Golf Etiquette​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

 ​1. Always be ready to hit in turn. Plan club selection while approaching your ball or waiting for others to hit.



 2. Let faster players play through if there is an open hole ahead.


 3. Players whose ball lies closest to hole attends or removes flag. First to hole out should be ready to replace flag.


 4. To speed up play, putt out, rather than marking ball. Leave putting green immediately after holing out.  

     Record your score on route or at next tee.

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 5. Do not move, talk or stand close to ball, hole or in line of putt when a player is making a stroke.
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 6. Rake footprints in sand traps.


 7. Repair ball marks on greens.


 8. Do not scuff shoes on the greens.


 9.  Stay on cart paths when indicated.



10. Use of cell phones is not permitted in tournament or during play of a hole. An exception is made if the player

      is expecting an emergency call.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LAW #1:  No matter how bad your last shot was, you should have Inner Peace knowing that a shittier one is yet to come. This law does not expire on the 18th hole, since it has the supernatural tendency to extend over the course of a tournament, a summer and, eventually, a lifetime.

 

LAW #2:  Your best round of golf will be followed almost immediately by your worst round ever. The probability of the latter increases with the number of people you tell about the former.

 

LAW #3:  “Nice lag” may be translated as “lousy putt.” Similarly, “Tough break” means “Way to miss an easy one.” “That’ll play” means “Crappy shot, but I think we can find it!”

 

LAW #4:  Golf balls from the same sleeve tend to follow one another, particularly out of bounds or into water.

 

LAW #5:  The game of golf is 90% mental and 10% mental.

 

LAW #6:  Errors go somewhere. If your driver is hot, your putter is ice cold; if you can hit your irons, you will top your woods; if you keep your right elbow tucked in, your head will come up.

 

LAW #7:  The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.

 

LAW #8:  Every time a golfer makes a birdie, he must subsequently make two triple bogeys to restore the fundamental equilibrium of the universe.

 

LAW #9: The last three holes of a round will automatically adjust your score to what it really should be.

 

LAW #10:  The only sure way to get a par is to leave a four-foot birdie putt two inches short of the hole.

 

LAW #11:  When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.

 

LAW #12: Since bad shots come in groups of three, your fourth consecutive bad shot is really the beginning of the next group of three.

 

LAW #13:  When you look up and cause an awful shot, you willalways look down again at exactly the moment when you outght to start watching the ball if you ever want to see it again.

 

LAW #14:  It's surprisingly easy to hole a 50-foot putt when you lie 8.

 

LAW #15:  An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play, it is always possible to play worse.

 

LAW #16:  Any change works for a maximum of three holes and a minimum of not at all.

 

LAW #17:  It's not a gimme if you're still away.

 

LAW #18: The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

 

LAW #19: You can hit a 2-acre fairway 10% of the time, and a 2-inch branch 90% of the time.

 

LAW #20:  A "gimme" can best be defined as an agreement between two golfers . . . neither of whom can putt very well.

 

LAW #21:  Golf can be defined as an endless series of tragedies, obscured by the occasional miracle, followed by a good bottle of beer.

 

LAW #22: There are two things you can learn by stopping your backswing at the top and checking the position of your hands: how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove.

 

LAW #23:  Golf is the only sport where the most feared opponent is you.

 

LAW #24:  If you are afraid that a full shot might reach the green while the foursome ahead of you is still putting out, you have two options: immediately shank a lay-up, or wait until the green is clear and then top the ball.