"I'll just finish it off if that's OK..."

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You're playing in a competition and you putt but don't hole it. Good news is that it's in the gimme distance pretty close to the hole. You approach the ball fiddling in your pocket for your marker then have a better idea. "I'll just finish it off it that's OK" you announce.

You're then transported to a parallel universe where you don't take your normal pre-shot routine but instead you stand up to the ball and flap weakly at it. Your mind in a spin of *I should've marked this - I'll look a bit of a berk if I don't hole it - etc. etc.*

You lip out...

#WHY DO WE DO IT!!!!

Having committed this cardinal blunder many times over the years, as indeed have many of my PPs both high and low handicaps, I have sworn never to do it again. Next time I'm going to mark it, take my time and when it's my turn, give it my full attention, take my pre-shot routine and hole it, you tell yourself through the seething waves of self-loathing and anger.

Bet I don't though :confused:

# I appreciate that not everyone on here is so careless in this respect but I bet some are...Are you man or woman enough to confess? And has it cost you big in any particular competition or event?
 
Yeup.
Once at Blackmoor a few years ago (it was my 3rd putt on that green that I almost tapped in) and the next day at Camberley on the 2nd. Easy 5 :angry:
 
JohnnyDee said:
You're playing in a competition and you putt but don't hole it. Good news is that it's in the gimme distance pretty close to the hole. You approach the ball fiddling in your pocket for your marker then have a better idea. "I'll just finish it off it that's OK" you announce.

You're then transported to a parallel universe where you don't take your normal pre-shot routine but instead you stand up to the ball and flap weakly at it. Your mind in a spin of *I should've marked this - I'll look a bit of a berk if I don't hole it - etc. etc.*

You lip out...

#WHY DO WE DO IT!!!!

Having committed this cardinal blunder many times over the years, as indeed have many of my PPs both high and low handicaps, I have sworn never to do it again. Next time I'm going to mark it, take my time and when it's my turn, give it my full attention, take my pre-shot routine and hole it, you tell yourself through the seething waves of self-loathing and anger.

Bet I don't though :confused:

# I appreciate that not everyone on here is so careless in this respect but I bet some are...Are you man or woman enough to confess? And has it cost you big in any particular competition or event?
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Have done exactly that on many many occasions. Most recently was on Saturday !!!

We never learn and although I said it again that I would never commit this crime, IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN !!
 
Done it a few times

It appears there's nothing simpler than a putt that's inside grip length when it reality I've missed/miss-hit from inches before

I'm currently sticking to my latest 'never again' after doing it about 3 months ago so its still pretty fresh
 
Tend to this more often when you have a group behind on the fairway, leaning on their irons. In an attempt to save time I end up making a meal of it.
 
Didn't Hamlet have this problem?

To mark or not to mark that is the question
Whether tis nobler on the green to step up and hole the putt
Or to mark the ball and wait your turn,
And by waiting hole it? To wait, to miss
No more, and with that wait to hope we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That putting gives us. Tis a holing out
Devoutly to be wished. To mark, to wait,
To wait perchance to think, aye there’s the rub
For in that wait for thought what fears may come
When we have shuffled for our lucky coin
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so short putts.
For who would bear to contemplate the putt,
To read the break, and calculate the pace
When he might his easy par make with a quick tap in.
Who would these worries bear but that the dread of putting thrice,
That unforgiving country from whose bourn
No birdie may be made, puzzles the will
And makes us rather get it over with
Than judge the borrows that we know not of.
Thus holing out makes cowards of us all
And putts of little length and break
With this regard their rolling turns awry
And lose the chance to drop.

:mad:
 
MashieNiblick said:
Didn't Hamlet have this problem?

To mark or not to mark that is the question
Whether tis nobler on the green to step up and hole the putt
Or to mark the ball and wait your turn,
And by waiting hole it? To wait, to miss
No more, and with that wait to hope we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That putting gives us. Tis a holing out
Devoutly to be wished. To mark, to wait,
To wait perchance to think, aye there’s the rub
For in that wait for thought what fears may come
When we have shuffled for our lucky coin
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so short putts.
For who would bear to contemplate the putt,
To read the break, and calculate the pace
When he might his easy par make with a quick tap in.
Who would these worries bear but that the dread of putting thrice,
That unforgiving country from whose bourn
No birdie may be made, puzzles the will
And makes us rather get it over with
Than judge the borrows that we know not of.
Thus holing out makes cowards of us all
And putts of little length and break
With this regard their rolling turns awry
And lose the chance to drop.

:mad:
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:clap: :clap:

Hamlet's big problem was bunkers! :rolleyes:
 
MashieNiblick said:
Didn't Hamlet have this problem?

