Have you ever reported someone for cheating?

[thecraw]

Guy I played with yesterday tried a couple of dodgy ones. I pulled him up for them straightaway. Sadly I've had to do it to him several times in the past, as have several guys in our roll up. Its minor stuff like teeing up in front of the markers. Not replacing his ball properly, and standing back of your putt to watch the line.

So I'm now a cheat in your eyes as I've been pulled up in the past for being in front of the tee markers! I didn't do it on purpose and I thought I was in line. I didn't argue the toss and simply moved my peg back a couple of inches!

Hardly think it warrants calling someone a cheat as I'm sure that 99% of people on here have been chinned for that at some stage in they're golfing life to date!

 

[bladeplayer]

Was there not a thread or rule decision on here to say this was ok in singles ? not in team format ? trying to remember so i can stand corrected ,

 

[duncan mackie]

So I'm now a cheat in your eyes as I've been pulled up in the past for being in front of the tee markers! I didn't do it on purpose and I thought I was in line. I didn't argue the toss and simply moved my peg back a couple of inches!

Hardly think it warrants calling someone a cheat as I'm sure that 99% of people on here have been chinned for that at some stage in they're golfing life to date!

an excellent example of what I was trying to say in my post - just about every element in fact!

btw, very few people I have played with actually know what constitutes being in front of the markers either, but not one for here other than as a further example of where one player may spend the entire round with the view that another player is constantly teeing up in front of the markers when they aren't.

 

[chris661]

I caught myself cheating last year in the singles. I stupidly came out of the rough with a Srixon Z-STAR 4 when I had entered the rough my ball was a Srixon 1. Noticed as I was marking my ball on the green. Picked up and walked on! Loss of hole. Just shows you need to always double check your ball. I just saw the Z-STAR on the side of the ball and assumed that it was mine and played away!

See in my opinion that's not cheating you realised a mistake which could happen to anybody and rectified it. A "real" cheat would have said nothing.....

 

[StrangelyBrown]

So I'm now a cheat in your eyes as I've been pulled up in the past for being in front of the tee markers!

Calm down amigo I'm sure that just about everyone on this board will have at one time or another will have inadvertantly broken a rule. We're only human and mistakes do happen

Once every now and then it'll happen. If you do it 5 or 6 times in a round then I'd have a different opinion

 

[thecraw]

Calm down amigo I'm sure that just about everyone on this board will have at one time or another will have inadvertantly broken a rule. We're only human and mistakes do happen

Once every now and then it'll happen. If you do it 5 or 6 times in a round then I'd have a different opinion

Quote the whole post please! I made it quite clear what I was referring too!

 

[thecraw]

See in my opinion that's not cheating you realised a mistake which could happen to anybody and rectified it. A "real" cheat would have said nothing.....

I know I know, just saying that its easy to make a mistake, now if my opponent had noticed before me it could easily have spread "I caught him trying to cheat". As Duncan Mackie says its very easy to attach stigma over something very trivial.

As per Hobbits post.

 

[Hobbit]

So I'm now a cheat in your eyes as I've been pulled up in the past for being in front of the tee markers! I didn't do it on purpose and I thought I was in line. I didn't argue the toss and simply moved my peg back a couple of inches!

Hardly think it warrants calling someone a cheat as I'm sure that 99% of people on here have been chinned for that at some stage in they're golfing life to date!

Where in my post did I call you a cheat?!

In context, with the guy in question and all his little fiddles he's a cheat.

Wind your neck in before you hurt yourself.

 

[StrangelyBrown]

Quote the whole post please! I made it quite clear what I was referring too!

I've gone back and re-read it and I'm still none-the-wiser.

Anyway, you still seem angry about something. I'll leave it at that.

 

[Ethan]

Not cheating per se, but I was at a Volvo Tour event last year, and was standing at the first tee watching the group ahead hit off. One bloke stuffed his tee shot over the trees on the right, and then said "Damn, I'd better reload" and pulled a second ball out of his pocket and hit it. then he headed off and found and played the first ball. So i said to the organiser who was acting as starter "That bloke did not properly declare a provisionals, therefore his first ball is out of play" Bloke said he would look into it. I asked him later and he said he had asked the playing partners and they agreed bloke had declared a provisional. I asked him what they said he had said, but he didn't know. The playing partners either did not understand the rules or were lying. Fortunately the guy had a score which didn't matter much.

