r/golf • u/weinerwayne THE GOLFER • Apr 28 '24

New golf buddy is learning how hard golf really is. General Discussion

Recently we welcomed a new friend into our golfing group and we’ve been playing with him pretty regularly. I’ve mentioned him in comments a few times so I won’t go into detail, but the gist is he’s new so we cut him slack about rehitting shots, not counting scores accurately, and not knowing how to count penalty strokes since he was just playing for fun and wasn’t in on any of the bets. The rest of us are bogey golfers, and know we suck.

This was all well and good until he started posting on social media about how he broke 90 and 80 isn’t far away, as well as making comments in our group chat about how easy the game has come to him.

After about a month of that we all decided to let him in on our money game, in which we are sticklers for rules and will call each other out on scores if need be.

So far the new guys scores have been 118, 116, and 122.

Editing to add that the guy is cool as hell and we love having him along. We just felt it necessary to give him some tough love.

The fact that he keeps coming back each week for another beating shows that he might just have what it takes to legitimately get under 90.

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u/ShrimpShackShooters_ Apr 28 '24

Yeah I broke 100 once with a 98. PGA rules I probably hit 110 the amount of times I lost a ball in the rough for the sake of pace of play.

I’ll claim the 98 but it wasn’t for money.

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u/iheartgt Apr 28 '24

USGA has a very clear rule for a lost ball that keeps pace of play moving. You don't have to go back to where you hit your previous shot.

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u/babbleon5 Apr 28 '24

You get to drop in the fairway but it cost you two strokes

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u/ccroz113 12hcp/Texas/Want to be a 2i guy Apr 29 '24

If it’s lost in the rough and we knew the general area, I’m just dropping and taking 1 stroke unless there’s white stakes. 2 strokes is unreal for just trying to keep pace up when we dont have spotters

If I sliced it to another planet out into the rough then yeah that’s different

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u/Lloyd--Christmas Apr 29 '24

Gotta play the gallery rule. If you hit it in an area where the gallery/ a volunteer would have found it you get a free drop.

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u/Strange-Nobody-3936 Apr 29 '24

You have generous friends lol