Mr./Ms. Weekend Hacker....

kchacker · 2017-05-01T00:35:31+00:00

Mr./Ms. weekend hacker - when hitting putts on the practice green, it is perfectly fine to move more than six inches away from the hole you just hit at while...

kenner

kchacker
You'd bitch if you were hanged with a brand-new rope. ;-)

Rickochet

Sounds like people that just don't know any better. Go ahead and hit some balls to the hole where they are standing and maybe they will get the hint.

scotts33

Agreed Rick!

How about the dumb asses that hit practice pitch shots into a putting green while it's being used by those who are practice putting? 🙂

Rickochet

scotts33 How about the dumb asses that hit practice pitch shots into a putting green while it's being used by those who are practice putting?

That must be a Wisconsin thing. 😀

scotts33

Rickochet

These would be the same folks all over the nation that do 55 mph on the interstate in the left lane. I'm doing the speed limit. These folks are totally oblivious to what is going on around them. lol

Weirfan

Surprised at the intolerance displayed here for such trivial matter

FauxAmish

scotts33

This is now illegal and you can be cited in the state of Indiana no matter if you are doing the speed limit or not. Has to do with excessive time in the passing lane.

Rickochet

FauxAmish This is now illegal and you can be cited in the state of Indiana no matter if you are doing the speed limit or not. Has to do with excessive time in the passing lane.

You just have to put that orange triangle thingy on the back of your buggy.

FauxAmish

Rickochet

Graber don't put the buggy on the interstate. 😉

Bankshot

I agree. I started a thread on this topic on FGI years ago. IIRC, ChristianP suggested hitting a few line drive wedge shots at them, LOL! The best thing to do is lag a few putts at the hole they're standing next to and hope they get the hint.

kchacker

To those suggesting hit a few lag putts at the hole they're standing next to, that's what I did. Didn't seem to make much difference.

This is something I run into often and I don't consider it much more than a minor annoyance, but on the flip side it doesn't take a rocket surgeon or a pro golfer to figure it out either. This weekend, the course was packed and I encountered a situation I had never seen before. Not only did the guy stand on top of the hole as 12 other people tried to putt on a green with six holes.....

...he would literally pull the balls out of the cup, lay the putter down with the blade in the hole, then align the balls on the putter shaft a couple of inches apart in a straight line. After that exercise, he would hit them at another hole. Just plain weird.

He was wearing a sweet Journey t-shirt, though.

Weirfan

kchacker

"Don't stop believin "

hobbit

kchacker

Ask this rainman how many blades of grass are between his ball and the hole, if he can tell you - head to Vegas.

I pay little attention during practice - then again, I've twice been accused of being rude. Once when it was windy and tiny bits of my little divots (I hit very shallow ones... most of the time) were flying into the people behind me. They gave me looks so I moved further down the range. They still complained. Like WTF am I to do about the wind? The range to the other side of them was full, I had no options. They were spraying the people behind them as well.

Another time was when KenK and myself met up for a round in Orlando (as we always did in December, before he passed 😥 ) and were having a chat on the range as we hit balls before our round. The guy next to us was absolutely disgusted that we had the gall to talk on the range. Gave us stares, let out exasperated gasps, and finally moved far away once he realized we gave zero fucks. Ok snowflake - move on.

I don't know what I was trying to say here, or the moral of the story. Must be the scotch.

FauxAmish

Weirfan

LMAO !

glebert

I'm still trying to understand the concept of practicing putting. I know I must have done that at some point in the past, but it seems like a different lifetime. Then again my golf goal for the year is to get in a full round of 9 holes....

Coppertop

Just look upon it as an opportunity to wander over to the patch of flat, seldom used green that's in really good condition and put a couple of tees in the ground and do that "make the hole look huge by putting to a tee peg" drill?

Usually if someone does this I just putt to the hole anyway and only make an issue of it of they give me the stare or bitch when my ball hits their shoe or goes on their line. It's practice, I don't care if someone rolls their ball across my line by accident or trundles one into the side of my shoe, to be honest if it really bothers you, you might want to look into anger management therapy.