Golf Sayings that make you cringe

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A few that amuse me.

"How did that not drop?
"Great pick up there."
"That could be very expensive"
"I didn't get all of that"
"I can't believe that stayed straight and didn't break."
"I have a bit of a bad back today"
 
Not so much a saying but oft trotted out on course websites: "a par here is always a good score"

I've never understood that either. I've always considered a par a good score on any hole, I've certainly never considered a par a bad score. Maybe something along the lines of this would be a better way of putting it:

"An accurate tee shot and approach is required on this long, tight,
par 4 if your going to make par"
 
"Good shot" said the moment the clubhead strikes the ball.
Followed by "that's unlucky" when the ball flies straight into the bunker it was going in all along.
 
The Americanisms on page 1 aside, none of these phrases annoy me in the slightest. I quite like most of them in fact.

Part of the tapestry of the game and something to be embraced and enjoyed.


Returning to the U.S. influence, I am reminded how irritating it is when people say the hole number as in "I got a birdie on 14" when they really mean, the 14th.
 
It's been said I know, but

You do not GAME clubs, balls or anything else, you play with them!

Get that through your thick skull, you do not GAME equipment!!
 
"It's a good line in from there" after hooking it over trees onto a neighbouring fairway. Well bloody aim that way then if it's so good. "You've dropped your lipstick" and "Does your husband play ?" if you leave it 6 inches short....really winds me up.
 
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