When should you shout "Fore"?

Shout as soon as it's obvious you cant see where the ball is going to land, i.e over trees or if heading to where other players might be and having honed a shout to bring in the cows from over half a mile away no one is in any doubt :thup:
 
Liverpoolphil said:
Writing over their ball passes the message but hitting it away

As I said that just makes the person as culpable of poor behaviour on a golf course

Guess I prefer just to be the bigger person and not drop down to their level.
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I don't think there's any difference between writing someone's name out in tees on the ground and turning around and putting your hands up in the air as I did the first two times for them to see and just ignore.

They could see our group every time it happened - it was just blatant disregard for our safety and a want to take their frustration out by driving into us. They saw me hit their ball away off the fairway and as I said earlier didn't even mention it when they walked past us later on after the round had ended so they knew they were in the wrong. Funnily enough they also stopped driving into us after I did it too.

You say that I should have waited until the end of the round and reported it to the committee but I disagree to be honest. If people have driven into you 3 times out of the past 4 holes (the one they didn't being a par 3...) it needs to stop because it is just dangerous. Waiting until the end of the round to report some people to a committee who probably won't do anything about it anyway is just asking to be clocked on the noggin on a later hole, and that just isn't a risk I'm prepared to take with my own safety.

Fairly sure they were guests too. Either that or new members - I hadn't seen any of the group before.
 
Scrindle said:
I don't think there's any difference between writing someone's name out in tees on the ground and turning around and putting your hands up in the air as I did the first two times for them to see and just ignore.

They could see our group every time it happened - it was just blatant disregard for our safety and a want to take their frustration out by driving into us. They saw me hit their ball away off the fairway and as I said earlier didn't even mention it when they walked past us later on after the round had ended so they knew they were in the wrong. Funnily enough they also stopped driving into us after I did it too.

You say that I should have waited until the end of the round and reported it to the committee but I disagree to be honest. If people have driven into you 3 times out of the past 4 holes (the one they didn't being a par 3...) it needs to stop because it is just dangerous. Waiting until the end of the round to report some people to a committee who probably won't do anything about it anyway is just asking to be clocked on the noggin on a later hole, and that just isn't a risk I'm prepared to take with my own safety.

Fairly sure they were guests too. Either that or new members - I hadn't seen any of the group before.
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Did you at any time even go up and mention anything to them directly ?
 
I certainly wouldn't advocate hitting balls away, back at the offenders (as has been done on here before) but I would definitely speak to the culprits. Once is a genuine error, two is rude and any more is just unnecessary and I'd be asking for an explanation
 
HomerJSimpson said:
I certainly wouldn't advocate hitting balls away, back at the offenders (as has been done on here before) but I would definitely speak to the culprits. Once is a genuine error, two is rude and any more is just unnecessary and I'd be asking for an explanation
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No. It was a busy day, rounds were already taking far too long without a further bottleneck caused by me trudging 200/250 yards back up the fairway to the tee box.
 
Scrindle said:
No. It was a busy day, rounds were already taking far too long without a further bottleneck caused by me trudging 200/250 yards back up the fairway to the tee box.
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If there was a bottleneck and play was slow, surely with holes running close or tees adjacent to greens there has to have been some opportunity to have gone over without causing a huge issue behind
 
On the second occasion go out into the fairway. If they are not looking, whistle to get their attention and put your arms out in a ''what are you doing'' manner! then as homer says, speak to them at the next available moment. Most times people are ashamed. You will only find the very odd folk who hit into people on purpose!
 
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