My golfer buddy claimed to score a birdie, but I told him that if he checked the rule book page 37 paragraph 4 subsection 3 that hole clearly should have been defined as a par 3. Why can't golfers follow their own rules?
๐๏ธ James-VZ ยท 809 points ยท Posted at 16:36:56 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 169 points ยท Posted at 17:52:12 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
We know the rule book better than golfers. That's why we're nongolfers.
Lasereye ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 18:46:21 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
And they still believe in these stupid rules, it's 2012, GROW UP!
playdohplaydate ยท 61 points ยท Posted at 18:38:51 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
we should probably talk about it more, just to prove how much we dont care about it.
HitMePat ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 01:10:01 on June 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
These golfers are out of control. They go out swinging their clubs around and don't even realize it's proven that everything they believe in is false. They are surely all stupider than any non golfer.
Fiercekiller ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:13:04 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Only children should play games! Mature adults don't have time for such nonsense!
Pikamander2 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:20:52 on June 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Reading golf rule books has a tendency to make people quit playing golf.
Always_posts_serious ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 17:16:13 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
It's like they think they can just omit whatever subsections they want to improve their game while pushing other subsections on everyone else. Absolutely ridiculous, I can't believe the government has yet to step in and regulate the rules of golfing.
SweetIsland ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 18:48:49 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Not only that, but there is a slight contradiction between that rule and the one list on page 56 paragraph 2 subsection 4. Clearly Golf should not exist.
flopagis ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:52:21 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but most golfers don't take that rule literally. It's more up for interpretation, but then they go say that on page 78 paragraph 3 subsection 1 is actually a true rule. what the heck...
SilasX ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:55:22 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, in fairness, the new appendix (which some consider more authoritative) actually repeats the page 37 paragraph 4 subsection 3 rule, re-affirming it, but doesn't do the same for the 78 paragraph 3 subsection 1 rule.
IguanadonsEverywhere ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:56:14 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What about page 35 paragraph 2 rule 5? It manages to contradict both AND page 56 paragraph 2 subsection 4. Not to mention page 48 paragraph 5 rule 3 subsection 2...
SilasX ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:00:50 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Well, a lot of golfers reject sola scriptura and claim that a proper understanding of how to score a golf game depends on the book plus tradition plus interpretation from trained authorities. (And many golfers did indeed balk at proposals to translate the regulation book into Spanish for Latin American golfing organizations.)
IguanadonsEverywhere ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:02:42 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
True, but most golfers use the 2004 Jack Putters rewrite nowadays.
apple_2 ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 19:18:26 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Hey guys golfer here.. I just really want to let you know us golfers dont act the way he did. Not all of us cheat on our wife with 100 women. We can be people too, we can coexist with you non golfers. Ill even hang out and have an iced tea lemonade while i party with you guys. #coexist #lovethybrother #icetea
DLaicH ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 19:23:46 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
See, this is one of my problems with you people. You claim to love and tolerate everyone, but you're always trying to putt us into your holy brotherhood by lowering our defenses with your iced tea lemonade. You disgust me.
apple_2 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:28:39 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I try to open up to you! And you close the door! We could have been friends.
DLaicH ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 19:32:35 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, I just can't be friends with a golfer. They're just too intolerant.
Wheaties4brkfst ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:17:55 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
DLaicH, master of irony.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 21:22:47 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Irony huh? You Teeists are all the same, trying to slip golf references past is us nongolfers. What next, some words with 'wood' or 'wedge' in it? We see what you're doing, and we're not amused.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:47:34 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
What wood that be?
fool_of_a_took ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:33:12 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Pffft, go back to r/golf, nothing is worse than a golf apologist.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:13:34 on June 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Tagged you as "apologist golfer".
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:50:12 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Personally I think people ought to just keep golfing to themselves, it's utterly pretentious when they try to push it on other people, your golf club is like your penis, it's nice to have and be proud of but you shouldn't show it off in public, and especially not shove it down the throats of your kids.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:31:47 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The problem with the rule book is it was made at a time when only white, heterosexual males were on the course swinging wooden shafts. Since the increase of women, and european men, plus the implementation of graphite and steel shafts, that rule book has become almost obsolete (save for some golf fundamentalists who swear by it).
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:39:52 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Golfers like to cherry pick things out of their rule book that benefit their scores. If you try to call them on it, they'll usually just get angry and tell you that rule was written metaphorically.
abnormalsyndrome ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:06:28 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, where the hell am I?
IguanadonsEverywhere ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 21:24:03 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
The new /r/circlejerk, but it's mocking /r/atheism's bitching about Christians by bitching about Golf. It's pretty fun, actually.
TehVeganator ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:03:40 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Best explanation ever
IguanadonsEverywhere ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:06:11 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
thank you. 8D
mcallister24 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:06:08 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
in the aether, man
abnormalsyndrome ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:33:40 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Wooahh...dude. Aether, man.
iaskedforthis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:41:06 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
That's why the only people who have read the rulebook are now nongolfers. The hundreds of contradictions between tournament play, tee-offs and mini golf are enough to convince any rational person that Golf was invented to siphon money and keep the population preoccupied so that they don't rise up against the Golfocratic government.
spicy_jose ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:02:56 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't realize the true nature of this sub and thought that this was some asshole really doing this, what an asshole I thought haha.
P.S. Golf is responsible for more (tree)deaths than any other thing in history.
mixmax2 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:46:14 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I've just discovered something wonderful.
IguanadonsEverywhere ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:57:11 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I remember when I realized golf was stupid...
IguanadonsEverywhere ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:25:24 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
If I had a nickel for every time I read the the rule book and found a misused rule, I'd have a lot of nickels.
Nonethewiserer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:44:12 on June 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
This is one thing I cannot get behind. All your doing is being a better golfer than your buddy.
jt_redditor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:54:15 on June 8, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know man
Pardigm ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:45:39 on June 9, 2012 ยท (Permalink)
Non-golfers are just like Athiest.... They know more about the sport/religion then most people who actually Like it.....