Ignorance is no excuse...
 

very few balls that are hit into the group ahead are malicious...more often they are done accidentally. If you aren't sure how far it will go then you wait. If it happens once then apologize...twice then you're a jerk.

None of this is "over the top" as you say.

It's all about having patience



wait until you get a full sleeve of balls before hitting back at him

I've been playing off and on since 1962 when I was 12, and I've never had anyone hit into us on a par 3. Since a par 3 is so close, you would think a loud sorry would be what I would expect to hear. If you didn't hear it, I would toss the ball back off the green.

On par 4's or par 5's it's much more common. Just two weeks ago a guy in my group on #3 at Kilamanjaro Par 5 hit his second shot about 260 with the roll and it ended up on the front fringe of the green and the group in front were still putting. He drove up in his cart and apologized and they said, no problem.

Sometimes you will have a blind drive, especially if you cut across bunkers on doglegs. I had that happen about six months ago on the par 5 at Mallory (Caroline) #5 that has a creek across the fairway. I hit my drive over the bunker on the right, a shorter distance that way and it's further from the creek, I can drive the creek if I don't go far enough to the right. When we got over on the other side of the bunker, those guys in front were still on our side of the creek and my ball was right next to his cart. I have no idea why they were still there, the green we could see from the tee and it was clear. I apologized, but it's sometimes hard to avoid when you have a slow group in front of you on the championships.

I’d hit the ball back to them

This happened to me a couple of times on MH Virginia several months back; the 2nd time was on #8 and when the ball stopped a few feet from me, I zinged it off into the pond to the right of the fairway. I turned around and yelled at the group that the next one was coming back toward them; never happened again the rest of the round.

I loved reading this...as everyone knows, golf is a microcosm of the world.

Really, golfers? Such first world problems...as much as u want to think...you arent on a PGA course playing with Tiger Woods....you are here with the “Everyman Golfer”...give it a break.

OK. I give up, which message?

What makes you think this was a renter?

Bad golf etiquette-what you should do
 

I always find it interesting that golfers think hitting a golf ball toward someone by accident or on purpose justifies hitting a ball at someone. Personally I am not accurate enough to hit the person that hit on us. With my luck I would hit the wrong person. A wave of the arms and a call to the shack seem like a reasonable response followed by a calm conversation.

I have been telling my children for over twenty years, "What we say and do and how we say it or do it is a reflection of us not the people we are upset with".

NO!!!!

When a person intentionally does something that endangers our safety, I do not give them a break! I scream at them and really give them Hell.

Just pick the ball up, waive and go to the next hole. They will get the message.

Hitting golf ball back at someone who just hit their ball at you .
 

I would suggest never hitting a golf ball back at someone who hit their golf ball at you .
Do you really want to become
what you hate ?

😅. Ha ha Boomer...that was a refreshing response. Everyone is so negative these days.

We don’t see posts about poor golf etiquette in the summer months... why is that? ������

I have a question.....I haven't played in many years but. Why not let them play through?