Testing the surface

[Threeputtkid]

What's the views out there,

Match play
golfer concedes putt then throws the ball to his opponent. Ball bounces 25 feet away at opponents feet on the edge of the green. The golfer has two putts for the hole. Opponent thanks golfer for giving him the putt and tells him he has just lost the hole for testing he surface .

??????????

 

[fundy]

Really?

Answer not printable as dont want banning!

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I would have conceded the match and walked off the course

 

[Colin L]

Tell opponent he is talking round objects and if he persists, suggest he looks up Decision 16-1d/1

http://www.usga.org/Rule-Books/Rules-of-Golf/Decision-16/#16-1d/1

 

[stevie_r]

I would have conceded the match and walked off the course

^^^^^ This

 

[MadAdey]

I would have conceded the match and walked off the course

I would have told him what I thought of him. I would inform him of the correct rule, then made my 2-putt and moved onto the next hole.

 

[chrisd]

I wouldn't accept his statement, would tell him not to be a pillock and carry on. At the end I would tell him what I thought of an opportunist like him!

 

[Threeputtkid]

Tell opponent he is talking round objects and if he persists, suggest he looks up Decision 16-1d/1

http://www.usga.org/Rule-Books/Rules-of-Golf/Decision-16/#16-1d/1

Thanks for the reply ,really helpful ,unfortunately now out of the club pairs knockout. i will send him the link and await his comments with interest.

 

[Foxholer]

Thanks for the reply ,really helpful ,unfortunately now out of the club pairs knockout. i will send him the link and await his comments with interest.

Hopefully in the form of 'sorry for being a richard-tete!'!

The guy was being an A1 pillock. Hope you didn't let it get to you.

 

[guest100718]

did you actually accept what he said?

 

[Doon frae Troon]

For me the damage was done as soon as he opened his mouth.
I would not wish to play golf or spend any time in the company of someone who thinks like that.
I would imagine that many of your club members would feel the same.
I would also have reported him to the club for exceptionally bad sportsmanship in a club event.

Was there previous?
Did you claim a hole?

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I must confess for claiming a hole for the opponents testing the surface.
It was in scratch foursomes and one guy was actually putting conceded putts back to his partner.
He had done so on two previous occasions and was low enough handicap to know better.
There was a bit of an 'edge' to the game which escalated somewhat after that.

 

[virtuocity]

I must confess for claiming a hole for the opponents testing the surface.
It was in scratch foursomes and one guy was actually putting conceded putts back to his partner.
He had done so on two previous occasions and was low enough handicap to know better.
There was a bit of an 'edge' to the game which escalated somewhat after that.

I reckon that I would have had a wee word in his ear the first time he did it and let it go unless he continued.

 

[BTatHome]

I must confess for claiming a hole for the opponents testing the surface.
It was in scratch foursomes and one guy was actually putting conceded putts back to his partner.
He had done so on two previous occasions and was low enough handicap to know better.
There was a bit of an 'edge' to the game which escalated somewhat after that.

Unless he setup to play a putt I'm not sure how you would proceed to be sure that he testing the surface. Knocking a putt back with your putter in itself is not a breach of the rule. It has to be done with intent to test, and I would have thought that mentioning it could be seen as testing would have been preferred after the first time it happened (as above). That way no breach would have been seen to happen afterwards.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

He set up for a putt and new exactly what he was doing.