Golf is a game that teaches you honesty and integrity. For instance, you might be standing in some rough and the ball is buried in some high grass and you are playing the ball down in a tournament. You bump it to give yourself a better lie, you have just moved your ball and noone saw you move it. Then you tell the person you had a par on the hole when you really had a bogey. “Jack Nickalaus once said when you cheat to win and do win its not a real win it’s a shallow victory.” Honesty goes a log way especially in life, and it will make you feel a lot better about the person you really are.
The teeing ground is always where you start the hold from. Whether it is on the first hold of the round or the last hole of the round. The honor system, this is the way I usually play the player with the lowest score on the previous hole. He has the honor of hitting first on the proceeding hole. If a person has the honor its rude to tee off in front of them as well as hitting in front of them when it is your turn. I am sure we have all done this once or twice. We forget who has the honor on the hole and hit in front of them. There are markers on the tee boxes and they are blue for championship tees, white teas are middle tees, and lastly
Manners and behavior are a big thing in golf. I always used to throw clubs when I hit a bad shot because that is what my Dad did and I thought that was all part of the game, and accepted. I quickly changed when I broke a club and had to pay for the new one, I learned my lesson real quick. You should always practice good manners on and off the golf course, it will take you a long way in life and makes people much happier playing a round of golf with you. My mentor is probably one of the greatest golfers of all time, if not the best, and that is Ben Hogan. One of the brightest people I have ever met. I had a chance to meet him and play a round of golf with him before he passed away in 1998. I played with him at Torrey Pines. It was one of the greatest rounds of golf I have ever played. Another gentlemen I got to meet before his tragic death, was Payne Stewart. He was a character always wearing his knee high knickerbockers. They always called him the second winner because he never could get over the hump and win the U.S. Open, until finally he did it against his best friend Phil Mickleson at Pinehurst. I will never forget that day on the 18th at Pinehurst when he sank that thirty foot putt and gave one of the biggest smiles I have ever seen in my life, and I think he was as shocked as ever to se
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