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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 ...
bat shit crazy hunting ground
  07/02/25
of course. foursomes more often when we’re playing at ...
frum cobalt coldplay fan hell
  07/02/25
I'm with you. It's getting a little stale. Only so many time...
bat shit crazy hunting ground
  07/02/25
it’s match play so you’re watching every shot to...
frum cobalt coldplay fan hell
  07/02/25
Second question: Is there money involved?
bat shit crazy hunting ground
  07/02/25
sometimes. no more than a few hundred if it’s a straig...
frum cobalt coldplay fan hell
  07/02/25
We really have to start doing this.
bat shit crazy hunting ground
  07/02/25
There's a good low stakes betting game you can play that's f...
Floppy foreskin
  07/02/25
Cr, where could xo poa golfers ever find such an autist
transparent kitchen idiot
  07/02/25
Yeah that’s too much work.
bat shit crazy hunting ground
  07/02/25
lol @ a OP and his brown friends kicking balls out of trees ...
Greedy indecent jap
  07/02/25
50-50, but only lame "competition" like skins or l...
Massive Cocky Church Queen Of The Night
  07/02/25
Fair. Yeah, huge skill disparity in my group.
bat shit crazy hunting ground
  07/02/25
youre graded against yourself in golf lmao
180 place of business ape
  07/02/25
Nah my golf buddies are all chill and supportive One of t...
Floppy foreskin
  07/02/25
Was great off the drive today. But the approach shots were a...
bat shit crazy hunting ground
  07/02/25
I meant to email you but drowning at work. Sounds like you g...
Floppy foreskin
  07/02/25
No worries, always down to mix it up now and then
bat shit crazy hunting ground
  07/02/25
Not usually. Sometimes if someone is having an off day we j...
spruce wild menage shitlib
  07/02/25
I think it is entirely fair to insist that if someone is goi...
charismatic shrine
  07/02/25
Yeah that's true. Just need to find the right crew I guess.
bat shit crazy hunting ground
  07/03/25
I have a friend who is a beginner who cheated so terribly th...
bearded indian lodge
  07/07/25
tbf stopping a putt and telling a golfer not to finish the h...
charismatic shrine
  07/07/25
I'm giving a beginner the 5th putt (may have been the 4th) n...
bearded indian lodge
  07/07/25
but that just retards their development, having to putt out ...
charismatic shrine
  07/07/25
😂😂 I play with a guy like that. We’ve been pl...
bat shit crazy hunting ground
  07/07/25
Absolutely. The coolest way to be a good friend is to take ...
aromatic high-end den
  07/03/25
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Talented Milk
  07/08/25
Friend I normally play with - not really competitive at all,...
bearded indian lodge
  07/03/25
Yes, with the exception of me (who rarely plays and sucks) a...
Brilliant Slippery Puppy
  07/03/25
I just shot a 59 on 9 holes Is that good
self-centered spot
  07/03/25
no
low-t dilemma
  07/07/25
i once played a round with a pair and another solo on a muni...
Indigo roast beef
  07/07/25
...
bat shit crazy hunting ground
  07/08/25
I always liked to wave and tip my hat to the prole rednecks ...
low-t dilemma
  07/08/25
doing anything with jews Sucks because they become very petu...
Overrated flickering market voyeur
  07/07/25
There was a funny golf digest article from the 90s where som...
low-t dilemma
  07/08/25
that game sounds fun
bat shit crazy hunting ground
  07/08/25
...
Citrine Locus
  07/08/25


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Date: July 2nd, 2025 2:18 PM
Author: bat shit crazy hunting ground

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...id.#49066599)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 2:29 PM
Author: frum cobalt coldplay fan hell

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...id.#49066618)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: bat shit crazy hunting ground

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...id.#49066628)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 2:49 PM
Author: frum cobalt coldplay fan hell

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...id.#49066668)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 2:37 PM
Author: bat shit crazy hunting ground

Second question: Is there money involved?

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



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 2:53 PM
Author: frum cobalt coldplay fan hell

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...id.#49066676)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 3:05 PM
Author: bat shit crazy hunting ground

We really have to start doing this.

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



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 3:10 PM
Author: Floppy foreskin

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...id.#49066709)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 3:13 PM
Author: transparent kitchen idiot

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

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



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 3:23 PM
Author: bat shit crazy hunting ground

Yeah that’s too much work.

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



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: Greedy indecent jap

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...id.#49066656)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: Massive Cocky Church Queen Of The Night

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...id.#49066657)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 3:06 PM
Author: bat shit crazy hunting ground

Fair. Yeah, huge skill disparity in my group.

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



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 2:57 PM
Author: 180 place of business ape

youre graded against yourself in golf lmao

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



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 3:08 PM
Author: Floppy foreskin

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...id.#49066705)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 3:22 PM
Author: bat shit crazy hunting ground

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...id.#49066731)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 5:19 PM
Author: Floppy foreskin

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...id.#49067000)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 5:28 PM
Author: bat shit crazy hunting ground

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

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



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 9:28 PM
Author: spruce wild menage shitlib

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...id.#49067715)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 9:38 PM
Author: charismatic shrine

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...id.#49067722)



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Date: July 3rd, 2025 12:12 PM
Author: bat shit crazy hunting ground

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...id.#49068963)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 10:52 PM
Author: bearded indian lodge

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...id.#49081092)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: charismatic shrine

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...id.#49081116)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 11:05 PM
Author: bearded indian lodge

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...id.#49081137)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 11:12 PM
Author: charismatic shrine

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...id.#49081153)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 11:16 PM
Author: bat shit crazy hunting ground

😂😂

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...id.#49081159)



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Date: July 3rd, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: aromatic high-end den

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...id.#49068982)



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Date: July 8th, 2025 11:48 AM
Author: Talented Milk



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



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Date: July 3rd, 2025 12:30 PM
Author: bearded indian lodge

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...id.#49069004)



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Date: July 3rd, 2025 12:34 PM
Author: Brilliant Slippery Puppy

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...id.#49069010)



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Date: July 3rd, 2025 12:42 PM
Author: self-centered spot

I just shot a 59 on 9 holes

Is that good

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



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Date: July 7th, 2025 6:18 PM
Author: low-t dilemma

no

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



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Date: July 7th, 2025 11:23 PM
Author: Indigo roast beef

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...id.#49081174)



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Date: July 8th, 2025 11:46 AM
Author: bat shit crazy hunting ground



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745358&forum_id=2...id.#49082391)



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Date: July 8th, 2025 12:02 PM
Author: low-t dilemma

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...id.#49082434)



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Date: July 7th, 2025 11:32 PM
Author: Overrated flickering market voyeur

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...id.#49081194)



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Date: July 8th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: low-t dilemma

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...id.#49082089)



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Date: July 8th, 2025 11:47 AM
Author: bat shit crazy hunting ground

that game sounds fun

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



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Date: July 8th, 2025 12:07 PM
Author: Citrine Locus



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