00:00Right then Joe, we know there's lots of written rules in golf that people adhere to, but there's
00:03lots of unwritten etiquette rules that I think we've seen broken quite a lot of times. You're
00:08right, there's a lot of faux pas, even golfing crimes I would consider committed out on a golf
00:13course sometimes. Yeah, so we put our heads together and came up with nine that we think
00:16are the biggest and the most often committed. Yes, and we've acted them out. We have. I'm
00:21playing the sort of well-educated, good etiquette golfer and you're playing numbnuts. I'm playing
00:26a buffoon. You're absolutely right, but if you're watching BAFTA, call us.
00:33In no particular order Joe, we're starting with talking during someone's backswing or even
00:37talking during someone's setup. Yeah, it's just a little bit inconsiderate. It's funny with golf
00:42because sometimes you get constant noise so you might hear it now. We've got greenkeepers mowing,
00:46we went to live the other day, there was music playing. When that happens, it's not a problem,
00:49but you're playing silence most of the time and all of a sudden if that silence is just interrupted
00:53with a whisper or something, it is brutal. Don't do it, don't do it. Try not to whisper
00:57to your playing partner, definitely don't pick up the phone, numbnuts, and just try and keep quiet
01:02during the swing. Next one we've got, and this is one of my particular boat bears,
01:08leaving a bunker unraked. It's one of the most inconsiderate things you can do on the golf course.
01:13You tell me why. This is just impolite. It's impolite to your playing partners, to people coming
01:17behind you who may end up in it, to the greenkeepers who look so studiously after the bunkers for you,
01:23and it's just a mess. It affects people's games and it's basic decency and common sense.
01:27And bunkers are hard enough for a decent lie without being in someone's footprint. Rake your bunkers please.
01:36Next up Joe, not shouting four as your ball heads toward what might be people, houses, who knows.
01:41Just shout four. Yeah, just shout four. It's not only inconsiderate, it is downright dangerous.
01:46These little golf balls at the speed they're traveling are like bullets. We've seen some really
01:50serious incidents on the PGA Tour of people getting hurt. And some of those players who
01:54don't shout on the PGA Tour bother me. Don't be one of those. If you see your ball heading down
01:58the wrong fairway or heading to anyone on the golf course, give them a nice loud shout four and warn them.
02:03And even if you don't, if it's off target, give it a big shout. You're covered then. Just in case.
02:07Always shout four. Right, for the next one we're here on the putting green. I think just about
02:14everyone who's ever played should know, but I've played with some who don't, you should never walk
02:20over someone's line when they're putting. Yeah, because if you've got big feet like you or particularly
02:24big spikes on and you walk on someone's line, it could affect their putt, couldn't it? Correct.
02:28It's rude, again, inconsiderate. So when you're doing it, just watch out for people's lines,
02:32maybe even ask, am I okay to stand there? It's okay to ask these sort of things and don't ruin
02:37someone's putt. You could stop it from going in the hole. Furthermore, through lines. Did you ever
02:40think about through lines? What's a through line? Through line is a lot of stuff that's spoken
02:44about on tour. If you're putting from there and you're coming this way and I go and collect my
02:47ball out the hole this way, if someone misses the putt from there and then has to putt through the
02:51spikes, it's always better to think about someone's through line as well. Just give that some thought.
02:55Hey, that's why we pay you the big bucks.
02:57Next up, Joe, assuming a putt is given in match play, I have fallen foul of this.
03:04Yeah, it's tricky ground though, isn't it? You know when you've got it into gimme range and you know
03:08it's probably going to be conceded, but you have to wait to hear that. If you don't and you just pick
03:13your ball up assuming it's been conceded, if you're playing against someone particularly vindictive,
03:19they can claim the hole. Loss of hole, you pick the ball up, you're out the hole and you're done.
03:24That's it, and my circle of friendship is very, very small. So I've heard.
03:30The next golfing crime I want to talk about is leaving your bag on the wrong side of the green
03:36and general time wasting on the green. General faffing. Faffing would be fair. Bumbling. Faffage.
