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Using Wedges On Greens

• crazygolf32 109 Posts

  Tue, Oct 11 2016 2:16 AM

  Have started noticing some players using wedges on the greens???? In Match-play challenge games, Surely this should be prompted as a foul shot. Or there must be a tool you could use to just block using wedges on putting shots?  So annoying!! 

• PhilEStein 1,269 Posts

  Tue, Oct 11 2016 7:52 AM

  Nothing in the R&A or USGA rules that say you can't. Remember PhilMic using a wedge on a green few years back. Sometimes on these kidney shaped greens you can be stymied from a clear putt so what's the alternative?

• Robert1893 7,719 Posts

  Tue, Oct 11 2016 8:27 AM

  crazygolf32:

  So annoying!! 

  
  
  Why is it annoying? The option is available to you as well. And as noted above, it''s not against the rules of golf. 

• 11BC2 555 Posts

  Tue, Oct 11 2016 9:36 AM

  crazygolf32:

  So annoying!! 

  I find it annoying too and take notes of players who do it.  From here just ensure you're the host of the game and simply "boot" them from the lobby.

  Problem solved.

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Tue, Oct 11 2016 9:41 AM

  Robert1893:

  Why is it annoying?

  Because it's a lazy, gamer move. Once in a while when you're in a bad spot miles away, maybe, but there's players that never show their putter in a round. Obviously not golfers, that's what's annoying.

• Robert1893 7,719 Posts

  Tue, Oct 11 2016 10:07 AM

  YankeeJim:

  Once in a while when you're in a bad spot miles away, maybe, but there's players that never show their putter in a round. Obviously not golfers, that's what's annoying.

  Fair enough. 
  
  I was envisioning it being used in those odd situations in which it's virtually impossible to get it close to the hole by putting. I've probably used it a total of 3 times. Once I got a birdie out of it.
  
  But I would never use it on a consistent basis.  

• JFidanza 1,676 Posts

  Tue, Oct 11 2016 10:33 AM

  Whatever works.

  I know someone who said 'what's really unrealistic is playing an unlimited public/CC tourny until you are able to post a low score.' Now that's a gamer move.

• iwb1 110 Posts

  Tue, Oct 11 2016 2:38 PM

  PhilEStein:

  Nothing in the R&A or USGA rules that say you can't. Remember PhilMic using a wedge on a green few years back. Sometimes on these kidney shaped greens you can be stymied from a clear putt so what's the alternative?

  This years Scottish Open saw a few players using a wedge on the green, some more than once. Here's two from the kidney shaped 8th green.

  Patrick Reed

  Shane Lowry

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Tue, Oct 11 2016 2:46 PM

  YankeeJim:

  Robert1893:

  Why is it annoying?

  Because it's a lazy, gamer move. Once in a while when you're in a bad spot miles away, maybe, but there's players that never show their putter in a round. Obviously not golfers, that's what's annoying.

  Exactly this ^^^

  There's only one putt in the game that I can't figure out, so I wedge it. It's the 1st par 3 at St Andys, where if you're short you roll back  down to front of green.

  Which never happens if you play the same shot when it's the front pin! That's WGT for you...

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Tue, Oct 11 2016 3:13 PM

  PaulTon:

  Which never happens if you play the same shot when it's the front pin!

  LMAO. Comical how that invariably happens. I have actually tried to emulate the shot that comes up short and rolls back when you go at the back pin and I'll be dipped if the sumbitch doesn't keep on rolling up the hill!.  :-D