Annoying Golf Partners

[cipher]

26 minutes ago, Double Mocha Man said:

The quality of the comment should match the quality of the shot should match the quality of the player hitting it.

I think I get what you're saying but that's also subjective based on an individual's perspective just like the shot itself.  

[Double Mocha Man]

16 minutes ago, cipher said:

I think I get what you're saying but that's also subjective based on an individual's perspective just like the shot itself.  

I think the theory here is that if you're playing with better golfers maybe watch their shot patterns for the first 9 holes, then feel free to comment on their shots relative to how they personally might feel about a given shot.  Then again, there are some golfers who don't think it's a good shot unless they knock it stiff.  So maybe comment on their golf gear or hair.

[The Flush]

How close does the average scratch golfer get to the pin from 86 yards? Maybe his expectations are off a bit.

Regardless, I agree with the don't be a bitch comment. 

[Zippo]

3 hours ago, Double Mocha Man said:

The quality of the comment should match the quality of the shot should match the quality of the player hitting it.

I think it's more the friendly sentiment behind the comment then it is the actual comment.

[iacas]

6 hours ago, The Flush said:

How close does the average scratch golfer get to the pin from 86 yards? Maybe his expectations are off a bit.

Regardless, I agree with the don't be a bitch comment. 

No.

From 86 yards, he'll get inside 40 feet pretty often.

The good player was not being a bitch there. He was well within his rights to be annoyed at that kind of comment.

Just as he would if he thinned the ball to 10 feet and the guy said "great shot!"

[march11934]

On 10/20/2021 at 8:20 PM, StuM said:

OMG, I was out with a client today, first time I ever golfed with him.  He is nice enough but I wanted to KILL HIM.

Strike 1: I am walking up to my putt, @ 6 footer for par, when he just takes his club and swats it back at me saying "That's good".  I tell him I like to putt out and place it back to it original spot then I miss the putt and get bogey.  He says "You should have just taken the gimmie". 

Strike 2: I hit a bad iron shot and landed in tall weeds about 3 feet from the boundary fence, clearly in bounds.  I look at the lie, go to my bag to get a club and he kicks it out of the weeds into the rough and says, "You do not want to play that lie".  Lucky I looked at the ball so I could re-create the lie, and hit a beauty right onto the green. 

Strike 3: I hit a drive into a penalty area and decide to re-tee it taking stroke & distance.  I shot a 6 on the par-4 taking S&D into account.  After the round I am adding up the scores and I notice he erased my 6 and changed it to a 4.  I commented on that and he said "You are welcome" and said that if I did not insist on hitting from such bad lies and take a mulligan now and then I would score better like him.

I so much wanted to say, "Sure, I could shoot under-par if I cheated like you" but since he is a client I just bit my tongue.

 

Hope your client isn't a member here.

G-

[Double Mocha Man]

I always worry about that but most of the golfers I disparage here (though all true stories) don't like to write, so they're probably not members.  OMG, it just occurred to me they might be lurkers.