Walking Off

[TCCcaddie]

I caddied in a club championship for someone, who i wont name because i know one or two people on this forum that know the club that i caddy at and know the people there, on saturday and sunday. The first round was on Friday and the guy fired his caddy then and i got the bag for the next two days. He shot 81 on friday and again on saturday, both not goodscoredfor him since he is a 2.1 handicap. He was the last person to make the cut and clearly did not want to be playing in the final round on sunday. The leaders were at +4 and +6 at the start of the round and he was at +22.

He started fine parring the first 3 holes. On the 4th hole, a long par 4 he hit a great drive down the middle, then a good second shot that kicked badly into a greenside bunker. He hit it clean out of the bunker and over the green onto the downslope on the backside of the other bunker, then over the green on the fringe, then on to 5 feet and missed the putt for double and made triplebogey 7. On the next hole, short par 4 with a stream in front of the green he hit a great drive again, and had 75 yds into the hole. He fatted hit wedge into the stream and made double 6. Parred the 6th hole and then doubled the 7th. He hit a fat shot into the front bunker on a par 3 on the 8th and missed a short putt for bogey, making another double . He parred the 9th making him +8 for the side and +30 for the tournament walked off the course.

In any tournament no matter how you are doing or what chances you have of winning isnt if very bad etiquette and extremely bad sportsmanship to just walk off the course?

[Southpaw]

I played in a tournament on Friday and a kid walked off after 9 because of slow play.


But I suspect that wasn't the only reason. ;)

[chingali]

In any tournament no matter how you are doing or what chances you have of winning isnt if very bad etiquette and extremely bad sportsmanship to just walk off the course?

Yes it most certainly is. It doesn't matter what you say or how hard you try to justify the action of walking off either to yourself or to those around you, there is NO excuse.

You start it. You finish it.

[Garthmo]

geesh I would say so, but at least he could of faked an injury like a pulled hammy or sprained ankle..., poor sportsmanhip and no imagination...hehe