What is the worst lie in golf?

[furyk_or_unique]

Lots of debate potential here, but amid a myriad of hellish lies, I actually think one that at first looks fairly inoccuous is the worst.

It's the one where your ball appears to be lying on what looks like fairly lush turf, but underneath the ground is baked hard like concrete - something you don't discover until you've tried playing one of those delicate pitches where you slide the club gently under the ball and it floats up and lands softly on the green.

The reality of course is that from this most deceptive of lies the club bounces hideously and you knife it at knee height across the green - and what's even worse is that your playing partners, who have only taken a cursory glance at your lie, have every reason to believe you were sitting perfectly thus making you look a real short game buffoon.

What does anyone else think?

 

[Marko77]

bare patchy lies around the green are my least favourite especially as you say if you can't immediately tell.

unreplaced divots on fairways comes a close 2nd.

 

[Teetotal]

Plugged in sand beneath the lip of a very steep bunker. If ever I go in a bunker on links course you can guarantee my ball will end up here.

 

[John_Findlay]

Sitting up on perfectly lush flat lie.... 4 inches out of bounds.

Seriously, a bare downhiller with only 20 yards to the green with a bunker in the way. When I go to Hell I'll be asked to play these for the rest of eternity.

 

[holein1]

1st- I agree with TeeTotal when the ball is plugged at the lip of a bunker.

2nd- Behind a tree with no way through except backwards.

 

[birdieman]

Ball lying in Dogsh1t - it might be a movable obstruction but do you really want to touch it? If you are forced to play as it lies...lookout you wont be welcome in the clubhouse!

 

[OOB]

For me it's a downhill and cross slope lie.

I can deal with the horrid lies that pop up when in trouble, (I learnt the whole game from a position of being in the thick stuff)

Trying to hit a 3 or 4 iron approach cleanly from a undulating fairway is nightmare time for me- I'd prefer to play a 5 or 6 knowing I will be short.

 

[thebelgie24]

honestly darling i'd honestly be with you than those three every week !

 

[madandra]

My worst lie in golf.

New driver ???? Naw hen, av had it years.

 

[rgs]

Playing your second from behind the tee box.!!! Happened to me on the first hole when my tee shot hit a bin on the tee box just ahead of our tee box-Ball sailed high and over my head.

On a serious note-under the lip of a bunker.

 

[Lipout]

Playing a decisive hole in a tough match and your oppponent drives out of bounds, in water or in the cabbage patch and you say "oh, bad luck."
Having said that would it be unsporting if i said to myself as his ball flies close to the OOB, "get over that fence you balata!"

 

[shanker]

Playing your second from behind the tee box.!!! Happened to me on the first hole when my tee shot hit a bin on the tee box just ahead of our tee box-Ball sailed high and over my head.

Six or seven years ago I was playing in a competition on a sand course in the Middle East where the tees were on concrete platforms. On the opening hole my Thai partner hit the ladies tee and it rebounded a 100 yards behind us. He duffed his second and was playing three from more than 50 yards behind where he had started.

 

[USER1999]

Being in six inch rough, sat on the only bare patch for miles, with a short pitch over a bunker to a tight pin.