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While i was waiting on the tee yesterday, I looked at the players on the adjacent hole coming back. One guy had played his ball into the rough. It must have been behind a tree or something, as he took a look around to make sure none of his partners were looking then kicked the ball into the middle of our fairway!!! All of my partners seen him do this, should one of us have gone over and said something or is not our place to do so really?
 
I'd of let him know I seen him do it. If he was in a competition I would really go to town on him espically if your/my playing partners seen him do it.
 
I would have said something,a playing partner yesterday called foul on himself as his ball moved when he tried to move a twig,we never saw it,highly commendable.
 
You have a duty to the other competitiors in a medal/stableford to report it unless he had already NR'd by that stage. If it was a friendly I'd probably try and have a quiet one to one with him in the locker room or car park and say that I'd seen what he'd done and that I didn't think it looked good and that others at the club would go to town on him if they'd seen it (comp or not) and leave it at that.
 
I'd have shouted out "OY! You're not supposed to kick it!" then proceeded to tell all his playing partners and upload the video onto YouTube. I'd ask him his size and get the "I cheat" T-shirt printed for him free of charge.

....or I might have quietly thought to myself "you cheating bastard" and just walked by with a stern look and a shake of the head.
 
I think if it was not a comp I would have just laughed, in a comp i would have let someone else in my part deal with it cos I am a new boy. though as much as I hate a cheat I do also hate a grass.
 
as much as I hate a cheat I do also hate a grass.
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Are you for real? :)

When he pips you to your first competition win because he's kicked it to the fairway out of the rough and got up and down for par you'll change your mind.

There's no place for cheats in any sport never mind a game based on integrity and honesty such as golf.
 
as much as I hate a cheat I do also hate a grass.
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Are you for real? :)

When he pips you to your first competition win because he's kicked it to the fairway out of the rough and got up and down for par you'll change your mind.

There's no place for cheats in any sport never mind a game based on integrity and honesty such as golf.
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I trust everyone not to cheat, I would never knowingly cheat but I am not sure I would tell on someone who did in a club golf game. I am sure there is a line I would not let be crossed in life but this is not it, I dont like a grass AS MUCH as I dont like a cheat.

I also think if you win and you cheated, you know you did not win and it will not let you forget.
 
as much as I hate a cheat I do also hate a grass.
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Are you for real? :)

When he pips you to your first competition win because he's kicked it to the fairway out of the rough and got up and down for par you'll change your mind.

There's no place for cheats in any sport never mind a game based on integrity and honesty such as golf.
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I trust everyone not to cheat, I would never knowingly cheat but I am not sure I would tell on someone who did in a club golf game. I am sure there is a line I would not let be crossed in life but this is not it, I dont like a grass AS MUCH as I dont like a cheat.

I also think if you win and you cheated, you know you did not win and it will not let you forget.
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I don't see how 'being a grass' is a bad thing if you see someone blatantly cheat and he goes onto win a comp by one shot.

I have a scenario for you. Your in a 4 ball coming up to the 18th. A par 3. Your fellow group player needs to birdie the hole for a 40 pointer and potentially win the comp. He puts his tee shot OOB and plays his 3 off the tee to within a foot and sinks it for a 4. He says 'I'm going to put a birdie down'.
What's your opinion on that? Would you allow him to do that?
If so what's the difference between that and allowing someone kick a ball from behind a tree to out into the fairway in a club comp???

Or is it 'being a grass' meaning informing the club pro/comp sec. etc that a player has cheated rather than picking someone up in your group.
 
I have a scenario for you. Your in a 4 ball coming up to the 18th. A par 3. Your fellow group player needs to birdie the hole for a 40 pointer and potentially win the comp. He puts his tee shot OOB and plays his 3 off the tee to within a foot and sinks it for a 4. He says 'I'm going to put a birdie down'.
What's your opinion on that?
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Fortunately, I've never had that situation but my response, if it happened, would be something like ... "A birdie? Why? It was 3 off the tee and a 4 down."


I don't get your choice of words i.e. "Allowing him to do that....allowing someone kick a ball from behind a tree..."

"Allowing" someone to cheat makes you a cheat as well.

 
I'd have shouted....

"Oi Ruben. You are not coming on any more golfing holidays with us you cheating bastid" and wouldn't have invited him any more.

He diddled my mate Leftie
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I don't get your choice of words i.e. "Allowing him to do that....allowing someone kick a ball from behind a tree..."

"Allowing" someone to cheat makes you a cheat as well.
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I totally agree with you Leftie. Allowing someone to cheat makes you just as bad.

I was just curious to see what Alex thought as he's made a statement saying he 'hates a grass AS MUCH as a cheat'. I'm not sure to what extent he means to 'grass'.
Whether he means picking a playing parnter up on rule breaking or informing the comp sec. etc.
 
We all know local golf is rife with cheating, its not just a Player sometimes its reg 4 balls it happens in.

I play to the rules and often take penalty drops from unplayable lies, no biggie for me, you sometimes have to take your medicine.

I would have spoken to his playing partners and asked if said fella was in the comp and taken it from there.
 
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