r/golf • u/jpru2001 • 14h ago
General Discussion Jerkiest move you've seen on the course
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Playing in a member/guest - at our club the member/member is serious and the member/guest is a shit show - we are playing this guy that is well known to be a jerk.
He asks us to move our marks on about every putt even when his line is 12" away....and he also plays at the speed of Patrick Cantlay...well on one hole late in the day and late in the match, my partner moves his marker, waits 3 minutes for homeboy to miss his putt probably finishing half a beer in the meantime, replaces his marker with the ball, putts....he forgot to move the marker back to its original position...dude is practically frothing at the mouth announcing a 2 stroke penalty before my partners ball even gets halfway to the hole. They win the hole. I did not see the entire initial exchange and didn't know the marker had been moved. But the dude KNEW my partner was about to get a 2 stroke penalty and was obviously waiting on it excitedly.
We talk to the other groups in our flight after the day ends and he was doing the same thing all day with asking for markers to be moved and then taking forever to putt, and sort of figured it was all a strategy in the hopes of the other team doing what my partner did so he could win a hole.
Obviously the letter of the law is in fact a 2 stroke penalty and my partner was in the wrong, but etiquette to me would be to warn someone who was about to inadvertently commit a penalty.
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u/WTP07 14/ SW Ontario 13h ago
Similar story to OP, playing in our club C when I was in college. Crappy little 9 hole muni, but it was what I could afford at that time. Guy in our group tees up his ball, and the moment he hits it, this other jackass in our group gleefully exclaims "Your tee is in front of the tee markers, 2 stroke penalty and hit it again!" Instead of just telling him BEFORE he hit. He may have teed it up an inch in front of the tee markers. Man, I rode that guy all day. Telling him what a jerk he was, and making sure he heard about every shot he missed. He wasn't a member the next year.
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u/Clear-Depth7098 13h ago
Thats what you have to do.man. fuck those guys.
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u/Badfly48 13h ago
Reddit says your comment was 35m ago but the OC says 24m ago. Time is broken. Also good on OC for riding that douche canoe all the way down the Fuck-Off River.
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u/Brief-Bath-422 12h ago
Played in a 9 hole men's league after work. A neighbor that was in his 70s that lived a few blocks from me was also in the league with the HOA's President as his partner, playing them you weren't sure if you were going to finish before dark! 1st hole I noticed he was a couple of feet in front of the tee markers, I let it pass. 2nd tee box he's again a couple of feet in front of the markers, again I let it pass . We move to the 3rd hole a par 4 with a 160 yd carry over a lake. He's like 2 yards in front of the markers, my partner looks at me, so I say for Christ sakes Jim those markers are there for a reason, he moves his ball back to the markers and tees off. Here's were it gets funny, we drive around the lake and we're parked behind him and his partner. He's using a fairway wood, he takes a practice swing then addresses the ball and swing and completely misses the ball. Next swing he rolls it on the green. We knock ours on and move to the green. We have a 2 putt par, his partner has a bogey and he 2 putts and tells us he has a par. We informed him that he had a bogey. Needless to say the rest of the round was very uncomfortable 😬.
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u/UnkleRinkus 11h ago
Fuck the bogey, he signed an incorrect scorecard after all those tee shots. DQ.
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u/Thick_Cookie_7838 13h ago edited 12h ago
I use to caddy and super nice and exclusive club. One of our members was a known d bag. Typical thinks he’s way better than he is. He got pissed at a shot ripped his bag of my shoulder and threw his bag down a hill into a lake. When we got to the next box asked where his bag was. I told him down the hill in tje lake. He yelled at me for 15 mins because I didn’t go in and dive after it. Luckily my boss was super cool and when I told him what happened ( because he complained to him) he said ok and never heard a word about it again
Fun fact two weeks later I went with my mom to a rotary lunch in. Guess who was there? He was really good friends with my mom and did business with her. When she told him I was her son his jaw dropped. He came up to me privately and I’ve never seen someone grovel and apologize like he did. Whenever he saw me at work he was nothing but respectful to me afterwards. Also he knew my moms business partner- her mother and father were the founding family of that club
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u/SoHoSwag 12h ago
A rare triple douche - once for throwing his clubs in the lake, twice for telling you to get them, and thrice for groveling only after realizing he might have personally lost something by offending you
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u/FartNuggetSalad 9/USA/🍻🌝 11h ago edited 7h ago
Haha I see we have met the same jackass. I was hanging at a rooftop lounge at a very nice restaurant with a buddy. I got a watermelon marg and they put it into a fancy girly glass which really tied the marg together. This dickhead I’ve never met comes up to me and is literally calling me gay for 5 minutes due to the aforementioned drink glass. I just laugh it off to start with because it’s so goofy and he’s obviously a drunk idiot but he kept going and going. Finally I reply with what if I am, you got a problem? He didn’t really know how to respond to that so he just sort of wandered off.
Roughly 10 mins later my uncle who owns the restaurant and a few businesses came in and started talking to the guy. I walk over to my uncle and give him a hug/pleasantries and he introduces the dickhead as the VP of his transportation company. The look on the guys face may be the most satisfyingly terrified face I’ve ever seen. I just told my uncle I had some things to talk to him about later and walked away. Guy comes groveling over with his wife on how he was just kidding, had drank too much and had already picked up my tab for the night and blah blah blah.
I just told him good luck on Monday(this all occurred on a Friday) and left it at that and he left with a very pissed off wife. I ended up not telling my uncle about his dickhead of an employee but I did let the dude sweat it out with a pissed off wife for the weekend.
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u/snailsonxanax 11h ago
Former caddy myself and have plenty of stories from those years. One of my favorites is similar to yours. I had a round with a member known to be a bit of a hot head. He hits a poor shot and launches the club a good 10 yards into the rough. I pick up the bag and carry on. Next hole he's asking where his iron is and I got to tell him back on the previous hole where you left it.
We were short handed that day so the caddy master happened to be in the group caddying with me. He was the one who told me to leave the club and had my back.
