Biggest Golf Pet Peeve

[phishguy]

I am a golfer who does not like to wear a glove.
I don't know what it is, I just hate using a golf glove.
I always hate when people try to "convince" me to use it. Its pretty bad when some one who shoots lower then me trys to get me to conform to there ways.

[mattnxtc]

1. Some of the courses I play with are pretty tight courses (holes right next to each other). You miss the fairway/overshoot it on a dog leg and they swap out your good ball for their crappy ball.

2. Its a crowded Saturday morning and you have people in front of you. You are in the process of hitting to the green while the group in front of you is hitting off their tees..As they finish hitting off the tee, the group behind you decides skips your hole and jumps in right in front of you further delaying you.

[JavaNut]

My biggest golf pet peeve is that this always happens to me, when I am below my handicap, never when I play badly:

[roy_miami]

My biggest pet peeve is seeing 10 cars in the parking lot but getting stuck behind foursomes all day.

[Zimmer4141]

Put another one on the board.

Unfair golf holes. I would consider an unfair hole as one that punishes shots that aren't perfect. Such a hole occured yesterday at the University of Michigan golf course. Hole #6 is a very short par 4 (320 yards). The green looks something like this. The green represents the pin position, the red is where my ball landed, the blue is where my ball ended up. I was then forced to drop off the green to chip up, hit my flop shot a bit short and into the bunker, and made 6. After my ball landed about 20 feet right of the pin.

I think that greens such as this are unfair for the fact that they give you no safe play to take. The course designer can make pins as tucked as they want to, but they should leave a bail out area where if you hit 2 solid shots and 2 solid putts you make par and move on.

[Rainbow Warrior]

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Unfair golf holes. ... I was then forced to drop off the green to chip up

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Forced to drop??

You must play it from where it was - even a chip from on the green. Penalty to drop it off green (Unplayable??)

[Zimmer4141]

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Unfair golf holes. ... I was then forced to drop off the green to chip up

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Local rule. They don't want people chipping off the green, so they let you take a free drop.
Forced to drop??

You must play it from where it was - even a chip from on the green. Penalty to drop it off green (Unplayable??)

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[KotOD]

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Local rule. They don't want people chipping off the green, so they let you take a free drop.



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I missed this part because it was quoted all funked up.

In this case, approach better, chip better or two putt it, don't blame the hole -- you know the rules going in.

[JavaNut]

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Local rule. They don't want people chipping off the green, so they let you take a free drop.



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Just one problem here. That local rule is not allowed according to the rules of golf.

The only thing you can prevent is that people play a shot from a wrong green (for which there is specific rule in the rule book) or by local rule also wrong tee grounds.

Also there is nothing in the rules that prevent anybody in using the club they want to use for that stroke.

What if somebody by accident, but not in the course of play, breaks their putter? Aren't they then allowed to put with a wedge or whatever they like? Of course they are, no local rule can prohibit them from doing that.

You should of course take the greatest care not to damage then green.

At St. Andrews at the 18th green several players have chipped because they where so far from the flag and any putting route was almost impossible in the Open Championship over the years.

I do understand that you chose the non-conflict option, why risk getting thrown off the course or getting into a heavy argument.

But aren't the local rules supposed to be approved by the USGA? In Europe the national golf associations requires that the local rules are approved. They do know that there are far too many airheads on local commitees.

[HDPM]

Sorry, you don't get to second guess Alister Mackenzie becaue you hit a poor shot or don't like the hole. It is a 320 yard hole and you missed your approach in the wrong place. Then you blew a flop shot. you should be happy you get to play there and if you haven't you might want to read some things about Mackenzie. I mean you are playing a golf course done by one of the best architects ever. Now you can complain a little if the greens are too fast for the contour designed into them. Some old greens were not meant to be that fast. Contour is interesting and people's desire for excessively fast greens can lead to less interesting golf when architects design flatter greens to accomodate the desired green speeds. I do envy your chance to play there, enjoy it. Did the renovation in the '90's do much to the hole, do you know?