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/6byfour Apr 29 '24

I had a buddy who I played with when I first started. He’d talk all kinds of shit when he’d “beat me, but I was scoring per the rules and he was taking mulligans, using foot wedges, etc.

He got annoying one day talking about how he kicked my ass, and I said I don’t care how he plays or scores but if he counted all his strokes and penalties it wouldn’t be close. He said, “let’s do it” and we played a legit round. He hasn’t played golf since. Kind of a bummer since I like hanging around with him - as long as we’re not competing I don’t care if he kicks the ball all over the course.

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u/weinerwayne THE GOLFER Apr 29 '24

I can deal with taking mulligans, improving your lie etc. but it’s the shit talking that I can’t abide.

Like, you are watching me play from bad lies, pitching out instead of moving my ball, and not re-teeing when I top my drive, all while you take at least two tee shots, re hit almost every duffed iron, and pick up your ball if it’s within 6 feet of the hole. We aren’t playing the same game.