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So, it's 'fess up time...

A couple of so weeks back, was playing our 10th and played an abysmal tee shot which went about 80 yards and bounced off the light rough, just into the real nasty long stuff. We spotted it easily so my two FCs wandered off after their own balls which were properly down the fairway. My ball was perched precariously in a big tuft of long grass. Took my wedge and stood about 3ft away pondering my shot. Then took a pace towards it to take my stance. The ball fell off its perch. Expletive, expletive, expletive!! No one else was close enough to see anything. I placed the ball back on its perch and just smacked it before it had chance to fall off again. All the way to the green I was repeating to myself. "I didn't touch it. I was nowhere near it. It wasn't me. I didn't move it". Three strokes to be on the green, and two putts.

FC marking my card asks "a 5?". A slight pause then I blurt "6, apenaltyshotinthegrass". Phew.. I was so close to nodding a 5. Relief.

How close have you been?
 
I was playing in a knockout competition, and had drawn a guy away at Highwoods GC. It had been a really good game, played in great spirit and I was thoroughly enjoying myself. I was 1 down and we were playing the 15th which is a long(ish) par 4. I had hooked my drive a little and after a bit of searching we found it sitting nicely in a bit of a "depression" off the fairway. My opponent walked on to get to his ball while I contemplated which iron to hit.
Finally made my decision and put my club down behind the ball but it rolled back an inch or so. It was still sitting nicely, so I said nothing and played the shot, ending up about 50 yards short of the green.
My opponent missed the green with his second, chipped on and two putted. I then played onto the green and two putted myself and my partner said "a half then".
I could have got away with it. There is no way he could have seen my ball move from where he had been standing in the fairway.
I 'fessed up. I couldn't have lived with myself afterwards. "No, your hole" I said, and told him what had happened.
He smiled and patted me on the back saying "bad luck mate, but very honest of you"
I felt sick that I had lost another hole and was now staring defeat in the face, 2 down 3 to play. But I felt good within myself.
I managed to win the next to get back to 1 down but he birdied the 17th to my par and we shook hands.
Despite losing I drove home with a clear conscience. As I say, I couldn't have lived with "what might have been".
I'm a lot of things (some good, some bad)....but I'm not a cheat.
;)
 
backwoodsman said:
So, it's 'fess up time...

A couple of so weeks back, was playing our 10th and played an abysmal tee shot which went about 80 yards and bounced off the light rough, just into the real nasty long stuff. We spotted it easily so my two FCs wandered off after their own balls which were properly down the fairway. My ball was perched precariously in a big tuft of long grass. Took my wedge and stood about 3ft away pondering my shot. Then took a pace towards it to take my stance. The ball fell off its perch. Expletive, expletive, expletive!! No one else was close enough to see anything. I placed the ball back on its perch and just smacked it before it had chance to fall off again. All the way to the green I was repeating to myself. "I didn't touch it. I was nowhere near it. It wasn't me. I didn't move it". Three strokes to be on the green, and two putts.

FC marking my card asks "a 5?". A slight pause then I blurt "6, apenaltyshotinthegrass". Phew.. I was so close to nodding a 5. Relief.

How close have you been?
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perhaps I've misread but if you didn't cause it to move then it should have been a 2 shot penalty as it must be played as it lies.
 
backwoodsman said:
So, it's 'fess up time...

A couple of so weeks back, was playing our 10th and played an abysmal tee shot which went about 80 yards and bounced off the light rough, just into the real nasty long stuff. We spotted it easily so my two FCs wandered off after their own balls which were properly down the fairway. My ball was perched precariously in a big tuft of long grass. Took my wedge and stood about 3ft away pondering my shot. Then took a pace towards it to take my stance. The ball fell off its perch. Expletive, expletive, expletive!! No one else was close enough to see anything. I placed the ball back on its perch and just smacked it before it had chance to fall off again. All the way to the green I was repeating to myself. "I didn't touch it. I was nowhere near it. It wasn't me. I didn't move it". Three strokes to be on the green, and two putts.

FC marking my card asks "a 5?". A slight pause then I blurt "6, apenaltyshotinthegrass". Phew.. I was so close to nodding a 5. Relief.

How close have you been?
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great you admitted the error but unsure why you replaced the ball? I presume it was just a knock with your friends . Anyway guess this has been eating you inside for ages to come in here to fess up :)
 
Not been close at all

Any indiscretion is immediatley pointed out

We as golfers need to ensure that we keep the game as fair as possible
 
I was playing in our club open a about 2 years ago. After the turn I was 2 under gross ( off 13 h/c I think) I maintained this for a couple more holes and then hit a drive down the right of stroke index 1. Got to the ball and wacked a really good shot from the rough to just short of the green, walked a couple of yards and saw another ball, which was the same make and number as the one I'd just hit and, of course, I'd played a wrong ball. My two playing partners were miles away recovering from poor drives but I immediately realised the need to tell them and play properly to the rules and to be honest my game slipped away from that point, but at least I could keep my head up knowing that I'd not even been tempted!

