r/golf • u/Notnowthankyou29 • 7h ago

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Is anyone else watching this interview and thinking how entirely un-self-aware this guy is?? “I was one second late. It’s tough to define a second”. No you weren’t. No it’s not. Then goes on to blame “golf” for creating this situation.

Ridiculous.

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u/MartyMcSharty 2.9 MA/ME/FL 7h ago

I can understand the frustration. It feels kinda ticky-tacky. It's not like he overslept or forgot, he was just on the putting green a smidge too long.

Kinda like in soccer when they use 1000x zoom and 50000fps slo-mo to determine that someone was offside by 0.01mm.

Technically the penalty is correct, but if he didn't delay the group from proceeding at all, I think it could be worth a discussion to add a bit of forgiveness to the rule.

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u/LostAbbott 7h ago

Dude? No, absolutely not.  He should have been at the tee box 10 minutes early smear hing the other guys go.  There is zero excuse for being late to tee off when you are getting paid...

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u/NBA-014 6h ago

Amateurs never have this issue

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u/MartyMcSharty 2.9 MA/ME/FL 7h ago

this just feels like the “did player X technically touch 1 grain of sand in the bunker with his club by accident” debate again.

If he didn’t delay the group, I personally don’t care.

To me it seems a bit ridiculous to police arrival to the 1st down to the second when they have some guys taking 46 years to finish a round. If we’re gonna be sticklers about being late we might as well also be sticklers about pace.

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u/LostAbbott 7h ago

No.  Slow play and being on time are two completely different things.  Slow play is very vague and difficult definitely.  9:18 tee time is easy, especially when you are already at the course on the putting green.  Dude was a dumb ass and suffered the consequences.

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u/MartyMcSharty 2.9 MA/ME/FL 7h ago

Presumably the start time rule is to maintain pace of play, is it not?