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Golf Altercation: How Do You Handle This Situation? (1 Viewer)

What would do you do after he accused us of being cheaters?

  • Walk off course

    Votes: 4 2.5%

  • Fight him

    Votes: 27 17.2%

  • Physically bump him

    Votes: 8 5.1%

  • Ignore the comment and continue with match

    Votes: 98 62.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 20 12.7%
  • Total voters
    157
chet said:
A couple of holes later, he tried to make small talk. I looked at him and said, "Don, I don't appreciate how you handled the situation. None of my friends would have handled it remotely closely to how you did. I don't have any respect for you. I don't like you. I don't want to talk to you ever again unless it's directly related to the match at hand."
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:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

 
Wow. I must have done something to piss off all of the spocks around here. :lol:

I think my alias has one or both of them on ignore--obviously for good reason.

 
Unless there was a prior history, I don't see why you needed to make it personal with him. He freaked out, apologized- no need to go pre-teen girl and say you don't like him.

 
Always putt everything out, especially in a competitive situation when a putt has not been conceded.

I played with a guy yesterday who missed three 2-3 footers in a row, swept them back and made them the second time, then wrote down on the card that he'd made them. I commented that he missed those putts and he said he'd have made them if he focused on them. They're probably the most significant part of the game for lower handicappers. People who give them to themselves and then tell people that score crack me up. Hey, as long as you post it.

 
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chet said:
Wow. I must have done something to piss off all of the spocks around here. :lol:

I think my alias has one or both of them on ignore--obviously for good reason.
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Not pissed off, just calling it like I see it. This exchange seems right in line with your board persona.

 
You made a rookie screw-up and the other guy over-reacted. He apologized and you decided to exacerbate the situation rather than let him slide for the sake of all involved. Most importantly, your guests.

 
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so what was the official ruling, did you get a shot on the hole or not? Usually that's pretty cut and dry in these types of tournaments as the scorecards are clearly marked.

 
James Daulton said:
WTF picks up a six inch put?

#alwaystapincrew#

That said, you handled it fine.
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I haven't described what I did after he accused my partner and me of cheating. I took the least interesting option and ignored the comment and continued the match.

Around hole 7, my friend (not involved in the match and with no knowledge of what happened) drove his cart right beside me as I was about to play and asked if he was bothering me. With both opponents in earshot, I said it was the best thing to happen in the match thus far. I told him I was playing against an ####### sandbagger who accused us of cheating and that Don was by far the worst person I'd encountered at the club.

At the end of the match I related everything to the golf director including my comments to my friend. He apologized that I had to go through that and later told me that anyone who heard about the situation placed no blame on me at all. Like I said, Don has a bad reputation.

 
You should have bought him a beer - but before giving it to him you should have give it a good shake - and then apologize to him and hand him the beer to open.

 
chet said:
Grace Under Pressure said:
You picked up without his acknowledgement on the second hole of the member guest tourney. He's a "15" and he's 1 over after 7. He's definitely the bigger ##### and handled the situation way too aggressively. But you probably should have tapped in unless you had good history established with the other member-guest.

:lmao: at I don't like you.
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I wasn't assuming he gave the putt. I (correctly) thought I had lost the hole and was ready to move on.
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This is on you then.

Did you expect Johnny Miller to come out and tell you the tally?

 
El Floppo said:
Unless there was a prior history, I don't see why you needed to make it personal with him. He freaked out, apologized- no need to go pre-teen girl and say you don't like him.
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That's the thing. He didn't apologize for his behavior--he apologized for ####### up the strokes and still yelled at me while "apologizing". He also made sure to let me know that I still lost the hole in a very condescending manner.

 
You both acted like jerks, so just move on. Good example of why I don't talk much when I golf if is anything on the line, as there always seems to be a poor sport in one or both groups.

 
joffer said:
and you both handled it poorly
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This.

Yes, Don sounds like an ###, chet, but there probably wasn't any need to play the "I don't like or respect you" card in the middle of the match like that. Hell, wait till the end to say it, but there is a time and a place for brutal honesty; that probably wasn't it. There is something to be said about being the bigger man.

 
chet said:
James Daulton said:
WTF picks up a six inch put?

