Rumpokid
Challenge Tour Pro
Not 100%,but by giving false information,and found out committee could D/Q you from competition i think.Are you obliged to tell the truth?
Opponents asking for yardages
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jp5
Q-School Graduate
I guess if you're the win-at-all-costs kind of person I can see why you would refuse.
Personally I'd rather win on the merit of my golf than denying stats to the opposition.
Personally I'd rather win on the merit of my golf than denying stats to the opposition.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Good etiquette Sir! and should become the accepted etiquette.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Naughty - IMO...and so on every hole I would start pacing yardages to the flag. I suspect you'd get pretty cheesed off with me pretty darn quickly.
The only reason you wouldn't give me a yardage is that you feel you have an advantage over me - and yet I am assured that use of a DMD or other device does not give the user an advantage.
The problem is most people who ask for yardages are in the I don't need a GPS or laser club or are too tight too buy there own.
I will give yardages from my S3 with no problem though and often announce the yardage on par 3's if I know someone hadn't got a yardage device.
I will give yardages from my S3 with no problem though and often announce the yardage on par 3's if I know someone hadn't got a yardage device.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
What other reasons are there for not having one. The only other I can think of is that for some they undermine an aspect of playing the game. I deduce that there are some out there who would give me a yardage if I lied and pretended that I had forgotten mine or it was broke? Otherwise nope! really?
dotty001
Challenge Tour Pro
Why so , if you want to know the yardages so much get yer own , they are easily available now less than the price of a fancy new driver
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
He might be a git - but he still must think it gives him an advantage over one-without.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
nah - don't want to go down that avenue of debate.
ger147
Tour Winner
Happy to give yardages whether using a DMD or one of my heavily annotated Stroke Savers.
Allanxyz
Head Pro
Got a garmin watch at the end of last year, but haven't really played much since unfortunately. I'd like to think I'd be happy to give yardages, but on the other hand I've a sneaky feeling I might get a bit annoyed if they asked me on every shot... I'd start to feel like their caddy!
Stuey01
Journeyman Pro
Presumably given your stance on these devices you would never have asked him. So he wouldn't have had the opportunity to tell you to F off?
SaintHacker
Journeyman Pro
swanny32
Journeyman Pro
I always offer to buzz the flag for them if they don't have a DMD, if I'm playing match play in one of our team competitions against another club though, not a chance.
Sid Rixon IV
Head Pro
I once played with a chap who tutted at my use of my Garmin and said he thought they should be banned.
Shortly after, when unable to spot a distance marker, he had the nerve to ask me what my watch said!!
I played in a match last week where my partner and I had kit and our opponents didn't .
We shared the info on every hole.
Shortly after, when unable to spot a distance marker, he had the nerve to ask me what my watch said!!
I played in a match last week where my partner and I had kit and our opponents didn't .
We shared the info on every hole.
AmandaJR
Money List Winner
Happy enough to give the yardage if asked and also will ask "do you want a yardage" if they seem to be struggling to see a marker etc. Think I'd get a bit narked if I was asked every time though and also draw the line at trotting across/down fairways to give accurate yardages - unless it's a friendly game.
beggsy
Journeyman Pro
If in a club comp an your not my 4bbb partner you wont be getting told simple as that buy one if you need to know distance
chrisd
Major Champion
I would always give a yardage but no one is obliged to do so!
Green Bay Hacker
Journeyman Pro
Not got a problem with it at all.
Not yet used my Sky Caddie watch in match play but just knowing the distance still leaves your opponent with the task of completing the shot.
Not yet used my Sky Caddie watch in match play but just knowing the distance still leaves your opponent with the task of completing the shot.
