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Originally Posted by Polar Bear
Some of you are getting a bit self righteous in my opinion. Most of us play bad lies. We play in bad conditions. We take every penalty stroke we earn. That's called playing by USGA rules. Watching your straight uphill putt stop two inches short of the cup and then start rolling back to you is not playing by the rules.
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I didn't intend to get self righteous. I was only explaining my feelings when I play.
That's the great thing about golf. Everyone can enjoy it in their own way. If you just want to go and knock the ball around a pasture, that's fine by me. If you want to compete at the highest level, that's fine as well. There's room for everyone in this great game.
By the way, I've played US Open courses where if you didn't get on the right side of the hole you had almost no chance of keeping the ball on the green when you putt.I've also played tour courses where if you didn't get your ball to the hole it would come back to your feet. No one likes it, but sometimes that's what you run into. I wouldn't allow myself to get that upset over it. It's not worth it. In tournament golf where those kind of things can make a difference between making a cut or making a check, it can be extremely frustrating, but in casual rounds of golf, I try not to do that to myself.