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Obviously something like slow play will be mentioned, but I'm hoping for something a little more nuanced.

One of mine is speed of getting to the tee. I usually drive the cart and yet when I park the brake my routine consists of: get out of cart, grab club, proceed to tee while grabbing a tee from my pocket so I can be ready to proceed when I get there.

And yet, BY A MILE, I am typically the fastest at this than anyone in my golfing circle. This situation reached its nadir a couple of years ago in a tournament where a couple of friends of ours would take FOREVER to get out of the cart. WTF are you guys doing? I usually keep the card but I find time to score when appropriate. We'd stand on the tee for 60-90 seconds while they did who the hell knows what. Now, at times I have rabbit ears, particularly when I'm annoyed with the competitors in my group, so I was more than willing to let them get on the tee, it just took an embarrassingly long time. What the hell are you guys doing over there, hole after hole?

Honorable mention to people's tee etiquette, where they talk or position themselves in a way so as to be distracting, and to people unwilling to help look for the stray balls of others, whether its in their best interests or not.

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Taking too many practice swings or too long sizing up a shot. A couple guys I've played with will get out of the cart take 2 practice swings, step back, eye the shot, step forward, sit in their stance for a few seconds, take a couple practice swings, and then finally get to it. This is especially irritating to me because I generally take 0 or 1 practice swing and then shoot.

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Not knowing how to say shank, hosel, etc. I love hearing about nozzle rockets and skanks.

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Anyone who uses the phrase "going golfing."

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Taking too many practice swings or too long sizing up a shot. A couple guys I've played with will get out of the cart take 2 practice swings, step back, eye the shot, step forward, sit in their stance for a few seconds, take a couple practice swings, and then finally get to it. This is especially irritating to me because I generally take 0 or 1 practice swing and then shoot.

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This doesn't bother me too much, take your time we aren't at work so we should be enjoying ourselves.

I agree with OP though 100%. Take your time hitting your shot but for christ sake get out of the damn cart.

I hate when we play games that make you tee off in order (wolf,cod) because I am always the first to the tee and every one else is still dicking around in their bag or whatever but I can't hit out of order.

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Not knowing how to say shank, hosel, etc. I love hearing about nozzle rockets and skanks.

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Is this because so many people think it's a sin to say the word shank on a golf course?

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morons who dont know that letting people play through is beneficial to everyone on the course

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People that wait for the green to clear for their 290 yard approach over water into the wind from a divot after they ripped the best drive of their life 230.

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Maybe this is just me, but I have noticed courses where the majority of people walk the course tend to play a lot faster than courses where the majority of people ride. I feel like in general the people who always drive carts are a lot worse golfers than the people that walk the course, and this comes from a lot of experience. Anyway I pretty much hate any round that takes over 3.5 hours, and I'm drunk but I really hate golf carts.

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Not knowing how to say shank, hosel, etc. I love hearing about nozzle rockets and skanks.

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WTF? where I come from a skank is not the same as a shank or hosel rocket. Please don't tell me you call a hosel rocket a nozzle rocket?

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People who play fast enough to catch up to me, and nice guy I am I let them play through, who then slow down because there is no one in front of them and keep me waiting on shots for the rest of the round.

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People that wait for the green to clear for their 290 yard approach over water into the wind from a divot after they ripped the best drive of their life 230.

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It's pretty safe to say you've never been hit HARD by a golf ball before

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People who insist on stepping all over my putting line while pulling the pin....... and while wearing old school metal spikes

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People who spend too long looking for obviously lost balls.

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Maybe this is just me, but I have noticed courses where the majority of people walk the course tend to play a lot faster than courses where the majority of people ride. I feel like in general the people who always drive carts are a lot worse golfers than the people that walk the course, and this comes from a lot of experience. Anyway I pretty much hate any round that takes over 3.5 hours, and I'm drunk but I really hate golf carts.

