462: Hey! You’re Standing on My Line! Golf Etiquette with Richard Todd

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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462: Golf rules are fluid. Depending on whom you're playing with, they can change from round to round. But walk on someone's line, talk when your partner is up, or make phone calls, that can really cause a problem. This week we speak to Golf Smarter listener and author Richard Todd about his newest book "The Golf Rules: Etiquette". This is less then half of the full conversation. You can listen to it commercial free for $1.99. Now available in the Individual Episode section of our Golfers'Mart at GolfSmarter.com.http://TheGolfRules.comBoth or Richard's books are available in the book section of our Golfers'Mart.This episode is brought to you by Harry's! For guys like you who want a great shave experience for a fraction of what you’re paying now, go to Harrys.com. And get $5 off your first purchase by entering the code GOLFSMARTER when you check out.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	For members only, Golf Smarter number 462, published on Movember 11, 2014, is brought to you by Harry's.
0:09.0	For guys like you who want a great shave experience for a fraction of what you're paying now, go to harries.com, h-a-r-r-r-R-Y-S dot com,
0:19.8	and get $5 off your first purchase by entering the code golf smarter
0:23.7	when you check out smarter podcasts.com delivering sound advice hey you're standing on my line
0:34.7	golf etiquette with richard. This is Golf Smarter.
0:39.7	Welcome back to the Golf Smarter podcast, Richard.
0:43.2	Hey, Fred. It's great to be back.
0:44.9	It's like you never left.
0:48.4	A lot of time with Golf Smarter, huh?
0:51.3	Yes, every week.
0:53.8	Well, I get to spend a lot of time with your books now. Thank you.
0:57.7	Good. And you got a new one. Congratulations. So let's recap what the last book was so we can
1:04.4	promote that first. Absolutely. Please. We'll take you back five years first. My son was graduating eighth grade, getting ready to become a big bad freshman, and decided he wanted to be on the golf team. So it was a great summer. I got to play a lot of golf. And you've been playing golf all your life. I have.
1:27.8	Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 30 some years. But, you know, it's harder to get every weekend off to play
1:34.3	golf, but I told the wife, you know, I've got to do this so that Nicholas can make the team.
1:39.2	Yeah. Sure. Good excuse. And yes, it's very hard. and I do acknowledge it is very hard for anybody with young children
1:47.9	to get out on the golf course on a regular basis. Very hard.
1:53.5	Unless they drag their kids along.
1:56.2	Exactly. So we're out there during that in the day. And at night, I decided to try to read the USGA rules of golf. I had attempted it once before. As you know, it's a very difficult book to get through. No offense to the USGA. You know, that's a legal document. And there is some legalese in there and it's tough to get
2:19.6	through. Even if you read it from cover to cover, understanding it is a completely different
2:24.9	ballgame. So as I'm reading the section on tending the flagstick, I was mentally transported
2:33.1	back to being 16 myself and the first time my dad took me out with him and his friends.
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