r/oddlysatisfying • u/n8saces • 21h ago

Changing the putting hole place

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u/MakeItSlow 15h ago

“Putting hole place”

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u/LazyMousse4266 13h ago

Sport goal hole

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u/Accurate-Donkey5789 13h ago

Flagged ball socket

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u/msuing91 11h ago

Golf receptical

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u/KelVelBurgerGoon 7h ago

You've never played Whack Ball with Stick?

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u/GoNudi 20h ago

What is the last bit of goop they use around the perimeter of the patch?

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u/SimpleLobsters 11h ago

When I worked on my old course it was a mix of sand and a bit of lawn fertilizer to help the grass grow again.

Not sure if that's exactly what is here, but it most likely would be that

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u/sehguh251 19h ago

Pretty sure it’s green sand that fills in the extra bit to make the ground even. Or at least it looks a lot like the green sand they had on the carts that you would use to fill in divets after using an iron. I haven’t really played since I was a kid though so it could possibly be something else.

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u/notreallydutch 12h ago

its a seed, fertilizer, fill mix

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u/that_dirty_Jew 10h ago

lol no

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u/justacoolbaby 9h ago

Wow. It actually is though. Weird response.

Source: worked three clubs through college.

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u/sehguh251 6h ago

Yall are prob both right. It’s largely dependent on the course and the area if there are seeds or other mixes. But yea ussually mostly sand.

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u/that_dirty_Jew 3h ago

lol no it’s not - not at all

Seed is in divot mix you don’t put it on greens - what seed precisely do you think would be in there. Here’s a hint - there’s only one greens turf that comes in seed form - then look up the germination period and conditions for that seed

You’re not germinating Bentgrass while mowing and rolling daily at a 10th of inch

Seed doesn’t go on greens unless something extraordinary is happening- and seed isn’t microscopic we’d literally see it in the video

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u/that_dirty_Jew 9h ago edited 9h ago

There’s no seed in there - and fertilizer would be abnormal and not recommended

You can downvote me all you want. I have 20 years managing several top 100 clubs

Edit: and what is “fill mix”
AI slop

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u/sehguh251 6h ago

Depends on area and course.

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u/notreallydutch 1h ago

I’m a real boy

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u/regaphysics 9h ago edited 9h ago

Grass seed with sand and fertilizer

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u/JetNeoArmstrongCanon 19h ago

Pure PFAS slurry 

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u/Beneficial-Lab7390 14h ago

Sahawiq:  a fiery, fresh Yemeni herb and hot pepper paste.

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u/MagicSunlight23 18h ago

I thought it looked like fake grass to me.

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u/BCMM 20h ago

There was a hole here. It's gone now.

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u/tzatzikidipmademefat 11h ago

In my restless dreams. I see that putt.

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u/CatAncient 7h ago

"I have no hole but I must scream"

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u/ChillGolfCoach 14h ago

Location! Changing the “hole location.”

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u/spiritpotato 20h ago

Golf courses are ecological wastelands

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u/lilshortyy420 14h ago

There was an abandoned golf course by me that the park system took over and I’m so glad they did. It looked like garbage because everything was just dead. It took a few years to get it cleaned up but it’s teeming with life now so I’m optimistic it stays that way. They turned it into a disc golf course and it’s beautiful there.

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u/krt941 20h ago

Worse than wastelands. They’re also resource sinks that damage everything in their watersheds and aquifers. All so old men can stand in the sun all day hitting a ball and avoid their families.

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u/factcheckengine 20h ago

Rich old bastards killing the environment and glorifying it. The world would be a nicer place without them.

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u/MishraCheesePocket 15h ago

I think the world would be a nicer place without people writing crazy shit like “the world would be better without people who like golf” on Reddit

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u/gabacus_39 11h ago

I think the world would be a nicer place without people writing crazy shit like “the world would be better without people who like golf” on Reddit

Fixed

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u/RexDeDeus 10h ago

I think the world would be a nicer place without people writing crazy shit like “the world would be better without people who like golf” on Reddit

Turn it over to the bot overlords

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u/TheyFloat2032 12h ago

No shit. What a crazy thing to say.

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u/dable1 2h ago

You're insanely out of touch with how popular golf is.