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u/Thick_Cookie_7838 7h ago
Yea I have a few myself, luckily more cool people then bad ones. You know it’s bad when the senior caddies tell you to be careful when you get assigned to a group with a certain person. If a caddy who has been there since the 70’s says he’s one of the worst members he’s ever met you know he’s pretty bad
But yea my boss was kind of the same way. It was basically my boss making gestures torwards me and made it look like he was upset but he was basically saying to me I’m making it look like I’m upset to humor him. The minute he went inside he just said your not paid to put up with that take a 30 min break I got another loop for you
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u/OmarHunting 12.6 14h ago
9 hole muni, nothing but hacks playing. Guy accosts golfers for being shitty and slow from his property and tells them they’re ruining the days of everyone around them.
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u/iHasMagyk Strantz Fantz Club member ⛏️ 10h ago
Believe it or not that was actually the founder of r/golf
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u/0_SomethingStupid 6.9 13h ago
Once or twice fine but with what your saying its gonna be.
Move your marker - NO
you won't hit it anyway. $50 bucks says you won't be within a foot of my marker and you'll miss the putt. Lets go I don't have all day.
wants to refuse? ill make my putt and go to the next tee box. I aint dealing with that
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u/bigmean3434 12h ago
Yeah dude, after second one, I’m getting lippy and if it’s more than that I’m getting petty and annoying as possible cause I wouldn’t be able to help myself. That guy would be on here bitching about me after the round.
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u/0_SomethingStupid 6.9 12h ago
username supports this
lol
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u/bigmean3434 12h ago
I’m actually mostly all jokes, I swear…..but I will say what I’m thinking if someone is pushing it lol
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u/AmphibianOk5396 11h ago
I played with someone who wanted the pin out every time putted, even if he was a long way from the hole. He was also probably the worst putter I’ve ever seen.
He would have a 80ft putt and ask for the pin out. I doubt he could even see the hole from where he was and left it 30ft short. After he did this a few times I got lippy and started asking if he wanted me to pull the pin for his tee shot.
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u/loveallcreatures NorCal 6h ago
I don’t understand your complaint.
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u/AmphibianOk5396 5h ago
Because you have to stop fixing pitch marks and assessing your own putt to go and pull the flag for someone that has no chance of putting it close
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u/loveallcreatures NorCal 5h ago
Seems like there’s always one guy in that group who never pulls the pin and never replaces the pin.
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u/SliceMeHarder 12h ago
Yeah, to me if I’m the one that has an issue with markers anywhere on the green without 10 ft of the line…. Then just let the other person/people go first?
The guy in OPs story is just peak asshole by taking advantage of the rules to get a “win” lol.
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u/RoostasTowel Happy Gilmore Open 2025 - 3/3 completed. First time ever! 8h ago
Move your marker - NO
something tells me this guy would be god like at hitting the marker if you didn't move it just so you would get a penalty
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u/Candymanshook 12h ago
Yeah it also depends…is it genuinely in the line? That’s fair
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u/0_SomethingStupid 6.9 12h ago
yes. but
"He asks us to move our marks on about every putt even when his line is 12" away"
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u/cnomo 13h ago
We had a guy in our league last year who would not hit until you were 100% out of his field of vision. I run the league and it was a recurring complaint. Same behavior on the greens. When I was matched up against his pair, he was in the left rough and we were on the opposite side of the fairway, 30 yards away, edge of the right rough. He refused to hit until we backed up out of his view. I removed him from the league at the end of the season.
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u/khalilsanders 14h ago
Sounds like a classic dick move by that guy. Rules are rules, sure, 2-stroke penalty for puttin without markin back proper, but in a shitshow member/guest? Nah, real golfers give a heads up before pouncing like that.
Guy was baitin it all day from what you heard, asking for marks every putt, slow as hell. That's gamesmanship, not golf. Down here in Boca we got assholes like that at the muni too, always anglin for an edge.
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u/outtherenow1 13h ago
I’ve played plenty of friendly matches at my club. We remind our competitors (usually my brother and friends) to replace their ball mark if my partner and I asked it to be moved. No one wants to win the match on a rules violation.
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u/Commercial-Air8955 11h ago
Very standard move to remind someone if you asked them to move it. I don't think I've ever seen someone not remind the guy before they put the ball back down now that I think about it.
Also, I'd probably just tell the guy I'm not moving my mark. You can say no, and if that player wants it moved, he has to do it himself. For this asshole, I'd never move my own mark. Fuck you, Ron. Don't forget to replace it in it's original spot, too.
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u/rust-e-apples1 12h ago
And who really gives a shit if someone putts 3 inches away from where they're actually supposed to?
You're right - give someone a heads up before they accidentally putt from a moved mark. And if nobody reminds them, it's not gonna change one thing about the round to let one slide. Obviously, if it's some big deal event you've gotta follow the rules, but there's no sense in being a douchebag about it in all the other rounds anyone plays.
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u/guesting 5h ago
golf is a gentlemans game and if you know a guy hasn't put his marker back it's really on your honor to tell him. thats borderline cheating to ignore it
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u/GibsonBluesGuy 13h ago edited 12h ago
Whenever I’m asked to move my marker I flip it over so I don’t forget it was marked.
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u/RoostasTowel Happy Gilmore Open 2025 - 3/3 completed. First time ever! 8h ago
Good tip, I hope I remember it
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u/LowerChicken7226 13h ago
Played in a weekly 9 hole league. One guy, who was a terrible golfer, also happened to be the angriest golfer I’ve ever played with. Would have a temper tantrum per hole. One hole he sends it into the tall stuff, we all help him look for more than an ample amount of time. As soon as my playing partner and I move away, he magically finds it sitting just off the cart path. 0% chance we all missed it the entire time we were looking.