 

[Midnight]

an excellent example of what I was trying to say in my post - just about every element in fact!

btw, very few people I have played with actually know what constitutes being in front of the markers either, but not one for here other than as a further example of where one player may spend the entire round with the view that another player is constantly teeing up in front of the markers when they aren't.

This may seem a silly question and I may of missed this, but what does constitute teeing up in front of the markers please ? I thought you were either in front or not ?

Cheers

Midnight...

 

[thecraw]

I've gone back and re-read it and I'm still none-the-wiser.

Anyway, you still seem angry about something. I'll leave it at that.

I'm far from angry about anything old bean, I'm just pointing out that someone who tees it up in front of the marker is not automatically a cheat, even if it is 3 or 4 times a round. Maybe he has one eye stronger than the other!

 

[SocketRocket]

Some years ago I was playing in the club championship (two day event) and at the end of the first day I was standing joint second. I went home and as I usually do sat down and reran each hole through my mind, it was at this point that I realised I had recorded a '4' on the second hole while I had actually hit a '5'. I rang the club Captain and explained my mistake, the Captain said that it was a genuine mistake and my card would be put right for the next day. I insisted that I was DQ'd though as I had returned a wrong score and had broken the rules.

 

[SocketRocket]

This may seem a silly question and I may of missed this, but what does constitute teeing up in front of the markers please ? I thought you were either in front or not ?

Cheers

Midnight...

Its not always cheating is it. I once teed up and drove the ball from the yellow tees on one hole by mistake when we were playing from the whites. I realised what I had done and replayed the ball from the whites and awarded myself a two shot penalty. It's not really cheating.

 

[StrangelyBrown]

I'm far from angry about anything old bean, I'm just pointing out that someone who tees it up in front of the marker is not automatically a cheat, even if it is 3 or 4 times a round. Maybe he has one eye stronger than the other!

With you now fella :thup:

I agree with you

 

[arnieboy]

Same thing happened in our Medal yesterday. I spent the whole round reminding my partners that we were playing off the whites but unfortunately the group behind forgot, played off the yellows and suffered a two shot penalty each.

 

[CMAC]

I had similar socket but opposite, strangely enough I signed for a 5 but actually took 4, realised after submitting and the committee wanted to change it as the local boy (me) would then have won their Open, I couldnt do it as thats what I had signed for and submitted.

You have to have standards in life that you stick with, the 'real' cheats will always come a cropper in time

 

[Faldono1fan]

I have had to correct the "magic pencil" brigade a few times in the past. I have also had a similar situation to the op many years ago in a medal. I was doing really well & a few holes previously had holed out my second shot for an eagle. I hit my 2nd shot at this hole just short of the green. Walked up to my ball which I thought was mine (same make & number). One of my opponents was stood next to a ball & I seen him look at it before I took the shot. As soon as I played it he said you have played the wrong ball. Here is yours (the one he was stood next to). The guy was & still is a CAT 1 player. Never understood why he didn't stop me playing the wrong ball. That was about 20 years ago. Never made the same mistake again.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

One of the courses I managed was the first in the County to have water hazards. [not laterals]
We held the County Championship for the first time in the club's short history and you should have seen the drops being taken by many of the older low handicappers. Many dropped out sideways when thier ball went into the hazards.

Seen and done a couple of 'goldfinger' ball switches in bounce games when the guy was dodgy. That is always funny to see.

 

[Midnight]

Its not always cheating is it. I once teed up and drove the ball from the yellow tees on one hole by mistake when we were playing from the whites. I realised what I had done and replayed the ball from the whites and awarded myself a two shot penalty. It's not really cheating.

Got you, I now know what you mean, I had not actually branded it as cheating , I just was not sure if another rule was there that I did not know about, that stated you could be so far in front of the tee, just like you can be so far behind the tee.