Golf Tips: Ethics on the Course can affect who wants to play with you
In this edition of golf tips, we look at ethics on the golf course and how they can affect those around you.
Chances are, we’ve all fudged the rules at some point. Maybe a foot wedge to get out from behind a tree, a mulligan at some point during your round, or a re-do on a putt that you just had to make. In today’s version of golf tips, we look at when it goes too far, and how it can affect the people you are playing with.
There are a few people in my golf life that I try my hardest not to play with. I don’t mind them as people, but playing with them on the course just isn’t fun.
I’ll give you an example. Drive, iron, iron, pitch, chip, putt, putt. When you ask them what they got, they respond with “I missed my par putt, so a five.”
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Hold on… that doesn’t seem right.
This is a constant thing that happens, and it’s fairly difficult to deal with. Calling them out can only lead to an awkward conversation. Especially when said person is someone you are related to.
It’s made it so that I do my best to avoid playing with this person. When I have to I do, I keep my mouth shut, and just put up with it, cause getting to spend time with them and deal with it while keeping everyone in a good mood is the better option. It still isn’t fun though.
Then, there are the people who hit mulligan after mulligan. I understand taking one each round, as I know a lot of people that do that. Taking one a hole, that is a different story.
Especially when the person tries to gamble with you while they are playing, and treat whatever score they come up with as real. If you take 15 Mulligans, don’t tell me that your 85 is a real score. No one believes you, and everyone knows that you are a cheat.
It’s made it so that no one wants to play with this guy, and everyone in my golf circle avoids it whenever possible.
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I’m sure everyone out there has someone in your life like this. If you don’t, you might want to take a look at how you play and make sure that it isn’t you that is like this. In this case, my golf tips to you would be to make sure you are playing ethically, cause no one wants to play with a cheat.