holidays/weekends. I told that over entitled trust fund brat to get over it. It's called sacrifices. There are more hard working people in this world that work those days to make his life easier.
Dude was a prick.
Dude was a prick.
Posted on 6/3/12 at 9:04 am to tuptiger
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Courses unknowingly pairing people
I'm paying to play with the people I came with. No one else
It's a social game. I can't stand people who think it's their right to go out as 2
Posted on 6/3/12 at 9:17 am to Buck Magnum
Yea I don't mind people picking up at all; if you're not playing for money who cares what score they claim? Most courses would rather you pick up after triple bogey anyway...
Eta: of course nobody here ever triple bogeys
Eta: of course nobody here ever triple bogeys
This post was edited on 6/3/12 at 9:18 am
Posted on 6/3/12 at 9:28 am to Tiger1242
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My biggest pet peeve is the group that won't let you play through, even though the course is empty and you are 1 and they are 4; these groups are always playing for money
A single really doesn't have priority over any group.
Posted on 6/3/12 at 9:37 am to Tiger1242
To be honest, I don't give a frick what rules my playing partner decides to bend/break.
I'm playing against the course, not the people in my group (it's rare that we wager)
I they want to pick up and take a triple, I give zero fricks
Take a 6' gimme? Go for it
I'm playing against the course, not the people in my group (it's rare that we wager)
I they want to pick up and take a triple, I give zero fricks
Take a 6' gimme? Go for it
Posted on 6/3/12 at 9:48 am to Croacka
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To be honest, I don't give a frick what rules my playing partner decides to bend/break.
Exactly, the only thing about my partner bending the rules is they always want you to do it too so they don't feel bad about it. So you have to constantly decline taking 4' gimmes and moving your ball away from a tree
Posted on 6/3/12 at 2:24 pm to Croacka
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On the flip side, it also sucks when you have a guy who chips back and forth across the green ten times. After two of those, I will stop his ball and tell him it checked up nicely.
I lol'ed at this.
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To be honest, I don't give a frick what rules my playing partner decides to bend/break.
I'm playing against the course, not the people in my group (it's rare that we wager)
I they want to pick up and take a triple, I give zero fricks
Take a 6' gimme? Go for it
Agreed. Unfortunately I don't have a whole lot of friends that play golf, but most of the ones that do aren't around the same level as me so we don't compete against each other. There's one friend that just started playing that came up with the rule that if you lose your ball, but find another while looking for it, you don't have to take a penalty. I just laughed at him when he said that the first time.
When it comes down to it, as long as there's no wager on the line, what other people want to do with there score is their thing. At the end of the day they are the ones that have to think about how honest they did or didn't keep themselves during the round.
This post was edited on 6/3/12 at 2:26 pm
Posted on 6/3/12 at 2:29 pm to Buck Magnum
The only thing I hate is slow players ahead of me.
Posted on 6/3/12 at 2:31 pm to DCBJR6
My friends had a beginners rule that when you hit it into a bunker, you had the option to put your back to the hole and throw the ball backwards over your head as a substitute for your shot
You can't make that shite up
You can't make that shite up
Posted on 6/3/12 at 2:34 pm to Croacka
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My friends had a beginners rule that when you hit it into a bunker, you had the option to put your back to the hole and throw the ball backwards over your head as a substitute for your shot
I played with an old guy that every time he was in a bunker he would say "lob wedge" and toss the ball up to the hole, he thought he was so clever Posted on 6/3/12 at 2:36 pm to Croacka
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My friends had a beginners rule that when you hit it into a bunker, you had the option to put your back to the hole and throw the ball backwards over your head as a substitute for your shot
You can't make that shite up
MJ might have went pro in 3 sports with this rule.
