[Effopsytupt]

I see cheating going on all the time. Do I care about it? No, not as long as it not in a sanctioned tournament I might be playing in. Some folks who I see cheating, I wouldn't even call them cheaters. Those are ones who are out just having a good time, whacking a ball around the golf course. No harm, no foul. However if I catch a cheater in a sanctioned event, I will let him know about it in no uncertain terms. So much so that if the guy doesn't just quit then and there, the rest of his game will turn to into so much garbage, his score won't matter anyways.

[AbeldeldepBug]

If it's a buddy: I'll wear them out, call them on every single time they goofed.

If it's a stranger: I'll smile, and walk away.

+2 .

[QXCharles]

It won't bother me as long as it's not competition or money on the line.
Sometimes people play to a different standard and I'm not there to judge them, and in the same breath don't judge me that on a lost ball I drive back to the tee.
Sometimes you get the comment "who are you Arnold Palmer?"
And I say no, just someone who plays by the rules. If it's slowing you down please proceed without me, but that's the way I play.
But I never apologize.

[Sliliashdes]

If it's a buddy: I'll wear them out, call them on every single time they goofed.

If it's a stranger: I'll smile, and walk away.

+1 here for me as well.

[zawhmqswly]

BTW, I never ever have strangers keep score for me. I have had a couple ask what I got & politely tell them to keep track of their own score & I will track mine.

[QEoMi752]

I will set the stage. You are playing with someone that you either do not know or you know but its just another round. You are keeping score because you are the driver of the cart. You are not competing and may even be at a completely different skill level so the competition is not there.

However on quite a few holes when you go to write down the score they miraculously forget about penalty strokes or 3 putting and say "bogey" or "five" when you know darn well they had a different number.

Do you say something? Do you not care and put down whatever they want? What are your thoughts?

I could care less if nothing is on the line. I got enough to worry about with my game. Now if we're betting, they will be called out with the quickness!!

I'd like to expand the question a bit. Does it bother you at the end of the round when the cheater announces their score is lower than yours even though you know it's not?

In that case, yes that is annoying if someone shaves strokes and boasts about their "score", I played with a friend of a friend that would do that every round we played together. Haven't played with him in years!

[Wymdqcvb]

As long as we are not playing for money, I don't care how someone else keeps score. If I am driving, unless they ask me to keep their score I don't even write it down.

[TOPERink]

I would normally give them the card and the pencil and tell them if they want to keep their own score, that is fine with me. I normally keep my own and I have a scorecard wallet I use to do so.

I once had a buddy that would shave strokes, if he hit the ball in a water hazard and had to take a drop, he wouldn't add the penalty stroke...I called it on him and he said it was penalty enough to lose a $4 ball. I had to laugh at the logic but told him he had to take the stroke even if the ball cost $20!.

[scoundtrack]

4-Putt keeps telling me if they don't know the rules and break them, they're not cheating. I'm not sure ignorance is an excuse, but who is and who isn't a cheater on the course? Everyone said unless it's a tournament or you're playing for money - you don't really care how someone keeps score. With that in mind - are those people not cheaters, but if money is on the line, then you can label the same person as a cheater?

[QEoMi752]

With that in mind - are those people not cheaters, but if money is on the line, then you can label the same person as a cheater?

Sure, they are cheating themselves. Just don't care enough to get all worked up about it or start some **** by calling someone out if we are just playing a casual round.