On casual rounds do you "caddy" for your partner?

[Jwat381]

Most of the time I play with either one of my two buddies or my old man, none of which play golf, so I spend a good majority of my round giving them shot advice and what have you. It can be good and bad. Keeps me focused on the game of golf, just not my game..

[LovinItAll]

Nope. I play by ALL of the rules at all times. For me there is no exception to this. Just like I wouldn't share clubs (per your other thread), I won't trade advice before a stroke. All of my rounds are reported for handicap. Afterward, I'll analyze it all you want, but not before.

Yes, but...... If I'm playing with my buddies, we don't exchange info other than yardage. We could club each other if we had a mind to, but we don't. We certainly don't ask each other about what type of shot they think might be appropriate or anything like that. I was playing Paiute the other day with three out-of-towners. They were decent golfers, but if I hadn't helped them with site lines, they would have struggled. There were too many shots where local knowledge made the difference between these guys having a good time or otherwise cursing because they just didn't know. I didn't offer unless they asked, though. P.S. I HATE when anyone offers me unsolicited advice of any kind, especially 'swing tips'. 'Picked your head up' makes me want to take someone's head off.

[Paradox]

my caddying consists of "hey man you think I should try to hit it all the back there with X club? Or what about if I use this one and play it to this spot?"  I listen to their speech and if I feel they are more comfortable about one or the other.."I will go with the first one/second one"

They ask me yardage and I'll help them with it.  We never talk about what clubs to hit or how to play shots, though because we don't hit the same distances.  (my dad is the exception because if I don't tell him what club to use he'll hit a PW from any spot on the course, lol)

Most of my regular partners play two clubs down from me on iron tee shots so they usually do ask me what I hit.  Now I just say "that was a good/bad X iron" and they don't have to ask.