[voodoosdv]

I play with a guy every once in awhile who I met years ago. I say "once in awhile" because I beg off playing with him on many occasions. This is why:

He will four putt and call it a three putt. He will improve his lie in the rough because of a "bad bounce" that got him there. He will hit into a lateral hazzard and not take a stroke.......

....OK.....not so bad right? You could handle it just by playing your own game and ignoring him right? And I do try. But this is what really gets to me.....A FEW DAYS LATER HE WILL BRAG ABOUT HIS ROUND TO FRIENDS AND EVEN TO ME.....FORGETTING PERHAPS THAT I WAS THERE!

Now, could you handle that?

[DF9sLGSU]

I play with a guy every once in awhile who I met years ago. I say "once in awhile" because I beg off playing with him on many occasions. This is why:

He will four putt and call it a three putt. He will improve his lie in the rough because of a "bad bounce" that got him there. He will hit into a lateral hazzard and not take a stroke.......

....OK.....not so bad right? You could handle it just by playing your own game and ignoring him right? And I do try. But this is what really gets to me.....A FEW DAYS LATER HE WILL BRAG ABOUT HIS ROUND TO FRIENDS AND EVEN TO ME.....FORGETTING PERHAPS THAT I WAS THERE!

Now, could you handle that?

Funny! My old boss cornered me at a meeting and was telling me how he shot a 78 at a course we had all played previously. I was really wondering what he had done to so drastically improve his game.

When he walked away, a co-worker approached and told me, "I was in his group when he shot the 78. If he had counted the penalty strokes, mulligans, and 5ft gimmee putts he took, he wouldn't have broken 100."

Now why does someone have to tell those kind of tales?

[Thorwaywhobia]

When he brags about his score, just say "I was there and he quit after 16 holes"...hehe

[!!Aaroncheg]

It used to bother me, now I have learned that it's no big deal & if makes them feel better...so what? Doesn't affect me in the least.

[trilochana.nejman]

It used to bother me, now I have learned that it's no big deal & if makes them feel better...so what? Doesn't affect me in the least.

I agree with you 100%.



(Jeez, something weird is going on here 'cause that's twice in four days...)





-JP

[DF9sLGSU]

JP-Dyna-Suff...the new all purpose combination forum member. Whoa!!!!

[Auzuigcx]

Due to some of the nefarious characters I have played with in the past I am in the habit of not paying one ounce of attention to others scores (unless money or pride is on the line). Luckily I play with people now who are only interested in improving their game and not fabricating their improvement. It works out nicely and I am far better about my own mental game.
Those type of people do bother me though.

[trilochana.nejman]

JP-Dyna-Suff...the new all purpose combination forum member. Whoa!!!!

Reminds me of "Sinclair Dyno Supreme".

(Sadly, I'm old enough to remember that)


-JP

[yarita]

I've learned that the friends that these people brag to usually know how their buddy plays the game.

[kristloken]

What a beautiful post and title!!! I have a friend that sounds alot like yours. He just takes full advantage of our money game format to craft a 77 out of a 82ish round. I say 82ish 'cause you can never say for sure what he scored. The typical stuff that most of you playing in partner games are familiar with: 3of you are in, tied 4's for low ball. He's putting for 5 from 6 feet and he picks it up-which really I have no problem with I'll get to that later. He takes a 5 could have easily been a 6. Or he loses a ball, takes automatic double even if it was his 3rd shot on a par 4 from 150 out. Anytime he's going for a big number and the other guys have made par or better he's usually going to record a bogey occasionally a double. This guy is a pretty good player, bombs it, but not exactly sure where or how far its going all the time. You know the kind, I mean he could make triple at the drop of a hat--from anywhere. His most blatant act was placing a ball when he'd most probably hit it in a hazard, then saying he found it. Didn't think we were looking!! But we were!!! 'Cause he had the "would you go over there to your ball so I can get this over with" nervouse pace going on while we were in search. And he kept looking at me. I felt like saying, "If you're preparing for the 'old ball down the leg move' it works better if you pretend you're actually looking for your ball and not looking for us". Seriously, just tell us to not worry about searching for it and as we leave for our balls get on with it. 2 of the 3 tricks really don't bother me. We are technically playing match play with the money game and the 5 footers that don't mean anything are usually conceded. And the stroke shaving on big numbers is part of the handicap system-not allowing you to make more than double on a hole. So those 2 are understandable, UNLESS you win money or actually shoot the lowest score(rare but it has happened 1 or 2 times) and begin text messaging your friends while your shaking hands on 18. Just wait til your in the car to send out the "guess who I just beat" texts!!! "Yea, I had 73 and Baffler had 74, played pretty good" texts are for the drive home!! If you don't brag about your score, or you say "I'm not really sure what I had today 'cause I had an X and didn't putt out some holes" then I don't care how many 5footers you pick up or automatic doubles you take--just don't pretend you shot 76 and call all your buddies from the 18th fringe to give the blow by blow. They're my friends too yaknow?? They're going to call me for verification as soon as you hang up!!! You can rationalize that their actions shouldn't affect our play, and that any friend he tells surely knows the "probable score range" anyway, and they have to know, way down that their "dont count that 74s" doesn't beat our 75s, but it gnaws at us anyway. Most of the guys(which is probably less than a handful) with this problem, that I have played with can't win anyhow. Yet they still go about it which makes it funny more than troublesome. Somehow after writing all this Im pretty sure I have some sort of problem too!! I mean who punctuates this much??? I know it's my pride that causes my reaction, but I worked hard to build this inpenetrable force field up and it's not coming down for some "I would have made that 4 footer" or the "old ball down the leg" trick. I think this post would disable the world wide spell and grammar check. Goodnight.

