Originally Posted by
markTHEblake
That ruling brings up a vague situation - GC pennant mentioned in the conditions of play(since removed) that a player cannot receive advice from a team member.
So, considering that a golfer cant receive advice from anyone other than his own caddy anyway, then that rule must mean something. i think that the correct interpretation of this, is that when a player finishes his match early, he is by definition still a member of the team and thus cannot caddy for another.
of course someone could say that a person is pushing the bag but not a caddy, but that is a blurry line also. Can a person push a bag and not be a caddy, or is a caddy deemed to be giving advice even if he doesnt.
Had a very heated conversation once about this, which was kinda funny as it escalated as the bloke clearly knew he crossed the line. We were playing Pennant in fours (yuck) I am the captain of my team, playing a kid, and his dad in team shirt pops up and caddies for him on the 15th. At first i didnt give a crap because i was 3 down, but from 16th tee to fairway he was non stop telling his son what to do, speaking softly. I couldnt remember if the dad had played or caddied for another, and as we had a long wait to approach the green i eventually got sick of this, its supposed to be one against one, not one against two.
So i just walked over a bit closer to him and politely interupted his conversations, "Sorry I cant remember, did you play in the team?" he got stroppy straight up "just pushing the bag MATE", obviously he knew the rule, but I have no idea why he got so snarky straight up. i played him years before and thought he was a decent fella.
So as he was being a nob and avoided the question I wasnt gonna let that go, I asked him about 3 more times politely and got the same answer, eventually he is yelling back at me. By this time his teammate in our group is trying to play his shot, who gets the shits with all the yelling, and he starts yelling too. There is a whole bunch of people around mostly their mob including their captain so I he comes over and we have a nice chat, we already knew each other before. The Captain says yes the dad is another player, so I reminded him/them the dad cant give advice, and goes back and talks to his players. I didnt hit him with the hard question "did you give advice" because it was never my intention to enforce the rule, as my ass was already kicked being dormie, but i was well and truly entitled to. He knew he was breaking the rule.
anyway poor kid who had said nothing through all this may have been shaken, I won the next two holes with pars, but i tanked myself on the last, i actually felt sorry for him, haha.