FATC1TY
Taylormade Ho' Magnet
- May 29, 2008
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I can't stand it anymore..
I played today with a friend, who happens to be my bosses son. He's a good guy, and I've know him for a while.. He started playing golf again recently, and I sold him a bunch of my gear from last year.
He's a pretty competitive person, so I know it comes natural to want to "beat" someone in sports or anything..
So today, he brings his brother-in-law. It's weird enough that this guy is married to a girl I used to date in the past for quite some time, but I get past it, and I have no issues with it. Yes, for those who followed, I used to date the bosses daughter.
Anyways.. He's not real keen on scoring, so when he puts one in the woods, he sometimes "forgets" to count it. Or he'll put two in the woods off the tee, and just go find one in the woods. Drag it out, and some how come up with a way to score it.
Okay, fine.. But then he starts trying to tell me how to score it, and then argues when I tell him I got X on a certain hole! So it all starts to be a bicker-fest when I explain that I moved my ball off the cart path, and moved it back, or took my drop from the hazard, ect.
He and his brother in law also like to "try for fun" shots.. So I tell them if they insist on it, hit their "in play" shot first, and then just try and crank a drive out there.. Well, it turns up where they want to pick and choose which ball they want to play..
He puts then in yellow stake hazards, claims the creek is dry and can play out of it without a stroke, then proceeds to chunk it twice out of it, and then picks it up, and tosses on the fairway.. ??? Seriously?
Today, they put 4 balls off the tee box into the right woods. Same place each time.. I told them they were deep and wouldn't have anything to play. Mine was short and just off the cart path in some weedy/rough area. I took my 2 strokes trying to get it out and back into the fairway.
When I jacked the hole up and told them I had a double on the par 5, his brother in law tell me he's lining up for his par putt.....Really?! After 4 in the woods?? They tell me they found all 4, and just hit the one that had bounced back into the right rough...
How the hell does that work right? They have no clue what brand, number, mark their balls have, so when they crank multiple balls out there, they just claim it's the 1st ball, and play it on as they would. My friend did it earlier on another hole. Infact, he put two balls over there.. Mine hit the carth path and took a bad bounce and went over there. I couldn't find it, took my drop, and played the hole out.. He said both balls of his were side by side.. Funny thing is.. Next hole he was playing with MY TAYLORMADE with my MY SHARPIE MARK on it!!
I just couldn't get past it, and bugged the shit out of me..
18th hole is a bitch of a hole, 580 yards, runs by a lake, and then you have to clear the lake with a good 170 yard carry to the island green. It's stupid as hell.. We all put it in the fairway, and I lay it up for my 3rd shot. His brother in law is about to lay it up, and does so. Then he says he wants to try to hit the green on the fly from 245 yards... My buddies tells him to try it... We think he missed it, and when we all make our approach shots, we see a lone ball around 25 ft from the pin on the back of the green.
He made it over... Then proceeds to tell everyone he's putting for eagle, because since he made it over, he should be able to play it, instead of playing the original ball that he laid up with..
I was about to wrap my gap wedge around my neck.
To put more dirt in the wound, he then exclaims that he "beat me" and told he knew he would..
I just don't think I want to play with people like this anymore. My normal golf buddy is so carefree. He and I know what each other shot. We don't questions each others shots and penaltie strokes. We don't play to "beat" each other.. Golf is hard enough in a normal round to try and score as well as possible, and we don't have any money on the rounds usually.
I could understand if there was money and wanting to make sure someone is fair, but golf is about being honest, and having to watch everyone to count their strokes is just annoying as hell to me. I try to just not watch and count it up, but I just can't get past the, "I got a bogey".. When they put 1 in the woods, hit it in the fairway, chunked the approach, pitched it to the green and 2 putt, and then pick it up for a "gimmie" and tell me they get a 5 on the par 4...
I played today with a friend, who happens to be my bosses son. He's a good guy, and I've know him for a while.. He started playing golf again recently, and I sold him a bunch of my gear from last year.
He's a pretty competitive person, so I know it comes natural to want to "beat" someone in sports or anything..
So today, he brings his brother-in-law. It's weird enough that this guy is married to a girl I used to date in the past for quite some time, but I get past it, and I have no issues with it. Yes, for those who followed, I used to date the bosses daughter.
Anyways.. He's not real keen on scoring, so when he puts one in the woods, he sometimes "forgets" to count it. Or he'll put two in the woods off the tee, and just go find one in the woods. Drag it out, and some how come up with a way to score it.
Okay, fine.. But then he starts trying to tell me how to score it, and then argues when I tell him I got X on a certain hole! So it all starts to be a bicker-fest when I explain that I moved my ball off the cart path, and moved it back, or took my drop from the hazard, ect.
He and his brother in law also like to "try for fun" shots.. So I tell them if they insist on it, hit their "in play" shot first, and then just try and crank a drive out there.. Well, it turns up where they want to pick and choose which ball they want to play..
He puts then in yellow stake hazards, claims the creek is dry and can play out of it without a stroke, then proceeds to chunk it twice out of it, and then picks it up, and tosses on the fairway.. ??? Seriously?
Today, they put 4 balls off the tee box into the right woods. Same place each time.. I told them they were deep and wouldn't have anything to play. Mine was short and just off the cart path in some weedy/rough area. I took my 2 strokes trying to get it out and back into the fairway.
When I jacked the hole up and told them I had a double on the par 5, his brother in law tell me he's lining up for his par putt.....Really?! After 4 in the woods?? They tell me they found all 4, and just hit the one that had bounced back into the right rough...
How the hell does that work right? They have no clue what brand, number, mark their balls have, so when they crank multiple balls out there, they just claim it's the 1st ball, and play it on as they would. My friend did it earlier on another hole. Infact, he put two balls over there.. Mine hit the carth path and took a bad bounce and went over there. I couldn't find it, took my drop, and played the hole out.. He said both balls of his were side by side.. Funny thing is.. Next hole he was playing with MY TAYLORMADE with my MY SHARPIE MARK on it!!
I just couldn't get past it, and bugged the shit out of me..
18th hole is a bitch of a hole, 580 yards, runs by a lake, and then you have to clear the lake with a good 170 yard carry to the island green. It's stupid as hell.. We all put it in the fairway, and I lay it up for my 3rd shot. His brother in law is about to lay it up, and does so. Then he says he wants to try to hit the green on the fly from 245 yards... My buddies tells him to try it... We think he missed it, and when we all make our approach shots, we see a lone ball around 25 ft from the pin on the back of the green.
He made it over... Then proceeds to tell everyone he's putting for eagle, because since he made it over, he should be able to play it, instead of playing the original ball that he laid up with..
I was about to wrap my gap wedge around my neck.
To put more dirt in the wound, he then exclaims that he "beat me" and told he knew he would..
I just don't think I want to play with people like this anymore. My normal golf buddy is so carefree. He and I know what each other shot. We don't questions each others shots and penaltie strokes. We don't play to "beat" each other.. Golf is hard enough in a normal round to try and score as well as possible, and we don't have any money on the rounds usually.
I could understand if there was money and wanting to make sure someone is fair, but golf is about being honest, and having to watch everyone to count their strokes is just annoying as hell to me. I try to just not watch and count it up, but I just can't get past the, "I got a bogey".. When they put 1 in the woods, hit it in the fairway, chunked the approach, pitched it to the green and 2 putt, and then pick it up for a "gimmie" and tell me they get a 5 on the par 4...