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1: If you want to play Golf- dont take Mulligans. 2: If you want to play Golf- play your own game. In a Tournament you will play with a wide variety of players, some you won’t like. 3: he’s your friend- give him a break. rudedawg
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group of ‘real’ players….you’ll be treated like you have head – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Today I was playing a good round, about 7 over after 14 holes. On the fifteenth tee one of my playing partners teed it up and hit. He didn’t hit it well, slicing it a bit and popping it up. It came down in the fairway about 150 yards out. I stepped up, teed up my ball, and took a couple practice swings. As I was preparing to address the ball my partner started taking some practice swings and I heard him mutter something about hitting this one out better. I turned around and he was addressing another ball, preparing to hit. In disgust, I stepped back from my ball and muttered "Hit it in the damn fairway, and you’re still taking a mulligan" (he takes a lot of mulligans, I think he probably took 10 today to my one). He asked me to repeat, and I said "Hit the damn ball". So he did. I was really ticked off that not only he wanted a mulligan on a perfectly decent drive but that he started to hit AS I WAS GETTING READY TO HIT. I proceeded to double bogey the hole on the way to shooting 3 over on the last 4 holes, killing my chance at breaking 80 (my goal for every round). Was I wrong to be upset here? He seemed to think so. — Chris Fairchild Resident Director & Conservatory Faculty Shenandoah University Video gamer Golfer Sports Card Collector Orioles in 98!!!! You may not have been wrong for getting upset, but you were wrong for allowing his behavior to ruin your round. If you allow someone else to dictate your golf, it is your fault. You should have (probably): stepped back let him hit regain your composure collect your thoughts finish out a great round. Live and learn; next time you’ll know better. I know because I’ve been through that before. Good luck, Chris Of course you are right that I should have been able to keep my cool. I’m pretty serious about my game and the multiple mulligans were getting to me. Then for him tp top it off by teeing up and getting ready to hit while I was addressing the ball was too much for me to handle I guess. So I had a bad hole – hit my drive way off the fairway, shanked my second shot, pulled my third so I missed the green and it rolled down a small hill just into the trees, knocked it on and two putted. What surprised me was how well I was able to come back. On par-5 #16 I nailed a perfect drive that just barely caught an overhanging tree and only went 120 yards or so (should have been 275-300). But then I hit my driver off the turf to about 130 yards from the green (that’s about 220 yards), knocked it on and two putted for an impressive par. Then I bogeyed the next hole (bad tee shot) but got a par on the last hole, the #1 handicap hole, a 400-yard par-4. So I guess I regained my composure okay, although I sure would have liked to make my usual par or bogey on #15 and break 80. Anyway, me and my friend talked it out and even went and practiced together yesterday. He’s going to try and be more sensitive when he’s taking a mulligan (I don’t object to the occasional mulligan but the frequency is probably what was getting to me) and I’m going to try and keep my head on. We’ll play together again I’m sure. Chris — Chris Fairchild Resident Director & Conservatory Faculty Shenandoah University Video gamer Golfer Sports Card Collector Orioles in 98!!!!
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I agree, the shark can get rattled, but he does play great golf. JH
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One way to keep guys from hitting mulligans is to IMMEDIATELY start walking down the fairway as soon as the last person tees off. They may ask you to wait once or twice, but if you do it on every tee they WILL get the point.
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Another way is state at the start of the round that no Mulligans can be used. KS in NS – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – One way to keep guys from hitting mulligans is to IMMEDIATELY start walking down the fairway as soon as the last person tees off. They may ask you to wait once or twice, but if you do it on every tee they WILL get the point.
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I think you guys are making a mistake. I would rather wait the 10 seconds it takes someone to hit another ball and possibly get it on the fairway than the minutes it takes to try to find the first bad shot. Whats the big deal. You never hit a poor shot. Pleeeeaaase. "Waitress, I need two more boat drinks" Hot Sauce, Cold Beer, Golf, DJing, Jimmy Buffett and All That……what a life ; ) http://www.pcompute.com/ra/redriver.htm NO MILD!! Bobby A (BMW R1100RSL)
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I think you got mulligans and provisionals mixed up. I see no problem someone hitting a provisional. What gets me is that some players would hit into woods that has red stakes, (meaning that they can play the ball where it last enter the woods/hazard with a stroke penalty). They just use the mulligan to get around losing a stroke or two depending on how many mulligans they take. KS in NS
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I think you guys are making a mistake. I would rather wait the 10 seconds it takes someone to hit another ball and possibly get it on the fairway than the minutes it takes to try to find the first bad shot. Whats the big deal. You never hit a poor shot. Pleeeeaaase. "Waitress, I need two more boat drinks" Hot Sauce, Cold Beer, Golf, DJing, Jimmy Buffett and All That……what a life ; ) http://www.pcompute.com/ra/redriver.htm NO MILD!! Bobby A (BMW R1100RSL)
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I think you guys are making a mistake. I would rather wait the 10 seconds it takes someone to hit another ball and possibly get it on the fairway than the minutes it takes to try to find the first bad shot. Whats the big deal. You never hit a poor shot. Pleeeeaaase.
What do you call this game that you play? Is it baseball? That’s one sport I know of where you don’t have to play your foul balls. 
— Barry Smith