Crazyface
Tour Winner
I maybe (will be) in for a battering on this but here goes:-
so playing on Saturday in a medal with my mate and the wife (who neither were playing in the medal, yes we can do this), on the 12th I'd flicked a PW shot to just right of the green into the semi rough. After waiting for the other two to play, I wandered over to where my ball should have been. Well could I find it? so the search began. After 30 sec's my mate asked if we should let the two behind though, (they weren't up to where their balls were yet!). After about a minute I waved the fellas up and continued to search. My mate then went to the edge of the rough and lent on his club as me and the wife continued to search, with me getting a tad irate as the bluddy ball had only just rolled in!!!! After about 2 mins I found the ball just on the edge of the rough with grass lolling over it to give it a nice hiding place. The relief still did not outsway my annoyance at my mate leaning on his club. Now he's still new to comp play and has only played stableford, which had we been playing I'd have given the thing up as dead. BUT WE WEREN'T. It was a medal and I hate NR'ing. I pointed out to him that it was customary, nay unwritten ettiquette, that fellow players continue to search together until the player who's ball it is calls it dead. I had told him this a few weeks earlier, as he'd done this before, just so that if we were with others playing he wouldn't annoy them by not continuing to search. He wasn't best please and voiced his disquiet over my controlled, I did my best quiet enraged voice so not to cause a big scene, lecture. When we got to the next tee, his announced that he was not going to continue as this had now soured the day, and he wasn't going to bother playing anymore! A tad dramatic I thought.
Phew.....so go on then, was I right to say something, or should I have kept my big gob shut?
so playing on Saturday in a medal with my mate and the wife (who neither were playing in the medal, yes we can do this), on the 12th I'd flicked a PW shot to just right of the green into the semi rough. After waiting for the other two to play, I wandered over to where my ball should have been. Well could I find it? so the search began. After 30 sec's my mate asked if we should let the two behind though, (they weren't up to where their balls were yet!). After about a minute I waved the fellas up and continued to search. My mate then went to the edge of the rough and lent on his club as me and the wife continued to search, with me getting a tad irate as the bluddy ball had only just rolled in!!!! After about 2 mins I found the ball just on the edge of the rough with grass lolling over it to give it a nice hiding place. The relief still did not outsway my annoyance at my mate leaning on his club. Now he's still new to comp play and has only played stableford, which had we been playing I'd have given the thing up as dead. BUT WE WEREN'T. It was a medal and I hate NR'ing. I pointed out to him that it was customary, nay unwritten ettiquette, that fellow players continue to search together until the player who's ball it is calls it dead. I had told him this a few weeks earlier, as he'd done this before, just so that if we were with others playing he wouldn't annoy them by not continuing to search. He wasn't best please and voiced his disquiet over my controlled, I did my best quiet enraged voice so not to cause a big scene, lecture. When we got to the next tee, his announced that he was not going to continue as this had now soured the day, and he wasn't going to bother playing anymore! A tad dramatic I thought.
Phew.....so go on then, was I right to say something, or should I have kept my big gob shut?
