Golf Tips - A Touch of Etiquette

Male speaker 1: Welcome to another Episode of Golf Is Hard TV! This is the etiquette show, and we are going to demonstrate some common, I don't know what you call them, faux pas. Male Speaker 2: On the green. Male Speaker 1: On and around the green. So we hope you enjoyed the episode. I think it's pretty well acted, since we actually recorded the scenes first, and now we're recording it. But just in general, obviously you want to have as much etiquette as you can on the green. We play here at Tashua Knolls, we play ready-golf, which I learned a couple of years ago, is when you're ready to hit the shot you hit the shot, but on the green it's a little different. Male Speaker 2: Sometimes you can play ready-golf on the green, but not really. You want to be courteous, you want to keep the pace of play moving, and you want to do things that are going to give you the best advantage from a rule stand point as well. Now some things that we observe, some of the common things, people walking across someone's line. Male Speaker 1: That's a fan favorite right there! Male Speaker 2: Exactly. Knowing when to mark your ball which is almost -- really knowing your options, so knowing when to mark your ball and how to mark your ball. Male Speaker 1: Very briefly, when you know when to mark it, versus finish? Is that up to you, is that up to the other guy? Male Speaker 2: You always have the option to finish. If you are putting, if you are on the green, I don't care if you've a 50-footer or a 10-footer, you can always putt out. It's really up to you. Male Speaker 1: That feels like bad etiquette, like if you are 50 feet away, like I am going to finish. Male Speaker 2: Yeah, well, if you are 50 feet away, your way, it's your putt. You knock it up to 25 feet, you can go finish that five footer. Male Speaker 1: Okay, it's not that if you are 50 feet, and there is somebody farther than you, that's not your shot. Male Speaker 2: The person who is 51 feet away, he's or she is first. Male Speaker 1: Understood! And about Gimmies? What's the etiquette around gimmies? I mean is it -- and obviously if you are playing with your buddies, that's one thing, if you are playing with strangers, maybe it's a little different, but -- do you call a gimmie on yourself? Male Speaker 2: Same category as a mulligan. Male Speaker 1: Oh come on, gimmies are a real thing! Male Speaker 2: Alright, inside the leather -- the strips used to be leather somewhere. Male Speaker 1: So a couple of feet? Male Speaker 2: That's about a foot. 16 inches, I don't know whatever -- Male Speaker 1: So like a six foot gimme, no matter how good a golfer you are, it really doesn't -- Male Speaker 2: It doesn't make you any better. The thing is, as you get better you are going to start playing competition, you are going to start playing stroke play, and you got a whole lot of everything. That's why there are no gimmies on tour. There really are no gimmies. Male Speaker 1: It's disappointing. I've lost mulligans and gimmies now. I am not really sure I really want to get much better than I am. Male Speaker 2: It will make you better in the long run. It hurts. Male Speaker 1: It does hurt. Male Speaker 2: But when you are out there playing alone, or you are out there they pair you up with a couple of folks, and you are out there, and you are keeping score. Even if you are not, you know, you don't want to pick it up from 2 feet, or you know, what you want is to finish it up. Male Speaker 1: Now but if you are trying to play a quick round, you are just trying to get it in. is it okay then? Male Speaker 2: Then putt it quickly. Male Speaker 1: Putt it quickly. What if you are playing with strangers. and a guy goes, that's a gimmie, take it. Do you take it or you go, no, that's okay, I am good. I'll putt it. Male Speaker 2: If you are playing match against him, 2 dollar Nassau, and he wants to give it to you, pick it up. Male Speaker 1: Pick it up! Male Speaker 2: Absolutely! But if you are playing on your own, you want to be out there, you want to make it sure that you hole it out, and you could say, you could be courteous to say, no thanks, I am kind of working on my short putts and I don't want to hole it up. Male Speaker 1: And the rest of the etiquette is pretty commonsense, right? I mean to try not to sneeze don't you know... Male Speaker 2: Let's talk about a couple of things that we saw on camera with those professional actors that we hired. Where to stand, how to mark your ball, what else did we look at? Male Speaker 1: Oh, we looked at -- I don't even remember now. Male Speaker 2: Alright let's take a look! Male Speaker 1: Oh hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! What do you -- you are going to walk through my line like that? Male Speaker 2: Oh sorry! Male Speaker 1: What do you mean sorry? He did it again. Unbelievable! You don't have to mark that. Leave it. Are you going to stand there while I am putting? Male Speaker 2: Oh sorry! Male Speaker 1: Okay, no you can leave it, I'll just mark it. Male Speaker 2: Alright, go ahead! Male Speaker 1: I can see you at the corner of my eyes. Can you? Thanks! Male Speaker 2: You want me to move? Male Speaker 1: Yeah, please. That is good, thanks! Male Speaker 2: Throw a mark on that or? Male Speaker 1: Oh you want me to mark that? Male Speaker 2: Please! Male Speaker 1: Oh okay, I am sorry, I didn't know if you wanted me to finish it or mark it or what? Male Speaker 2: It's stuff you see on a public course. Male Speaker 1: Oh, I am sorry. I did see if you were standing here. Good putt there. I think it is scene 4. Here we go. Male Speaker 2: You want to wait or you'll mark it? Male Speaker 1: No, I'll mark it. Male Speaker 2: Okay. Sure that's where it was? Male Speaker 1: Yes, close over there. Male Speaker 2: Okay. Oh, by the way can you move that one left please? Male Speaker 1: This? Move this? Male Speaker 2: Yeah, one left. Male Speaker 1: Is this okay over here? Is that good? Male Speaker 2: That's left? Male Speaker 1: It's left. It's your left, is that what you meant? Male Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good. Okay. Male Speaker 1: Alright. that's good. Male Speaker 2: Alright. Male Speaker 1: That's the way. Male Speaker 2: Nicely done.