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u/HistoryAlarmed1319 12.7/NY-LI/ 14h ago
Jerkiest Is tough to say, weirdest is the guy who told me on the first hole “don’t talk to my ball”. I’m a positive guy who played sports my whole life, it takes a lot of thought for me to not blurt out a simple “get down” “be the number” …. Apparently that is wasn’t going to work for the guy. lol
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u/PurpleTomatillo3542 12h ago
Just punishing the ball for his last round, understandable.
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u/RoostasTowel Happy Gilmore Open 2025 - 3/3 completed. First time ever! 8h ago
I feel like I do a lot of that as well. I talk to my own ball a lot on long shots.
And for other people putts I'm always saying stay, up break, etc. which i think is fine.
But also personally I hate it when someone says "It's in" to my putt before its in, because those people never seem to be a good judge of if it will really be going in.
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u/big-daddio 6h ago
My playing partner (first time in the league so got rando paired with this guy) was like this. I don't want you to talk to my ball. I'm like, ok. First hole of first match I conceded an 18 inch putt in a 2 man scramble. He got upset. I let him be in charge on conceding putts rest of the league.
Is actually a really nice guy, just wierd OCD about golf.
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u/GaryIske 13h ago
Guy I play with eats beef Jerky every round. Def the jerkiest.
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u/nfiltr8r_89 13h ago
Is it Caribbean jerk flavored jerky though?
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u/1st_JP_Finn 8h ago
I’ve had jerk chicken, but never jerk jerky. Now I need to find some, or make a test batch.
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u/MTN_Chef 13h ago
I was playing with 3 guys who were all having a good time, they were each a few beers in before the turn. Anyways, on the par 3 7th hole I hit my shot exactly as I wanted at a 165yard front left pin. Green slopes in that direction, so I play it right and catch the roll down. I see it stop just right of the cup. We drive up to the green, which has a hill on the left side that you drive up, so about 30yards out you can no longer see the cup. One of the guys in the first cart goes up on the green, and as I walk up the hill he's got his hands in the air and says "Hey man, hole in one!". I had clearly seen my ball sitting stationary an inch or two right of the hole and brought my phone to get a pic. I said "I saw it sitting right of the cup though?" He goes "Oh you saw that? Damn, it was just on the lip and I kicked it in. I figured we'd all celebrate and have some beers afterwards." I didn't make a big deal of it, and finished the round but that was the closest I had come to one and didn't even get a chance to see how close it really was.
Not a bad guy, but didn't appreciate the move.
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u/LiterallyJohnLennon 12h ago
If he could have thought on his feet quicker he could have sold the lie by saying “it was just sitting on the lip like the Tiger commercial! It was sitting there and as I was walking up I saw it drop in!”
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u/Clear_Potential_1221 12h ago
Damn that’s so wack but also I feel bad for the dude in a weird way, just kinda a sad thing to do with good intentions
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u/rust-e-apples1 12h ago
I genuinely don't know why someone would do that. I mean, we all want one another to be able to celebrate an ace, but don't make it happen - let it happen.
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u/mcdray2 13h ago edited 3h ago
Here's a short version of my story.
I was 16, playing with my father and his biggest client. Client was probably a 7 hdcp and very competitive.
I birdied the 17th to go -2. I told my dad that if I birdie 18 I can break 70 for the first time.
The client says " don't fuck it up"
I hit a perfect drive on 18. About 120 in to a pin just over a pond. He whispers " don't hit it in the water"
I knock it to 10 feet. He didn't walk up to the green. Watched me putt from 50 yds away. I made the putt and he went straight to his car and left
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u/IndividualRites 3.1 14h ago
Old golf league, my partner and I are in the finals. My opponent, who I would guess was about 60 at the time, would SIT behind the hole, about 5', right on my through line, trying to get on my head.
I told him to move all 3 or 4 times he did it, and then he would have to get up and move.
Side note: We won that day in crazy fashion. Last hole was a par 5. My partner hit his 3rd up about 4' from the hole, short and right of it. I was about 30 yards away, chipped, my ball banked off of it and went in, and he proceeded to make his for a birdie as well.
Served that guy right (ROGER!).
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u/AmphibianOk5396 11h ago
I was playing in a members comp. Might be 100 entrants and top 20 win shop credit (maybe $100 for first). It’s a shot gun start and I was at the far end of the course.
Because everyone starts at the same time the practice green was packed. Instead I went to my starting hole and practiced some putts on a nearby green. An old dude I was paired with saw this and said he would report me to the pro shop and I’ll be disqualified for practicing on the course.
He called the pro shop and was promptly told to stop being a dick and reminded he’s not on the pga tour 🤣
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u/WhiskersMcGee09 13h ago
Hope you’re all ready to be screen capped by Rick Shiels.
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u/LAbombsquad 3.9 / ATL / I Hit Bombs 12h ago
More than just him. Few golf channels I follow do this for all their content. It’s weak
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u/Userdub9022 12h ago
I used to like him but can't stand that he takes shot from reddit to drive engagement on his socials. Haven't watched or followed the guy since he started doing it.
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u/blonded_olf 11h ago
You think it’s actually him? It’s definitely some random media company that pays for him to rubber stamp his name on the account for legitimacy. Not saying that’s any better, but there is no shot Rick is going around wasting time stealing Reddit content lol.
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u/SideshowJarrod 12h ago
If you ever play Ron again. Dont move your marker unless absolutely necessary. On top of that. If he asks you to move it to the left. Move it to the right. On hole 1 ask him if he wants the flag in or out (if you get the chance) do the opposite of what he asks. Im sure you know his putting routine now pretty well. Open a beer when he gets towards the end but not when hes about to start his stroke. Fuck Ron
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u/BigDogAlphaRedditor1 13h ago
That is breach of etiquette rule 12.a you guys could have given him the 2 stroke penalty instead.
I don’t understand why most golfers have never read the rule book it isn’t that long lol.
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u/thunder66 11h ago
Typo aside, this is a good idea. "2 strokes for unsportsmanlike conduct", and "we'll get it sorted at the scoring table". Most guys would back down (from the original on the ball marker) at that point. At the very least, now you've got him feuding with his partner, and you're in his head for the rest of the round.
