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Tell your friend what you are telling us, and advise him that you would appreciate it if you never played with his boss ever again. The conflict is irrelevant as to who is right and who is wrong, but he rubs you the wrong way, and you are obviously doing things to rub him the wrong way. Who is right? Difference of opinion IMHO. It's obviously bugging you to post it here, so the solution is to never play golf with the man again. FWIW, I had a similar situation with a co-worker, where he invited a couple of friends and we played 18 together. A couple of times during the round my co-workers friend didn't like the fact that I knocked his 1 foot gimme back to him on the green, after it took him 8 strokes to get to that point (he was holding up the group at this point, which is why I gave him the "gimme"). He even asked me not to do that and to let him putt out, to which I responded, "ok." His buddy was a slow golfer IMHO, and didn't understand that once you get to a certain point of strokes on a hole, you pick up to keep up with the group. I would do the same if I was having a bad hole. After the round was over we parted ways, and the next time I spoke with my co-worker how I felt about his buddy, and asked that we never play a round of golf again together, for the reasons I mentioned above. He was fine with it and we haven't played since. Some people are just not meant to be on the golf course in the same group at the same time. That's life.

Driver, lay up to 100-110 yards, full wedge in. I play every par 5 like this that I cannot reach, which is any par 5 over 485 yards. The risk for a full fairway wood into that sort of par 5, versus the reward rule out this shot in my mind. And I've tried the knock down or half lob wedge from 65 yards and I'm not good enough with it to have enough confidence in it to do it all the time. It's just easier to play the percentages and have the full gap wedge in from 100-110 and take my chances that way.

Are you serious? Are you freaking kidding me? Let's recap this according to the OP... Guys simply light up a joint in front of a minor. Never asked permission out of even courtesy at least. Young idiots were asked to not smoke weed around a minor and the young idiots get offended and launch into obscenities around a minor. Parties separate and reunite in the parking lot with LEO's now present; child testifies to illegal behavior. LEO's question offending young idiots and the rest is history. The way you see this event is CLEARLY different than the way I see this. Attitude of entitled young *******s smoking weed with no respect to a minor or other parties is what provoked this entire incident. Acting like an asshat is the ROOT cause of the problem here IMHO. Lack of respect for your elders, authority, or anyone else in society is what is the MAJOR cause of so many unnecessary negative incidents in society these days. And I haven't even gotten into how stupid and moronic I think it is to smoke marijuana to begin with. And it's obvious there are a few people here that don't see a problem with marijuana. But honestly, that is another discussion, for another day I suppose.

Nice attitude. It's responses like this that cause problems all over this country. ZERO respect for authority, and no one can tell you you are wrong, or what to do. I'm adding your name to my memory bank, so that if we ever cross paths on the golf course I'll be sure to not disturb your patch of Sodom or Gomorrah. Entitled prick.

There are a lot of other schools out there to choose from. Don't be stuck on Baylor, just based on whatever your criteria for college is. Lots of D2 and D3 schools that would probably offer you a scholarship where you would actually be on the team and playing in matches.

LOL, head marshal. Most courses I play don't even have A marshall.

Played Thursday, 65 degrees. Played Friday, 75 degrees. The only problem with golf around here right now is all the rain we are getting. Yeah, I know...times are tough.

Holing out for eagle on a par 5 at the very end of the year. Had this shot into the pin from 100 yards... Nothing but cup...

Eldrick is the most polarizing figure in golf. You either love him or hate him. No fence sitters. In this situation I'd place all the blame on Paddy, as he's notoriously slow in general.

Paddy is notorious slow, I know that much. Tiger is a poor example honestly, because they might as well stick a camera up his ass, with as much coverage as he receives. How many tour players play "deliberate" and are never called out (Ben Crane, Sean O'Tortoise), because they are journeyman, who nobody knows or pays attention to. I do find it ironic that the Pebble Beach Pro Am is generally one of the slowest pace of play tournaments every year. When you get Bill Murray acting like a clown on every hole you can't blame the tour pros for that side show.

If you can figure out a way to discriminate between the players in a pairing or threesome to determine who is causing slow play, then I would be all for assessing penalties, etc. Perhaps some sort of electronic monitoring device that is controlled from a room off course or something by someone who doesn't even know what player is what. Just given a number from the device and a standard as to when they spent too much time during a particular shot, et al. I'll give you a specific example of what bothers me. I watched Mickelson at #17 on Sunday I believe. I pulled out my stopwatch and timed him from the moment he teed up the ball until he actually hit the shot, and it was 1 minute and 30 seconds. NBC actually timed him a year or so ago at 17 and he spent over 2 minutes and 30 seconds previously at that tee box. Yeah, I get it that the wind on #17 is always a factor, but geez dude, you know what club you are hitting, and it's not like you didn't know this tee shot was coming and what the distance was prior to starting your round. I mean, it's one thing to debate a shot from the fairway, but from the tee box? Pull the club, take a practice swing and fire away. Just look at how Rickie Fowler does it. He was playing with Ben Curtis on Sunday, and they got to #17 and Curtis had the honors. Curtis went back and forth with his caddie, like Mickelson did, and several minutes later he finally hit his shot. NBC hadn't even finished commenting on Curtis' shot when they went back to the tee box and Rickie Fowler was already in his backswing hitting away. Both Fowler and McIlroy are two of the fastest players out there. They should be the standard for everyone else to follow. Also, am I the only one that was taught ready golf growing up? If Player A has the honors and is going through his routine, I'm already at my ball, or near by it and have analyzed the shot while waiting for Player A to hit. Once he hits there is nothing for me to discuss, because I already have my club and distance, and have visualized my target while waiting for my partner to hit. Takes me about 15 seconds to address the ball and hit it. Maybe I just don't see it, but I believe that most tour pros don't play ready golf. Every player seems to think they are entitled to waste the time while their partner is hitting to do nothing. And then when they have the honors then they start the preshot routine. This is where they can save a ton of time, especially on Thursday and Fridays when they are in threesomes. Player A gets his minute to go over the shot and club selection, but Player B and C should be doing it while Player A is doing theirs. Sure, I get it that this isn't always possible when Player B is directly in front of Player A, but even then I can still be selecting a club, knowing what my distance is, even when I am not near my ball at the time. Anyway, that's how I play ready golf. Then again, I've never had anyone complain about me taking too long to hit a shot, ever.

Still is.

Hmmm...I just joined here as well, and I am from Tallahassee too. Small world.

FAIL!