Writing about golf, taken the plunge.

Put a link to your blog posts in the Facebook post to give your side of the story. You're clearly an honest guy who hasn't done anything wrong...

The guys from your club posting a response offering a round etc in my view are protecting the club. Have a friendly word with them and tell your side.

Too many bitter people play this game, especially when competition is involved.

Enjoying the blog...
 
Such low life plankton to go on to that web site like that and publicly undermine you. I despise them. They obviously don't understand the rules of the game or play by them. Still, in spite of what others have said here re confrontation, sometimes it's better to walk round sh^t rather than stamp on it.
 
Mike07 said:
Put a link to your blog posts in the Facebook post to give your side of the story. You're clearly an honest guy who hasn't done anything wrong...

The guys from your club posting a response offering a round etc in my view are protecting the club. Have a friendly word with them and tell your side.

Too many bitter people play this game, especially when competition is involved.

Enjoying the blog...
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You're not the only person to suggest that.
 
I'm going to be a dissenting voice, I'm afraid. You were may be right by the letter of the rules but that's an incredibly petty thing to enforce a loss of hole for. I'm not surprised it has divided opinion.
 
The incident all seems to derive from the drop earlier on the hole

The author says he “knew” his point of entry
The author also says the opponent “thought” the point of entry was somewhere else

Yet despite knowing, the author dropped where the opponent wanted it dropped and then got miffed about it!

Fast forward to the green and the author calls the guys on another rule re line etc

I need to ask then:
You say to "defuse the situation" you dropped where the opponent wanted, I’d ask you (toss’s rule book) where does it say that in the Rules of Golf?
And since you "knew" the point of entry you knowingly dropped and played from the wrong place and didn’t correct it so surely you lose the hole before he breaks a rule on the green?

Incidentally would you have called that penalty if the incident of the drop spot had never happened?
 
Slab said:
The incident all seems to derive from the drop earlier on the hole

The author says he “knew” his point of entry
The author also says the opponent “thought” the point of entry was somewhere else

Yet despite knowing, the author dropped where the opponent wanted it dropped and then got miffed about it!

Fast forward to the green and the author calls the guys on another rule re line etc

I need to ask then:
You say to "defuse the situation" you dropped where the opponent wanted, I’d ask you (toss’s rule book) where does it say that in the Rules of Golf?
And since you "knew" the point of entry you knowingly dropped and played from the wrong place and didn’t correct it so surely you lose the hole before he breaks a rule on the green?

Incidentally would you have called that penalty if the incident of the drop spot had never happened?
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What I got from it was that had the incident not happened previously RE: the drop; he would have said something along the lines of "Just so you know, for next time..." etc
 
Enjoyed the latest blog and can relate to it wholeheartedly. Great read Chris....keep up the good work. Out of interest ...when you left FP what made you choose The Essex over the likes of Colne Valley, Stisted, 3 Rivers , Benton Hall etc,etc. Each to their own just keen to hear your rationale .
 
FairwayDodger said:
I'm going to be a dissenting voice, I'm afraid. You were may be right by the letter of the rules but that's an incredibly petty thing to enforce a loss of hole for. I'm not surprised it has divided opinion.
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Hey, you're entitled to your opinion but at the end of the day, it was a rule break. As many people have since said to me, you should play by all of the rules not just the one's you choose to play by.
 
WillC said:
What I got from it was that had the incident not happened previously RE: the drop; he would have said something along the lines of "Just so you know, for next time..." etc
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Exactly this. The point Slab has made is irrelevant, as it's a match between you and your opponents so you have to mutually agree on decisions when out on the course, I wasn't happy about where he was asking me to drop the ball and felt like it was almost impossible for my ball to enter the hazard where he said it did due to the line it would have to have taken from the tee meaning that it would have hit the tree's. Maybe I should have argued a bit more than I did in that instance.
 
drewster said:
Enjoyed the latest blog and can relate to it wholeheartedly. Great read Chris....keep up the good work. Out of interest ...when you left FP what made you choose The Essex over the likes of Colne Valley, Stisted, 3 Rivers , Benton Hall etc,etc. Each to their own just keen to hear your rationale .
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I'd just played against The Essex for FP and had a really nice match against a guy called Dan who basically sold the place to me. On top of that, it's a bit closer than Stisted, Colne Valley and 3 Rivers (which I don't like) and I really don't enjoy Benton or Five Lakes.
 
FairwayDodger said:
I'm going to be a dissenting voice, I'm afraid. You were may be right by the letter of the rules but that's an incredibly petty thing to enforce a loss of hole for. I'm not surprised it has divided opinion.
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It's the rules of golf, not 'letter of the rules'. They are in black and white in a little book published by the R&A. Either we play by them or we don't! Or do we pick and choose?
 
I'm going to chuck my 2p's worth in. You are entirely correct that your opponents broke the rules and were correctly penalised, they should have known better. But, having been in similar positions in the past, I would have said something before my opponent putted along the lines of "you're not going to stand there are you?" If the match had been unpleasant before the incident I may say nothing but if not then I'd try to prevent a rule breach before it happens. You may think its an easy thing to say in hindsight but I've done similar things in matches before and I'd do it again.

As for the actions of your fellow club member who posted on FB, simply despicable.
 
lex! said:
It's the rules of golf, not 'letter of the rules'. They are in black and white in a little book published by the R&A. Either we play by them or we don't! Or do we pick and choose?
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Yeah, I get that and it's a stock answer in this sort of discussion. Truthfully, I guess I pick and choose 'cos there's no way I'd enforce a penalty for such a trivial offence as this. If I was that bothered I'd advise them of the rule and ask them to move but to see them do it, allow it to happen and then claim the hole isn't the way I'd want to win a golf match. It's just not that important.
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Hope you don't mind but I enjoyed your one about the time golf takes so much I included the link in my latest version. Apart from anything else you may hopefully see a few more people having a look at your fine efforts too.
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No problems at all Homer, the more the merrier. It seems that in todays age with YouTube vloggers etc that it's quite difficult to get people to read and follow your more traditional blog.
 
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