[DF9sLGSU]

I moved to a new town and started playing with a group of guys who played for quarter skins. I really enjoyed them except they noodled the ball around and gave each other 5 footers. I played the ball down and putted out, just my way. They even told me it was ok in their group to noodle the ball. I replied that I played golf, kept a handicap and really couldn't do that. Before long, everyone was playing real golf without me saying another word. Well, except for one guy. We were walking along together and he said, laughing, that if you just kept a duplicate ball in your pocket, you never lost a ball. I was stunned since I had lost lots of quarters to this bozo. If he hit it into the woods, I always made sure I went with him to look after that.

[!!Aaroncheg]

What a beautiful post and title!!! I have a friend that sounds alot like yours. He just takes full advantage of our money game format to craft a 77 out of a 82ish round. I say 82ish 'cause you can never say for sure what he scored. The typical stuff that most of you playing in partner games are familiar with: 3of you are in, tied 4's for low ball. He's putting for 5 from 6 feet and he picks it up-which really I have no problem with I'll get to that later. He takes a 5 could have easily been a 6. Or he loses a ball, takes automatic double even if it was his 3rd shot on a par 4 from 150 out. Anytime he's going for a big number and the other guys have made par or better he's usually going to record a bogey occasionally a double. This guy is a pretty good player, bombs it, but not exactly sure where or how far its going all the time. You know the kind, I mean he could make triple at the drop of a hat--from anywhere. His most blatant act was placing a ball when he'd most probably hit it in a hazard, then saying he found it. Didn't think we were looking!! But we were!!! 'Cause he had the "would you go over there to your ball so I can get this over with" nervouse pace going on while we were in search. And he kept looking at me. I felt like saying, "If you're preparing for the 'old ball down the leg move' it works better if you pretend you're actually looking for your ball and not looking for us". Seriously, just tell us to not worry about searching for it and as we leave for our balls get on with it. 2 of the 3 tricks really don't bother me. We are technically playing match play with the money game and the 5 footers that don't mean anything are usually conceded. And the stroke shaving on big numbers is part of the handicap system-not allowing you to make more than double on a hole. So those 2 are understandable, UNLESS you win money or actually shoot the lowest score(rare but it has happened 1 or 2 times) and begin text messaging your friends while your shaking hands on 18. Just wait til your in the car to send out the "guess who I just beat" texts!!! "Yea, I had 73 and Baffler had 74, played pretty good" texts are for the drive home!! If you don't brag about your score, or you say "I'm not really sure what I had today 'cause I had an X and didn't putt out some holes" then I don't care how many 5footers you pick up or automatic doubles you take--just don't pretend you shot 76 and call all your buddies from the 18th fringe to give the blow by blow. They're my friends too yaknow?? They're going to call me for verification as soon as you hang up!!! You can rationalize that their actions shouldn't affect our play, and that any friend he tells surely knows the "probable score range" anyway, and they have to know, way down that their "dont count that 74s" doesn't beat our 75s, but it gnaws at us anyway. Most of the guys(which is probably less than a handful) with this problem, that I have played with can't win anyhow. Yet they still go about it which makes it funny more than troublesome. Somehow after writing all this Im pretty sure I have some sort of problem too!! I mean who punctuates this much??? I know it's my pride that causes my reaction, but I worked hard to build this inpenetrable force field up and it's not coming down for some "I would have made that 4 footer" or the "old ball down the leg" trick. I think this post would disable the world wide spell and grammar check. Goodnight.

Wow, do you know anything about paragraphs?? I could not & will not even attempt to read that post.

[kristloken]

Not really.

[EnvellFen]

Not really.

Must be East Ky.

In West Ky. We learn-ded to make a paragrah.

Out of every sentence.

[Spisivavona]

I wouldnt let it bother me. He can brag all he wants, but you know the truth and you know that if he were playing honest that his score would have been much higher.

[DF9sLGSU]

I had a buddy that refused to count penalty strokes for OB or water balls. When I called him on it, he said, "Losing a $4 ball is penalty enough."

You just can't argue with that kind of logic.

[Borzopayn]

I have a friend who always fabricates his score. He talks of wanting to start playing competitively and sometimes I wonder if he actually beleives the stories he tells.