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Are your casual rounds of golf with friends competitive at all?

At least in my rounds my friends and I aren't keeping score ...
diverse dog poop telephone
  07/02/25
of course. foursomes more often when we’re playing at ...
Cordovan boltzmann water buffalo
  07/02/25
I'm with you. It's getting a little stale. Only so many time...
diverse dog poop telephone
  07/02/25
it’s match play so you’re watching every shot to...
Cordovan boltzmann water buffalo
  07/02/25
Second question: Is there money involved?
diverse dog poop telephone
  07/02/25
sometimes. no more than a few hundred if it’s a straig...
Cordovan boltzmann water buffalo
  07/02/25
We really have to start doing this.
diverse dog poop telephone
  07/02/25
There's a good low stakes betting game you can play that's f...
iridescent self-centered stag film toaster
  07/02/25
Cr, where could xo poa golfers ever find such an autist
racy azn
  07/02/25
Yeah that’s too much work.
diverse dog poop telephone
  07/02/25
lol @ a OP and his brown friends kicking balls out of trees ...
stimulating library hunting ground
  07/02/25
50-50, but only lame "competition" like skins or l...
godawful lavender jap
  07/02/25
Fair. Yeah, huge skill disparity in my group.
diverse dog poop telephone
  07/02/25
youre graded against yourself in golf lmao
flesh reading party stage
  07/02/25
Nah my golf buddies are all chill and supportive One of t...
iridescent self-centered stag film toaster
  07/02/25
Was great off the drive today. But the approach shots were a...
diverse dog poop telephone
  07/02/25
I meant to email you but drowning at work. Sounds like you g...
iridescent self-centered stag film toaster
  07/02/25
No worries, always down to mix it up now and then
diverse dog poop telephone
  07/02/25
Not usually. Sometimes if someone is having an off day we j...
Saffron hyperventilating preventive strike bawdyhouse
  07/02/25
I think it is entirely fair to insist that if someone is goi...
Citrine party of the first part
  07/02/25
Yeah that's true. Just need to find the right crew I guess.
diverse dog poop telephone
  07/03/25
I have a friend who is a beginner who cheated so terribly th...
Plum potus
  07/07/25
tbf stopping a putt and telling a golfer not to finish the h...
Citrine party of the first part
  07/07/25
I'm giving a beginner the 5th putt (may have been the 4th) n...
Plum potus
  07/07/25
but that just retards their development, having to putt out ...
Citrine party of the first part
  07/07/25
😂😂 I play with a guy like that. We’ve been pl...
diverse dog poop telephone
  07/07/25
Absolutely. The coolest way to be a good friend is to take ...
twisted low-t institution round eye
  07/03/25
...
Apoplectic principal's office halford
  07/08/25
Friend I normally play with - not really competitive at all,...
Plum potus
  07/03/25
Yes, with the exception of me (who rarely plays and sucks) a...
Ivory cerebral brunch brethren
  07/03/25
I just shot a 59 on 9 holes Is that good
Contagious sandwich
  07/03/25
no
frum casino police squad
  07/07/25
i once played a round with a pair and another solo on a muni...
Olive base
  07/07/25
...
diverse dog poop telephone
  07/08/25
I always liked to wave and tip my hat to the prole rednecks ...
frum casino police squad
  07/08/25
doing anything with jews Sucks because they become very petu...
Henna idiotic feces
  07/07/25
There was a funny golf digest article from the 90s where som...
frum casino police squad
  07/08/25
that game sounds fun
diverse dog poop telephone
  07/08/25
...
White Trust Fund Locale
  07/08/25


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Date: July 2nd, 2025 2:18 PM
Author: diverse dog poop telephone

At least in my rounds my friends and I aren't keeping score against each other, and as a result the rules aren't really enforced and no one gives a shit besides God Almighty as these fuckers make up bullshit scores all day long. I grew up playing team sports so I miss the competitive element and firmly believe that you can't get better at any sport unless you're playing with the right competition. I guess the next step is to enter tournaments and such.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49066599)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 2:29 PM
Author: Cordovan boltzmann water buffalo

of course. foursomes more often when we’re playing at my club, four ball usually elsewhere.

i stop teeing it up with people who don’t want to play a match. i’m not interested in playing “just for fun” because it’s actually much less fun imo. if im gonna keep score and have it not mean anything i’d rather play by myself

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49066618)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: diverse dog poop telephone

I'm with you. It's getting a little stale. Only so many times you can play against the course.

