Most Broken Rules in Golf ?

[thecoldeye]

1- Hitting off of towels
2- Posting phony scores to prop up your fake handicap

What the HELL?

Pretty much exactly what I was thinking...

-Lucky7

Sorry guys, I was referring to a certain overweight website operator who pull hooks his tour issued drivers

[jaylasvegas]

1- Hitting off of towels
2- Posting phony scores to prop up your fake handicap

wow i cant believe you remembered that  hitting off of towels in the desert  post

[thecoldeye]

1- Hitting off of towels
2- Posting phony scores to prop up your fake handicap

wow i cant believe you remembered that  hitting off of towels in the desert  post

Better question is how could anyone forget! 

[DaveTheDuffer]

1- Hitting off of towels
2- Posting phony scores to prop up your fake handicap

What the HELL?

Pretty much exactly what I was thinking...

-Lucky7

Sorry guys, I was referring to a certain overweight website operator who pull hooks his tour issued drivers

Ahhh, well I figured that on #2, just not in on the joke on #1. 

[idiotbox]

misrepresenting a golf club to make a buck.

[HornyBee]

I mean, really, what's up with Lift, Clean, and Place???   Is that golf???  Old Tom Morris would be turning in his grave...

[thecoldeye]

I mean, really, what's up with Lift, Clean, and Place???   Is that golf???  Old Tom Morris would be turning in his grave...

I moved to NC earlier this year and started playing with a group of guys who all claim 2 to 4's and I've never seen a bunch of cheaters like this in my life.  No matter the condition they are rolling their balls, conceding sidehill 2 footers and playing lift, clean, and cheat if there is a spec of dirt of their ball.  I gave it about a month with these guys and had to bail.  It drives me crazy seeing guys post low scores when they are not playing the ball down and into the cup.

[DaveTheDuffer]

I mean, really, what's up with Lift, Clean, and Place???   Is that golf???  Old Tom Morris would be turning in his grave...

I moved to NC earlier this year and started playing with a group of guys who all claim 2 to 4's and I've never seen a bunch of cheaters like this in my life.  No matter the condition they are rolling their balls, conceding sidehill 2 footers and playing lift, clean, and cheat if there is a spec of dirt of their ball.  I gave it about a month with these guys and had to bail.  It drives me crazy seeing guys post low scores when they are not playing the ball down and into the cup.

I think you hit on the most broken rule summary.  Moojo for you.   

[imsocrabby]

There's a group of older gentlemen that I occasionaly play with that give each other a club length of improvement on their lie.  And I'm talking ANYWHERE!  The rough, the fairway, out of a bush, onto the green...anything.  Then on some of the longer Par 4's, they move up to the front tee box.  They always send a scout about 4 holes into the round to see what everyone else is scoring.  All have erasers on their pencils.  They are always the last teams to turn in their scorecards during the scrambles....they come in take a pee and then miraculously their score is one shot lower than the lowest posted.  So a few months back I talked the Pro into holding off posting all the scores until they were all turned in......the looks on their faces was priceless.  Our team's fair and square 52 (all four of us made the shots of our lives...one of those amazing days) beat their doctored 54.  I think one of them cried.




And I need to mention that the club that is most used for is their custom gripped ball retriever....fully extended.

[br61]

On a lighter side; I'm sure the most broken rule for any superho is having too many clubs in their bags. 

[Hombre]

1-  Playing with more than 14 clubs
2-  Taking Mulligan's
3-  Not playing ball as it lies
4-  Not taking stroke and distance for out of bounds or lost ball
5-  Taking/giving advice on club(s) used
6-  Not holing out putts
7-  grounding club in hazard
8-  Using other golfers equipment
9-  Using two different balls on same hole, 1st to reach green, 2nd to putt with
10- Post false scores to doctor handicap

[M0stly harm13ss]

They're ALL broken frequently, usually intentionally. If I had to venture a guess it would be playing the ball as it lies. It's rare to see anyone play the ball down in any situation. Number two would be gimmes.

What really amuses me is how people will follow a few rules as long as they're not inconvenient and when they do adhere to them they'll make it as noticable as possible. When given a free drop they'll mark out their club-length and drop from shoulder height making sure that everyone sees them doing it. Then, once the show it over they'll move the ball to a better lie. I think the funniest guys are the ones who will mark their ball by placing the coin between the ball and the hole and then replacing the ball in front of the coin. I actually saw a guy who did that 3 or 4 times every green. He tried covering it by faking being unable to line up the alignment mark on the ball with his intended putting line. So he'd mark and inch it forward, look at it while shaking his head, remark and inch it forward again, etc etc. He'd usually 3-putt anyway. I wonder how he managed to convince himself that he was fooling people. It was torture playing with the guy for 18 holes, but it was still funny enough to be worth it.

Ive played with guys that do that with there ball marker, never for money or else there would be words. but its funny to see someone so desperate for a few more inches

I think my wife is desperate for a few more inches.....but I digress 

Once happened to me in a club foresomes knockout. As my rather forthright playing partner pointed out to the guy, "If you mark that one more time, you can have it".

[gramanshafts]

Plaid pants

[Dr.Green]

Plaid pants

My Mom bought these for me - you don't like them 

[SBR67]

Plaid pants

My Mom bought these for me - you don't like them 

Hey Doc! Those are SWEET! Do you have the matching jacket?

