...when Goldfinger tells Bond "I own the country club."What I like is the guys he's playing with don't even watch to see if he might actually putt it. He never does.#CommanderInCheat https://t.co/2u3nRPV4rw
— Rick Reilly (@ReillyRick) March 5, 2021
He cheated at golf, too; but not nearly so openly.
A Bond villain with more class than the 45th POTUS.
Just sayin'....
Cheating in golf is a bit counter-intuitive. When you play for medal score in a competition, generally, your game is scored by one or more of your playing partners. You declare a score at the end of each hole and the person keeping your score either accepts or rejects the score you declare. If you declare you made bogey 5 on a hole where you clearly made triple bogey 7 you are not likely to proceed to the next hole until you, your scorer and any other players in your group have reached consensus on how many strokes you actually took. In a competition you are likely playing in a foursome with a foursome immediately ahead of you and another foursome directly behind you. If recording your score requires an Act of Congress on every hole your foursome will tend to fall behind the foursome ahead and delay the foursome behind. Maintaining pace of play requires taking an appropriate amount of time on each shot and on each green. If you allow each foursome roughly five minutes to putt out on each green, the amount of time for putting will largely be distributed within the group according to the number of putts each player takes to hole out. If each player uses 30 seconds per putt and the group collectively has one one putt, two two putts and one three putt the actual putting will take only four minutes and there will be an entire minute of the allotted five minutes to declare and obtain consensus on each player's score for the hole, as there would be if all four players had taken two putts. But if one player in the group takes an entire minute for each putt and three putts every hole, the other three players have only two minutes to hit what in most cases will be six putts. The player whose ball is closest to the hole, when all four balls are on the green, putts last and by virtue of being closer to the hole is more likely to take only one putt, unless, of course, the other three players have all taken three putts and each has used an entire minute for each of their three putts, utilizing nine of the five minutes allotted for putting out. By this time the three three putters have wandered off to the next tee while the player with a chance to one putt and make birdie or save par has the following foursome surrounding the green making rude comments about the one player remaining on the green who has still not his first putt.
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