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Inspired by this post at Golf Digest, please post your "golf truths."

I'll give you one example.

"You don't make a putt all day, and yet when on the 18th you just walk by and stab at the ten-footer you have left for double, it goes in."

Or…

"The beverage cart girl always comes when you're on the other side of the fairway… and never comes when you're most in need of a drink."

Erik J. Barzeski — ⛳ I knock a ball. It goes in a gopher hole. 🏌🏼‍♂️
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saevel25 Incredible Member

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"You duff a chip. You regroup and duff another. You get pissed, you don't care and you chip in the next shot for bogey"

"You just made a birdie. You proceed to hit your next tee shot OB. You just have been hit with the PBFU, post birdie f*** up."

 

Matt Dougherty, P.E.
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Rainmaker Great Member

Rainmaker

The more strokes you take to reach the green, the easier that putt is going to be.  You could probably make a 100 footer for 12 but you can't drop a 5 footer for birdie. 

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Hardspoon Super Member

Hardspoon

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Being allowed to play through as a single virtually guarantees that you top your drive about 100 yards.

EDIT: I should have read the article FIRST...just realized this is on there.  I'm a dumbass.

 

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- John

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Fourputt Incredible Member

Fourputt

On the hole with a 60 yard wide fairway and no bunkers you stripe your drive straight down the center, but on the hole with water on the right and deep fairway bunkers on the left, you couldn't hit the fairway if they gave you 4 mulligans.

The beverage cart always shows up as you are leaving the 18th tee - or as you arrive at #10 after just having stopped in the snack bar.

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Rick

"He who has the fastest cart will never have a bad lie."

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Abu3baid Great Member

Abu3baid

"You just blasted your last 10 range balls 250+ with perfect baby draw shots down the middle; then you proceed to the first tee knowing exactly what's going to happen!  Yup, you heel it 5 feet to the left under that damn palm tree"

:adams: / :tmade: / :edel: / :aimpoint: / :ecco: / :bushnell: / :gamegolf: / 

Eyad

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sarena1594 Established Member

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"You're playing with your dad and have a short wedge into the green from a perfect position on the fairway after a great tee shot.  The beverage cart stops and the girl (very cute I might add) asks you if you'd like anything.  Trying to impress you father and this beverage cart girl with a 'Mickelson-like' flop shot, you make a wager that he'll buy you a beer if you stick it within 10 feet.  With all the confidence in the world, you make a swing......chunks fly.....the ball moves 10 feet.....and the rest is history"

The golf truth: you get distracted by everything and everyone around you and make a wager you shouldn't be making.

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DeadMan Super Member

DeadMan

Your best drive is always followed by your worst approach shot.

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-- Daniel

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:callaway: Rogue Pro 3-PW :edel: SMS Wedges - V-Grind (48, 54, 58):edel: Putter

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DrvFrShow Super Member

DrvFrShow

There is no god.

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Julia

:callaway:  :cobra:    :seemore:  :bushnell:  :clicgear:  :adidas:  :footjoy:

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Hybrids: Cobra BiO CELL 22.5 degree Project X R-flex
Irons: Cobra BiO CELL 5 - GW Project X R-Flex
Wedges: Cobra BiO CELL SW, Fly-Z LW, 64* Callaway PM Grind.
Putter: 48" Odyssey Dart

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SavvySwede Great Member

SavvySwede

1 minute ago, DrvFrShow said:

There is no god.

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:titleist: 585H Hybrid                       
:tmade: TP MC irons                 
:ping: Glide 54             
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DrvFrShow Super Member

DrvFrShow

 

Julia

:callaway:  :cobra:    :seemore:  :bushnell:  :clicgear:  :adidas:  :footjoy:

Spoiler

Driver: Callaway Big Bertha w/ Fubuki Z50 R 44.5"
FW: Cobra BiO CELL 14.5 degree; 
Hybrids: Cobra BiO CELL 22.5 degree Project X R-flex
Irons: Cobra BiO CELL 5 - GW Project X R-Flex
Wedges: Cobra BiO CELL SW, Fly-Z LW, 64* Callaway PM Grind.
Putter: 48" Odyssey Dart

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59 minutes ago, Fourputt said:

On the hole with a 60 yard wide fairway and no bunkers you stripe your drive straight down the center, but on the hole with water on the right and deep fairway bunkers on the left, you couldn't hit the fairway if they gave you 4 mulligans.

OR You've been hitting the center of the fairway all day even on holes with water left and right and bunkers everywhere, but you come to a hole that has a 60yd wide fairway with OB way right and you slice the ball out.

Philip Kohnken, PGA
Director of Instruction, Lake Padden GC, Bellingham, WA

Srixon/Cleveland Club Fitter; PGA Modern Coach; Certified in Dr Kwon’s Golf Biomechanics Levels 1 & 2; Certified in SAM Putting; Certified in TPI
 
Team :srixon:!

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Missouri Swede Great Member

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17 minutes ago, disaster said:

No matter how bad your original shot was, the provisional ball will always be perfect

Corollary: the better the provisional ball, the greater the probability of finding the original ball. 

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Craig
What's in the :ogio: Silencer bag (on the :clicgear: cart)
Driver: :callaway: Razr Fit 10.5°  
5 Wood: :tmade: Burner  
Hybrid: :cobra: Baffler DWS 20°
Irons: :ping: G400 
Wedge: :ping: Glide 2.0 54° ES grind 
Putter: :heavyputter:  midweight CX2
:aimpoint:,  :bushnell: Tour V4

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Fourputt Incredible Member

Fourputt

6 minutes ago, Missouri Swede said:

Corollary: the better the provisional ball, the greater the probability of finding the original ball. 

.... in an unplayable lie!

Rick

"He who has the fastest cart will never have a bad lie."

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bkuehn1952 Super Member

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In an enormous bunker, there will be only one rake ... located the furthest distance possible from where your ball lays.

In an enormous bunker, if someone fails to rake their large foot prints, that is the exact spot your ball will land.

Cart paths are always canted toward the forest or water.

Put a new ball into play and you will hit a cart path within a hole.  Put a new Pro V1 into play and you will hit the cart path twice.  Pinnacles never hit cart paths.

Brian Kuehn

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chilepepper Great Member

chilepepper

(edited)

It was on the GD list but its worth repeating.

 A good range session means nothing for tomorrow's game. It should actually serve as a warning

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