[Dr.Green]

Plaid pants

My Mom bought these for me - you don't like them 

Hey Doc! Those are SWEET! Do you have the matching jacket?

These pants and shirt with a Nantucket red colored sportscoat .........."stylin" 

[RickB]

Plaid pants

My Mom bought these for me - you don't like them 

Hey Doc! Those are SWEET! Do you have the matching jacket?

These pants and shirt with a Nantucket red colored sportscoat .........."stylin" 

I like those! With them you're ready for the Bad Pants Open
http://www.badpantsopen.com/pic1.html

[Dr.Green]

Plaid pants

My Mom bought these for me - you don't like them 

Hey Doc! Those are SWEET! Do you have the matching jacket?

These pants and shirt with a Nantucket red colored sportscoat .........."stylin" 

I like those! With them you're ready for the Bad Pants Open
http://www.badpantsopen.com/pic1.html

Rick - I think I still have a Neru jacket and snap jacks* somewhere.

* Kerry and Steve may remember those - who else? 

[RickB]

Okay, you lost me on snap jacks. I couldn't even find any results from googling. What the heck are they?

[Dr.Green]

Rick - I couldn't find a picture to show you - they were shoes made by the Thom Mc An company in the early 60's that used a mechanical tongue to close them.

Having a pair of the two-tone ones was about as cool as it got as I remember. 

[boca102]

Playing the ball as it lies has to be the #1 broken rule without a doubt

I have a neighbor that I occasionally golf with who hardly ever plays the ball where it lies...very frustrating.

[Desmond]

1- Hitting off of towels
2- Posting phony scores to prop up your fake handicap

wow i cant believe you remembered that  hitting off of towels in the desert  post

Better question is how could anyone forget! 

I didn't forget that one ---

[777twist]

I'm a newbie, just started playing in November.  But I have to say, I know more about the rules then the guy who shoots in the low 80's, the guy who plays more than the rest of us, or the guy who took golf in school.  For the first month, we were breaking most of the rules you all speak of here.  That is, until I the Rule Nazi started looking things up.

The one rule we still break is the one about advice.  At this point, aside from the guy who shoots in the low 80's, the rest of us are really still learning.  We want (errr, I want) a true score, but I don't mind helping a guy line up his stance as we don't all have practice buddies...when we are on the coarse is where we get a lot of our practice.

One thing I think that's pretty common among all players is breaking the rules in favor of a quicker pace.  I personally think this is dumb, but I have made compromises with the rest of my group that if you want to improve your lie, take a penalty stroke.  If you go OOB and the drop would still make a difficult shot, so you want to improve that drop...TAKE 2 penalty strokes.

I hate gimmies, but they think it speeds up play...so I made it an option...as long as they make sure to count the stroke.

BTW, I'm not a big fan of the guys when you ask them their score...where they hold their fingers up to the course and start counting...when you hit more than 5 or 6 strokes, it becomes difficult to remember every little stroke.  I use Intelligolf on my Treo 650 and add a stroke in that program each time.

Anyway, one rule...if I'm understanding it correctly that people abuse is the Water Hazard rule...  They always try and drop on the hole side of the hazard...and I say, "how can you do that without getting closer to the ball...I think you have to hit from your original spot or hit on a line on the other side of the hazard...this isn't a lateral water hazard."

Also, I don't think they get the "nearest point of relief" issue...  I think most players think that means, "where I have a good clean shot at the hole."  Sometimes the NPoR isn't better than playing the ball as it lies.

The taking a drop at the point of a lost or OOB ball is probably the biggest one everyone "cheats" on.  This was something one of the guys (who thinks he's smart, hehe) was SURE was the rule.

We have modified the rules a bit to try and keep accurate scores (adding extra strokes) but also keep pace of play down.

When we are all shooting under a 100, I would hope we could all start playing by all the rules.

[danqb08]

out of reading EVERYONE'S posts. Not ONCE did anybody mention the "Leaving the flagstick in, and holing out for a putt while playing from on the green!" BOO yah 2 stroke penalty baby....

  But i did learn this rule the very hard way, i played in a high school tournament, and on the 18th hole, I chipped up to about 6 inches away to save par. I walked up and tapped it in with my wedge. I told the kid who was keeping my score, that i got a par. We signed the cards and walked to the clubhouse. The kid then announces that i actually got a 6 on the hole for leaving the flag in, and because i had already signed my card. I got DQ'd...
  After breaking that Rule, I really wanted to break the law, and kill that kid for suckering me, But I got eventually got over it(without going to jail) .

[minitour]

there's no better way to ostracize oneself from the everyday man than by reading the rules.  in one bunch i play with, arriving early and warming up seems to have become passe.  here's a list of weekly occurrences:

- taking practice putts in stroke play

(nobody walks to their bag and onto the next tee for the first few holes.  everyone's testing the green like it's the Ryder Cup)

Nothing wrong with that.  Rule 7-2 Practice During Round
A player must not make a practice stroke during play of a hole.  Between the play of two holes, a player must not make a practice stroke, except that he may practice putting or chipping on or near:
(a) the putting green of the hole last played,
(b) any practice putting green, or
(c) the teeing ground of the next hole to be played in the round,provided a practice stroke is not made from a hazard and does not unduly delay play (Rule 6-7).
Strokes made in continuing the play of a hole, the result of which has been decided, are not practice strokes.