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Re: Rules of the "game" and the etiquette of golf

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Wed, Sep 4 2013 4:27 PM (4 replies)
  • SandyStyle
    2 Posts
    Wed, Sep 4 2013 12:59 PM

    Hi there,  just started a skins game, 4 players contesting.  1st hole,  I'm about 15ft another is about 12ft away and the other two are off the green.  Those two players basically play shots and are not in contention for the hole.  I sink my putt.  So only one player left to get the half.   He picks up his ball.  The hole announcement in the middle of the screen then says that the hole was halved and all skins carried over to the next hole.                                             I make enquiries at the next as to what happened because I didn't see anyone else make a 3.   The player that picked up then says that because he picked up, the other two conceded his putt.   Does this happen in the games mechanics?  I've only been playing for a few days.  This cannot seriously be a system of the game can it?  How ungolflike for two non contending players to allow another to have a putt to make him halve the hole.  That is not how I was brought up to play golf.

    any views on this situation would be greatly appreciated,  

                                                                                                             SandyStyle

  • andyson
    6,415 Posts
    Wed, Sep 4 2013 1:21 PM

    Never had a concede putt option in a WGT Skins game in my experience.  Are you sure it wasn't an Alternate Shot game?

  • SandyStyle
    2 Posts
    Wed, Sep 4 2013 1:24 PM

    definetly skins

  • bluzgolf
    1,077 Posts
    Wed, Sep 4 2013 1:45 PM

    There is a glitch in skins.  If the others all picked up they should  forfeit the hole.  But what happens is it somehow sees it as a halved hole.  

    It has happened to me before.  The person was not trying to screw me out of the hole, just conceding it was mine and assumed the hole would go to me, it didn't. 

  • juggss6
    121 Posts
    Wed, Sep 4 2013 4:27 PM

    Wow, people could abuse the shi!t out of this. Thank god I only play with my CC.

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