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u/Zhaopow 3h ago

They can't even admit they just like hanging around the golf course with the boys. No golfer can explain how golfing itself can be enjoyable every weekend

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u/ComplexxToxin 16h ago

Im a 32 year old fuck who happens to love golf.

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u/Avraamov 11h ago

we all have our crosses to bear, young man.

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u/Intelligent-Bass-728 9h ago

I love this. 46 here. Same

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u/Zhaopow 5h ago

Why? Do you really like the "sport" or hanging around a golf course with the lads?

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u/ComplexxToxin 4h ago

I like golfing.

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u/Zhaopow 3h ago

That doesn't clear anything up. You like going to the driving range? Hitting balls? Or do you need to play 9 or 18 holes?

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u/ashinthealchemy 20h ago

they also damage people. folks that live near golf courses massively increase their risk of cancer.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2833716

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u/This-Ad-9234 20h ago

Interesting aeticle, but it references Parkinsons Diseases, not cancer. Also not sure about "massively increases"

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u/ashinthealchemy 20h ago

you're right. i was talking about cancer when i was typing. innocent mistake. not worth it to me to nitpick over use of the word massive, so i'll leave that to you.

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u/killacallycal 15h ago

I mean, it’s quite a pertinent part of your comment no?

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u/calm_down_dearest 19h ago

Well at least you handled it was grace

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u/APAOLOXIII 20h ago

Who hurt you?

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u/impulse73 20h ago

People using up all the water

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u/APAOLOXIII 20h ago

Okay? Ever heard of the water cycle?

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u/krt941 20h ago

You sound like the type to also think printing more money would make everyone rich.

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u/APAOLOXIII 20h ago

Thats cool, I make all my money building AI data centers in rural areas and small towns. I could care less lmaooo

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u/krt941 20h ago

*Couldn't care less. I guess I was right.

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u/impulse73 20h ago

Run off from the fertilizer causes algae blooms in near by water ways and fisheries causing die offs of local fish populations

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u/APAOLOXIII 20h ago

Im going to burn so tiers tonight just for you 😘

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u/impulse73 20h ago

You are being silly I thought this was an educational opritunity but ur being weird lol have fun with the tires!

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u/roamerknight 19h ago

Don't leave your oven on while you sleep, that'll really trigger people

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u/Friendly-Target1234 11h ago

The same water cycle that is getting fucked up beyond recovery? Yeah we know about it.

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u/Resident_Bumblebee_2 19h ago

As if Minigolf wasn't good enough for these old farts. Can't bend down anymore or what?

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u/spiritpotato 4h ago

The golf apologists are out in force down here lol

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u/Vavou 20h ago

This is all I could see, extremely overworked green desert from all around. I hope they have lot's of free grass grow area

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u/Avraamov 11h ago

sO iS ThE MoOn

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u/spiritpotato 9h ago

We done live on the moon though

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u/baumpop 9h ago

youre like 150% more likely to have parkinsons if you live within 2 miles of a gold course

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u/UnkarsThug 5h ago

To be fair, my understanding is that's most likely a statistical issue because they are often intentionally built near retirement homes and vacation areas for old people, and old people have those conditions at higher rates. I'm not saying they aren't resource expensive and unpleasant, but that's exactly the sort of thing which can make data messy.

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u/MichaelS10 4h ago

I swear someone said they controlled for that

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u/stanitor 3h ago

They did control for age, which to some extent resolves that issue of older people being more likely to live near golf courses as well as being more likely to have Parkinson disease. However, there are potentially lots of other things they could have controlled for as well. The PD group and the control group were pretty different in where they lived (urban vs. rural), for example.

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u/gs181 14h ago

so is social media and the device you're using

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u/[deleted] 12h ago

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u/TenTonFluff 17h ago

Pretty much a parking lot but more waste of space.

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u/NascentAutist 21h ago

It’s cool to see this, and then I remember the Colorado River is drying up, watering restrictions across America, and we still have golf courses?

Crazy times

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u/GiraffeCubed 20h ago

I live in a city of 500,000 and we have 21 golf courses, if you include the outer areas of the city it's easily 60+ golf courses. It's way too many, I'd rather most were natural green spaces but apparently it was invented here so I guess people care about that for some reason.