Do opposing teams keep score for your team? Or is it honor system?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49066628)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 2:49 PM
Author: Cordovan boltzmann water buffalo

it’s match play so you’re watching every shot to see where you stand on the hole there’s not really any “keeping score” everyone knows what everyone else is putting for when we’re on the green

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49066668)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 2:37 PM
Author: diverse dog poop telephone

Second question: Is there money involved?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49066632)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 2:53 PM
Author: Cordovan boltzmann water buffalo

sometimes. no more than a few hundred if it’s a straight up match. if we’re doing presses it can get higher.

but more often it’s just shit like first round of drinks on the losers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49066676)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 3:05 PM
Author: diverse dog poop telephone

We really have to start doing this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49066701)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 3:10 PM
Author: iridescent self-centered stag film toaster

There's a good low stakes betting game you can play that's fairly handicap agnostic

First onto green, shortest to hole on green, first to sink putt from green (lowest putts)

Like $5 each per hole

But it's annoying unless you have an autistic friend to keep track of who owes/wins what the whole round

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49066709)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 3:13 PM
Author: racy azn

Cr, where could xo poa golfers ever find such an autist

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49066715)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 3:23 PM
Author: diverse dog poop telephone

Yeah that’s too much work.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49066733)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: stimulating library hunting ground

lol @ a OP and his brown friends kicking balls out of trees when nobody is looking, taking mulligans left and right, giving themselves gimmies on 6-foot putts, etc.

only white people should be allowed to play golf. OP is constantly poasting about him and his friends cheating at golf. even jews dont do this shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49066656)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: godawful lavender jap

50-50, but only lame "competition" like skins or lone wolf. That way whoever is having a shitty day can still participate and even occasionally collect.

None of us are great golfers, 10-15 handicap range. Might be different if we were better, but someone is usually playing like ass and it's no fun to lose 8 and 7 or whatever.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49066657)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 3:06 PM
Author: diverse dog poop telephone

Fair. Yeah, huge skill disparity in my group.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49066703)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 2:57 PM
Author: flesh reading party stage

youre graded against yourself in golf lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49066683)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 3:08 PM
Author: iridescent self-centered stag film toaster

Nah my golf buddies are all chill and supportive

One of them would be an amazing caddie. He tells me exactly what to do (where and how hard to hit) on the longest rolling elevated putts, and it goes in if I hit the target

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49066705)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 3:22 PM
Author: diverse dog poop telephone

Was great off the drive today. But the approach shots were all shit. I fucked up my ankle badly when my friend thought a walking bridge could fit our cart, but instead of slowly entering he gunned it. My foot was slightly outside the cart. And it all happened on the first hole so it was a shitty day. Shot a 95.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49066731)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 5:19 PM
Author: iridescent self-centered stag film toaster

I meant to email you but drowning at work. Sounds like you got a solid group of regulars already tho

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49067000)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 5:28 PM
Author: diverse dog poop telephone

No worries, always down to mix it up now and then

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49067011)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 9:28 PM
Author: Saffron hyperventilating preventive strike bawdyhouse

Not usually. Sometimes if someone is having an off day we just start scrambling

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49067715)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 9:38 PM
Author: Citrine party of the first part

I think it is entirely fair to insist that if someone is going to claim a score they adhere to the rules of golf pretty closely, but in real golf you are just out there on your own playing the course 99% of the time, the field is not on the hole with you, that is the part about golf you're supposed to care the most about so making your partners play some game if they just want to shoot a full round is dickish

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49067722)



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Date: July 3rd, 2025 12:12 PM
Author: diverse dog poop telephone

Yeah that's true. Just need to find the right crew I guess.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49068963)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 10:52 PM
Author: Plum potus

I have a friend who is a beginner who cheated so terribly the one time I played with him, it actually lowered my opinion of him as a person.

It was his first year playing, he could only advance the ball 120-150 yards at a time on a good strike...kept it pretty straight and wasn't a bad chipper, but basically a bad enough new golfer that he really doesn't need to be keeping score.

