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Ernie Els -8 George Coetzee -8

If you don't use a brand new ball at the beginning of a round when are you going to start using one? If you are playing the round of your life with an old ball, then you are probably going to keep using it. If you are playing the worst round of your life with the old ball, then you are more than likely going to use the old/junk balls in your bag.

I usually don't give putts when I play in groups, I leave that up to the other guys. When guys tell me that my putt is good, I still go up and putt out. It gives me practice and the confidence to make it when I need to. The only time I let someone give me a gimme is when they hit my ball back to me when they say it's good. If someone is attempting a birdie that putt is never conceded in our groups. The guy who is trying to make birdie probably wants to hit it in anyways, I know I do. Come to think of it not very many pars are conceded either. IMO, gimmes should only be used if the putt is less than a foot. Like I said earlier it doesn't matter to me because I hole out all putts.

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How old was she? That's impressive that you still had the energy to play golf, let alone your best round ever.

I think the time it takes me to tie my shoes I might be able to hit 1 or 2 balls, not enough lost time to warrant getting rid of laces IMO. I agree with Tristan. I just bought a pair of Ecco's that you could wear all day and to the golf course so you wouldn't have to waste time tying your shoes at the range but you would have to tie them sometime. My buddy wears FJ's that have a wire for laces and you just turn the knob in the back and it tightens them, not sure of the model.

Belmont Country Club White Tees 69.8 / 125 July 2, 2013 EAGLE BIRDIE PAR BOGEY 2BOGEY+ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 OUT 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 IN TOTAL WHITE 362 109 442 399 498 367 330 198 458 3163 400 166 517 161 367 309 351 304 512 3087 6250 HANDICAP 9 17 1 3 11 5 15 7 13 2 12 6 16 10 14 4 18 8 PAR 4 3 4 4 5 4 4 3 5 36 4 3 5 3 4 4 4 4 5 36 72 SCORE 6 3 5 6 6 6 5 5 8 50 6 3 6 3 5 8 5 4 6 46 96 ROUND SCORE +2 +2 +3 +5 +6 +8 +9 +11 +14 +14 +16 +16 +17 +17 +18 +22 +23 +23 +24 +24 +24 NET SCORE 6 3 5 6 6 6 5 5 8 50 6 3 6 3 5 8 5 4 6 46 96 TEE CLUB 1W Aw 1W 5i 1W 1W 3Hy 3Hy 1W 1W 7i 1W 9i 1W 3Hy 1W 1W 1W FAIRWAYS 14% 29% 21% GIR 11% 22% 17% PUTTS 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 15 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 17 1.8/32 SAND SHOTS PENALTIES 1 1 1 3 3 Sucked again today, but at least I can blame it on something. I walked 18 while the rest of my foursome rode carts because it was 108 degrees. It was so hot and draining that I was hitting every club much shorter than I usually do. Didn't figure it out until hole 11. I will get it going now that I have nothing to distract me from golfing.

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I would imagine that goose shit is a loose impediment and therefore can be removed with no penalty.

+1 Hit the nail on the head for everyone I know.

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Who cares, just waiting for the last season of Dexter to come on in 30 minutes. I know you are too. Oops, you live in Ohio so you have already seen it. No spoiling.

I have played with Golfingdad probably upwards of a couple hundred times. He does play by the rules and I have never seen him cheat or bend the rules knowingly. He's not talking about hitting a ball OB, he's talking about hitting a normal drive and then discovering after walking 280 yards up the fairway that their happens to be an OB situation unknown to him so he would have no way of knowing or thinking about hitting a provisional. We're talking about casual rounds because he knows if it was a tournament he would have to go back and hit again. So are you going to walk back 280 yards on a crowded day to re-hit your ball? We are also talking about valid handicaps here, so if he did drop a ball so now he is hitting 3 in the trees, probably a punch out shot. So then he would need to get up and down in 2 to get a 5. If he were able to do that, we are talking about 1 in 50 rounds of golf he has 1 shot less than he should have. So for a short while his handicap might say 6.7 instead of 6.8. I love the game of golf and follow all of the rules too, like you. Their are circumstances IMO that most normal people do that would be against the rules. Last week I was in a hurry to finish a hole and had like a 6-inch putt and didn't feel like marking to get out of my friends way so I hit it left-handed with the back of my putter and it missed. I'm not counting that extra shot that I would need to hole it out because I have never missed a 6-inch putt in my life and never will, and that doesn't make my handicap invalid.

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This sounds really cool. My club has only 1 big event each year. It's a 3 day men's tournament with each round being best ball with different requirements. Thursday is 2 best balls on each hole, Friday is 1 best ball on all odd holes and 2 best balls on all even holes and all 3 balls used on two of the par 5's. Saturday it reverses the best balls 2-1-2... We also have chipping, putting and long drive competitions. One of the days we have a horse race after the round. Unlimited food, drink and fun for all 3 days. It's just straight golf though, nothing out of the ordinary like what you're describing. This would be a great idea for a 2nd big tournament. When they cut the holes big, you mean like temp green big? Does it mess up the greens at all doing it how you said for Saturday? I'm sure that would be the only issue the superintendent would have at my course. I do like the ladies tees back to the tips idea.

None of us bothered to look for it and let him do what he wanted, which was fine by me. I didn't care to trudge through all that crap to look for someone else's ball. Now that I have heard the correct answer I wonder if I would look for a competitor's ball if we were on the last hole of a tournament and we were neck and neck for 1st place. I probably would do the same thing as I did before, but now that I know what I could do I guess it all depends on how cool the competitor is. Probably will never happen again though.

Question that feeds off of the lost ball rule. I was playing in a tournament at Oak Creek, and my competitor hit a shot which went into some nasty stuff (bushes, shrubs, trees, weeds, etc...). He then declared he was playing a provisional, hit a great provisional shot about 250 straight down the fairway. When we got close to the area that his ball might have been, while sitting in the golf cart on the cart path, he looked at the area and said "don't look for my ball it's gone, because if we find it I will have to take a nasty unplayable and I want to play my provisional". A) Can he do that? B) Can I go look for it and if I find it make him follow proper rules?

I didn't know we had a penalty box. How long does one have to sit in the sin bin?

Wow. I am the exact opposite. Side hill lies with the ball below my feet is hard for me to hit.

Hitting a bunker shot from a downhill lie. These happen a lot at my course, because normal procedure is to leave the rakes in the bunkers. Most people do not put them at the bottom of the traps, they leave them where they exit the bunker which is usually resulting in a downhill lie when the ball hits the rake. Not sure why my club has that policy. At first it didn't bother me, but now that I see the results of leaving them in the bunker I don't like it. The easy solution is not to hit into them. I honestly don't even know if I am hitting them correctly. I open my club face a little more than a regular bunker shot and play it back further in my open stance and then swing hard. Any suggestions?

I like these goals. All of these apply to me as well. The only difference is that I am trying to consistently break 90, not 80 like you. Good luck with you in your pursuit of these goals.