Posted on 6/20/12 at 11:20 pm to Buck Magnum
When 4 rednecks wearing cargo shorts who are hacking away will not let two guys play through. Look I get it, I suck as well but when you start seeing multiple groups behind you and NO ONE in front of you, you are the problem. I also hate those guys who hit every shot like they're about to break the course record. HURRY UP! I got justice though once when I watched one guy take EIGHT(!!) practice swings before addressing the ball and then duff it into the water. I am no pro, but I at least have the humility to know and enjoy playing while making sure everyone else is as well. /endrant
Posted on 6/20/12 at 11:34 pm to Buck Magnum
Slow play.
I pushed my 2nd on a long par 5 the other day in Destin. It was the 9th hole and it's close to the #1 tee box so I waited for 4 dudes to hit two balls each off the #1 tee and it took 10 minutes.
..and it wasn't slow. They had 3-4 groups waiting behind them to tee off.
I pushed my 2nd on a long par 5 the other day in Destin. It was the 9th hole and it's close to the #1 tee box so I waited for 4 dudes to hit two balls each off the #1 tee and it took 10 minutes.
..and it wasn't slow. They had 3-4 groups waiting behind them to tee off.
Posted on 6/21/12 at 7:38 am to lighter345
1. Slow play...seems like a popular one. This is not the PGA Tour where you have thousands riding on every shot. Play ready golf. While I'm hitting you should be going through your preshot routine, the only thing that should hold you up from this is if your ball is next to mine. This is especially true when putting. I don't need to see you plumb bob(who even still does that?), read the green, stand behind your ball with putter held horizontal lining it up, get over the ball and take 4 practice strokes, flick cigarette, and then finally putt.
2. A preshot routine that consists of more than one practice swing, or taking your practice swing like there is literally a ball in front of you(i.e. including a waggle or two)
3. Throwing clubs, you're right buddy, that wedge is the reason you flubbed that chip
4. Tearing up the course after a bad shot. Heard stories of a guy that I know, but haven't ever played with; actually ax chopping the hole after a missed putt. They said his putter hit just inside the cup and lodged in the small bit of grass just above the plastic cup.
5. Going along with 4, respecting the course/game in general. I have a buddy that is in my normal group used to literally get down on his knees to read a putt, and then line up said putt, and he continued to do it on every green on every course we played, no matter how many of us said something. Finally played with another buddy at his club, and the guy got their pro(but on the knees putt reader guy didn't know he was the pro) to play with us. First hole he gets on his knees to read the putt and promptly gets yelled at by the pro
. Same guy a few holes after this, stood directly in my line. Again I said something, to which his reply was "it's okay I'm wearing softspikes...and the best part...I'm a landscaper, this grass will be fine" . Forget that you're a 230lb man and the depressions my ball now has to roll through to get to the cup.
Oh and my personal example in 1 and 2 is the example in number 5's dad. Just great golf etiquette in that family
2. A preshot routine that consists of more than one practice swing, or taking your practice swing like there is literally a ball in front of you(i.e. including a waggle or two)
3. Throwing clubs, you're right buddy, that wedge is the reason you flubbed that chip
4. Tearing up the course after a bad shot. Heard stories of a guy that I know, but haven't ever played with; actually ax chopping the hole after a missed putt. They said his putter hit just inside the cup and lodged in the small bit of grass just above the plastic cup.
5. Going along with 4, respecting the course/game in general. I have a buddy that is in my normal group used to literally get down on his knees to read a putt, and then line up said putt, and he continued to do it on every green on every course we played, no matter how many of us said something. Finally played with another buddy at his club, and the guy got their pro(but on the knees putt reader guy didn't know he was the pro) to play with us. First hole he gets on his knees to read the putt and promptly gets yelled at by the pro
. Same guy a few holes after this, stood directly in my line. Again I said something, to which his reply was "it's okay I'm wearing softspikes...and the best part...I'm a landscaper, this grass will be fine" . Forget that you're a 230lb man and the depressions my ball now has to roll through to get to the cup. Oh and my personal example in 1 and 2 is the example in number 5's dad
. Just great golf etiquette in that family This post was edited on 6/21/12 at 8:12 am
Posted on 6/21/12 at 7:55 am to DovaVol
Slow play and people talking on cell phones while im waiting for them to hit.
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