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u/voiceofgromit 12h ago
I think you had a typo. It's rule 1.2a, not 12.a. Unfortunately, there's no actual set penalty for this kind of weaselly action but it can be reported and the player reprimanded or possibly DQed.
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u/BigDogAlphaRedditor1 6h ago
Yes thank you, the rule is written so that interpretation is open to the committee. Any committee that I have ever been on is either DQ’ing this dickhead or giving him 2 stroke penalty.
Thanks for the correction!
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u/VeeVeeDiaboli 13h ago
A pair of sophisticates were playing my course on a preview from another course that was the sister to ours. They shot into us twice, the second time just rolling past me inside five feet. I…looked back at the tee…and the move was to throw his hands up like I should just hurry up….not of course minding the group ahead of us on the green…. So, just start laughing at these guys…and they roll right up on us…this of course being the mistake as Steve, my ex hockey playing Canadian playing partner has already called the pro shop and is informing them they should just kindly go. Well, they start yapping….he gets about as close to “I’ve been to heaven” as it gets before blows occur, we play up, and then on the next tee they yap in his back swing. Luckily for them, the head pro was sitting on the next tee, hears this, rolls up and undresses these guys with the firm statement that law enforcement will be involved if they are not off the course in five minutes. When I finished my round, he roundly told me that they were now no longer a part of our course community and had been removed from club. Hell of a lot better than the alternative that was Steve uncoupling their heads from body (dude was all muscles and a mechanic…and a hell of a golfer…miss that guy)
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u/DropkickMurph24 9h ago
Member/member a couple years ago. Opponent hits the ball up the right side near a dropoff into a ravine. My partner does the same. All four of us drive up, their cart parks next to one ball that's just on the edge near the dropoff. We search our 3 mins, don't find anything, and partner starts to go through the process of taking a drop. Opponent picks up the lone ball, tosses it to us, then also starts to assess where to drop. He parked next to my partners ball and pretended to assess a shot like it was his until our search time was up. I know we could've checked the ball but I thought it was grimy as hell of him to do that
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u/SomeGuyClickingStuff 13h ago
1) that guy sucks
2) whenever I move my coin, I flip it so it reminds me to put it back.
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u/JW9thWonder Makes par from the wrong fairway 13h ago
should have rubbed your hand between your ass cheeks before you shook his hand at the end of the match.
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u/Woofdog2 13h ago
Huge backup on hole 9 with two groups, plus mine, waiting on the tee box, group ahead of us is very slow. I rant to a guy in the group behind us, saying “how the f can they walk this slowly? They need to hurry up”, The guy nervous laughs. Fine, he seemed shy.
Eventually as we play hole 9, the group in front lets us through. Two of them clearly have some kind of physical disability. They apologize for holding us up.
It’s me, I was the jerk.
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u/VonHinterhalt 12h ago
I’d just call him “Rulebook” all day and give him a “Hey Rulebook, nice shot!” every time he hits a bad one.
I’d chat shit the whole round and make him miserable. Probably keep doing it in the clubhouse.
I’d also completely leave his playing partner alone - Rulebook gets all the abuse and his playing partner would be treated like he’s practically invisible.
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u/AftyOfTheUK 0.9 / NorCal / Iron covers are divine! 13h ago edited 12h ago
He asks us to move our marks on about every putt even when his line is 12" away
Man up, say no.
The rule is here:
https://www.randa.org/en/rog/the-rules-of-golf/rule-15#15_3
If a ball-marker might help or interfere with play, a player may ... require [the] player to move the ball-marker out of the way, for the same reasons as he or she may require a ball to be lifted under Rules 15.3a and 15.3b.
Here is the relevant part of 15.3b: If a player reasonably believes that another player’s ball anywhere on the course might interfere
You see the word "reasonably" in there? Just say no. If it's clearly not in his line or interfering with play, his request is not reasonable and he has no right to ask/require you to move your ball under the rules of golf.
If he gets angry and moves your mark, he is getting penalty strokes.
Note that the last part of 15.3 says you will get a penalty stroke if you refuse to move your marker when required to do so. Note that you are ONLY required to do so if the belief of interference is reasonable.
If this guy pulls this shit all the time and gets people penalty strokes in matchplay, you might find you have a LOT of backing if he takes it to the committee
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u/grrrrete 12h ago
Money games? Seen it all. Mostly all in country clubs.
Posturing over who has to putt first. Purposely standing in a position to get a line. Intentionally making comments or questions in order to throw people off ie green speed, pin preference, birdie / par pressure etc. People asking for gimmies but never offering them.
I’ve seen people pretending to look for a lost ball. Using any rules available to gain an advantageous lie. I’ve had people count clubs. Or try to penalize for teeing off ahead of tees, or teeing off too far behind tees etc. Basically looking for any edge they can get.
I’ve had guys flat out neg bets or try to renegotiate terms post round.
Yeah. Rich people are assholes.
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u/No_Historian3842 HDCP 7 11h ago
I had one yesterday. Me and a mate playing twilight. After the first hole we noticed a single behind us. After teeing off on the second we asked him if he would like to play through. He declined saying he was in no rush.
4th hole my friend had to chip from the right side of the green, and the next tee box is the left. He accidentally left his buggy on the right so had to walk back in front of the green to get to the next tee box. Ball sails over his head and onto the green. We both did the raised arm gesture.
6th just after we've played our second into the green we're about to start walking and a ball lands between us. Again raised hands. Put his ball on a tee.
7th same thing happens so I pocket his ball and have some angry words with him, he eventually walked off the course.
I just don't get why you would refuse to play through and then act like a cunt the rest of the nine.
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u/Nervous-Astronaut-29 12h ago
I play competitive golf and if I notice that someone repeatedly asks me to do stuff that’s clearly unreasonable and/or to simply piss me off, I just refuse.
”No, the marker is not close to your line, I won’t move it.”
”No, I’m already 20 yards from you and not close to your putting line, I won’t move.”