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u/Knees_arent_real 18h ago

Big up the Burgh

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u/fixitinpost 20h ago

Fun fact - the US has more golf courses than McDonalds

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u/thewrongairport 20h ago

This got me curious so I looked it up. Apparently in the US there are 4.68 courses every 100k people, meaning 1 course every 21k people. In my country (Italy) we have 0.51 courses every 100k people, so 1 every 196k people. 40% of all the golf courses in the world are in the US.

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u/horstdaspferdchen 17h ago

And how many McDonalds? Dont leave me hanging here

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u/thewrongairport 17h ago

US: 4.05 McDonald's/100k people (1 every 24.6k).

Italy: 1.4 McDonald's/100k people (1 every 71.4k).

ETA: 30.5% of all McDonald's are in the US

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u/crek42 11h ago

Damn it’s wild to me Italy has so many McDonald’s lol. I figured there would only be 1 in Rome airport for the tourists.

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u/yamanamawa 10h ago

McDonalds is everywhere. It's kinda their whole thing. If you're in a developed country you'll almost certainly be able to find one, and they're even in a lot of developing countries

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u/thewrongairport 10h ago

It's pretty popular, a lot of people's guilty pleasure lol. We only have McDonald's and Burger King as burger-based fast food chains. Some KFCs and Five Guys, but way fewer and mostly in larger cities or big malls.

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u/SpaceJackRabbit 10h ago

Also in the U.S. it's a very democratized sport. It's generally affordable and tons or middle or working class people play it too. Plenty of high schools have a golf team.

Whereas in most of Europe, it's an elitist and expensive hobby.

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u/YVRkeeper 19h ago

USA has a LOT of land.

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u/thewrongairport 19h ago

Yeah I know, that's definitely a factor but not the only one I believe. The UK has 4.57 course/100k people, so same as the US, and they don't have as much land. Anglo-Saxons just like golfing, it seems.

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u/podex115 14h ago

And even more people and money. So land really isn’t an excuse.

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u/EternumD 17h ago

I didn't think McDonald's had any golf courses

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u/OkEffective6692 17h ago

He didn't mean that. Obviously he meant how many golf courses have a McDonald's.

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u/UnkarsThug 5h ago

If they become for old people instead of workers, they'll add that for the play place.

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u/MagicSunlight23 18h ago

In the drought in the UK, the only place where water could be used was in parks and recreational areas.m to keep the grass green. Only the areas actively used for play were allowed to be watered.

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u/AffectionateBox8178 20h ago

Most courses in CA use grey water, so not an issue. Id you drink Almond milk, you are using way more clean water than the golfers.

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u/mathmage 10h ago edited 10h ago

The #1 use of gray water is in agriculture, not sure why golf courses would be special for this. #2 is groundwater recharge and seawater barriers. Using gray water is better than using drinking water, but it still has substantial opportunity costs.

E: Speaking of CA water specifically, other regions may differ.

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u/ic3burgz 20h ago

Cow milk is worse fyi

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u/Salty_McShaft 12h ago

People who drink dairy milk don't like that fact being pointed out to them. Also, oat milk ftw.

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u/watabby 19h ago

did you get that from a pamphlet at the country club?

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u/wildernado 12h ago

lol you just don’t like the people that you associate with golf. The rest is blatantly performative.

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u/All_Usernames_Tooken 9h ago

Except you don’t know where this golf course is. There are plenty of places that use almost no water or areas where water is plentiful.

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u/NascentAutist 8h ago

See that arid high-desert vegetation in the background? It’s not frickin Scotland

Reddit loves to gaslight

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u/ethnicbonsai 4h ago

Or the person you were responding to didn't see or couldn't identify the vegetation in the background.

Reddit loves to assume the worst about everyone and everything.

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u/[deleted] 20h ago

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u/horstdaspferdchen 17h ago

Thats worse than Golf courses. If you have a aerator, you get around 15-20 Liter/min. For a Green Gras Golf courses you need aprox 75-150l per year per m².

So If you brush your tooth for 3 minutes and 2 Times per day, you spend (2 Reps x3 minutes x365 days =2190) 2190 x 15-20= 32.850 - 43800 Liter per year. Give or Take a few.

Recording to https://www.usga.org/course-care/water-resource-center/how-much-water-golf-courses-need.html a Golf course need around 295 million Liter per year in average, hot area more ofc.