So it's not really a " get behind me moment" even though my FC's pondered as to how many would have not fessed up!
 
I'm glad this thread has been started as something happened recently that has been bugging me;













I played a shot with my shirt untucked and never told anybody.......:whistle:
 
two-clubs said:
I'm glad this thread has been started as something happened recently that has been bugging me;













I played a shot with my shirt untucked and never told anybody.......:whistle:
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She's a witch, she's a witch, burn her!! Or him.

Glad you've got that out of your system and have confessed your sins in the eyes of the ultimate spiritual and moral deity there can be. No not god, higher than that, and a bit less forgiving, the GM forum.

You are now absolved of your sins and Satan is no longer at your gate. Hallelujah Hallelujah, Shaun William Ryder will now lie down beside ya.....
 
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I very nearly didn't count a drop when tallying up shots at the end of the round. My PP said, 'so thats a 5 then?' and I said yes however managed to catch myself whilst processing the shots in my head and corrected immediately and said 'oh no I forgot the drop, its a six''.

Close call!
 
I've miscounted. Not proud but its happened. As long as the correct score gets put on the card then no harm done (there again I sold my soul to the devil many years back). I have played with some players with real counting issues which has been difficult but we get the right scores in the end.
 
Sir Scoop-A-Lot said:
I very nearly didn't count a drop when tallying up shots at the end of the round. My PP said, 'so thats a 5 then?' and I said yes however managed to catch myself whilst processing the shots in my head and corrected immediately and said 'oh no I forgot the drop, its a six''.

Close call!
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I assume you agree your score after each hole, and not at the end of the round ?
 
Played in an open at Royal st David's in their open week, and on 38 points better ball with a mate, playing the 17th.

We'd played it the day before also, as it was their festival week and I'd lost a ball on the 17th the day before in the rough short right of the green. puts one in there again and whilst looking for my ball along with another group in the same rough, one of them says did you say a Taylor made with a smiley face? Yes, says I, looks down as in elephant grass, and think yes that's mine.

Duffs it out onto the fringe. Putts it up to a foot or so. Taps it in, but when I took it out the hole, I could see that it also had a company monogram on, which today's ball hadn't. They were both say Taylor made "4"s, but only one had the company logo on. All 4 in the pairs were my mates, no-one knew except me, took my time to make sure I had it right, but was sure, so admitted it to the others. my partner also can't abide cheating so he said well done, as did the others. parred the last, and the extra 2points we would have gained would have got us a 3rd place, being honest got us about fifth.

Still glad I did it.
 
Spuddy said:
perhaps I've misread but if you didn't cause it to move then it should have been a 2 shot penalty as it must be played as it lies.
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matt71 said:
great you admitted the error but unsure why you replaced the ball? I presume it was just a knock with your friends . Anyway guess this has been eating you inside for ages to come in here to fess up :)
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It was one of those "don't quite know what I did, but no reasonable explanation other than it was something I did" moments. A heavy step, or a rustle in the grass - or something.
 
I played a wrong ball in a playoff earlier in the season, same ball, same number, but realised when I marked it on the green having played it from deepish rough.

told my opponent straight away and blobbed the hole, costing myself 2 points.

lost the playoff by a point, but didn't even think of not penalising myself, couldn't have held my head up if I hadn't.
 
had two chances yesterday, nudged the ball and inch in the fairway during address pp was next to me but watching the green and no idea what happened. Then later in the rough moving what I thought was just a small leaf turned out to have a long stem under the ball and it span in place and lifted up slightly. Called both shots on myself without any hesitation and still came in with a pb on the front nine.
 
backwoodsman said:
So, it's 'fess up time...

A couple of so weeks back, was playing our 10th and played an abysmal tee shot which went about 80 yards and bounced off the light rough, just into the real nasty long stuff. We spotted it easily so my two FCs wandered off after their own balls which were properly down the fairway. My ball was perched precariously in a big tuft of long grass. Took my wedge and stood about 3ft away pondering my shot. Then took a pace towards it to take my stance. The ball fell off its perch. Expletive, expletive, expletive!! No one else was close enough to see anything. I placed the ball back on its perch and just smacked it before it had chance to fall off again. All the way to the green I was repeating to myself. "I didn't touch it. I was nowhere near it. It wasn't me. I didn't move it". Three strokes to be on the green, and two putts.

FC marking my card asks "a 5?". A slight pause then I blurt "6, apenaltyshotinthegrass". Phew.. I was so close to nodding a 5. Relief.

How close have you been?
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Close? :confused: Whilst nobody was looking that was a fancy wee bit of work putting that ball back on it's perch :rolleyes:
 
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