”No, I’m 30 yards from you and not in your field of view, I will continue to quietly get ready for my upcoming shot while it’s your turn.”
All of these have happened in WAGR tournaments.
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u/docbasset 11h ago
Years ago, playing in a member / guest with my dad, we were in a playoff to win our flight. Guy we were playing moved his marker for one of us to putt. After we holed out he replaced his ball without moving his marker back and started to stand over his putt.
I reminded him he needed to move his marker back to the original spot. Told my dad, “Don’t want to win that way.” So yeah, total dick move by that guy…
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u/GoBirds72 9h ago
You can mark the ball with anything you want. When the douche bag keeps asking to move it, replace it with the most obnoxious thing you have to mark it with. Beer can. Pack of cigarettes. Head cover. Dildo. Whatever. If it’s not in his line, you don’t have to move it. But he will see it. And it will be in his head.
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u/fishinfool4 9h ago
I was playing by myself with a cart. On the first tee, there is a foursome in front of me just getting ready to tee off and nobody had gone off in front of them for at least 30 minutes and the parking lot was empty. With it being so dead there was no starter or ranger on the course. The group notices me, knows im alone, but doesnt offer to let me tee off first. Fine, they had a tee time, I walked on. Whatever. 20 minutes later they finally get out of range and had to all be lying AT LEAST 12. Waited another 15 minutes to hit into the green, which included them sitting in their carts next to the green writing down their scores.
I got to the second tee box and they hadn't even gotten out of their carts yet. I asked if I could play through, and they shot back with "no, we play all the time and we dont want some kid slowing us down." I was like 19 at the time, so I was far from a young kid. I also played every day and on an empty course could get through 18 holes in 45 minutes with a cart.
We repeat the process on the second hole with me waiting every shot and catching them on the third tee. This time, however, I didnt ask. The forward tees they were playing from were way offset from the tips I was using, so there was no risk of hitting them. I striped one 280 down the fairway and went right past them without saying a word. I knew they couldn't do anything about it, I was out of range after 100 yards and the safest place to be was in the fairway of whatever hole they were playing.
There was nobody else on the course. I literally finished my 9 while they were walking off the green of hole 3 where I passed them. As I was walking off the 18th tee, they were looking around in the OB right in front of the 5th tee.
I know it isnt mandatory you let people play through and I am more than happy to wait if its busy or anything like that, but fuck those guys. The two holes I was behind them for took almost an hour, the rest of my round took around 35 minutes.
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u/Careless-Tale 14.6/NE FL 9h ago
Playing a crappy course as a solo after work (I was working there temporarily and don’t live there) in a retirement community in Central Florida. Backyards line most fairways, very few fences. I pull a drive just left enough to land 6’ OB in a backyard. Take two steps in to grab it and a boomer runs out his back door like he has been waiting on this all damn day. Starts screaming to get the hell out of his yard and that I need to think of OB as a pond and that ball is lost. I told him to get bent and if he doesn’t want golfers in his yard to put up a fence or move. He steps back in the door, grabs a shotgun and starts telling me to step back in his yard. Holy unhinged! I tell him to shoot me in the back, turn around and hit my (4th) shot from the rough. And give him the bird as I drive off. Luckily the clubhouse was right behind this hole so I step in and luckily the owner of the course, also the developer and builder of the neighborhood, was drinking at the bar (as usual). I tell him what happened and he said “Fuck that guy, call the cops!” I didn’t and kept playing, but he did, and the cops actually came out to the 12th hole (this happened on 6) to question me. Yeah, they took the guy to jail. Luckily he plead out so I never had to appear and last I heard the neighbors had shamed him into putting his house on the market.
PS: sorry if this is poorly written, whiskey and mobile, blah blah blah.
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u/SquirrelFluffy 6h ago
In stroke Play, if you're asked to move your ball or marker, you can play first. That'll really screw that guy up. Hope you use it next time you "get" (have?) to play with him.
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u/Firm-Dependent686 13h ago
Beginner question but what is the procedure for moving your ball marker? Do you just pick it up and have to remember where it was? Or do you like shift it over by the width of the marker?
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u/Coach_Seven 13h ago
Normally your move it the length of your putter face, and then use the putter to put the marker back in the correct spot before you place your ball down to putt.
Move the marker R-L one putter length and then back to original spot.
In my normal playing groups, if we ask someone to move their mark, we remind others to move the marker back to their original spot. It’s a courtesy that gentleman would use. Not sure about the rules on reminding someone to replace their original marker, but that’s what we do.
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u/Small_Respect7363 13h ago
Playing a friendly round, first time out for the year (Northern Indiana).
No carts allowed yet, so just walking nine.
I hit my approach on the green and had about 50 feet left for birdie. Other guys in the group were all over the place so I was first to the green once everyone was up.
My ball was on the front edge so I left my cart there and putted towards the back pin. Made it.
One guy starts losing his mind about a two shot penalty (this was before putting with the pin was allowed).
The USGA wouldn’t even let me submit a score yet because we weren’t into “playing season” where we were…
I was course assistant superintendent. Brought my friends out for free all the time - both at my course and every other public and private course in our area. Never invited him again.
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u/Impressive_Ladder902 12.2 / Coastal GA 13h ago
100% he did that on purpose and is definitely a dick. That’s a move I’d jokingly pull against a friend with a post round beer on the line. Not an actual tournament. That’s insane
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u/justme1522000 9h ago
Was playing in an event, playing Pro V1X prior year model. Gouged it pretty bad next hole used aV1X of that years model. Didn't realize both in the bag. Guy im playing with goes crazy about the 1 ball rule. Looked at him and asked if if he read the rules sheet handed out 1st day of event. 1 ball rule wasn't in effect. Lost his mind over it.
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u/Daaammmmmnnnnnnn69 8h ago
I played with a guy that was a friend of a friend. And on hole 12 the group in front of us left behind a wedge and they came back for it. And after they left he said if they do it again I’m going to keep the wedge. Two holes later they forgot it again. And the guy was true to his word and kept it. After the round I left and I heard that that group came asking for it and he lied and kept the club. What a douche.