#alwaystapincrew#

That said, you handled it fine.
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I haven't described what I did after he accused my partner and me of cheating. I took the least interesting option and ignored the comment and continued the match.

Around hole 7, my friend (not involved in the match and with no knowledge of what happened) drove his cart right beside me as I was about to play and asked if he was bothering me. With both opponents in earshot, I said it was the best thing to happen in the match thus far. I told him I was playing against an ####### sandbagger who accused us of cheating and that Don was by far the worst person I'd encountered at the club.

At the end of the match I related everything to the golf director including my comments to my friend. He apologized that I had to go through that and later told me that anyone who heard about the situation placed no blame on me at all. Like I said, Don has a bad reputation.
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Not sure I agree with this. Sounds kind of like being a whiner to me.

 
So you get into a whinefest where you use the phrase "I don't like you", and then you run to a message board to further whine about it? How emasculating.

 
brohan it sounds to me like don is in your head and has you rattled enough to post about this on a message board so bam don wins unfortunately guys like that just now how to beat a guy with mind tricks score another victim for the donmizer from down under take that to the bank brohans

 
You guys are missing the point. Of course picking up a putt that's not conceded results in the loss of the hole. When that doesn't matter is when you've already lost the hole. Chet was correct that when he missed the putt the hole was over. Don originally thought otherwise and made a big stink. Technically, one could surmise that when Don said "You got a 5 and we got a 4" that he had conceded the putt. But if still in the hole I would never pick up until I hear "that's good".

Don is a grade A #####. Golf can bring the best and worst out of people.

 
Judge Smails said:
You guys are missing the point. Of course picking up a putt that's not conceded results in the loss of the hole. When that doesn't matter is when you've already lost the hole. Chet was correct that when he missed the putt the hole was over. Don originally thought otherwise and made a big stink. Technically, one could surmise that when Don said "You got a 5 and we got a 4" that he had conceded the putt. But if still in the hole I would never pick up until I hear "that's good".

Don is a grade A #####. Golf can bring the best and worst out of people.
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agree, but Chet still handled it poorly

 
This is why i keep an airsoft pistol in my bag...

If someone's being a #### they get a pellet to the calf muscle at the top of their next drive's backswing.

 
Judge Smails said:
You guys are missing the point. Of course picking up a putt that's not conceded results in the loss of the hole. When that doesn't matter is when you've already lost the hole. Chet was correct that when he missed the putt the hole was over. Don originally thought otherwise and made a big stink. Technically, one could surmise that when Don said "You got a 5 and we got a 4" that he had conceded the putt. But if still in the hole I would never pick up until I hear "that's good".

Don is a grade A #####. Golf can bring the best and worst out of people.
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:goodposting:

 
chet said:
Anyone have a serious answer? I agree that neither of us handled the situation optimally; however, he was by far the bigger #######.

Also, he's a sandbagger. 1 over through 7 playing to a 15 and doing the same thing in his other matches.
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Based on what you wrote...you were by far the bigger #######.

Not that he was cool about it...but your reaction to that was pretty terrible.

Also, I think you need to go kill a dry cleaner after all of this too.

 
Tom Servo said:
joffer said:
timschochet said:
Just curious as someone who knows very little about golf or wagers: what does Calcutta money mean?
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its an auction where anyone has the chance to bid on teams. you usually have the opportunity to buy back half of your own team.
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:confused:
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There were 48 teams broken down into 8 flights of six teams each. Flight A contained the six teams with the lowest combined indexes; flight B contained teams 7-12 etc.

The night before the first match, each team was auctioned to the highest bidder. If you didn't buy your team at the auction, you were allowed to buy half from the succesful bidder. 85% of the money stayed in the respective flight (75% to 1st and 25% to second) and 15% went to the shootout pool. The winners of each flight competed for the shootout pool after the matches were completed.

Total size of the pool was ~$150k.

 
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