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Sounds like a blast, we'll done! I particularly like #3, reminds me a little of the gold ball challenge from the last Newport Cup. My only. issue, I have to play twice withhh. @billchao. Hahaha, just kidding, of course, I'm looking forward to the weekend. Thanks again for all you've done to make this happen . -
Yes. Please wear blue or red each day. It's not a requirement, but it'd be nice. $5 each, yeah. To be clear, the entire blue team is playing the entire red team. It's not 2 vs. 2 in your foursome. You won't know the result until we're all done. Yes.
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By ChetlovesMer · Posted
I thought it might be fun to create a thread where people could post their stories about the rules of golf. Not questions about the rules (That's a different thread) but stories about when you learned a rule or when an interesting rule had to be applied etc. I'll start: When I showed up to play in my first ever golf tournament (this was early 2000's). I opened my bag to find my wife had played a little practical joke on me. The night before the tournament she had taken all of the golf balls out of my bag and written "I love you, Chet" and drawn little hearts in red sharpie multiple times on every golf ball. (back then I used a white golf ball. Callaway, I think.) Anyway, near the end of the first round teeing off on the par-5 fifteenth hole, which runs parallel to hole 16. I was fighting a snap hook at the time and over compensated, hitting a fade into the tree line between the two fairways. The ball comes to rest in the right rough just off the fairway on hole 16. My cart-mate and I head over and I see a guy on 16 addressing what looks like my ball. He's not in our tournament as I was in the lead group that day. He's just out there playing with his buddies. I yell at him "Wait! ... Wait! ... Wait!..." He looks up at me. I can clearly see there is red sharpie on the ball. I can't quite read it from where I am but there's a lot of red sharpie on it. "I think you are about to hit my ball." I say to him. "No, I'm not." He looks at his buddies who are waiting for him to hit his shot. "Are you sure?" I'm trying to get close enough to actually read the ball. But by this point I'm pretty sure it's mine. Who else would have that much red sharpie all over their ball? "It's my ball." He says and actually starts to take his swing. "Wait! ... Wait! ... Don't hit it!" I shout at him. He actually stops his swing. "I'm pretty sure that ball says 'I love you, Chet' on it and has hearts drawn on it. ... Is that how you mark your ball too?" He looks at the ball. Looks at his buddies. Looks at the ball. Looks at his buddies. Then in a huff he picks up the ball says "F**K YOU!" and throws the ball at me. I dodge the ball; It whizzes past me. He stomps off, pouting, with his buddies laughing at him. One of his buddies gives me a shrug and a half hearted apologetic look. Now the rules part. He threw my ball right into the middle of the 15th fairway. Leaving me a much better shot than having to negotiate the ball back through the trees. From where my ball was now I might even be able to reach the par-5 in two. At the time I was unsure if I got to play the ball from where it now was, or if I had to replace it from where he picked it up. Now I know that a pissed off brat throwing your ball qualifies as an outside influence and the ball needed to be replaced back as near as possible to where it was before the guy picked it up and threw it at me. That was the day I learned about Rule 9.6 and Rule 14.2.
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