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In reply to the discussion: Trump cheating at golf: [View all]ProfessorGAC
(69,013 posts)First, it's a fact that most amateur players experience only a small disadvantage in the rough. (Typical rough, not US open hay.)
They will only hit a good shot into the green 30-70% of the time (depending on how good they are). The rough only drops them to 20-25%, to 65%. In 10 holes like that, moving the ball out of the rough, every time, is only going to enhance their score by 1 or 2 shots a round.
So, the picking up on a 6' putt is worse cheating than moving a ball out of the rough. Players from 3-18 handicap only make 15-35% of 6 footers. Every time it's done, 3/4ths of a stroke. Way more "cheaty".
He does both!
Even worse, he's a known stroke shaver. That's the worst kind of cheating!
Drive, second shot in water, hit third shot (4 with penalty), putt, pick up 6' putt, claim a bogey five.
Gave himself a 6 footer and ignored the penalty stroke. He really made a 6, and probable 7.
I'm a 4 handicap. If I played him for $10 per stroke, I'd win at least $180, maybe $240, as long as I was counting the strokes.
Little Linz once said " it" shot a 73. Without cheating, they'd have to have quit counting after the 14th hole.
Stroke shaving is the worst kind of cheating, and T#%$p does it multiple times per nine.