Cheaters in Golf Tournaments: why do you do it?

What was his reaction after you punched him in the face?

Jack Welch fired a man for dropping a ball in the rough claiming he had found it..huge character flaw in my book..pointless to play a lot of 4 man tourneys due to this

Scramble I was playing in this afternoon. Hit a 315 drive to the front of a drainage ditch on a long drive hole. Only way to out drive me is to carry the ditch in the air or hit it to the right in the rough.

Long drive holes require you to hit the fairway. The last group out drove me by hitting the ball into the rough. They put the marker into the fairway. I really don't care, it just sucks because scramble tournament golf has evolved into people just trying to cheat.

People suck. My company tournament is tomorrow and they always have some cheaters. It used to be a 3 man scramble with 2 teams on each hole. Now it is a 4 man scramble with one team per hole....makes cheating much easier.

I played in one a couple of years ago where long drive ended ip on hole ten on this course. We shot gunned on either 11 or 12, so this was one of the last holes we played. I tried to go long and had one of those moments where everything was on sync and pissed on the ball to the tune of about 325 straight down the pipe.

When we got up to play my ball, the long drive marker was nowhere to be found. I was afraid they had already picked it up. We played our wedge shots to the green, and walked up to find the long drive marker in the second cut on the back side of the green, a good 365 from the tee box and most definitely not per the rules. I went up to take a look at the name, and it was a guy who had a Walmart set of clubs he bought the day before and was playing his first real round of golf. He was playing with a bunch of other hackers.

Bet you can't guess which foursome turned in low gross.

dont kno shite about golf.. but cheaters are everywhere.. i play some softball tournaments on saturdays, and grown arse men shave bats, and restitch their softballs "with illegal ones" so they can hit it a few feet further.

You also have to love when someone plays their next shot before you decide whose shot the group will choose.

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I played in a non-handicapped charity scramble tournament where two teams tied at 21 under and the scorecards were identical. They did a one hole playoff on a par 4 and none of the 8 players hit their second shot on the green.

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I always roll my eyes when I hear the grand stories about someones awesome foursome winning every tourney they play yet when you play with each of them individually it's a miracle they get a par the entire round.

I used to chair the golf tournaments at my club. We would handicap teams, and if someone gave us a bogus handicap (believe me... we called around) we would tell the member that the player could play, but the team handicap would be adjusted to include only 40% of that player's handicap.

Also, we DQ'd members who "won" their flights, but another member would report obvious cheating and rules violations after the "winner" signed his scorecard and turned it in.

Remember this when you are competing against players that are not your friends: DO NOT offer advice. Remain observant. If you see a player do something, you can wait until after they turn in their scorecard to say something. This can also turn into a "he said/he said" situation.

The best course of action when you're playing with someone who flagrantly violates the rules in a tournament is to confide in another player, who will then also watch the cheater. Allow the cheater (consciously or subconsciously) to cheat or break rules. Let them consider that the seven they should have is a five. Let them write it down while you make note on the back of your card.

We had someone win the Championship flight one time, where we advertised in advance, "no club rules, no winter rules...only USGA rules apply." He thought he'd won, and so did everyone else, until his wife, who was there to congratulate him, blurted out to everyone that when her husband had woken up that morning, he'd gone out (they lived on the course) and played the three holes by their house three times for practice and how proud she was that he worked so hard to prepare.

Suddenly, you could have heard a pin drop in that room and the member turned beet red and walked out of the room. We all knew that he knew the rules, so there was nothing we could do but DQ him. It was a very uncomfortable setting, to say the least, but... he should have known better.

Know the rules. Use them to your advantage.

I'd almost agree, but universally, when someone does this, it creates a confrontation and tension within the group and everyone's performance can then suffer from lack of concentration. Best to just play dumb and let someone hang themselves.

Also, depending on interpretation of the rules, if you influence a person's play by voicing your advice or opinion, you can incur a two-stroke penalty yourself for each violation.