What do you do with a CHEAT ????????

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I played in a double tie last Wednesday evening and one of the guys we were up against cheated on at least FOUR holes;

1st ... His tee shot ends up in the rough and I spot it nestled down in the second cut of rough. After returning past HIS ball after helping his neighbour find his ball I find it sitting like a cherry on a Chelsea bun.

5th ... He blocks his tee shot out right onto the 9th fairway and I powered one past him and a lot straighter. After looking for his ball for a few moments I wander up to mine and to my surprise he shouts he has found it. I turn around and he is 20 yards behind me sitting like the preverbial CHERRY(up to this point he hasn't driven longer than 220) I look at my yardage book and my drive is sitting at 290.

7th ... He drives to the ditch and on looking at his lie my partner tells me unless he has turned into a lefty he has no shot. We turn around again, he is standing confortably with 12 inches from his heel to the ditch.

9th ... I block one out right and find the bam's Titleist so-lo from the 5th and openly offer it to him to replace the one he lost and the muppet accepted it.

11th ... He is on the green in regulation 15 ft from the hole and marks his ball 3 times, each time moving a couple of inches closer. At this point I tell him if he marks it 6 more times he will have had an ace.

15th ... His drive is dep into the follage again and he finds it on the barest softest part of the woods and he just so happened to have a clear shot to the green.

We humped them 4 and 3 and I walked away without shaking his hand but neither myself nor my partner knew what to do as this guys partner is a pal. I will tell the mate this weekend why I walked off but why am I the one feeling guilty?
 
This could be difficult as the cheat's partner is a friend of yours and accusing his partner of cheating might cast aspersions on his honesty so (assuming your pal is no cheat) I would start off by saying to your pal that you are not accusing him of anything but that you strongly suspect that his partner is cheating. Then go through, in the smae detail as in your post, the crimes committed and your evidence.

Most likely your pal will not want to be tarred with the cheater's brush and between you, you could come up with a way to approach the Cheat face to face. I would be surprised if he backed the cheater given that (a) you are a mate and (b) you are supplying seemingly incontrovertible evidence that he is as bent as a six bob note.

Good luck, not a nice thing to deal with but you know that you've got to do something.
 
I've been faced with the problem of a cheat a number of times. Most of the time they are found out in the end and the rest of the club ridicules them, however, this is not always the case. One guy I happened to play with once used to have a few 'problems' adding up. He'd tell anyone who marked his card that he had a shot or two less on every other hole and 70% of the time the daft marker believed him. When faced with marking his card one day he tried his old tricks. So, i simply wrote down the scores he actually got while letting him believe i wrote down the ones he told me. At the end of the round the scores didn't match up at all and he questioned me, only to have me tell him i knew what he was up to and would tell the commitee if he refused to sign the card... I don't think he cheated again. Well not with me in the group anyway..
 
I think a few of my friends would be having what is affectionately known as "a word" with these guys in the car park after the round. I'd just report them to the Committee though.
 
make your views known to the committee and to his partner-golf is suppose to be a honest game-all players are meant to patrol their own game and penalise themselves.
The rules are there for the benefit and enjoyment of the game for everyone.
I would take no enjoyment out of a game of golf if i won knowing i was cheating.
 
Keep a closer eye, and I mean closer. When I play with someone I suspect of fiddling I don't just let him/her alone, I stand and watch so there's no chance of the ball suddenly 'changing position' or whatever. If the person is annoyed I don't mind, if he/she ask I'll tell them why.
 
I agree with Becton, If you suspect any one of cheating just watch them play there shot. This soon stops this.

Also you can politly advise that prefered lies are not in play when you catch them teeing there ball up nice in the rough
 
I was chatting to a past captain at the range this afternoon and apparently one of our single figure golfers has just joined a different club after accusations that he was cheating. Knowing the person I was quite shocked!
 
CMAC said:
np, just curious
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We went on a golf stag weekend last month and we had a bet where the lowest scoring player had to pay the bar bill. as a group we collectively cheated to give us every possible advantage against the stag. We even made things harder by finding his ball and putting in behind a tree and stuff.....he paid the mahoosive bar bill and off we went clay pigeon shooting. We organised for him to have blank shells as the looser had to pay the bar bill. unfortunately he twigged the blanks shells when he kept missing sitters ( he's a military sniper) IT WAS A FUNNY DAY
 
hovis said:
We went on a golf stag weekend last month and we had a bet where the lowest scoring player had to pay the bar bill. as a group we collectively cheated to give us every possible advantage against the stag. We even made things harder by finding his ball and putting in behind a tree and stuff.....he paid the mahoosive bar bill and off we went clay pigeon shooting. We organised for him to have blank shells as the looser had to pay the bar bill. unfortunately he twigged the blanks shells when he kept missing sitters ( he's a military sniper) IT WAS A FUNNY DAY
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hilarious, nice 'mates'



it's loser by the way :whistle:
 
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