Kellfire
Blackballed
Anyone been in this situation?
I've always been of the opinion that if I break a rule inadvertently and I'm called on it then I'll hold my hands up, take all onus off the marker and tell the person to give it no second thought and apply the penalty right away and I'll have no ill will.
Last week in a competition I dragged my drive into the trees. I wasn't sure if I'd find it so I played a provisional. Walked up the hole and found my first along the tree line. Fellow competitor shouts over from where my provisional is, "You get it?" to which I respond yes. He grabs a wedge from his bag and hits my second ball over to me!!
I play my shot, walk over to him and tell him he shouldn't have done that. He grimaces and says, "Yea I know, wasn't thinking". Seems like he's going to take it on the chin so when I say I'll need to put the two shot penalty on he completely turns, face goes like thunder and his exact words were "Do whatever the **** you need to do", storms off up the hole and makes his par. As we walk off he announces loudly in front of the third member of our group, who was oblivious to what happened earlier, that he's made par. That's minus the two shots.
I couldn't believe it. He barely looked at me as we stood on the next tee and it was all I could think about and I ended up taking about a six inch deep chunk of earth as I fat the next tee shot about 30 yards, such is my state of mind. I was so taken aback by his attitude and that he was going to force me to confront him and correct his score.
In the end I wilted, bottled it and didn't apply the penalty because I felt so uncomfortable in my own game and the company I was in. I know this makes no difference, but he wasn't ever in contention with his scoring and that's how I justified it.
Now over a week on I'm still really annoyed at myself for not manning up, putting his attitude to one side and giving him the two shots.
Argh.
I've always been of the opinion that if I break a rule inadvertently and I'm called on it then I'll hold my hands up, take all onus off the marker and tell the person to give it no second thought and apply the penalty right away and I'll have no ill will.
Last week in a competition I dragged my drive into the trees. I wasn't sure if I'd find it so I played a provisional. Walked up the hole and found my first along the tree line. Fellow competitor shouts over from where my provisional is, "You get it?" to which I respond yes. He grabs a wedge from his bag and hits my second ball over to me!!
I play my shot, walk over to him and tell him he shouldn't have done that. He grimaces and says, "Yea I know, wasn't thinking". Seems like he's going to take it on the chin so when I say I'll need to put the two shot penalty on he completely turns, face goes like thunder and his exact words were "Do whatever the **** you need to do", storms off up the hole and makes his par. As we walk off he announces loudly in front of the third member of our group, who was oblivious to what happened earlier, that he's made par. That's minus the two shots.
I couldn't believe it. He barely looked at me as we stood on the next tee and it was all I could think about and I ended up taking about a six inch deep chunk of earth as I fat the next tee shot about 30 yards, such is my state of mind. I was so taken aback by his attitude and that he was going to force me to confront him and correct his score.
In the end I wilted, bottled it and didn't apply the penalty because I felt so uncomfortable in my own game and the company I was in. I know this makes no difference, but he wasn't ever in contention with his scoring and that's how I justified it.
Now over a week on I'm still really annoyed at myself for not manning up, putting his attitude to one side and giving him the two shots.
Argh.