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Gerick23

By Gerick23
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Thanks Sean and meenman, I wasn't sure how ESC worked exactly, but now that I do, I'll use that going forward.

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In the US (not sure about other places that use different handicap systems), you don't actually have to get as far as ESC to pick up.  If you don't finish, or don't follow the rules for as many as 5 of 18 (or 2 of 9) holes, you are supposed to estimate the most likely score you'd have had from the point you stopped playing and submit your score with that (marking with an X or something).  If you don't play the hole at all, you just take par + any strokes.

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One of my playing partners is known to completely top it off the first tee with his driver, it hits straight into the ground, and somehow spins backward 3 feet. He's done this a few times, I still don't understand how it's possible. After we get done laughing, we tell him to hit again. If there was ever a time for a mulligan, that would be it. He doesn't keep a handicap anyway. Funny as hell though, I wish I could get it on video.


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Me and my regular playing partners have a things where we will always take 2 off the first tee box no matter what the first one looks like.  Mainly because the course we play doesn't have a range and we are always the first group off so that means cold mornings.  We basically do it to better find our rythm and get loose a bit.

But we always play the first ball unless its a complete whiff.


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We almost always play "2 on the 1st". I don't see the big deal. We don't do gimmie putts unless it's within 1 foot.

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Originally Posted by Gerick23

How many of us get rushed and JUST make our tee time, have no time to hit the range and have only a few min's to swing the club before you tee off.  You step up and shank it!!!

Do you or anyone in your group ever say "Ahh just take a breakfast ball"

And do you take it?


Nope.  Nobody in any of my regular groups would offer, and on the rare occasion that I'm playing with someone who does suggest it, I would decline.

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sean_miller Incredible Member

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Originally Posted by Fourputt

Nope.  Nobody in my regular groups would offer, and on the rare occasion that I'm playing with someone who does suggest it, I would decline.



Before this thread, if someone offered me a "breakfast ball" on the first tee, I'd say, "That sounds awesome. Can I get one with bacon and cheese?"

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