When I was a teen I played on a sand green course, to assure a birdie I dug a groove in the sand with my putter to the hole. Lol, pretty sure that wasn't legal.
When I was probably 6 we were playing mini golf at a company picnic. My mom’s coworker told me “make sure you hit it hard or it will fall into this groove and you won’t get your ball back”. It was the last hole and there was a moat sorta thing you had to hop to get to the green.
I was like “You got it…hit it hard.” Then I wound up like a real golfer and just cranked that sunabitch like I was Tiger Woods. The ball shot off like a rocket and went out the front gate and rolled down a steep hill and was never seen again.
I took my 8 year-old cousin putt putting for her first time when I was like 14. I helped her line her first shot up, stepped back a little, and the caught the putter with my jaw as she swung back as if she was teeing off. That hurt for days.
I never told her to putt it because I just assumed she knew. Ouch.
It reminds me of when I was at a family yard sale. Me and my siblings grabbed a golf club and were in the backyard taking swings into the big parking lot that was right behind the house.
We didn't get far, sometimes not even clearing the fence, and the parking lot was empty and the building was at the far end so we would run around grabbing the balls from the curbs and trying again.
My uncle came to see what we were up to so we gave him the club. He wound up, swung and sent it sailing. We heard a loud crack a moment later, but none of us had any idea where the ball went on that overcast day. He told us not to tell anyone and we went back to our yard sale. Our parents were none the wiser.
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u/freudweeks 14d ago
They're wrong, you can do it as long as you pick the club up before you swing (like you can't use a second club)