DonW
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do you touch another players ball?
Was hesitant to post with this with the other threads concerning poor etiquette but it is really bugging me.
Friday playing in couples league my partner in scramble drives his ball from ninth tee right next to the cart path separating holes 9 and 10, players from 10 then approach his ball looking for their drive (their ball appears to be laying in the middle of ninth fairway in plain sight), one gets out of cart IDs ball as a Callaway (we could hear him clearly say this to partners still in cart) and turn back to cart, some conversation took place amongst them we could not hear and returns to the ball and picks it up. At this point still standing on ninth tee I blurt out "THAT IS NOT YOUR BALL" ( I said it too loud and with attitude), he than turns back to replace the ball while everyone else in the group starts yelling comments aimed at us which we could not hear clearly but left no doubt they thought we were total jerks. As we approach they give up looking for their ball and each drop one right behind my partners ball and hit toward the tenth green, my partner then moves his ball for relief from the cart path at which point they all start giving him crap about moving his ball/improper play, I asked them to please just continue on with their play and leave. With out missing a beat nor saying anything back to them my partner drops his second shot 10 yards short of the ninth green (which is a par five) this shuts them up and the climb into their carts and start off until they see I'm also going to play from the same location. They then stop and turn back and tell me what an (insert several derogatory comments here that should not be typed on a PG rated sight) I am, thinking this going to get really ugly and wanting to remove myself from the situation I play a fairway as quickly as I can and never look at them again thankfully my ball lands right next to my partners. At this point they ride off, my wife said they were all elbowing one another ready to give us some more crap but after seeing our shots they just drove off with out any further comments. They were younger but clearly old enough to know proper course etiquette and I suspect they all had more than their fair share of alcohol in their system.
I immediately regretted yelling out to them that it was "not their ball" but it was obvious his intent was to keep my partners ball which I have had happen one too many times to my self and clearly hearing him ID the ball (my partner had a very clear mark on his ball to identify it as his, you couldn't miss it) before he picked it up there was no reason for him to pick it up at all much less start walking away with it. I am the type to speak up and call someone out when they do something inappropriate and it bothers me if I don't speak up. I just feel like this was one of those no win situations. At what point do you shut up and just let someone take your ball? :confused2:
Was hesitant to post with this with the other threads concerning poor etiquette but it is really bugging me.
Friday playing in couples league my partner in scramble drives his ball from ninth tee right next to the cart path separating holes 9 and 10, players from 10 then approach his ball looking for their drive (their ball appears to be laying in the middle of ninth fairway in plain sight), one gets out of cart IDs ball as a Callaway (we could hear him clearly say this to partners still in cart) and turn back to cart, some conversation took place amongst them we could not hear and returns to the ball and picks it up. At this point still standing on ninth tee I blurt out "THAT IS NOT YOUR BALL" ( I said it too loud and with attitude), he than turns back to replace the ball while everyone else in the group starts yelling comments aimed at us which we could not hear clearly but left no doubt they thought we were total jerks. As we approach they give up looking for their ball and each drop one right behind my partners ball and hit toward the tenth green, my partner then moves his ball for relief from the cart path at which point they all start giving him crap about moving his ball/improper play, I asked them to please just continue on with their play and leave. With out missing a beat nor saying anything back to them my partner drops his second shot 10 yards short of the ninth green (which is a par five) this shuts them up and the climb into their carts and start off until they see I'm also going to play from the same location. They then stop and turn back and tell me what an (insert several derogatory comments here that should not be typed on a PG rated sight) I am, thinking this going to get really ugly and wanting to remove myself from the situation I play a fairway as quickly as I can and never look at them again thankfully my ball lands right next to my partners. At this point they ride off, my wife said they were all elbowing one another ready to give us some more crap but after seeing our shots they just drove off with out any further comments. They were younger but clearly old enough to know proper course etiquette and I suspect they all had more than their fair share of alcohol in their system.
I immediately regretted yelling out to them that it was "not their ball" but it was obvious his intent was to keep my partners ball which I have had happen one too many times to my self and clearly hearing him ID the ball (my partner had a very clear mark on his ball to identify it as his, you couldn't miss it) before he picked it up there was no reason for him to pick it up at all much less start walking away with it. I am the type to speak up and call someone out when they do something inappropriate and it bothers me if I don't speak up. I just feel like this was one of those no win situations. At what point do you shut up and just let someone take your ball? :confused2: