Annoyances On The Course

DuckSlice

ForeRight wrote: »

-2 for 9 holes haha to be fair I can see where your playing partners are coming from

Haha maybe a bad example, but the front nine included 3 duff chips and 3 duff putts!!!!

PARlance

etxp wrote: »

Haha maybe a bad example, but the front nine included 3 duff chips and 3 duff putts!!!!

If you get rid of those 6 duffs, you'll be off 3 or 4 in no time!

1. Club throwers
2. Medium handicap golfers who get annoyed when they don’t hit good shots every time.
3. Rangefinders, I despise playing with people who take these out for every shot, it delays the pace of play and few golfers can hit a ball accurately enough to make them useful. I recently played on my home course with a guy who has been a member for over 20 years, he was using one of these when hitting wedges to greens and never once got the ball within 20 yards of the pin.

GolfNut33

Just another thing that's annoying me lately more than usual is the amount of golfers who don't know the very basic rules of golf, some have been playing their entire lives and still don't know how to take a correct drop.

Playing club comp last Saturday. One of my FC landed on the cart path. One side of the path was nice short grass and the other heavy rough, guess which side he dropped it all though it wasn't anywhere near the NPOR? when I corrected him he said "sure that's not fair, that's in the rough". Nearest point of relief not the nicest point.

Another. Lad hit ball into pond, last point of entry was 40 yards back and he proceeded to drop out to the side down where his ball landed in the drink. I don't like having to correct them as it makes the rest of the round a bit frosty but these boys have been playing like this for years and god only knows how many thing they've won along the way.

mighty magpie

GolfNut33 wrote: »

Just another thing that's annoying me lately more than usual is the amount of golfers who don't know the very basic rules of golf, some have been playing their entire lives and still don't know how to take a correct drop.

Playing club comp last Saturday. One of my FC landed on the cart path. One side of the path was nice short grass and the other heavy rough, guess which side he dropped it all though it wasn't anywhere near the NPOR? when I corrected him he said "sure that's not fair, that's in the rough". Nearest point of relief not the nicest point.

Another. Lad hit ball into pond, last point of entry was 40 yards back and he proceeded to drop out to the side down where his ball landed in the drink. I don't like having to correct them as it makes the rest of the round a bit frosty but these boys have been playing like this for years and god only knows how many thing they've won along the way.

Both sides of the cart part are within the rules as long as it is not nearer the hole.

doublecross

mighty magpie wrote: »

Both sides of the cart part are within the rules as long as it is not nearer the hole.

I don't think that's the case. You have to go to NPOR.

callaway92

Bunkers not being raked really pisses me off.

It's even more of an insult if the attempt is so miserable that it makes things even worse.

blue note

doublecross wrote: »

I don't think that's the case. You have to go to NPOR.

It's within 1 clublength of the nearest point of relief not nearer the hole. So it's occasionally the case that that will be on the side of the path nearer to the hole, but you'll be going horizontally across so that you're not nearer to the hole. And a mistake people sometimes make is thinking it's a clublength from the edge of the path. It's not, it's the nearest point where your stance and swing are not impeded by the path. But importantly, you don't have a choice where this is.

blue note

Most of these are very funny and true. I'll add the person who gets annoyed because you wait for people ahead to clear when they wouldn't have to. A par 5 for example where you're 220m to the middle of the green. Most wouldn't make it. But it's probably 210 to the front of the green. Take wind and run into consideration and that's well within range for a lot of people. It's then a sickener to not make it, even though you were right to wait.

GreeBo

callaway92 wrote: »

Bunkers not being raked really pisses me off.

It's even more of an insult if the attempt is so miserable that it makes things even worse.

I love the people who rake their foot prints but somehow always seem to leave the gouge their club made...

OEP

mighty magpie wrote: »

Both sides of the cart part are within the rules as long as it is not nearer the hole.

There is only ever one nearest point of relief

GolfNut33

mighty magpie wrote: »

Both sides of the cart part are within the rules as long as it is not nearer the hole.

There is only one nearest point of relief. You don't have a choice where to drop. You must take full relief including stance.

GolfNut33

GolfNut33 wrote: »

There is only one nearest point of relief. You don't have a choice where to drop. You must take full relief including stance.

And just to add, the NPOR can be in a Bush or shrub, it's a set point and you're not entitled to a nice place to drop hence the saying, nearest point of relief not the nicest point of relief.

blue note

GolfNut33 wrote: »

And just to add, the NPOR can be in a Bush or shrub, it's a set point and you're not entitled to a nice place to drop hence the saying, nearest point of relief not the nicest point of relief.

Ah, in a Bush or shrub would be an unplayable lie. You're not entitled to pick a place because it has a nice lie or line to the green. In fact you're not allowed any choice at all. But you're not supposed to take a drop where you're next shot will be a penalty drop.

GreeBo

blue note wrote: »

Ah, in a Bush or shrub would be an unplayable lie.

Indeed it might and thems the breaks.

But you're not supposed to take a drop where you're next shot will be a penalty drop.

Where are you getting that from?
You are obligated to take complete relief from the obstacle/scenario/etc that you are taking relief from but not any other obstacle.
If your NPR is in a bush then you take that drop and start the process again from with the bush OR you choose not to take the initial relief in the first place (assuming thats an option open to you)

charlieIRL

I hate it when I play with different members on a weekend and just because I might hit a few decent drives or a good approach, you get the usual “ahh you won’t be long playing off that handicap” or “you’re hitting it too well to be off that high an handicap”
I’m off the dam thing because no matter how hard I try or practice I can’t get it down. Get over it, I’m not minding it. I want to get it down.

OEP

blue note wrote: »

Ah, in a Bush or shrub would be an unplayable lie. You're not entitled to pick a place because it has a nice lie or line to the green. In fact you're not allowed any choice at all. But you're not supposed to take a drop where you're next shot will be a penalty drop.

Why do you think pros sometimes hit off the path?

Seve OB

charlieIRL wrote: »

I hate it when I play with different members on a weekend and just because I might hit a few decent drives or a good approach, you get the usual “ahh you won’t be long playing off that handicap” or “you’re hitting it too well to be off that high an handicap”
I’m off the dam thing because no matter how hard I try or practice I can’t get it down. Get over it, I’m not minding it. I want to get it down.

you are a bleedin bandit

slave1

Playing partners constantly checking their phone

rickis tache

Seen what I can only describe as a father being a complete and utter knob to his teenage daughter last week on the course.

I was in the practice area and could see the 10th tee from my vantage point.
The course looked packed throughout. The father was waiting on tee for group ahead to move on fairway. His daughter standing on woman's tee about 50 yards ahead. He shouted at the top of his voice at her that when he's teeing off she needs to stand out of his F#€@ing way.
Now maybe she was in his line if he hit a poor drive but shouting and language was absolutely no way to talk to someone.

So tempted to let him know as such but he was so thick I probably would of lost my temper too.
Gonna remove his nomination for father of the year list. Would of liked to of seen him say it to a fully grown adult.

Seve OB

slave1 wrote: »

Playing partners constantly checking their phone

agree, very annoying.

davegilly

slave1 wrote: »

Playing partners constantly checking their phone

Some players use their phone as a gps?

Dbu

Players that say 'your head was up on that one'

fred funk }{

slave1 wrote: »

Playing partners constantly checking their phone

I'm guilty of that TBH but I have no choice. I'm on call 24hrs a day for work. I couldn't play golf otherwise. I check it discretely every couple of holes.

Johnny_Fontane

If you were that way intentioned, you could have some craic on the next boards outing with this minefield of bugbears.

DuckSlice

OEP wrote: »

There is only ever one nearest point of relief

Not necessarily, there could be a point where it is the same distance to go either side of a path. Unlikely the ball would happen to rest in that place though as it would be one single point where it could happen.

Edit: Could you drop on the nicer side of the path if you intend to swing left handed? so switching from right handed to left handed for that swing to not drop in a bush?

GreeBo

etxp wrote: »

Edit: Could you drop on the nicer side of the path if you intend to swing left handed? so switching from right handed to left handed for that swing to not drop in a bush?

I don't think so.
my reading is that you can only do something like that if it would be reasonable to be playing left handed anyway.
e.g. you are against a wall and wouldnt have a normal swing, you line up left handed and then you have interference from something to which you get free relief.

It wouldnt be normal for you to play left handed in your scenario, you are only doing it to move the NPR.

dball

The pre-mature "Good Shot" guy
& The 6 hour long round guy.

:D from 3.28

ForeRight

davegilly wrote: »

Some players use their phone as a gps?

Nothing worse than people on their phone on the course. People texting or checking social media outlets while on the course is just ridiculous.
The group in front of me here now has a guy who hasn’t had his phone out of his hand the last hour.

pakman

ForeRight wrote: »

Nothing worse than people on their phone on the course. People texting or checking social media outlets while on the course is just ridiculous.
The group in front of me here now has a guy who hasn’t had his phone out of his hand the last hour.

Seve OB

very good

Luckycharm

Member who take 2 mins to line up the 1ft putt they have taken about 100 times before.
Lads who continue to line up their putt walk around the green as you are about to hit your putt.
Players in stableford comps continue to play their ball to the end despite scratching it early in hole. Watched one lad last week who had lost 2 holes by 14th duff his way up a par 5 and still about 200ms short of green. Kept playing till the end though.