You can tell all your friends and family that you hit a hole-in-one-and-another-one-because-the-first-one-didn't-count
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If I’m playing mulligan rules on OB shots with some buddies, I’m not changing them just because it’s a tee shot on a par 3. I don’t think you go back and brag to the clubhouse about it, but I’m damn sure gonna let him put a 1 on the card.
This isn't the wild west, we live in a society.
I was playing a round of golf with my uncle and cousin. My cousin hit his tee shot and the club head broke off. The club head landed in the middle of the fairway, while the golf ball flew off into the woods. My uncle had a few drinks in him and thought the ball landed in the fairway and complimented him on the shot.
Buddy just got into golfing during Covid, but HARD. Fully bought in to being really good. He started dating a girl shortly after that, and always brought up that she should play but she had no interest. Finally this year for her birthday he got her a basic golf set for her to try playing some this summer. First round she plays was at a work event. First part 3 she's ever played ... she hits a hole in one. My buddy nearly quit golf.
Just as clarification, I don't care what they put on the score card, if we've been fine previously with mulligans put down a one, but you don't get to tell people you hit a hole in one. Hole in one is one shot.
In the mid 1990s I was working for Ford and was buying equipment near San Diego California. I would spend two weeks at a time there and about 12 weeks total. An engineer for the company from which I was buying the equipment loaned me his San Diego County Residence Golf Card. This card allowed me to play Torrey Pines at an 18 hole Twilight Rate of $15 after work. It was unbelievable.
I've hit a cow on a tee shot. Couple weeks ago I hit an iron a *little thin, smoked a tree 30 yards off the green and it came back with a near perfect roll that missed the hole by a couple inches.
I used to golf a lot with Dad and our neighbor (Dad's best friend). One time, my line-drive tee shot struck the wooden marker on the women's tee-box, and straight back at our neighbor - I looked back to see him dancing to get out of the way (ball would've hit him in the leg). He may have said an expletive during the sequence.
I get it, I just think there's a lot of people that take golf way too seriously and it's a barrier to the sport. When we play, its mulligans on OB/non-recoverable shots only.
If you're in a tournament then obviously you follow standard scoring rules (which is what OP was clearly doing).
We need more barriers! The courses are ******* packed.
I once saw a guy make the rarest of all shots, the albatross. I was standing on the next tee and looked back down the fairway we had just left and saw a golfer I recognized as being one of the best the club had to offer. I said to my companions, this guy is pretty good and we all stood and watched him hit his second shot on the par five onto the green and into the cup. My companions started yelling and we all waited for the guy, who was playing by himself, to come up to the green and we all signed his score card. We had to ask him if that was indeed just his second shot before we signed the card.
Also had a guy chew me out for "driving your cart on the green," which was not even close to being the case. I was at least five feet off the green, but he had appointed himself the green police that day and there was no arguing with him. I told him to eff off and went about my business.
Grew up golfing on a short, very simple 9-hole course in North Dakota. One gorgeous day me and a buddy were for some reason just about the only people there, I think we saw 6 other people the whole day so we never had to wait to hit. We started just after noon, flew through the first 9 holes and kept going.
Most holes were a driver and a wedge, so we didn't have to spend any time picking a club....knew the greens like the back of our hand and they weren't terribly complex to begin with. Already knew what we hit into every par 3. Just kept playing......and playing......never rushing just playing ready golf with one cart, could pull right up next to every tee and green. Both of us were playing well, par was 34 and we were both consistently shooting 35-37 all day.
Around 8pm we called it a day, counted the score cards....we had knocked out 90 holes in just under 8 hours. ~45 minutes per round for 10 rounds. Youth is a fantastic thing because my current lower back surrenders about 5 minutes after finishing 18 these days.
Most holes were a driver and a wedge, so we didn't have to spend any time picking a club....knew the greens like the back of our hand and they weren't terribly complex to begin with. Already knew what we hit into every par 3. Just kept playing......and playing......never rushing just playing ready golf with one cart, could pull right up next to every tee and green. Both of us were playing well, par was 34 and we were both consistently shooting 35-37 all day.
Around 8pm we called it a day, counted the score cards....we had knocked out 90 holes in just under 8 hours. ~45 minutes per round for 10 rounds. Youth is a fantastic thing because my current lower back surrenders about 5 minutes after finishing 18 these days.
One time golfing at Waverly Public course I hooked a shot on a par 3 into a John Deere Dealership. The ball hit a combine, bounced back into play on the green 3 feet away from the hole and I made the put for birdie.
Turned hard to avoid the no cart area in front of a green at Airport National a number of years ago. Thankfully it was on the 19-27 hole portion so no one was around. It was was quite wet from overnight rain and the turn tipped the cart over and tore up some good chunks of sod. Fixed up as best we could and moved on.
My brother hit an ace by skipping it across a pond and hitting the face of a rock that launched the ball up on to the green and into the cup.
People are definitely weird about golf rules, unless we're playing for money I could care less what rules you play by.