Need some more help with my sledging. Best I have heard is “never looked like it”. Best used after a 40 foot putt stops an inch short of dropping in. Also same scenario “does your husband play”. Sorry to all Married golfers

best form of gamesmanship is to act as if you are cool as cucumber
basically words are just words

Not his fault, the putter got caught in his skirt.

Best one directed at me to date was after I’d left a 12 foot putt about 3 feet short. As I walked towards the ball, my playing partner said “hey, you’ve dropped it!” When I started looking around behind me to see what I’d dropped, he said “your lipstick, it’s over there!”

Brett

Best Ive got on a par 4 water carry:
Before hitting off: Is that there the best place to layup to play for bogey?
Before hitting off: Are you still trying to beat the shit out of those old metals or has the upgrade made it easier?

best form of gamesmanship is to act as if you are cool as cucumber
basically words are just words

Yeah, I find I really have a lot of fun playing golf with my mates when I put on my icy, “cool as a cucumber” game face.

Words are just words after all.

BTW, I play with the worlds worst putter. Hands down.

Last Sunday he spent thirty seconds contemplating a 6 footer for par. Stabbed at it and left it a foot short. It was never even remotely going in, just slid across the line straight away.

His brother: Man, you’ve got the worst putting stroke I’ve ever seen.
Me: Don’t think we can call that a stroke. It’s somewhere between a spasm and a twitch.

man that’s cruel lol

Lol Muntz. If you really want to get under someones skin, tell them to “keep their head in the game” or tell them its only a game and not to get too frustrated about it. If you are playing with someone who is very.. proud. Offer to concede a putt, or say that you are happy to give yourself a 2 stroke penalty just to give him a chance or even things up, they won’t take your charity.. and they won’t play very well either.

Also, if you really enjoy sledging, take up cricket. (But dont call anyone a Monkey!!!)

OK I have been there for one of the best. The “target” of the sledge was walking rather proudly to his ball about 20 yards past our drives. Now this guy was a few $$$ in front in what was becoming a rather one-sided high-stakes skins game. My mate had no option but to go in all guns blazing as he didn’t have enough money to cover his losses. Now the “target”’s Mum had a few years previously left her husband for another woman. According to my mate there were no taboo subjects so he asked a very simple question ” so your Mum is a lesbian, how does that work then?”
Cheers
Gezball

Lol, with 14 golf clubs in the average punters bag, you are a brave man to try that tactic..

man that’s cruel lol

He was laughing as hard as we were. Man – he misses so many short ones by so far it is just incredible.

He has no concept of moving the putter back and through on a line, he kind of lifts the putter up and stabs it at the ball – you have to see it to believe it.

On the cricket pitch we always looked to get a guy to start doubting himself. If a guy hit a boundary & his teamates didn’t clap to enthusiastically then it was mentioned that his team mates didn’t seem to appreciate his efforts & he didn’t have alot of respect from them. Also mentioning that a guy had changed his grip against a faster bowler caused some interesting moments as this guy started to change gloves and bats before leaving one just outside middle stump. It wasn’t worth us saying anything as he left, he was abusing the sh!t out of himself!
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Gezball

Yea, I like working a bastman by virtue of letting him know that it was HIS fault that wickets were falling at the other end, and that his team was suffering cos all the blokes that could bat were being put off by his batting.. Normally forces a rash shot.

A regular favourite is asking someone if they are taking the scenic route when they slice one into the trees

when someone leaves a putt short…casually walk back past where he hit it from and then pretend to trip over something…..”sorry just I tripped over the pile of hand bags you left lying here!!”

My favourite on the putting green is when someone hits a plain awful putt. I like to deadpan:

“Apart from the line and length that was the best putt I’ve ever seen”

:-)

I also say on the green from time to time in a friendly game, if they hit a putt thats nowhere near going in, “GET IN BABY”

Along the same lines as other’s comments with short putts “The putter head got caught in your petticoat again Doris”

Before a drive my playing partner pointed to the clubhead and said “Hold on there is a piece of $hit on the end of your driver” ” oops sorry thats just you…”

You got to have good game before sledging and well the best way to combat it I find is to pull a sneaky ruling one of those ones that is totally obscure and it totally infuriates the sledger into silence… or more sledging…

10 seasons of cricket tuned me to be a good giver and taker of sledging…I think the quick witted comeback is better than an ordinary offensive sledge….

Some classics here

a good one i find works…

either a pennant match or just with mates… if someone is draining a few putts you say.. jeez your a good putter! do you breathe in or out when you putt?

guarantee for the at least the next 6 holes they will think about breathing as they putt & will miss em all.

One of the old guys I play with is a weathered mining workhorse and his theory is that the only thing more important than your swing in matchplay is sledging the other guy’s.

I like this one.. Ive figured out what your doing wrong !.... your standing too close to the ball !!.........AFTER YOUVE HIT IT !!!

I like this one.. Ive figured out what your doing wrong !.... your standing too close to the ball !!.........AFTER YOUVE HIT IT !!!

“the woods are full of long drivers”

I like that one!!

after a practise swing ..say geees if I had a swing that bad I would not practise it!!