it's on the morphine drip.....

I could start insulting posters again if that would help drive up traffic.

A lot of it is the most prolific posters were by far the worst posters. We have a much higher substance posted now.

I keep reading about component shortages, mostly grips, but finally got nicked by it today -- got a call and learned that the shaft I chose for the wedge I ordered last week is out of stock. Oh well, there were plenty of others to choose from.

Match play. A "serious" amateur tournament. Your opponent hits it into the tall grass; do you help him look for it?

Yes. Common courtesy.

Do you get annoyed/mad if they don't?

And if you see the ball you stomp it down further right?

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Nope, although I'll forever consider them a dick.

There is also this approach:

I wouldn't get mad personally but I wouldn't be helping you find your ball on the next hole


I hate it when you're helping someone find their ball and you know it's deep in that bush as it was pretty obvious yet they continue to take the full amount of time looking for it.

I also have a guy in my group that I play with regularly that hits his ball and when he hits a bad shot he'll look at the ground in disgust and lose his ball because he didn't get line on where it went.

I have a second thing to consider in Florida, snakes!

I might not be walking through the long grass but I am happy to look from the shorter stuff and eyeball into the longer stuff.

This.
I'd look but I wouldn't search.

same sentiment, and fixed your vid...fantastic stuff

hilarious

This is all about what I thought. I was caddying for a friend in said tournament, friend hit it in the tall stuff and opponent didn't even budge to search. Friend was mad, but I honestly didn't know the decorum there. Friend took it a bit further and told the opponent he was annoyed he didn't help him search....turned out to be an ok move because opponent was beating us to search areas for the rest of the round (which weren't too many).

One guy on the other team almost did something super assholish (at least in my mind)....his opponent hits it into the tall stuff, and while mumbling something, hits a provisional. Except he didn't clearly announce it was a provisional. He found his ball, but as we're walking up the fairway ******* guy says, "he didn't declare, he needs to hit his provisional and take stroke and distance." I mean, that's a somewhat silly one anyway, but the kicker was this guy was up 5 with 6 to play. I guess he really wanted to close it out (he ultimately let it slide).

As someone who has hit like 20 balls into tall fescue/native in tournaments this year, people basically universally help. I will always help other people, even in a match play situation...

I've played with some people who don't help over the years, and they are generally just bottom feeders.

Obvious exceptions if your group is running way behind or something and they want to hit first, or they're 100 yards on the other side of the hole or something.

I always grab my phone and just throw the stopwatch on now when I get to any ball search area so you don't end up with these ambiguous search times, my own searches included.

Do you think the Olympic golf should be amateurs? The pros probably dont want to be there and it would be an awesome experience for ams.

Important qualifier: This is just my opinion.

I don't think this is true - for a lot of the pros, the Olympics are a big deal. See, for example, the fact that Rickie Fowler and Lexi Thompson have Olympic tattoos. It's also a major-level opportunity to make a splash if you are not already one of the biggest names. A couple of the female pros, e.g. Charley Hull, withdrew from a major in order to be sure that they wouldn't have quarantine issues and could play in the Olympic event.

Sure, there are some who don't want to be there. But I think that's a pretty small minority.

As for whether the contestants should be amateurs, that ship has sailed in all Olympic sports. Amateurism is largely dead and buried. Personally I don't think there is any reason to make it all amateurs, that would shut out a lot of countries who might only have one or two golfers who could even possibly qualify and those players are almost certainly going to be pros.

solid post Booker

Maybe they should cap it at one olympic appearance. Give more players a chance to experience it.

I think all Olympic events should be amateurs only.

In a Facebook golf group somebody asked how often you sharpen your wedges? I never knew this was a thing. Do you guys do that? If so, any other clubs or just wedges?

I don't, but I'm interested to hear from Bo and others on this.

Whatever the right answer is, I'm sure it will bring me great shame for still playing ~8-10 year old Nike SV Tour wedges that are probably considered bald with no grooves by any reasonable standard.

my buddy has the best short game of anyone I play with and his wedges are easily 15 years old

Having a little discussion on a YouTube video in the comments, He says he has had 40 years teaching experience,

We were discussing is it harder for a 5 handicapper to go +1 or a 18 to go a 12 handicapper.

I don’t know if I’m being dumb but I’d take 18 to 12 all day, I was basically saying a high handicapper can make minor adjustments to takes strokes off.

He was saying in short the 5 handicapper has so much going for him because he basically has some kind of xfactor and they are a freak of nature.