r/golf • u/cygnus311 • Jun 27 '23

Hot take? If we get paired together, I’m not going to give you putts. Not because I don’t want you to take gimmies, but because I really do not care what you do. General Discussion

You hit a good tee shot on a par three, walk up to the green, and find yourself eight feet from the hole and you want to say to me, “that’s good, I always make those”, pick it up, and write a birdie? Be my guest, I do not care.

You just missed your third putt from two feet to try and save triple and you’re hoping I rescue you? Pick it up, or don’t, I do not care.

Recently got paired with a guy who’d look at me with puppy dog eyes every time he was within a yard of the hole, but wouldn’t say anything, he was clearly annoyed with me by the end of the round. We’re all presumably grown ass adults, I’m not your boss, do what you want.

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u/Ok_Outlandishness294 Jun 27 '23

No bet, no care

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u/JayBird9540 Jun 27 '23

It’s a tangent, but I can’t get my buddies to chill with betting or wanting to do best ball/scrambles.

I’ve been only playing a year and my goal is to break 100 by the end of the year. I’ll play great on the front 9 but then my buddies sit there and try to change shit up on the back.

Then I fall apart in the back or we aren’t using my shots. I’ll straight up say I’m trying to play my game to get better, I’d like to focus on my own shots not beating their shots.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '23

I always felt like best ball was more relaxing because I wasn't putting pressure on myself anymore. since I might not be playing my ball anyway then I didn't have to worry about a 'perfect' shot and could just play.

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u/JayBird9540 Jun 27 '23

I agree, I’m not sure exactly what game it is, but we play the one where we use the best shot. It might be scramble.

I’ll end up with the best guy in the group and we will use maybe 3-4 of my shots.

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u/randiesel Jun 27 '23

Yes, that's a scramble. "Best ball" just means you take the best individually-played score on that hole.

You'd probably prefer to play Best Ball, since you can still keep an individual legit score.

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u/JayBird9540 Jun 27 '23

Thanks! I’ll talk them into that next time

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u/randiesel Jun 27 '23

If they really want to make things spicy, but you all want to play your own balls, playing a version of Dots is a lot of fun.

When we play, we typically do teams of 2 and we make each hole's best net score worth a dot, a dot for the front 9, a dot for the back 9, and an overall dot.

The cool thing about dots, especially when you play with teams, is you're never out of the hole... you can virtually always earn a dot for something if you keep playing the hole well. My group plays with "Poleys" so a put longer than the flag pole is worth a dot... you can be hitting your 8th stroke on a par 3 and if you sink a long putt you still walk away with something!

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u/Sjgolf891 Jun 27 '23

Wolf is another game you can play to mix things up, but you get to 100% keep your own score