03:41Bumbling, as you might be watching right now, my bumbling. It's just not good for pace of play,
03:46it's not good for your game, it's not good for anyone's game around you. What can you do to sort
03:49that out? Well, if you've got people behind you, that's very annoying. Just think, right, as you
03:53get to the green, where's the next tee? Let me leave my bag in a position between the flag and
03:57the tee. So when I'm done, I pick my ball out, I wander over to my bag, which is en route to the
04:02tee, do your scorecard over there, the people behind you can play and they're not falling asleep
04:06set on their bags. It's considerate to everyone else and it'll actually be beneficial for your game
04:10because you'll take less steps and you'll be less tired. Plan it well, play quickly and play well.
04:18Next up, Joe, less of a crime than some of them, but something I think you should avoid doing is
04:21early walking a putt that you think is going in, you're giving it the big I am and then it doesn't
04:25go in. It's a bad look, isn't it? Actually, we played golf recently with a friend of yours,
04:28shout out, Reece, and I was early walking a couple and they went in and he still said that was a bad
04:33look. He's right though, I think he's right. He is right, but it's a particularly bad look when they
04:36miss as well. Yeah. Another thing that you don't want to do, if you're the guy on the other side of
04:40the hole, early celebrating someone else's putt and calling it before it goes in, that can backfire a lot and
04:46isn't it good looking? If someone says to me like, oh great putt or oh that's in, oh that's pure and
04:50it doesn't go in or really early and it doesn't go in, I'm like do not stop talking to my golf ball.
04:55Do you think it's affected your ball? Absolutely. Of course it has, it has to. Just don't talk to my
04:59golf ball, don't talk to your playing partner's golf balls and don't early walk that putt. Just wait for it to go in.
05:08Recent rule changes have affected this next one I'm going to mention. So you used to have five minutes to
05:12find your ball, now you've only got three. So it's become more imperative than ever not to assume
05:16you're just going to find your golf ball once you've hit it into the rubbish. Yeah I see people
05:20playing on somewhere they know really well where they play every week and they're like that's fine
05:23over there. I know that. I know that bit, I've been there all the time and it might take a different
05:27bounce, it might hit something, you might not find it. If you don't then find it, you've got to trawl your
05:31way back to the tee, you're taking penalty shots, you're taking up more time. So just always hit a provisional if
05:37you lose sight of the ball or even if you have a hint of doubt that you might not find it. The 10 seconds it takes to
05:42hit a provisional could save you 10 minutes of traipsing back and holding everyone up. And you
05:46get another swing, another shot, get that bad, get that bad shot out of your head. That's a little
05:50sort of bonus to it. But yeah, always hit a provisional, speed things up and that's, that's, that's, that.
05:59Lastly Joe, this falls into the category of early chirping a putt or talking to someone's golf ball is
06:04letting them know they've got a good score going. Well you're playing well aren't you mate? It's horrible.
06:08Yeah, it's just wrong on so many levels. If I'm playing well and I'm on for a really good score,
06:14trust me, I know. I don't need you to tell me, I know and I'm already worried about it,
06:20so I don't need the additional pressure. Keep it to yourself, admire quietly and let them get on with
06:26it. You can talk about it after the round. Yeah. You know what I mean? Just focus on your own
06:29gosh darn game and we can talk about how well I've played
06:33later. So yeah, no, not, none of that sort of do it all right. Yeah, absolutely not.
06:38That's not bad Joe. It's a nice little list that of things to not do on the golf course.
06:42Take it on board. We want to hear if you've got any that we may have missed out,
06:45which of the ones that we mentioned is the most
06:48biggest crime, would have the biggest sentence in this sort of golf jail, golf, golf court.
06:53Wow, you're taking it there. Yeah, I have taken it there. Let us know any others that we've missed
06:56out. Hope you enjoyed this video, our acting. Well done, Numbnuts. Yes, thank you very much.
07:00Thank you very much. See you next time.
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