# What golf rule do you knowingly break? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 10, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-golf-rule-do-you-knowingly-break/160328 "2003-03-10T16:14:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-golf-rule-do-you-knowingly-break/160328/61 "2003-03-11T18:34:00Z")
Like I said I don’t move the ball much, only to keep me from breaking or chipping a club. Then again I have only ever gotten under 100 once, and we were playing by the rules that day, I was just going good. I usually play around a 108. I think it’s time for me to go back to getting some lessons, I haven’t taken any in 4 years or so, that and I don’t own anything more then a 5 wood so my drives are very short. Usually when I play I am the best in my group too. I can’t wait til spring, not only golf but motorcycleing too. ---
**Author:** ![doverpro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@doverpro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doverpro)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-golf-rule-do-you-knowingly-break/160328/62 "2003-03-11T19:08:46Z")
I’m an 18+ and will play the ball down everywhere. I mean, that **is** what the whole game is about, isn’t it? You don’t like that lie? Well, you shouldn’t have played it there in the first place. Now, if you’re playing to establish a handicap, all that applies. If you’re just a recreational golfer playing for the fun of it, I don’t really care what you do with your ball, but if you’re playing with me there ain’t going to be any money on the line! I get more hacked about sandbaggers than people who roll the ball over. They are the scum of the earth. I’ve given up playing in any of our Men’s Assoc. tournaments because it’s gotten so bad. Guys with 16’s shooting sub-80 rounds two days in a row. Aaarghh!!! ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-golf-rule-do-you-knowingly-break/160328/63 "2003-03-11T19:16:01Z")
Like many others in this thread, **I won’t go back and re-hit** on a lost ball. If I’m _pretty sure_ I’ve lost the ball (either a tee shot or fairway shot), I’ll hit a provisional. But if my 250 yard drive along the left side of the fairway just “disappears”, there’s no way in hell I’m walking all the way back to the tee to hit again. Occasionally I will take a mulligan when I hit an earth-shatteringly bad shot, but I find myself doing less and less these days. ---
**Author:** ![GKW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@GKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GKW)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-golf-rule-do-you-knowingly-break/160328/64 "2003-03-11T20:14:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dinsdale \* > \*\*I learned a long time ago, that focusing on the final score was an excellent way to make golf miserable for me. Like many of you, a good round is a fast round. Or one with a few good holes, or a couple of memorable shots. Or one where I view some beautiful landscape/animals/birds. Or have some good yucks with my pals. Or find more balls than I lose. And, if along the way I happen to shoot a good overall score, well - life is good. > \*\* If there’s ever a golf-dopefest, can I be in your foursome? 🙂 I haven’t bothered with handicaps since I’ve stopped golfing in a league. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-golf-rule-do-you-knowingly-break/160328.md?page=3)