| One reason for fewer Mulligans for me is that I now make fewer bad shots. The other reason is that I'm getting confident enough that I want to try to hit it out of a bad (but not uplayable) lie.
I usually play alone anyhow. Unfortunately for me, I have nowhere to practice chip shots other than on the golf couse: both the golf course and golf range have a "no chipping" sign next the their practice putting greens, so I don't know if I should count some of this as Mulligans, or just the practice I should be getting elsewhere.
I also see a lot of other "casual players" not setting a very good example. A foursome of 20 somethings ahead of me last week would play to the green, and then pick up the balls and walk off! I guess they have perfected putting, so they don't need to even do it. The next day the player in front of me sliced his second shot 75 yards to the right, behind some trees but very playable. He simply drove his cart to the adjacent fairway, picked up the ball, and carried it back (75 yards) to the fairway he should have been on, dropped where it would have gone if he hadn't sliced it, and hit it again! |