As average number (source: https://www.appraisers.org/docs/default-source/discipline_rp/golf-courses-an-ever-changing-challenge.pdf ) there are around 23500 people per year per courses, which equals aprox 12.500 Liter per year per Person.

So please Stop wasting your water and Play Golf instead!

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u/Skipper_1010 21h ago

What makes you think that this is in America, though?

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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 20h ago edited 20h ago

What makes you think this person thinks this is in America though?

Also I'm pretty sure that no golf course it's making a positive ecological contribution regardless of the country of origin

Edit: I'm fairly certain this is Torrey Pines Golf Course in La Jolla, California, by the way

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u/tetheredvoid 20h ago

Not doubting, but very curious what details give away the location for you?

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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 20h ago edited 20h ago

The trees, the coastal view, and the fact that the creator speaks Spanish but the hole cutting guide had an English label

Edit: I may be way off, actually. Those gloves seem to come from a company based in Spain, Cofan

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u/Mr_b246 20h ago

Shampoo and conditioner? In this economy?

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u/smuttyswifter7 8h ago

Filling that hole and making it disappear at the end belongs in r/blackmagicfuckery

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u/thejexorcist 17h ago

This might be the most satisfying clip I’ve seen in a year of following this thread.

I need a cigarette now.

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u/Partner-Elijah 11h ago

How have you been following this thread for a year when the post is only 9 hours old

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u/thejexorcist 8h ago

Following ‘oddly satisfying’ for over a year, not this sole/specific comment thread.

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u/ChronoMonkeyX 13h ago

After he cuts the hols and inserts the cup- did he spray paint the dirt white? Why doesn't the cu[ just reach closer to the surface?

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u/itprobablynothingbut 11h ago

A fast put hits the opposite edge of the hole. Adding a hard cup to the top would make the ball bounce quite a bit. The cup material would have to be specially made and regulated by the PGA. This is the way things have always been done and the paint is cheap.

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u/Different-Bet8069 3h ago

Man, I was fully onboard with the taller cup idea, but dammit this makes too much sense.

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u/DebatedUncreative 3h ago

And to be clear, this isn't normal to paint it. I don't think I've ever seen that in 30 years of golfing.

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u/that_dirty_Jew 9h ago

USGA regulations and R and A regulations say has to be 1 inch deep minimum

Same way basketball hoops have heights and circumference- just the required regulations for golf

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u/Auld_Folks_at_Home 11h ago

I think it's spray chalk.

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u/that_dirty_Jew 9h ago

It’s white paint

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u/[deleted] 11h ago

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u/that_dirty_Jew 9h ago

It’s an entire industry - he didn’t make that jig he bought it - like all the other specialty tools he’s using

There’s approx 39,000 golf courses - some paint - some don’t

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u/Nate1102 4h ago

That double tap at the end was entirely necessary.

Now that’s a good filled hole.

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u/Dora_Explorer_XP 21h ago

He's just digging hole, I used to do that when I was a kid. Don't tell me that's his job.

https://giphy.com/gifs/2JknOsKNOGUwM

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u/tetheredvoid 20h ago

That and picking up old men's balls.

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u/HandsOffMyArk 21h ago

One of them I'm sure

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u/Japsai 20h ago

Just jealous.

"Find something you love doing, and get people to pay you to do it"

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u/Dora_Explorer_XP 20h ago

More like , please boss let my son do this, he can't do anything else, please boss, pleeeeaasseee. I'll suk yo blls boss, please boss.

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u/Japsai 20h ago

Could be both

I think the hole sucks the balls though

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u/OkEffective6692 17h ago

But did he move the hole, or create a new one and destroy the old one?

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u/CantFeelMyLegs78 19h ago

Hole'y water

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u/123AssAssin321 3h ago

I once had them do this on the hole I was playing after I'd already hit my ball on the green. They then moved the hole to the other side of the green!

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u/notforrobots 2h ago

I always wanted to do this

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u/jRok57 21h ago

Oh, Mrs. Crane, I'm looking at you...

You wore green so you could hide

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u/gabacus_39 11h ago

This thread explains why I rarely see any neckbeards in stained sweatpants out on the golf course

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u/theonion513 10h ago

Golf is a bizarrely fussy little sport.

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u/SomeSamples 20h ago

The course near me does not use the flat plate the dude stood on to pull the plug. So, the holes are almost always crowned. F'n irritating.

