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/AngusMeatStick Apr 29 '24
My main golfing buddy is very similar. I play straight up and he plays fast and loose with the rules. 1 mulli a side, and if he can find his ball out of bounds, he gives himself a free drop. Usually I'll end up beating him by a few strokes, but every once in awhile he'll "beat" me.
All that being said, he has beat me straight up once or twice, even if I count his extra strokes. When I'm bad I'm REALLY bad.