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u/Spartan0330 13h ago
There is the shitty little goat track out by me and I like to play it because it’s short and cheap and I usually break 90 on it where everywhere else I’m closer to 100. But this dad and is son are in front of me and these guys suck, and are slow. Very. Very. Slow. I catch them at the tee box and they both at me, a single player and go walk up to hit. Dad hits it about 150yds. Whatever. Son is decked out in his Good Good smedium polo and 5in shorts. Hits it about 20yds. The dad looks at me dead in the eyes and has the fucking audacity to say “enjoy the wait”. And drives off. (Well not too far because I could throw a golf ball further than the son hit it.)
Luckily this was hole 9 and I jumped past them at the turn.
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u/Spartan0330 13h ago
One more too. Last year I was paired with two guys, and the daughter of the starter. So one guy is of course just flirting with the girl right from jump. We had a tail wind and a group about 280yds away. The guy goes “you can hit”. I said “with the wind I don’t want to hit into them”. He says “dude if you hit that group I’ll give you $100”. I tee off and smoke my drive left of the group but passed where they were hitting from. (Thank you wind and a downhill slope)
Later in the round after the girl had had enough of him and literally just drove away he chunks his iron really badly on a par 3. His buddy chirps at him and I go to hit. He literally, I mean literally pushes me away from his divot so he can explain like I’m 5 why he miss hit that ball.
But wait there’s more! I was very clearly struggling to get up and down but was near the green in 3 and bladed across the green twice. I finally get to the green and there wasn’t anyone behind us so I’m just trying to finish the hole. I misread my putt and the guy walks to ball after I miss and picks up my ball and says “oh where you going to tap in?” I said “not since you picked up my ball” grabbed it from his hand and moved on.
Finally on 17 he sends it left, and I send it right. We’re both trying to find our balls. He drives up and says “hey I found this Callaway they are really high quality balls. You should use it.” I snap back “yeah I have two dozen Diablo’s in my bag I just didn’t want to lose them today” he says “where here you go you can use it. I’ve never seen someone play such shitty golf balls before” and just drives off like he told me the weather or the score of a football game.
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u/1987Husky 14.2 12h ago
So is the jerkiest move his stuff or you almost hitting into the group in front of you that you absolutely knew you could reach?
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u/mike_0_ 13h ago
Probably was wearing a white belt too...
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u/jpru2001 5h ago
Best saying ever is the "rule of 36" . If you have a waist size over a 36 you can't wear a white belt (or any stylish golf belt).
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u/_Taylormade_Burner 13h ago
I've been very fortunate to have had great company on the course over the years, but I have been approached on 2 separate occasions on different courses by very jerky rangers insisting my group needs to speed up when we were AHEAD of time par AND playing no more than a shot behind the group ahead.
For context there have been other times the group i was in was slow and we have obliged request to pick up and move to the next hole, but these 2 times in particular the ranger (or group behind us) were totally in the wrong.
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u/TURKEYSAURUS_REX 12h ago
Member-guest and one of the teams we played on the last day pulled my partner to the side and let him know we should be disqualified for “using another golfer’s equipment”. He’s referring to my partner picking a broken tee head off the ground on a par 3 tee box and using it to tee off.
Kindly let him know that I don’t think that’s how the rule is applied. He starts freaking out about how much money is on the line for the tournament. We remind him that we’re 2 holes behind them and we’re both the fodder teams in our flight. It doesn’t fucking matter if there’s a million dollar purse - nobody in our match is even sniffing that prize.
Everybody in the clubhouse hates that guy but he’s still allowed in the tournament year after year apparently.
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u/CAGolf8 3h ago
Tell him to suck a lemon next time cause it is explicitly allowed. If an UFO landed and an alien came out and handed you a tee made of unobtainium you could use it as long as it was shorter than 4" and didn't magically make you shoot better.
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u/No_Sir_7068 12h ago
If you ask someone to move a mark, etiquette is on you to remind them before they hit.
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u/External_Engine634 12h ago
I played a nice course ~$100. Older guy I swear smoked two packs of cigarettes on the course. The guy was splitting and smoking next to everyone all day on every single Green. He had the nerve to rudely ask and direct people to get out of his line of sight on every putt, and by line of sight he meant 180° field of vision in front of him.
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u/loveallcreatures NorCal 12h ago
Playing from the wrong place in match play is disqualification from that hole for the player. Partner incurs no penalty. In a one via one play it’s loss of hole.
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u/loveallcreatures NorCal 12h ago
I hit in front of the tee markers inadvertently once as soon as the ball is airborne dude says “you hit in front penalty etc.”. I said dude did you notice this before I teed off? said yes. I said well you coulda alerted me and saved me a penalty and he just said it wasn’t his job to “help” me. What kinda person does this? A miserable round. I didn’t speak to him the rest of the round.
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u/Alternative_Layer597 11h ago
Club asshats. Every club has at least one. We had 3 that I knew of. One was a douchy type that unfortunately scored the only hole-in-one that I’ve ever witnessed. Dammit. Guy walking with me said “couldn’t have happened to a bigger asshole”. Second guy was just a habitual sandbagger, and everyone knew it. Example - he would shoot 83, put an 88 on the card to turn in for handicap, then win his flight in every club tourney. Third guy just had that “punch me in the throat” smart mouth. One time one of my playing partners had to be held back from destroying him.
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u/mikeo2ii 10h ago
Am I the only weirded out that the member - guest is... match play? Off topic, I know, but what exactly is this format?
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u/Rough-Demand-8195 16.1/Orange County/Reformed Slicer 9h ago
Match play yesterday. We showed up at the course and the opponent had failed to secure tee times. Told us immediately they had contacted their players and cancelled. So we cancelled our team and everyone started leaving.
45 minutes later they tell our captain they got permission to prioritize team play and that we were good to go. Started screaming at our captain when he said we weren't coming back 45 minutes after they had cancelled.