Opening hole was a par 5 and he took 5 or 6 shots to get on, and on his fourth putt I stopped the ball with my foot and told him that's good. Said "Put me down for a 6" like some dumb instagram clip of ppl lying about their score. Probably shaved 25-30 strokes off over 18 holes, then was like "94, a new personal best." A few days later made a social media post about breaking 90 for the first time his next time out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49081092)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: Citrine party of the first part

tbf stopping a putt and telling a golfer not to finish the hole is a worse thing to do than lying about how good you are at golf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49081116)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 11:05 PM
Author: Plum potus

I'm giving a beginner the 5th putt (may have been the 4th) no matter how far away it is

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49081137)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 11:12 PM
Author: Citrine party of the first part

but that just retards their development, having to putt out and know in your heart how badly you did is what makes you get better even if you pretend you didn't hit 3 of the shots you totally did

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49081153)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 11:16 PM
Author: diverse dog poop telephone

😂😂

I play with a guy like that. We’ve been playing for almost two years, took lessons together, etc. There’s another guy who started with us and he’s actually the worst of the three, but doesn’t really publicize his score probably out of shame.

The other guy sucks off the tee. I’d say on half the holes he hits a second ball after the other one either moon balls 30 yards in front or goes out of bounds. If the second one is unplayable then he drops next to whoever had the longest drive.

He has never taken a penalty stroke. His scorecards are all public on Grint, by last count he has had 5 holes in one. I now judge my own progress by whether or not I have beaten his fake score. I’m usually off by about 7 strokes though. When I got a 95 recently, which was a personal best, I checked and he had given himself an 87. We rode together and I played better than him the entire round.

It’s insane. It’s hard to get better imo playing with people like this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49081159)



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Date: July 3rd, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: twisted low-t institution round eye

Absolutely. The coolest way to be a good friend is to take a chill, casual round of golf with your bros and be a total faggot about it by competing stroke for stroke and calling out minute penalties and rule deviations.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49068982)



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Date: July 8th, 2025 11:48 AM
Author: Apoplectic principal's office halford



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49082394)



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Date: July 3rd, 2025 12:30 PM
Author: Plum potus

Friend I normally play with - not really competitive at all, we give each other putts liberally, he/his friends take favorable drops, don't gamble, really just both of us trying to beat the course as best we can

Friend back home - Foursomes always involve 2 on 2 gambling, and he'll often have a side game 1 v 1 with a member of the foursome. Very strict on gimmes. Strictly by the rules (no treating OB the same as red/yellow stakes or dropping on the other side of the hazard), with the exception of a lost ball we all agree to have been in play gets a free drop (e.g. ball plugged in the deep rough somewhere or there's tons of leaves on the ground and we can't find it). It's not really cuthroat or anything and no real shit talking, just more competitive.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49069004)



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Date: July 3rd, 2025 12:34 PM
Author: Ivory cerebral brunch brethren

Yes, with the exception of me (who rarely plays and sucks) and one friend whose basically pro level.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49069010)



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Date: July 3rd, 2025 12:42 PM
Author: Contagious sandwich

I just shot a 59 on 9 holes

Is that good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49069032)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 6:18 PM
Author: frum casino police squad

no

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49080280)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 11:23 PM
Author: Olive base

i once played a round with a pair and another solo on a muni course. the other solo casually told us at the first tee that he had a serious match coming up on the course the following weekend and that he wanted to move his ball to more difficult lies and placements but that he would make sure he didn't slow down play. it was classy the way he handled it.

on a tee on the back nine a group of young hispanic boys were on a bike path above the tee and the other solo casually told us under his breath that the boys had agreed to scream during the backswing of whoever teed off first. so he did an overly elaborate addressing of the ball and on the backswing flung his club backwards and took off running and screaming at the boys -- who immediately dashed away. i don't know why but the other solo's class and humor have stayed with me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49081174)



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Date: July 8th, 2025 11:46 AM
Author: diverse dog poop telephone



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Date: July 8th, 2025 12:02 PM
Author: frum casino police squad

I always liked to wave and tip my hat to the prole rednecks who would drive by and yell FORE while you were teeing off

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49082434)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 11:32 PM
Author: Henna idiotic feces

doing anything with jews Sucks because they become very petulant and annoying when they start Losing since they're Shitty Sports

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49081194)



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Date: July 8th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: frum casino police squad

There was a funny golf digest article from the 90s where some young golf writer was basically broke but scraped together enough $ to play Pebble Beach and was paired with three guys who normally played Nassaus "for five". The guy was sweating it because he couldn't afford to lose $15 but ended up winning three ways and realized afterwards they meant $500, so he won $1500.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49082089)



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Date: July 8th, 2025 11:47 AM
Author: diverse dog poop telephone

that game sounds fun

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49082392)



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Date: July 8th, 2025 12:07 PM
Author: White Trust Fund Locale



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2)#49082453)