Originally Posted by LndLocked (Post 896061)

It was a bad golf hat trick:

Hit from out of bounds
damaged your property
rude and flippant remark

A couple of months ago I was walking back from the postal center along a street that borders a green. A golfer hooked his approach shot and it went out of bounds, across the cart path and into the road, bouncing right at me (I was on the far side of the road from the green). I caught the ball and just as I started to toss it back across the street onto the grass between the street and the cart path ... Captain Hook yells at me that I "should have let it go so he could play it from there"

I looked at him in amazement and then as I fired his ball down the street I said ... "play it from there, that is where it was headed!" and gave him the single digit salute. His ball was last seen bouncing toward BVB.

I am pretty sure that Captain Hooks real name was ...... Richard.

Originally Posted by LndLocked (Post 896061)

It was a bad golf hat trick:

Hit from out of bounds
damaged your property
rude and flippant remark

A couple of months ago I was walking back from the postal center along a street that borders a green. A golfer hooked his approach shot and it went out of bounds, across the cart path and into the road, bouncing right at me (I was on the far side of the road from the green). I caught the ball and just as I started to toss it back across the street onto the grass between the street and the cart path ... Captain Hook yells at me that I "should have let it go so he could play it from there"

I looked at him in amazement and then as I fired his ball down the street I said ... "play it from there, that is where it was headed!" and gave him the single digit salute. His ball was last seen bouncing toward BVB.

I am pretty sure that Captain Hooks real name was ...... Richard.

Originally Posted by LndLocked (Post 896061)

A couple of months ago >> ...<< Captain Hook yells at me that I "should have let it go so he could play it from there"

I looked at him in amazement and then as I fired his ball down the street I said ... "play it from there, that is where it was headed!" and gave him the single digit salute. His ball was last seen bouncing toward BVB.

I am pretty sure that Captain Hooks real name was ...... RICHARD.

Originally Posted by mrfixit (Post 896101)

Betting that BOTH of his friends call him DICK.

Originally Posted by ajbrown (Post 896115)

Dotti, you have every right to be upset. What happened to you seems crazy to me.

Reading this whole thread, the only clarification I would add is someone who does not know how to proceed after hitting a ball out of bounds (or even worse actually hits a ball from out of bounds) is NOT a golfer...

Call them whatever you will but a golfer would take the time to learn some basic rules... for goodness sake there are only 34 all together in a tiny little book.

Originally Posted by Birdie Dreamer (Post 896117)

It is even worse than you described when one factors in that this guy had to cross a busy road ( Pinellas Place ) and a sidewalk to play the shot back across the road before giving the OP attitude. Do you think he even checked to see if any cars were coming?

Originally Posted by TheVillageChicken (Post 896056)

That is not the rule. OB is a stroke and distance penalty. You have to go back to where you struck the OB ball.

Originally Posted by Rc Moser (Post 896150)

remember the famous Tiger Woods second shot (not Tee off shot) that when left out of bounds and into the green murky water pond. The Commentator's was questioning if he when back far enough where the ball cross the out of bounds line. He dropped at the edge of the out of bounds line and hit the shot from there not going back to where he hit the second shot?????? So if that's the rule shouldn't he of been disqualified?? Just wondering the cow patches I played on that was the rule, but maybe it was prevent slow play???

Originally Posted by Rc Moser (Post 896150)

remember the famous Tiger Woods second shot (not Tee off shot) that when left out of bounds and into the green murky water pond. The Commentator's was questioning if he when back far enough where the ball cross the out of bounds line. He dropped at the edge of the out of bounds line and hit the shot from there not going back to where he hit the second shot?????? So if that's the rule shouldn't he of been disqualified?? Just wondering the cow patches I played on that was the rule, but maybe it was prevent slow play???

Originally Posted by Rc Moser (Post 896194)

Chicken, BarryRX, and Russ thanks for the correction. I don't think that is the shot I was referring to I clearly remember it going far left and splashing down in the water, but been 3 or 4 years ago and I can't remember. I do remember the water hazard was covered with Green moss and when the ball hit it made big clearing in the murky green covering. IMO in regular daily play makes no sense to back peddle and slow play down unless your in tournament or playing for Sawbuck But that me, I try to keep up with the group and not cause backup.