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When I was at SDGA (phoenix) we had a regular fivesome. We would play 18 holes in 3.5 hours whether we walked or rode. I hate golfcarts too.

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People who insist on stepping all over my putting line while pulling the pin....... and while wearing old school metal spikes

[/ QUOTE ]wtf? You mean spikes that actually give you grip?

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People who insist on stepping all over my putting line while pulling the pin....... and while wearing old school metal spikes

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Where have you been in the last five years where you can wear metal spikes?

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1.Slow play in general.

2.marking your card when it's your turn to play.

3.Taking a bazzillion practice swings.

4.Standing in your line, especially behind you on the tee, and through the line of your putt. The latter has only been a problem since playing in England where it appears a lot of golfers are clueless.

5. Pocket jugglers

6. Not allowing play through

7. Any course designed for carts

8. Players who use a cart in a competition + clubs that allow this

9. Players that have no idea how to score a stableford. If you're going to play the comp, read the fecking rules before you start

10. BANDITS! Especially the deliberate handicap nursers.

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People who spend too long looking for obviously lost balls.

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If someone told me to stop looking for a lost ball I'd punch them in the face. Spending 40 bucks on a round of golf is bad enough now I can't look for the balls that cost me 30 bucks...

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People that wait for the green to clear for their 290 yard approach over water into the wind from a divot after they ripped the best drive of their life 230.

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Damn this annoys me, because I see it all the time at the course I play at.

There is a short par 5 that has a creek at about 230 from the tee. You need to carry about 245 to comfortably clear the creek. If you lay up you'll be about 260-270 out. Yet, people that lay up will still wait for the green to clear. I stand on the tee and want to scream "Dude, if you can't carry your driver 245 what makes you think you're going to hit your 3-wood 260-270??!!!"

Another one, people that plumb bob their putts like they are playing in the Masters or something. They are usually bad putters anyway and don't know what they are doing. Just hit the damn 20 footer. You're going to miss it anyway.

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i play at a 9 hole muni that attracts an average golfer that shoots about 68 for 9 holes no joke. The thing that pisses me off the most is when they enter the wrong fairway when im teeing off or about to then i have to pull away and wait 30 minutes for the incompetent bastard to hack it 12 times back to his own fairway. Also, i play very quick like many of you probably do and i hate when players of low caliber, such as the ones i see at my home course, take 6 practice swings only to duff it 7 steps in front of them only to repeat the process. It drives me crazy. And one more thing, most people give themselves 5 foot downhill sliders thinking they could never miss it, or when i give them a putt they never add that stroke to the score. It just seems like 98% of golfers nowadays just dont have a clue on some of the basic rules and etiquette of the game anymore.

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People who spend too long looking for obviously lost balls.

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If someone told me to stop looking for a lost ball I'd punch them in the face. Spending 40 bucks on a round of golf is bad enough now I can't look for the balls that cost me 30 bucks...

[/ QUOTE ]Wow, $30 a ball, are they made from diamonds? Stop being such a tight arse, your ball's lost, get a move on.

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Or maybe if you're losing that many balls you shouldn't be buying the expensive ones.

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I hate bad players who constantly comment about what they do wrong. With every bad shot comes an immediate reson for the rest of us to hear.
'picked my head up'
'was standing too close/far from the ball'
'came too far inside'
'scuffed it'

You know what dude, just say "I SUCK" once, after the first tee shot, and be done with it. Nobody cares why you suck so just STFU.

Edit: besides, 90% of the time you're wrong anyways...

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Anytime somebody uses any cliche or saying after somebody else hits a bad shot.

When people say "good shot" to a bad one. This is more understandable than the cliche person because it usually comes from people who are happy with a 150 yard drive that is higher than 2 feet off the ground. Still can drive you nuts when the pull hook ends up under a rock or tree and they say good shot.

