Region3
Ryder Cup Winner
A tale of niceness for a change 
I played a club singles matchplay tie recently, and to save having too much waiting around both of our regular partners joined us to make up a 4 ball.
The 4 of us are all mates anyway, but obviously my partner was rooting for me and the same for my opponents partner rooting for him.
It was a close match all the way, and we were all square after 17.
On 18 I hit my tee shot left and it was touch and go whether or not it would clear a water hazard, so I played a provisional, but with my opponent in the fairway there wasn't much hope of avoiding losing the match if I had to use it.
I got to where my ball would have been if it cleared the hazard and started searching. After the other 3 had played their 2nd shots they each came over to help.
I'd probably been searching for about 3 minutes and was beginning to think it was a lost cause when my opponents mate found my ball.
It was actually sitting pretty nicely and any one of us could have found it, but the fact is that a guy that wanted me to lose (in a nice way) found my ball.
I hacked it out, played on to the green and 2 putted for what 10 minutes previously seemed like a very very unlikely win.
How many other sports would your opponent or opponent's supporter do everything they could to help you at the end of a match that's tied?
Almost made me feel bad for winning, but not quite.
I played a club singles matchplay tie recently, and to save having too much waiting around both of our regular partners joined us to make up a 4 ball.
The 4 of us are all mates anyway, but obviously my partner was rooting for me and the same for my opponents partner rooting for him.
It was a close match all the way, and we were all square after 17.
On 18 I hit my tee shot left and it was touch and go whether or not it would clear a water hazard, so I played a provisional, but with my opponent in the fairway there wasn't much hope of avoiding losing the match if I had to use it.
I got to where my ball would have been if it cleared the hazard and started searching. After the other 3 had played their 2nd shots they each came over to help.
I'd probably been searching for about 3 minutes and was beginning to think it was a lost cause when my opponents mate found my ball.
It was actually sitting pretty nicely and any one of us could have found it, but the fact is that a guy that wanted me to lose (in a nice way) found my ball.
I hacked it out, played on to the green and 2 putted for what 10 minutes previously seemed like a very very unlikely win.
How many other sports would your opponent or opponent's supporter do everything they could to help you at the end of a match that's tied?
Almost made me feel bad for winning, but not quite.
