Positioning of players in the line of your putt

But if you`re stood behind them facing their back you can`t possibly be in their eyeline?
And I don`t believe anyone would stand that close behind someone putting that it would constitute "hovering"?
 
But if you`re stood behind them facing their back you can`t possibly be in their eyeline?
And I don`t believe anyone would stand that close behind someone putting that it would constitute "hovering"?

I cited two reasons initially - What about the other I mentioned? - I don't think its right that an opponent can stand directly behind you to make it easier to judge their own putt getting free information on the break you didn't have, when it's against the rules for your own partner to do so. it only takes the odd time it helps them for you to lose captains day or the club championship, and if you saw the US players and their caddies all hovering behind our man in the Ryder cup to make their job easier then maybe you would agree, anyway it's my opinion, I wouldn't do it and always show my FC's the courtesy of standing well away as a matter or course. I cant say any more on the points i've made multiple times on this thread, so if any of you think its acceptable, then please continue to do it as it isn't against the rules, but if we're in the same 4-ball, I will politely ask you to move away. GL everyone :)
 
I cited two reasons initially - What about the other I mentioned? - I don't think its right that an opponent can stand directly behind you to make it easier to judge their own putt getting free information on the break you didn't have, when it's against the rules for your own partner to do so. it only takes the odd time it helps them for you to lose captains day or the club championship, and if you saw the US players and their caddies all hovering behind our man in the Ryder cup to make their job easier then maybe you would agree, anyway it's my opinion, I wouldn't do it and always show my FC's the courtesy of standing well away as a matter or course. I cant say any more on the points i've made multiple times on this thread, so if any of you think its acceptable, then please continue to do it as it isn't against the rules, but if we're in the same 4-ball, I will politely ask you to move away. GL everyone :)


But after the putt you are allowed to tell you partner exactly what way it broke and provide all the advice required regarding the break to help assist them.

The position of a partner/caddie also has nothing to do with stopping them reading the line or gaining such information. It is to stop them aligning themselves in a way that provides assistance to the person making the stroke.

Either way an FC with any interest in your putt will still get the info they need if they wish and you are perfectly entitled to ask them to move if they are bothering you.
 
But if you`re stood behind them facing their back you can`t possibly be in their eyeline?
And I don`t believe anyone would stand that close behind someone putting that it would constitute "hovering"?

But whilst this is your opinion and may be true for you, it does not actually address the fact that the player putting might not think the same way as you. You also don't actually know for him how far behind him constitutes 'hovering'.

So I basically don't stand behind a players back when he is putting unless he sees where I am and decides to get on with putting nonetheless - in which case I stand still where he checked me.
 
Ah. That's the sort of thing that my son writes the programmes for. I don't understand him either. :)

I'm sure there's a market for a combined golf / shoot em up game, judging by some of the Slow Play comments on here!


"Held up by a senior's four ball? Unload the bazooka!"
 
I'm sure there's a market for a combined golf / shoot em up game, judging by some of the Slow Play comments on here!


"Held up by a senior's four ball? Unload the bazooka!"

Reminds me of the South Park episode with the EA Tiger golf game where he & his then wife basically beat...... i wont spoil it for you ;)
 
To dispel another myth, there is nothing in the rules of golf that requires you to play specifically right handed or left handed, and you can't have a right handed and a left handed handicap, even if you can play either way round. It's just one player, one handicap.

Is that really a myth?!
 
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