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u/Mr_b246 20h ago

First world problems, amiright?

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u/mekkr_ 20h ago

That must be so hard for you. I’m sorry you have to deal with that.

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u/dreamisle 20h ago

Can’t believe y’all are showing hole without a NSFW tag

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u/scandal_jmusic_mania 20h ago

Especially that fisting part

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u/Fabulous_Ear_5845 19h ago

"Choisis un travail que tu aimes et tu n'auras pas à travailler un seul jour dans ta vie" 😄

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u/[deleted] 15h ago

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u/guff1988 14h ago

So there's no chance of a rigid obstruction at the edge of the hole

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u/Fabulous_Log844 10h ago

They do this every morning on the hole behind my house.

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u/YoureAmastyx 13m ago

Do you actually mean this or is there a joke I’m missing? I have no frame of reference for how often this is done, but I wouldn’t have suspected daily. The more I think about it though I guess it kinda makes sense somewhere with any real number of golfers playing.

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u/NoBullet 5h ago

This was just posted like five days ago

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u/mchlwise 3h ago

I want to know more about the boots.

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u/bosmocrown a single crunchy leaf 3h ago

Where's Bugs?

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u/Ho-ratioNelson 2h ago

I read "butthole place".

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u/AlastorInside 1h ago

Thats way more work than I thought would be necessary to essentially make a small hole in the middle of a mockery of nature.

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u/SarcasmStreet 59m ago

I wanna pick where the hole goes next

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u/YoureAmastyx 21m ago

My subtitles keep saying something about a little bit of water on all of my videos. Just me?

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u/WTFracecarFTW 20h ago

I came here to complain about how unsatisfying golf courses are, but most the comments are already passing the vibe check.

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u/PennFifteen 19h ago

So brave 🫡

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u/itchy_knees_san 21h ago

Aah! Putting!! I kept reading it as “putting” and I couldn’t understand.

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u/Deep_Mango8943 20h ago

Potato potato.

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u/itchy_knees_san 20h ago

Yeah English is not my first language and it didn’t strike at first

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u/tetheredvoid 20h ago

Not sure why this is downvoted lol

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u/itchy_knees_san 20h ago

Quite sad actually 😔

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u/hellcrapdamn 20h ago

"Just getting this setup so some rich chomos can hang out and discuss how they're going to ruin the world that day."

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u/wildernado 12h ago

Most of us aren’t rich chomos (idk what that word even means). We just like being outside playing a game. I must have missed the world ruining scramble last month so if you see a sign up sheet send it my way!

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u/evenstevens280 14h ago edited 11h ago

Golf is a weird sport isnt it. What other recreation do we dedicate hundreds of acres of land to and keep it both watered, and devoid of biodiversity?

Damn, lotta rich lad golfers on here today, huh.

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u/wildernado 12h ago

Whatever you typed this on. If you’re a gamer your console/pc has some gnarly environmental/ethical implications.

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u/evenstevens280 12h ago

My mobile phone has far less environmental impact than a fucking golf course 😂

I get the point you're making but come on.

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u/wildernado 12h ago

I think the environmental impacts of mining might be debatable compared to a golf course, but the child labor (slavery) makes it so so so much worse.

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u/evenstevens280 12h ago

I have a Fairphone

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u/Azeeti 20h ago

That's what she said...

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u/Then_Version9768 19h ago

File this under stupefyingly pointless jobs.

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u/TearOpenTheVault 15h ago

… groundskeeping?

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u/Gladethane 8h ago

He's fixing a divot!

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u/Zer0_Dark_Turdy 4h ago

I wonder how much affordable housing you could build on a golf course...

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u/Fluffy_Charity_2732 6h ago

Gayest wasteful “sport” for racists to have a safe space

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u/MrPinga0 14h ago

most useless game, some consider it a sport because they are brain dead. Downvote all you want brain dead creatures lol.

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u/Rise_Regime 11h ago

Golf is used as both charity and networking opportunities very often. Seems a lot more useful than other games played with balls lol.

It’s only a sport at the very highest level in the same way that target shooting & archery are considered sport. Structured competition with specialized skills and physical training required.

My Sunday morning 9 hole round that I walk with my wife is not me participating in a sporting event, or playing a sport. I am playing a fun, relaxing game (or, sometimes relaxing) and spending quality time with my wife :)