Biggest Golf Pet Peeve

[black knight]

"What do you do for a living?"

"I golf"...there, QED.

[LetItBe]

Or you can answer "I play golf."

So that really doesn't prove anything.

[Evan]

Okay this discussion about golf as a verb is just getting stupid. I think both sides have made their thoughts clear, so let's drop it.

[jupiterpig]

this guy I play with will go through an entire routine for a practice shot...swing...hold the finish and then address the ball...take at least 20 seconds for that and then usually make a horrible shot still...

all in all he takes 30 seconds per shot...I mean every shot and putts are worse...I only usually take 10 seconds at most and still shoot at least 20 strokes better than him...I keep telling him to stop thinking about the shot and just hit it...

So I guess what annoys me the most is when people take forever to take a shot...and especially when they then hit a bad one...

[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.

[pnazari]

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this guy I play with will go through an entire routine for a practice shot...swing...hold the finish and then address the ball...take at least 20 seconds for that and then usually make a horrible shot still...

all in all he takes 30 seconds per shot...I mean every shot and putts are worse...I only usually take 10 seconds at most and still shoot at least 20 strokes better than him...I keep telling him to stop thinking about the shot and just hit it...

So I guess what annoys me the most is when people take forever to take a shot...and especially when they then hit a bad one...

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this sounds like my regular playing partner, except my buddy just stands over the ball and waggles (like sergio used to do 3-4 years ago) for a good 20-30 seconds. he is much faster around the greens though.

[black knight]

I tend to take up to 20 seconds getting comfortable over the ball...but I more than make up for it by being very quick in getting ready to hit (and shooting scratch helps the justification too)...

But, when it's a 20-30 capper, it drives me nuts. The other thing is when they take 3-6+ practice swings...and still hit horrible shots (cuz their real swing is nothing like their practice swings)

[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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[J_V]

I think this is a geographical thing. If you are going to "play golf" it screams amateur to me. I always say I'm going to golf.