To mark or not to mark that is the question
Whether tis nobler on the green to step up and hole the putt
Or to mark the ball and wait your turn,
And by waiting hole it? To wait, to miss
No more, and with that wait to hope we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That putting gives us. Tis a holing out
Devoutly to be wished. To mark, to wait,
To wait perchance to think, aye there’s the rub
For in that wait for thought what fears may come
When we have shuffled for our lucky coin
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so short putts.
For who would bear to contemplate the putt,
To read the break, and calculate the pace
When he might his easy par make with a quick tap in.
Who would these worries bear but that the dread of putting thrice,
That unforgiving country from whose bourn
No birdie may be made, puzzles the will
And makes us rather get it over with
Than judge the borrows that we know not of.
Thus holing out makes cowards of us all
And putts of little length and break
With this regard their rolling turns awry
And lose the chance to drop.

:mad:
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Love this,very clever.
Dewsweeper
 
Hmmmm just made me think of a recent society day, going well on the green for 2 with a fortuitous 2nd, putted to within 2-3 inches for the easiest par. Being the 1st of 4 to putt out I said I would finish it off and not wishing to step on anyone's line casually went to tap it in with the back of my mallet, I felt the grass brush the sole and as I thought "oh dear" the ball had mounted the back of the putter..............!! :eek:
 
I miss quite often when playing twister on peoples lines. It really is about self control. Holding back that urge just to knock it in.
 
I'm guilty of a lot of things but thankfully this isn't one of them.

If it's unmissable one-legged one-handed then I'll tap it in. If I have to stand funny to avoid anyone's line and it's not unmissable I'll wait.
 
MashieNiblick said:
Didn't Hamlet have this problem?

To mark or not to mark that is the question
Whether tis nobler on the green to step up and hole the putt
Or to mark the ball and wait your turn,
And by waiting hole it? To wait, to miss
No more, and with that wait to hope we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That putting gives us. Tis a holing out
Devoutly to be wished. To mark, to wait,
To wait perchance to think, aye there’s the rub
For in that wait for thought what fears may come
When we have shuffled for our lucky coin
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so short putts.
For who would bear to contemplate the putt,
To read the break, and calculate the pace
When he might his easy par make with a quick tap in.
Who would these worries bear but that the dread of putting thrice,
That unforgiving country from whose bourn
No birdie may be made, puzzles the will
And makes us rather get it over with
Than judge the borrows that we know not of.
Thus holing out makes cowards of us all
And putts of little length and break
With this regard their rolling turns awry
And lose the chance to drop.

:mad:
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Normally when folk do this sort of thing I cringe, but that was rather good :whoo:

First hole, last comp, lagged a beauty to about a foot for a tap in par but it was in someone elses line, not wanting to mark and then move the marker I just thought finish it out.

We all know what happened next.
 
MashieNiblick said:
Didn't Hamlet have this problem?

To mark or not to mark that is the question
Whether tis nobler on the green to step up and hole the putt
Or to mark the ball and wait your turn,
And by waiting hole it? To wait, to miss
No more, and with that wait to hope we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That putting gives us. Tis a holing out
Devoutly to be wished. To mark, to wait,
To wait perchance to think, aye there’s the rub
For in that wait for thought what fears may come
When we have shuffled for our lucky coin
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so short putts.
For who would bear to contemplate the putt,
To read the break, and calculate the pace
When he might his easy par make with a quick tap in.
Who would these worries bear but that the dread of putting thrice,
That unforgiving country from whose bourn
No birdie may be made, puzzles the will
And makes us rather get it over with
Than judge the borrows that we know not of.
Thus holing out makes cowards of us all
And putts of little length and break
With this regard their rolling turns awry
And lose the chance to drop.

:mad:
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Excellent!:clap:

This Hamlet bloke was a member at Stratford wasn't he? I knew someone that used to play there with him called Caesar. Sadly he had to give the game up with a terminal case of the knife.:mmm:
 
Outwith standing on people's lines or having to stand unnaturally, I hate it when people go within 2 foot and don't finish it out.

Especially when their ball is on someone's line. One to the right.......if you can take your stance ok, just finish it!!!!!! Unless it's matchplay.

People who virtually kneel down on 20 foot putts, only to leave it 6 foot short, as well. Plumbobbers - don't get me started....

Takes too much time.
 
Liverbirdie said:
Outwith standing on people's lines or having to stand unnaturally, I hate it when people go within 2 foot and don't finish it out.

Especially when their ball is on someone's line. One to the right.......if you can take your stance ok, just finish it!!!!!! Unless it's matchplay.

People who virtually kneel down on 20 foot putts, only to leave it 6 foot short, as well. Plumbobbers - don't get me started....

Takes too much time.
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:whistle:
 
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