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Golf Cheaters (Did you sign your scorecard?)

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Well, ohch, hope you got your $30 bucks worth. How much is a bucket at your place anyway? All this s*** I'm hearing today makes me a bit ill. As a golf purist, I'm outraged. Golf will now be placed on the same pedestal as wrestling. No wonder the articles don't cover the pro cheaters, the gates would go down, and TV would rerun a 'My Friend Flicka' movie instead of the XYZ Open.

I've always been taught, "It's not the arrow, but the Indian". No offense intended to the native americans, but it's not the tool, but the one who uses the tool at fault.

This is disheartening, I'm sure the sun is over the yardarm somewhere....


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I don't completely buy that article. The worst label a competitive golfer can attain is that of a cheater. Once you get caught dropping a ball or fudging a score, it will follow you wherever you go. It may not be known to the public, but I guarantee the guys on tour know who to watch out for. BTW, the famous major champion they are talking about is probably Vijay Singh. He is notorious.
 
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Buck Nasty;1837139; said:
I can't remember who exactly it was, Rick Reilly or Alan Shipnuck or one of the other SI golf guys wrote a really good article on cheating a few years ago, but it was more about the crazy ways people cheat at the club and amateur levels rather than on tour. I remember a couple of the more bizarre things guys got caught doing were smearing lip balm (vaseline) on the face of their driver to reduce slicing off the tee. (this works and the ball comes off like a knuckleball sacrifices some distance, but goes straight) Another guy got busted by the grounds crew because the found green lifesavers in the fairways he would flip a green lifesaver on the ground and then tee his ball up on the lifesaver. pushing the ball down in the sand is another one or stepping in the sand directly behind your ball causing it to rise up onto a small hill of sand. On the greens a guy would take a ball marker stuck to the bottom of his putter and move closer to the hole to clear some debris and wipe the ball marker off his putter onto the ground that much closer to the hole.
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My mother tells a story about how I almost choked to death on a lifesaver on a golf course when I was a small child, and how when nothing else worked, out of desperation my father grabbed me by the feet and shook me upside down like crazy (which may explain some things). Now I wonder if I was part of a conspiracy. Or maybe we were following a cheater.
 
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I agree with 14and0 I am would be a bit surprised that the cheating is that rampant on the tour. There are definitely some sticklers for the rules like Watson and Phil.

I played in some youth golf tournaments way back in the day with Jack's oldest son and he was a total bad sport.

I was always amazed at the one tournament a number of years ago when the fans moved a big rock for Tiger so he could his shot....loose impediment my ass.....
 
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I enjoy the overall challenge, and if I have to take a stroke for slicing it into the trees/water, then so be it, it is not the end of the world. To me, cheating is a sign of low self-esteem and overall bad character.

I was playing in an outing a couple of months ago that was a little different than any I have ever played in before. There were two man teams and you played 1-6 best ball, 7-12 alternating shot, 13-18 two man scramble. The other team we were paired with had an uber-competitive person who thought he should be hitting the ball like Tiger Woods even though he plays maybe 3 times a year. I think he took about 8 mulligans during the round, and hit from OB when ever he could to avoid taking strokes. Honestly, it made the round not all that fun watching someone cheat as blantantly as he did.
 
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