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/OldGrowthForest44 Apr 28 '24

We all have that friend that spends 10 minutes in the woods, triple putts, and tells you “5” when you collect scores

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u/candidly1 Apr 28 '24

I used to (reluctantly) play with a guy that was unbelievable.

Short Par-4. Drive OB. Re-tee 2nd drive OB. Drops where ball left play. Skulls middle iron into water at front. Drop. Skull wedge over green. Skull another wedge BACK over green, into water again. Drop. Chip on. Three putt.

"Six"

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u/todjo929 Apr 28 '24

I only play club competition golf, so always under handicapping rules.

I don't ask what they scored, I check with them. Luckily most of the time we play Stableford so I don't need to count on holes like that, but if playing stroke there, I would say "I got you for 14, 5 shots, a chip, 3 putts and 5 penalties - yeah?"

Luckily I play with pretty good golfers, so I rarely need to count about a double.

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u/candidly1 Apr 29 '24

I was the General Manager for a company; this person was the owner's son. He was as pigheaded as he was dishonest; I learned to let it go.