On Course "Advice"

[Capella]

If the "advice" is given during a comp, just tell them "that`s a 2 shot penalty for giving advice", soon shuts them up.:thup:

Yeah ... when I played my very first 9 hole comp last year, there was a lady in my fourball who kept telling me: "Oh, I know what you are doing wrong. But I am not allowed to tell you, because it is a competition. I will tell you afterwards." She repeated that pretty much after every shot I hit (I must admit I was playing awful, because I was absolutely nervous). I swear, it took a lot of effort not to strangle her and burry her body in one of the bunkers. When she offered her advice again after the round, I politely refused. She did not talk to me for weeks after that.

Another one that I really love is: "Have you thought about lessons?" (normally happens to me shortly after I had lessons, while I am still busy puzzling the bits and pieces of my swing back together again). That is about as polite as asking a fat woman if she is pregnant ... usually does not go down to well.

 

[SXRORY]

I would only ever give it to a mate. And it would only ever be something simple. Generally trying to smash the guts out of the ball tends to be our issue.
Being given advice does not really bother me. And if you re crap its highly likely I'm not going to take any notice.

 

[garyinderry]

Happy to receive any advice from anyone.

I can choose to ignore it or take it on board.

You cannot see yourself swing so a lot of times the advice is useful. It's often quite obvious to an observer.

"If I have a stone in my shoe I will take it out, not walk the rest of the round with it poking me in the foot"

 

[Garush34]

Only give advice to a mate and even then its only when they say they are struggling and ask me to have a look. Usually its no more than alignment issues and their good to go after that.

Nothing worse than getting advice when your having a terrible round and just want it to end quickly. I know they mean well but I'd rather they just didn't, I prefer the awkward silence that usually happens when your playing awful.

 

[Snelly]

I can't understand why this bothers anyone. I just say thanks for the tip and forget anything they just said.

 

[User 105]

Would never give it and would never take it either.

Just by watching me\someone swing for a few holes who knows what impact good or bad any advice would have.

IMHO, if you change one thing that will usually put something else out of sync. Most of us play with some compensations in our swings, if we are aware of them or not. The course isn't the place to be messing with that sort of thing. Recipe for disaster.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Depends who the advice is from.
I would listen intently to quite a few of my former scratch league partners, or if playing foursomes with my daughter.

If someone was being friendly and giving me duff advice, I would thank them and ignore it.

If a fellow competitor offered advice I would warn them that it was against the rules.

 

[jamielaing]

My friends can give me advice and I will take it on board. Having played with them weekly for years they know how I hit the ball and can see if I am doing something different from normal. I can do likewise for them.

I give advice to people who want it, and only people who are new to the game or are struggling. Only following them requesting it.

I hate getting advice from people that I haven't requested. I once played a bounce game with a scratch player. Having hit every fairway he decided to tell me what was wrong with my driving. I politely reminded him that I was 30 yards past him on every hole.

 

[kid2]

Never give advice unless someone asks me.
I also never remind anyone of their score while playing.
That bugs me when you know one of your playing partners is playing well and someone else says to them " If you make a bird here you'll only be 2 over"...
Bugs the beeejeeeezzzzuuuuzzzz out of me..

I'll usually also only listen to advice from players lower than I am. Although most high handicappers mean well there's a good chance anyone low has already made the same mistakes somewhere along the road that the higher handicaps struggle with...

I know one particular person that's stuck at a 17-19 H/Cap for the past 4 yrs and thinks he can buy a game. Always spending money on this club and that club thinking it will make him improve.
I've given him advice a couple of times but it seems to fall on dead ears so I've given up. And the same man could make a good golfer one day of he just put his Ego and Pride aside for a few months.