What if you were playing in the club championship tournament finals and the match was halved at the end of 17 holes. You had the honor and hit your ball a modest two hundred fifty yards to the middle of the fairway, leaving a simple six iron to the pin.

Your opponent then hits his ball, sending it deep into the woods to the right of the fairway. Being the golfing gentleman that you are, you help your opponent look for his ball. Just before the permitted five minute search period ends, your opponent says: "Go ahead and hit your second shot and if I don't find it in time, I'll concede the match."

You hit your ball, landing it on the green, stopping about ten feet from the pin. About the time your ball comes to rest, you hear your opponent exclaim from deep in the woods: "I found it!". The second sound you hear is a whack, the sound of a club striking a ball and the ball comes sailing out of the woods and lands on the green, stopping no more than six inches from the hole.

Now here is the ethical dilemma:
Do you pull the cheating bastard’s ball out of your pocket and confront him with it or do you keep your mouth shut?

You've been watching Goldfinger again, haven't you?

Good one!

Good one. Funny story. I was golfing at Maidstone Golf Course in a fund raising outing. One of the other golfers hit up onto a somewhat blind par three. He couldn't find his ball but after a few minutes he claimed to have located it behind the green and hit up. When they went to putt they found the real ball in the cup. He hit a hole in one but instead of looking in the hole and getting to celebrate it, he cheated and dropped a ball behind the green. The group he was playing with asked him to walk off of the course.

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Originally posted by BigCity:
You've been watching Goldfinger again, haven't you?

Ha ha! My first thought was Bond standing on that ball, too.

"You play a Slazenger 1. This is a Slazenger 7. You must have played the wrong ball on 18."

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Originally posted by StarTraveler:

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Originally posted by BigCity:
You've been watching Goldfinger again, haven't you?

Ha ha! My first thought was Bond standing on that ball, too.

"You play a Slazenger 1. This is a Slazenger 7. You must have played the wrong ball on 18."

And now you know why statues are headless....

Hey, at least with all this gender fluidity crap these days, nobody can call you out for using the red tees.

Good one!

...one small correction: a match in match-play that is even and still underway is "all square." A match that "was halved" is a match that has concluded, with no player having an advantage.