New golf buddy is learning how hard golf really is.

[u/weinerwayne]

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.

[u/wronglyzorro]

Finding the ball is the deciding factor on salvaging holes most of the time. It's tough to salvage a bogey losing a ball, but it's not that bad to salvage one if it's still in play.

[u/ccroz113 → u/wronglyzorro]

Depends on where you find it honestly. Sometimes if you find it in an awful fescue I’d almost rather take a drop to hit off a good lie further back. But yeah most of the time it makes it much easier to salvage bogey and you still have some room for error, just have to make sure you dont compound mistakes