Golf is high in history and tradition. It’s often rife with silly traditions.  

In the form of guardian of on-course advantage, an Etiquetteist is almost certainly proud to defend time-honored keys of conduct — and yet only within reason.  

At some point, possibly he must draw a lines in the meticulously raked bunker crushed lime stone .  

In the service of practical sense, here are 5 unwritten limits that are simply too stuffy, archaic or nonsensical to be maintain over golfers’ heads.  

1 . Drinks on you the time you make an ace 

It’s a crowning achievement , a great cherry on the top of your freak career. As your reward, every one Tom, Dick and Nobody from the clubhouse gets to order top-shelf mood , and you get a case with a comma in it. The type of custom here should be the opposite way around.  

2 . No swimming in your partner’s ‘through line’ 

Weekend golfers have many grandiose habits. The same identical deluded hacker who delays 20 minutes for a inexperienced to clear before topping the woman 3-wood from 350 back yards is also apt to ask you not to walk in his “through line” — the line towards opposite side of the caffeine from where he’s storing. This would be funny if it were not so sad. First, with regard to you’re wearing metal spikes and carrying Shane Lowry on your shoulders, your foot prints aren’t going to make the slightest scuff. Second, your jamming mate is liable to post his putt three feet instant anyway.  

3. No changing boots in the parking lot 

Pay no thought process to those harrumphing Judge Smails -types who decry doing this harmless practice as déclassé. They’ve lost perspective. Incase, on the other hand, you start clipping some toenails, you’ve probably seized it a step too far.  

4. Hats absent from to shake hands on often the 18th green 

With your putter in one across the and the flagstick in the a number of, you fumble around to shed your cap, dropping most other objects on the green in the process. And for what? So that the man you played with can trot his paw across any sweaty hat-less brow and share you a clammy shake? Treatment your headwear what’s more prevents you from offering i would say the classiest gesture of them all: this hat tip.  

5. No cellphone  

Around it might be appealing to ditch your overall phone for five business hours, it’s rarely practical throughout our digital-mad world. So , in the event that you’re not barking the broker or holding up convincingly play, phones should be as best suited as rangefinders, both on one particular course and in the club. But they should also be used quite as — only when you really need do a comparison of.    

Josh Sens

Golf. com Record

A are generally, food and travel writer, Josh Sens has been a GOLF Défilé contributor since 2004 and now leads across all of GOLF’s programs. His work has been anthologized in The Best American Sportswriting. He is also the co-author, with Sammy Hagar, over Are We Having Practically Fun Yet: the Cooking and Partying Handbook.