Running Tiger Woods thread

What kept that out?

 

Ball hit an iceberg.

 

In fairness, perhaps there was a ridge he was trying to navigate ... you get just a little bit on the wrong side of one of those, you wind up looking pretty damn foolish.

 

If he makes the next putt, you forget the misread. (That's golf baby!) I know it looks bad and I've done that plenty of times, but it happens, even to Crenshaw or Jack.

 

By the way, for the only-occasional golfers in the group ... asking "What kept that out?" when a member of your foursome misses a putt badly is a surefire way to make a lot of friends on the course.

 

Funny, I keep a hurling stick in my bag to offer to foursome mates when they seem to have trouble with the smaller club.

 

To my Sunday group when someone hits a piss poor putt......."What kept that out?".......the response is always "your putting stroke."

 

Will "What kept that out?" be the new Tiger shoutout replacing "GET IN THE HOLE"?

 

Now that I only rarely break 80, the shit-talking in the group is what keeps me coming back. There are three presses working on a hole, and the only guy with a stroke on it is staring down a pretty straightforward chip. He doesn't even have to get up-and-down ... just get on and two-putt ... and then he chunks it. "GET IN THE HOLE!" I don't even care if the guy's my partner ... that's good times, right there.

 

Playing in Florida two weeks ago with my cousin's husband, a great guy who's a better player than me a significant margin. We have both been undergoing excruciatingly bad putting rounds. Course has just opened after a lengthy redesign so it's cart path only. One time I'm on the opposite side of the fairway from him and he's on the cart path side. He says, "I'll bring your putter when we get to the green." He forgets. I have a 15-20 footer so I use his putter. It goes in by pure luck. So of course I hear about that. Then he takes the putter back, lines up a five-footer and misses. That was most satisfying in the banter department until my next rotten shot, which wasn't long in coming.

 

IMHO that's the beauty of golf; yes I love playing well but if I'm not with an enjoyable group, I don't care what I shoot, I will not enjoy the round.

That's primarily why I don't really play tourneys and only play with my buddies and clients.

 

In our Sunday games, the trash talk starts on the practice green....then proceeds to the first tee when everyone starts making their bets and how money pops such and such is getting.....and then it never stops.
If you don't have thick skin, don't even bother.