As others have mentioned, there are a lot of problems with carts. But the slow walking and screwing around getting to them and in and out of them can really drive you nuts. When I see people meandering to their cart then taking forever to put the 13 clubs they pulled out back, then slowly sitting down and getting their ass adjusted to the seat just right, then doing the u-turn they need to get to the next hole, well it drives you nuts. I think every slow playing hack who likes to take a cart should be forced to walk 9 holes with a fast play instructor. Maybe an 85 year old Scottish woman or something. Learn how to shoot 75 for the 9 holes playing in an hour. Once you do that, you can then maybe figure out how to get in and out of a golf cart and get off of a green to the next tee in less than an hour.

Also as to carts, any fancy rims or fenders and grills and such. I can even tolerate the covers for people in bad weather places, but the rims Rolls Royce grilles and whatnot need to go.

Those sandal golf shoes have to be banned.

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When people say "good shot" to a bad one. This is more understandable than the cliche person because it usually comes from people who are happy with a 150 yard drive that is higher than 2 feet off the ground. Still can drive you nuts when the pull hook ends up under a rock or tree and they say good shot.

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Actually, I prefer this to the opposite: the person who blurts out something negative, stating the obvious. If it looks like someone may be screwed I typically go with "you may have a shot" or "I think I see it", or nothing at all.

There was a guy I played jr. golf with named Joey Snyder - who has gone on to grind out a respectable career, including playing on the big tour the last year or two. He used to unwittingly get under my skin by talking worst-case scenarios, things like "oh man you're dead behind that tree", or "that's a terrible lie". Drove me nuts.

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Also w/r/t slow play, I buy into the school of thought that says that most hacks emulate the pros, and the pros are said to be wayyyyyyyyyyyy slower than they were 30+ years ago, looking at stuff from every angle, deliberating forever over club selection, long pre-shot routines, etc. Then the weekend hack goes and does these things.

What's interesting is the subset of golfers that's the fastest is the one you'd consider to be the slowest: old men. They blaze around courses - whether they're walking or riding - like they have to be somewhere, when in reality they don't have to be anywhere, ever.

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Bad beat whiners.

"OMFG I hit another perfect shot and got another terrible break, the course is rigged, OMFG!!"

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I frickin can't stand when someone talks to you about each and every shot they hit throughout the round.

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I hate it when someone rips ass during my backswing.

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Two things:

People who try to read putts for me. Some of the groups I play with are very informal, but DON'T read my putt for me unless I ask for it.

But the worst is when I hit a bad shot, and somebody states the obvious.

"You fatted it."

"You duck hooked that one."

NO [censored] MORAN.


Honorable mention: Hitting/picking my ball up by mistake.

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When they bail out on tee times. Plan a foursome a week in advance, they call one hour before tee time..."sorry can't make it." F.............. two of my golf buddies are notorious for doing this. One just did it to me today for our tee time on Sunday. Hope I can find a fourth. I don't really mind golfing with strangers, but I'd rather golf with friends (who are as bad as I am.)

On the course, not much bugs me. FWIW, I know I'm not very good (shoot in the 100's) so I don't waste time with many practice swings or reading putts. But sometimes I struggle and kick my ball up the fairway 50 yards at a time, or blade my ball back and forth across the green. So please be patient with golfers who are struggling and playing slow...esp. if it's a muni course where you expect to find muni hacks. If I think I'm taking up too much time, I'll just pick up. I really don't care about every little shot.

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i really have never been annoyed. you cant let anything bother you in the business im in. i once told an old lady who scoffed at my cigar, "go back to the bridge club you old fuqqin qunt". but i really wasnt annoyed, it was actually my favorite part of that round.

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govman, you're okay with people waiting for greens to clear that they obviously can't reach, you would punch someone in the face if they told you to stop looking for a ball that you obviously won't find, and you encounter metal spikes often enough to be annoyed by it. What bizarro world do you live in?

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When they bail out on tee times. Plan a foursome a week in advance, they call one hour before tee time..."sorry can't make it." F..............

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Ooh, this is a really good one. Backing out of a tee time you've already committed to is a HUGE no-no and will get you blackballed from our group pretty quickly, unless you do it 48+ hours in advance and/or have a replacement. The reason it's heinous is that our standard game is two-man teams, usually Nassau, and a threesome totally wrecks this because a nine point game or Wolf just aren't nearly as fun.

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I don't see how this isn't mentioned yet.

My #1 pet peave is the guy you play with, who swears he shoots "in the low 80's" and shoots about 110 and doesn't count half his strokes.

You know the type of guy. He takes a mulligan on the first hole(I don't mind a mulligan occasionally...I'm not the tournament director) then you quickly realize that he's telling you he's making bogeys on every hole. He always seems to find his ball when everyone thinks it's in the trees. He doesn't improve his lie 2 inches, he improves it 6 feet. etc.

Then you finish the round. He tells you his score, and you just want to punch him in the face.

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I don't see how this isn't mentioned yet.

My #1 pet peave is the guy you play with, who swears he shoots "in the low 80's" and shoots about 110 and doesn't count half his strokes.

You know the type of guy. He takes a mulligan on the first hole(I don't mind a mulligan occasionally...I'm not the tournament director) then you quickly realize that he's telling you he's making bogeys on every hole. He always seems to find his ball when everyone thinks it's in the trees. He doesn't improve his lie 2 inches, he improves it 6 feet. etc.

Then you finish the round. He tells you his score, and you just want to punch him in the face.

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awww yes....but this is more funny to me than annoying.

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I don't see how this isn't mentioned yet.

My #1 pet peave is the guy you play with, who swears he shoots "in the low 80's" and shoots about 110 and doesn't count half his strokes.

You know the type of guy. He takes a mulligan on the first hole(I don't mind a mulligan occasionally...I'm not the tournament director) then you quickly realize that he's telling you he's making bogeys on every hole. He always seems to find his ball when everyone thinks it's in the trees. He doesn't improve his lie 2 inches, he improves it 6 feet. etc.

Then you finish the round. He tells you his score, and you just want to punch him in the face.

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awww yes....but this is more funny to me than annoying.

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When I shoot 75, it's funny.

When I shoot 82, it's annoying. :-)

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When they bail out on tee times. Plan a foursome a week in advance, they call one hour before tee time..."sorry can't make it." F.............. two of my golf buddies are notorious for doing this. One just did it to me today for our tee time on Sunday. Hope I can find a fourth. I don't really mind golfing with strangers, but I'd rather golf with friends (who are as bad as I am.)

On the course, not much bugs me. FWIW, I know I'm not very good (shoot in the 100's) so I don't waste time with many practice swings or reading putts. But sometimes I struggle and kick my ball up the fairway 50 yards at a time, or blade my ball back and forth across the green. So please be patient with golfers who are struggling and playing slow...esp. if it's a muni course where you expect to find muni hacks. If I think I'm taking up too much time, I'll just pick up. I really don't care about every little shot.

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This is probably the winner. Also Scottie, there is a huge difference in playing with someone that shoots 100+ that is looking at every shot like their a pro, and one like you. I actually love playing with 90+ shooters cause we just have a good time and don't give a hoot. The score one shoots really has nothing to do with how enjoyable you are to play with to me.

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Maybe this is just me, but I have noticed courses where the majority of people walk the course tend to play a lot faster than courses where the majority of people ride. I feel like in general the people who always drive carts are a lot worse golfers than the people that walk the course, and this comes from a lot of experience. Anyway I pretty much hate any round that takes over 3.5 hours, and I'm drunk but I really hate golf carts.

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I would have to agree with you here. IME, the walkers are almost always better players and generally have more respect for the game than most of the hacks who like to ride around in the cart, drink beer and spray the ball all over the place. That combined with the fact that each person can chase down their own ball independently and be ready to go when their fellow player hits makes the walkers faster players imo.