I hate playing for money. Money changes people.
I particularly hate playing match play style with money.
Sorry but I've had a couple bad experiences with sore losers. I prefer to play friendly golf with no money changing hands. I'll save competative golf for tournaments that matter.
Two experiences that stand out in my mind when playing for money:
1. Playing with a guy who had taken my money on several previous occasions. He had not played with me in over a year. In that time I had stepped up my game 1000%. I had a good day and swept the bets taking $40 from this guy. A few months later I end up playing with the same guy at a charity outing where I was a sponsor. At the after-party this guy gets a few drinks in him and starts calling me a sandbagger because he's still got a big bug up his ass over me taking his money months earlier. He wanted to bet in the first place and he never had a problem with taking my money when I was a beginner.
2. Last season playing with a friend who is extremely competative with me in everything. He too had taken my money on numerous occasions when I was a beginner. I did not want to play for money that day but he insisted and was kind of mouthy about it. I obliged and offered to play strait up stroke play with me playing two sets of tees further back. He agreed. I demolished him. On the 17th hole I tapped in for an easy par and he missed a put for a 7. He was so angry that instead of picking up his ball he took a big swing at it with his putter. He missed and took a divot out of the green a foot from the cup about the size of what a digger would take with a wedge in full view of the residents in the condos that surround the green. I let him keep his money.
I particularly hate playing match play style with money.
Sorry but I've had a couple bad experiences with sore losers. I prefer to play friendly golf with no money changing hands. I'll save competative golf for tournaments that matter.
Two experiences that stand out in my mind when playing for money:
1. Playing with a guy who had taken my money on several previous occasions. He had not played with me in over a year. In that time I had stepped up my game 1000%. I had a good day and swept the bets taking $40 from this guy. A few months later I end up playing with the same guy at a charity outing where I was a sponsor. At the after-party this guy gets a few drinks in him and starts calling me a sandbagger because he's still got a big bug up his ass over me taking his money months earlier. He wanted to bet in the first place and he never had a problem with taking my money when I was a beginner.
2. Last season playing with a friend who is extremely competative with me in everything. He too had taken my money on numerous occasions when I was a beginner. I did not want to play for money that day but he insisted and was kind of mouthy about it. I obliged and offered to play strait up stroke play with me playing two sets of tees further back. He agreed. I demolished him. On the 17th hole I tapped in for an easy par and he missed a put for a 7. He was so angry that instead of picking up his ball he took a big swing at it with his putter. He missed and took a divot out of the green a foot from the cup about the size of what a digger would take with a wedge in full view of the residents in the condos that surround the green. I let him keep his money.