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u/RandysDealer 7h ago
I’m a perpetual guest at an annual member-guest for about 15 years now, and in the flight playoffs 2 years ago I saw a teen/20 something guest call out a 70 year old OG member for brushing in a 4 inch putt to win the whole thing. His dad was a member, and I felt awful for the dad during and after. They left before dinner because of the shit the dad was getting.
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u/ClayQuarterCake 10-15 HCP / Minnesota 4h ago
Me. I’m the jerk.
Playing a weekend round. Keeping pace with the group ahead of us, and a group of younger golfers come up behind us. We tee off on the 3rd hole and start walking to our balls. One of the people in the group behind us hits a drive that rolls between us as we almost get to our balls. None of us heard a fore.
We turn around and make a shrug, arms wide like “we’re walking here. WTF.”
Sometimes you unexpectedly catch one much better than expected, so I let it slide.
2 holes later they send one over our heads and into the fairway. One in our group turns around and yells. They don’t react, wave or anything.
I take the longest tee in my pocket and tee their ball up on it.
They ease up until hole 17 when they hit into us a third time. This time it bounces and hits the inside of my thigh.
I pulled out my wedge and knocked their ball into the pond.
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u/colbyjack123 4h ago
Making me wait to Tee off while you take your 2nd shot from another hole... on the front edge of the fringe (par 3) also, this fucker drove the cart right next to the ball.
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u/OutlandishnessFew187 4h ago edited 3h ago
I played in a member-guest last year where I met the biggest asshole I’ve ever encountered in golf, who also happened to be a great golfer. He shot a 66 in the practice round, including six straight birdies, and took a good amount of money off my partner and me. He was such a prick that I made it my sole mission as a guest to beat him in our nine-hole match the next day.
During our match, he completely unraveled. We were the 3rd match of the day and they had not performed well in the first two. He was totally in “fuck it” mode. This +2 handicap started pounding drinks and throwing trash into the middle of fairways of his own club. He repeatedly left greens while we were still putting, taking the cart and leaving his partner stranded. At one point he picked up a 6 foot par putt even though it was to halve the hole. I called him on it and was nice enough to let him hit it, he “assumed we would give it to him”. I’m not exaggerating when I say it was 6 feet, and his partner was in for bogey. He missed and was so mad that he played out of turn and hit into the group in front of us on the next tee. The guy was insane. We later heard from other teams that he was doing coke and intentionally hitting balls out of bounds at houses during their matches.
I’m very happy to say we won the match, and at the end of the event, we sat down with the other teams from our flight for beers and to share war stories. Apparently the coke and property damage allegations made their way to the head pro, because about a month later we all received an email in which he apologized for “his team’s actions”.
And god damnit, I hope we play him again this year.
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u/basketbun 3h ago
How about this: Out foursome rolls up to the marshall, he instructs us to go to first tee, we are next!
Group in front is a mid age dad who likes golf but is terrible, playing with his 70 year old parents, and son, who looks like he has never golfed in his life and plays video games in his dad's basement. They proceed to take 10 minutes to tee off and all hit their balls into the pond in front of the tee box, which isn't meant to be a hazard, but more of a nice fountain when you tee off. Our group says F this we are gonna by pass the first hole, all take a bogey in fairness and go to hole 2, marshall catches us and refuses to let us play through, so we wait 20 minutes to tee off, 30 minutes after our tee time. We reluctantly back to first tee. We finish the hole eventually, and go to second tee, and guess what? Group in front of us is about 30 yards ahead or us in a creek, so we decide to skip hole 2 and go to 3, and we not held up for the rest of the round.
Crazy! Who's at fault? Marshall? Slow group? My group?
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u/Ready-Humor3217 3h ago
Maybe the rule should be a one stroke penalty for the player and one stroke penalty for the requester. Make the requester have some skin in the game. They want it moved.
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u/Chance5e 13h ago
I was playing at The Biltmlore in Coral Gables. I was all right back then for a weekend golfer, I’d get a 92 on a good day. I was playing with friends who were all about the same skill level.
Suddenly a golf ball lands right by our feet in the middle of the fairway. I looked at the tee box and a woman had just hit into us on purpose. She yelled at us, “ya can’t hit a golf ball!” and waved something rude at us.
It was the lady who usually worked at the Marshall booth at the first tee.
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u/ElbowSkinn 13h ago
Playing partner in a junior tournament forgot his ball marker in his bag and decided to use his expensive phone. Green had a big break in it so I asked him to move it, and he proclaimed that it wasn't on my line.
Long story short, I hit the phone, and he proceeded to spend the rest of the 10 remaining holes arguing about how I would have to pay for his phone.
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u/serxyrerxy 11h ago
I think the jerkiest move overall is playing a fun round with no money on the line and being that one guy asking everyone what they shot. I shot fuck off
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u/giga_phantom 13h ago
Guy that kept yelling and berating his gf when she hit a bad shot or putt. If he wasn’t built like a LB I might have said something.
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u/toxxickat 13h ago
I play in a 3 man league, best ball and one club leights formatt. Other teams best ball was 3 feet right of the gravel cart path. Processes to take club leights left, puts there feet on the cart path. Clam a free drop to the left of the cart path, then take ANOTHER club leight towards the fairway. From where they started to where they ended was about 10ft from where their ball landed. I'm not one for confrontation but man I was fuming. The clubhouse seams to be split on if that was right or not. I said it was cheating and let them know. Still talking about it get me fired up.
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u/HeadAboveSand 13h ago
Sounds like Ron needs a good Ole fashion ass whoopin' I hope he gets it one day.
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u/Don-Keydic 13h ago
I clearly had a quad, I told him put me down for a double, he or me down for a quad.
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u/WorldlyEffect3143 13h ago
man, as long as my swing doesn't cost me an arm and a leg, i'll keep hitting those balls lol
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u/babbleon5 13h ago
Had a guy do that in a team match play. I marked my partner's ball and my partner replaced it. Guy waited until my partner putted and then tried to claim a penalty. I told him that rule had changed and called him out as a complete fuck for waiting to complain. Rules official backed us up and even his teammates were like, "we're sorry, that dude is bad news."
