Actually if you think about it, there are Mulligans in Baseball. They’re called foul balls.
Mightn’t intentionally icing the puck count as a mulligan?
I’ve noticed that there is a nearly 100% correlation between people who think golf is stupid, and people who are bad at it. 
See? This is why I flamed in the first place! Be cause all y’all, who didn’t take ANY time to learn the game… wrote it off as “stupid” and " elitist" in the first place… just OUT of hand… y’all don’t have the SLIGHTEST CLUE about the game. You all make me laugh! Predispose the ENTIRE game as [insert your pathetic problem here] and write it off as… as… “FUCK GOLF”
:rolleyes:
hee hee
losers!
wanna play for $20 a hole?
I golfed yesterday at a charity tournament and met 3 other people (a senior couple and a younger guy) and made friends, learned some tips and rooted them on since they were teammates. Had a few beers, won a putting contest for $68 and had dinner with all the other participants who raised a total of over $70K to help cover emergency costs for the developmentally disabled.
Man, just imagine how much could be accomplished if GOLF WASN’T AN INSIPIDLY STUPID GAME. :rolleyes:
And Tripler, mulligans aren’t even considered part of the game in the first place…it is used as a tool for bad players who aren’t even in regular competition. I don’t even know why you’re bringing this up when your trying to compare it to hockey or baseball. Mulligans are not in the rules. But then some of you wouldn’t take the time to figure that out in the first place. Ignorance abounds.
As a sidenote, you could actually suck at golf and still love the sport. I do.
Who couldn’t? Seriously.
Every time I pass a golf course, I shed a tear for the rifle range that should be there, but isn’t.
As another sidenote Yeticus Rex , sometime this year the PGA will reach and pass the BILLION dollar mark in donations to charities. Thats just mind-boggling!
Not bad for an insipid, stupid, boring and sensless game!
And you’re right, you don’t have to be good at it to enjoy playing. You get out, what you contribute. Some of the most fun times I have had in my life were on a golf course with my friends.
Its hard to imagine how much more fun we could have had if we took our guns with us.
That’s not true. I suck at golf, but I’ll still enjoy a “good walk spoiled” every once in a while.
Especially when the title of Mr. Hockey is on the line.
You’re right - I phrased that poorly. I meant to say that nearly everyone who says golf is stupid, is bad at it. In other words, I never hear good golfers say the game is stupid. But there are lots of people who suck at golf and still like it - myself included.
No one can eat infinity eggs!
In the few games I’ve tried to play, which subsequently fanned the flames of my hatred, the phrase “Mulligan” came up on several occasions where someone screwed up and wanted to have a ‘do-over’.
“Mulligans” [sub]or my understanding of them[/sub] in baseball or hockey penalize you for those actions. An intentional icing of the puck results in a face off in the zone. A foul ball results in a first or second strike. A “Mulligan” from what I understand is a ‘freebie’. Big difference, so correct me if I’m wrong.
I’ve tried it, I hate it. And I know people that shave time off the company clock to “go golfing” when they shouldn’t be. And that irritates me to no end. . .
Tripler
I’ve played baseball and hockey too, but I admit I’ve got a better clue about them.
Like I said before, mulligans are illegal tools for bad golfers who are not in tournament play. It’s like using Vasoline for a pitch, or a McSorely curved stick to keep the puck on the stick easier…big no-no’s as we all know. You will not see Woods, Singh, Els, Goosen, Michelson pulling crap like that…I believe they would be DQ’d for the tournament if they pulled that crap. A local hack would do it though just to make his scorecard look a little better, but then they’re just hacks.
I remember (on the 1 HCP - Par 4 hole) slicing a tee shot into the trees on an adjacent fairway (who hasn’t done that?), and I could have just rehit another ball and count it as my third shot (although, I was still inbounds), or “mulliganed” and hit another ball and count it as one. I did neither…I went to the ball and purposely sliced my next shot around a tree and put it 7’ from the hole. Put the putt in for a birdie (1 under par). That was the most incredible thing I did personally, and I did that because I didn’t do mulligans. I know in friendly golf games, that mulligans could be used as an out for funding the next round of beer, or as a pot-builder if you bet on the game, but it is not recognized in organized golf. Never have, never will.
As for your co-workers, blame them for shirking their duties, not how they shirk them.
Jeez Luke! What’d ya hafta say infinity for?
Then I stand somewhat corrected that it’s actually considered ‘bad form’. I had always figured it was just an accepted part of a friendly game, but like you said, not part of any PGA/established rules.
But in previous posts, please don’t try to tell me that golf is the greatest thing since sliced bread because it’ll raise it’s BILLIONTH dollar for charities. :rolleyes: What, the rest of the philanthropic community is chopped liver?
No, I think I’ll blame them for both: for slinking out of work, and wasting time on playing ‘fetch’ with themselves. In my eyes, both are stand-alone offenses.
Tripler
It would be less felonious if they did something more productive with that time.
I haven’t.
I have hit a house on the fairway, though. No one was living there yet, thank goodness. That is the number one reason I will never buy a house on a golf course.
My dad once told me that golf is one of those games where you have to play regularly to be any good. I believe him.
Growing up, my parents always told me that it was important that I learn how to play golf because businessmen play golf and that’s just how it is. So I went out for the golf team, learned the game and got to play a great course 5 days a week after school. Despite regular play, I sucked.
Whenever I hung out with my Dad, he usually wanted to play, so I would go out with him, my uncle and my brother-in-law just to fill in a foursome. Every time, I ended up wanting to snap my clubs over my knee (or worse). Finally, one day after a particularly frustrating day out, I considered the following logic:
- I’d probably need to play at least 3x/week to get any good.
- Golf isn’t fun for me unless I’m good at it.
- I can’t afford the time commitment.
- Someone tell me again why I waste entire days in beautiful weather getting myself all frustrated…
I’ll never play again. Now, whenever I get the urge to walk around in nature, I go geocaching. Seems I have a better chance of finding a cache than I have of finding where the hell my ball went.
In fairness to Tripler, his colleagues were shirking their duties “to play a stupid game”, not to do something useful. I would be pissed off.
C’mon Tripler , cut the crap! No one mentioned philanthropic organizations.
We’re talking organized sports. Name one that has given more to charity than the PGA.
You really don’t know much about the sport or the organization, do you?
I’ll politely ask you to provide statistical/concrete examples of those that haven’t, for honest comparison.
Some of you guys are starting to take this a little too personally. Take it easy. I went after the ‘institution’, not anyone personally. Jeez, relax. It’s like you totally sliced and hit the rough or something.
I’ve tried the sport, I don’t like it. And every time I hear of the sport, I get negative connotations, and for the life of me, I still cannot see any redeeming value of hitting a little ball into a little hole. No sentient opponent or nothing.
Forgive me if I don’t share your enthusiasm for such a mudane activity.
Tripler
Again, it is just ‘fetch’ for people.
I’ve been on a golf course only twice, both times for tournament games in which each foursome had two regular golfers, and two archers playing “archery golf”. Archery golf is much like regular golf using a bow and arrows, shooting for distance on the fairways and then trying to hit a small target set up on the green by the hole, and combine elements of flight and field archery.
I was an archer. I was 17. I thought about how much more fun it might be if we didn’t have to wait for the previous foursome to clear the way before we opened fire.