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Golf Cheaters (Did you sign your scorecard?)

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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
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John Huggan: The elephant in the locker room

You may not want to hear this, but golf at every level is rife with cheating. Well, OK, rife may be too strong a word. But it's out there, at every level of the game up to and including the professional level, where the temptation to transgress is obviously increased by the often huge financial rewards available. You'll never read the names of those involved though. Officialdom doesn't want you to know who they are (and the legal implications of publicly exposing the culprits don't help either). Some, in fact, are really quite famous. One multiple major champion, by way of example, is a notorious cheat and the subject of any number of head-shaking locker room tales. Ryder Cup players are not immune either. At least one is tainted forever by his serial cheating. And there are others, many of whom have won events through the most dubious of methods. Every year it goes on and on, right up to the present day. During this past season on the European Tour there was at least one instance where a pro, outraged by the behaviour of his playing companion, refused to sign that fellow competitor's card. Not that anything came of it. In such instances, tour officials invariably take it upon themselves to attest the disputed numbers

Read more: http://sport.scotsman.com/golf/John-Huggan-The-elephant-in.6665491.jp?articlepage=1​
 
I caddied a lot in my days.. and in a number of PGA events..

there's lots of ways to cheat... moving obstructions illegally.. put your ball mark down AHEAD of the ball.. then replace the ball with the ball mark BEHIND the ball... moves it closer plus gets away from indents... all the way to reaching down to your ball with a ball in your palm.. laying the new one down on top of the sand while you push the egged ball into the sand and out of sight... many violations are only noted because a golfer self-claims the violation
 
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Wow. golf is the only sport where one calls a penalty on oneself. supposedly a gentlemen's sport. This thread is a mind blower, specially that Jack's son is one of the worse offenders.....gotta believe that if a person see's their son/daughter 'cheating' they'd pretty darn quick correct that action. Also, don't other golfers call errors on other players?

Inadvertant cheating or minor cheating in golf is always done (ever bump a ball, post a score lower than you made, give yourself a 6 foot putt because you'd 'had enough' that hole?). But all I can say is Wow. Anyone got some instances of this? I remember Watson calling out Player on the Skins Game, and Player saying there was a 'misunderstanding', and Watson said nothing......but maybe I'm too much a Polyanna....


:gobucks3::gobucks4::banger:
 
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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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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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Do they sell green lifesavers or do you have to buy a bunch of the normal packs and pull out all the other colors? I'd worry about getting my irons all sticky. For me nothing is going to fix bad eye-hand coordination.
 
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I don't know if this qualifies as the type of "cheating" the article is addressing, but I will use the opportunity to clear my conscience.

Sometimes at the driving range if I still have kinks in my swing and only a few balls left in the bucket I will surreptitiously unzip my bag and when I am certain nobody is looking - hit a few of my own balls.

I once hit three full sleeves of PRO V1s and walked off the range with the proprietor none the wiser.
 
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Oh8ch;1837203; said:
I don't know if this qualifies as the type of "cheating" the article is addressing, but I will use the opportunity to clear my conscience.

Sometimes at the driving range if I still have kinks in my swing and only a few balls left in the bucket I will surreptitiously unzip my bag and when I am certain nobody is looking - hit a few of my own balls.

I once hit three full sleeves of PRO V1s and walked off the range with the proprietor none the wiser.
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hahahaha trolling if i ever saw it:biggrin:
 
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At the Memorial a few years back.... I no shit watched Jim Furyck's caddy cleaning his ball wih a towell on the green while the other guy was putting. He then dropped the ball onto the putting surface and it rolled about 4 feet... when he did it it looked so deliberate and Furyck watches it out of the corner of his eye. It really looked like he was trying to give him an idea of the speed of that green....It was on the 17th
 
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