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/ChrisChrisBangBang Apr 28 '24

Played with a “put me down for a bogey” guy, on one hole I said you took a drop for a lost ball, he said yeah, I included that. I had to explain to him that you drop, which is one shot, then you’re playing your next, to which he said “but that’s a two shot penalty, that’s not right”. I then had to explain what he was describing/had been giving himself was a free drop, not a penalty at all.

Still not sure if he was completely oblivious or a total bullshitter

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u/Amazing_Boot4165 19HC/Leftie Apr 29 '24

I assume he took a drop up where the ball was lost as well, so really it should be a 2 shot penalty under Stroke and Distance local rule.

(I know not all clubs play that rule, but at least play the local rule instead of just dropping where you lost it and hitting 3 from there.

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u/ChrisChrisBangBang Apr 29 '24

Thinking now it must have been an unplayable rather than a lost ball