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[Rick Shefchik]

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Those of us who do know the rules (most of 'em, anyway) are then put in the position of being the arbiter and enforcer, which can be dicey.

A couple of weeks ago I played in a four-ball match against a father and son. The father was not having a good day, topping shots often and so severely that a couple of them hopped sideways and almost struck their cart. I didn't want to have to call that penalty on them, so I called the son over and reminded him of the rule about striking one's own partner or equipment -- two shot penalty. Without actually giving advice, I was trying to suggest that he park the cart farther away when his dad was hitting shots. He nodded seriously and thanked me, saying he understood. For the rest of the round, he continued to park their cart right next to his father when the old guy was hitting.

Of course, it is a one stroke penalty, not two.  And advising other players about possible rules infractions is not advice.  

Thanks, Dale. That's why I hate being rules cop. I'm not very good at it.

Plus, I didn't mention it was match play. Loss of hole, no?

[Joel Zuckerman]

RTJ Jr. & Rees. - Both the Mannings and the Jones' had to work in the shadow of their fathers.

I would suggest that Peyton has cast a much longer shadow than his father at this point....

[Dale Jackson]

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Those of us who do know the rules (most of 'em, anyway) are then put in the position of being the arbiter and enforcer, which can be dicey.

A couple of weeks ago I played in a four-ball match against a father and son. The father was not having a good day, topping shots often and so severely that a couple of them hopped sideways and almost struck their cart. I didn't want to have to call that penalty on them, so I called the son over and reminded him of the rule about striking one's own partner or equipment -- two shot penalty. Without actually giving advice, I was trying to suggest that he park the cart farther away when his dad was hitting shots. He nodded seriously and thanked me, saying he understood. For the rest of the round, he continued to park their cart right next to his father when the old guy was hitting.

Of course, it is a one stroke penalty, not two.  And advising other players about possible rules infractions is not advice.  

Thanks, Dale. That's why I hate being rules cop. I'm not very good at it.

Plus, I didn't mention it was match play. Loss of hole, no?

Nope, still just 1 stroke!

[Randy Thompson]

That is my strategy on just about any thread I start on here, including this one.  However, most of these threads max out at about 3-4 pages.  On the other hand, someone says college football, and it ignites a 14 page thread.

Sports Illustrated didn't write an article about Golf Club Atlas because of its College Football threads.
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And Sports Illustrated biggest selling issue is the swim suit issue and has nothing to with Sports, so it all comes down to sex, I vote we talk about SEX on GCA bet that could produce a 28 page thread if we could stop Ran form deleting it!

[Doug Wright]

Any chance that members of golf courses that prove to have no adequate defence against the best players in the world (akin, to say, the way in which the Orange Crush proved futile against that All-American hero, Roger Staubach) try to turn that negative/defeat into a positive by claiming that their course has been unchanged since an young amateur ODG (akin, to say, Coach Red Miller) first designed it and that its only flaw is not an aging infrastructure (akin, to say, Craig Morton) but instead due to "modern technology" (like, for example, Coach Landry's Flex Defence and Shot-Gun Formation)?

Peter, you're dating yourself but well analogized! Unfortunately, the "Orange Crush" was not comprised of the best players in the world...

[Tim Leahy]

How difficult is it to just skip the threads that don't interest you?
And, Notre Dame was robbed!

[Randy Thompson]

And Sports Illustrated biggest selling issue is the swim suit issue and has nothing to with Sports, so it all comes down to sex, I vote we talk about SEX on GCA bet that could produce a 28 page thread if we could stop Ran form deleting it!

The only thing I can think would be more fun than talking sex on this website is showering with all you guys after a golf outing.    Jesus, Randy.

My god Kelly, you still prefer football to sex?

[Dan Smoot]

RTJ Jr. & Rees. - Both the Mannings and the Jones' had to work in the shadow of their fathers.

I would suggest that Peyton has cast a much longer shadow than his father at this point....

Then again Peyton never had to play a foursome with the partners that Archie had to.  Archie was quite talented in his own right, just unfortunate in the circumstances of playing the European role in pre 1970 Ryder Cup