Matchplay

[Herbie]

I look at it this way, If I can't putt it, I don't deserve it. I would rather the gimme culture didn't exist.

 

[HRC99]

What a tool! What's to get angry about? Why should you give him anything? You were clearly right to make him putt it as it, by definition, cannot have been a gimme.

I wouldn't want to play with someone like that again anyway.

 

[Golfmmad]

I always putt out in practice games, if you don't practice them, there's more chance of missing when in competition play.
So it doesn't bother me at all to putt out in matchplay.

Agree with what others say and he sounds a bit of a bad loser, don't waste anymore time thinking about it.

Golfmmad.

 

[rickg]

Bigfoot.

If your given a putt, you have no alternative but to pick up the ball.

Not quite true. If you are given the putt, you can still putt out if you wish....if you miss it, it's irrelevant as the putt was conceded.

 

[Society_Fan]

100% the right thing to do. The game is 90% mental (isn't that what the magazines and pros are trying to tell us now?) and he made a bad mental decision to let it effect him.
Good decision
I've been on both sides and when it happens to you, you get on the practice green and improve.

 

[painterboy]

Bigfoot.

If your given a putt, you have no alternative but to pick up the ball.

Not quite true. If you are given the putt, you can still putt out if you wish....if you miss it, it's irrelevant as the putt was conceded.

True with regard to four-ball or best ball matchplay. See decision 2-4/6 (Rule 1-4)

 

[rickg]

Bigfoot.

If your given a putt, you have no alternative but to pick up the ball.

Not quite true. If you are given the putt, you can still putt out if you wish....if you miss it, it's irrelevant as the putt was conceded.

True with regard to four-ball or best ball matchplay. See decision 2-4/6 (Rule 1-4)

Agreed with regard to 4 ball/best ball......didn't think of the scenario where it might assist your partners putt.

 

[tommy12]

if he was good enough he should of holed it, Tough thats wat i say

 

[Smiffy]

My thought is that if he managed to miss it, I was right to ask him to hole it!

Absolutely spot on.
But had I been 3 up with 3 to play and it was for a half I might have shown my charitable side

 

[pokerjoke]

I never give a jo brand to anyone.[ugly 4 footer]and i dont like people giving me putts,always like to see it in the hole.You did the right thing.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Smiffy

Thats a lie. You don't have one unless you count giving money to Hywel

 

[DMC]

You were in the right,i would not look to concede (or be conceded) a putt from that length. Your next match against him coild be fun

 

[Faldo_Fan]

Agree with Brendy.....not on greens this time of the year....slow and bumpy....i'll see that in please?

 

[freddielong]

Well done fella 100% the right thing to have done, you know when its a gimme and you know when it isn't, his miss proves you were right and he is only moaning because he missed it.

As stated already you should expect to have to hole every putt that way any gimmes are a bonus

 

[Robobum]

This is why I love matchplay, it's that added little mind game that can help or hinder. As everyone has said 100% correct in what you did.

If I am playing against a knob and he won't give putts that really he should be giving. Go about your routine and knock them in, then as he is coming back to put the flag in crouch down and look at the line again and mutter "Hmm must have been a bit of break in there that couldn't be seen" then just walk off to the next tee and leave it playing on their mind.