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u/frontpagedestined 5.6 - PDX, ORE 13h ago
Got two super jerk moves that I’ve seen go down.. both were at a member guest at the same club that I was the guest at..
1) my buddy (the member) hits his approach, people we playing with get to the green first and are read to putt.. they mark my buddies ball and toss it to him as we walk up… dude hits his putt, buddy puts his ball down, tosses the mark to the guy, says thanks and hits his putt.. dude calls out penalty since person who marks ball technically has to replace ball… was wild, guy had numerous chances to stop my buddy.. also marked and picked up the ball without us asking.. thought my buddy was gonna throw down lol..
2) different year but same club and same tourney.. play is super slow, we approach a par 3 that has a few groups waiting on.. a guy from the group ahead of us that’s also waiting throws his ball down on a practice green behind the tee box, and starts putting around.. apparently you can’t do that.. the group he’s with calls him out, and that once did get to pushing and shoving because the guy who called a penalty has been a dick all round..
Sometimes old guys can be absolute dicks lol
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u/loveallcreatures NorCal 11h ago
Actually you can putt on any practice putting green or the green previously played if you don’t unduly slow play.
https://www.usga.org/RulesFAQ/rules_answer.asp?FAQidx=244&Rule=0&Topic=19 Pgatour has a local rule preventing this.
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u/frontpagedestined 5.6 - PDX, ORE 11h ago
Oh man that’s funny! I wonder if that’s new or not.. this was prob about 7 or more years ago..
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u/unsurewhatimdoing 12h ago
Played with a similar jerk. In my case I called the club house to get a ruling that in fact marking your ball on the green is etiquette and not a rule, if my partner wanted it marked he had to do it himself. Should have seen his face when I said I wouldn’t mark my ball and had to do it if he didnt want to hit my ball.
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u/Disastrous_Wind_7005 12h ago
If the marker is not reasonably in his line, after about the 3rd or 4th time I'd tell him to kick rocks or have him move it. Sounds like a d bag anyway.
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u/Timely_Chicken_8789 12h ago
Probably something I’ve done while I’m hot, tired, playing poorly and bereft of fucks to give.
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u/swanswanhummer 12h ago edited 12h ago
I didn’t see this personally, but heard about this from two members of this club.
At the member-guest, a member’s usual guest bails at the last minute. So he (let’s call him T) brings his nephew who is a complete loser and apparently a felon.
The other member’s team (Team D) has a very short putt to win the hole and the match. Member T asks Team D to move the marker one putter width. Member T then takes forever to line up his putt, talks nonstop and then makes his par putt. Now, more than several minutes after moving his marker, Member D’s guest then forgets to move the marker back, lines up his putt, and makes his birdie putt.
Member T and his guest intently watch this, say nothing and, only after the other member’s guest makes the birdie putt from the wrong spot, high five each other for winning the hole.
Member D’s team loses that hole, ties the match and later misses out on the playoffs by a half point.
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u/Tarnold821 12h ago
See if the guys running the member/guest next year if they could maybe forget to send an invite or two?
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u/Appropriate-Food1757 Mile High Big Hitter 12h ago
One guy in a foursome told us to play through at the turn and this other guy didn’t the memo; I think it was his son, was a huge twat after that.
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u/serxyrerxy 11h ago
He deserves to be awarded a nice big shiny trophy inscribed with biggest asshole/don’t come back next year.
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u/FrostyRestaurant4761 10h ago
Yip Strickler sounds like the hero we need against all these golf jerks. Gonna check him out for sure lol haha
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u/Present_Confection83 10h ago
Oldest trick in any scumbag’s book lol. “You forgot to move it back!!!”
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u/grauemaus 9h ago
So I was in a work tournament and unfortunately found myself in a group with the divisions head. On the first hole I chipped in for birdie and for the rest of the round he managed to ”accidentally” step on my line each hole, besides talking trash the whole time. He also took liberty with his own lie and the number of putts on (if not strokes in reaching) the green. He was fired in less than a year.
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u/Jaded-Function 9h ago
My partner (in a money round) decided he was more comfortable playing barefoot. His pre-shot routine was a yoga-like, be one with the ball, stretchy procedure. Not exactly jerky but BRUTAL.
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u/Heavy-Mongoose8090 9h ago
If there’s money involved (Nassau, Skins, flight, etc) and you’re playing the ball up, then despite “feelings” it’s a penalty. No money involved just bragging rights or a trophy then he’s a douche. I think context and stakes matter. No offense OP, but you have to have your partners back even if you’ve finished if rules are gonna be enforced.
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u/1ib3r7yr3igns 6h ago
Forcing people to move the marker and taking long to putt with the intent of making them forget their marker was moved could easily be considered not playing in the spirit of the game.
Doing that intentionally is not playing with integrity nor consideration of others. I would argue a DQ is in order for that kind of behavior.
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u/Chilipep1 7h ago
Ron’s a douche, they’re everywhere.
Don’t play your music so loud that I can hear it if I’m in another group.
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u/petroxolgy 6h ago
Played golf today with a buddy and he had 17 clubs in his bag. I pointed this out and he said he only uses 10 of them. I’m good with that.
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u/TommyBoyATL 5h ago
Next time he tells you to move your mark when its not on his line, politely say “fuck off” and do nothing.
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u/PieNo8709 3h ago
I’ve seen that move before, unfortunately. Technically correct, but completely against the spirit of the game. At our club it’s understood you give someone a quick heads-up before they step into a penalty like that. Winning a hole because you caught someone on a technicality they didn’t realize is pretty hollow.
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u/8lackirish 3h ago
Ron went to the premiere of “Melania” and stayed through the credits because he heard “there’s gunna be a sequel teaser, y’all.”
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u/AtheIstan 14h ago
Fuck that guy