This weekend we played in a softball tourney in Skeet! We did OK! We played some good games but my athletic highlight of the week had nothing to do with the tourney or softball in general! This week I uncovered a skill i didn't even know I had.... Put Put Golf!I know what your saying.... Oh Brandon that is not a skill. But i am here to prove to you that in fact, put put golf is one of my main skills. Saturday night we went to a neon mini golf course to play around. Soon found ourselves so into it that we were yelling and making rules! And some of us, not to name anyone individually (but i will say that only 2 of the 4 were cheating.. and none of them were from our team) So it was me and Brandt against Seth and Amanda! Now let me take a second to educate you young put putters lookin to make it to the big leagues some day! If you are playing as a team doubles, personal selfish individual performance is not the way to go. Some times you have to sacrafice your personal score for the overall good of the team! If this were a individual performance i am 100% certian that those of us that played as a team (me and brandt) would have scored alot better! But we did better as a team than we would have if we played selfish put put and just tried to shine on our own. That being said when the end of the night came we (Brandt and I) were holding the champoinship belt as we exited the course. But the road to victory was not a easy one! we were faced with trials and tribulation... and even worse, cheaters! This is the story of the Champoinship night... You be the judge on how good we are.
Put Put Champs!!
by Brandon Turpin
by Brandon Turpin
As we started the night we decided to pair up one team member with a team member of the opposite team to discurage cheating... But as you will see, if you are dedicated you will find a way...
As we started off the night I was paired with Amanda and Brandt with Seth. The Very first whole Brandt went first and got a +2 on the course. Seth went and got a even par. I wend and got a +2... At this point I was worried. Then Amanda went. My worry was swept away as Amanda took 4 shots to even get off the green. She would hit the ball and it would come back, 4 times! Now Amanda played the poor girl act and i was feeling generous in the beginning and let her start over every hit. I did not penalize her or make her even count those hits. She ended up finishing that course with a +2 (unofficially) and officially a +6 but we did not count them. Toward the end we started getting real close.. That is when the real cheating came in..
On whole 4 Brandt was given a non legal putter. The head of the putter was loose and was not regulation standard for official put put play! When Brandt hit it the head of the putter bent and the ball moved in crazy directions, no fault of the golfer. Regulations state in chapter 6.1.3 - "if a golfers putter do not meet the National Mini Golf Association (NMGA) regulations and the golfer is given the faulty putter. The putter has the option of picking up the ball and re shooting the shot with a additional putter" Seth would not let this happen! He was furious that the hit did not count. Even though we were backed by offical NMGA rules we decided to take the stroke just so they had no way of complaining of unfair play.
Later on brandt hit the golf ball and the putter rolled over the top of the ball... Seth imidatly demanded that Brandt take a 3 stroke penelty for the act. Even though it was not a official call and the outcome of the hole was not effected in any way. We decided to once again take the hit just so we can say that we beet them! Through a few more series of cheating from Amanda and seth we ended the game with Brandt/Brandon 94 - Seth/Amanda 96 (this is including the 4 strokes that brandt was man enough to add on and the 4 that i was gullable to remove off Amanda's score card in the first hole) But that was not enough.... They needed to find a way to cheet! Amanda quickly changed some scores on her paper claiming that they were not correct on my paper... Once again knowing that i was 100% correct i added hers up and it would have gave them a 94 meaning we tied! Knowing that they already had 8 strokes removed from their score we decided to give them the extra 2 on top of that to end in a tie! Meaning we had a 1 hole sudden death to determine the champs (even though we had already earned it... But i was not worried, karma always comes back) Brandt went first and got a 5 shot. Amanda went 2nd on got a 6. then i went and got an amazing 2 shots! Whiched forced Seth to have to get a whole in 1 to even tie!.... Which obviously he did not! :) we Left the offical undisputed champs of the world!
Seth later tried to blame Amanda for bad golfing when the pressure was on in the sudden death! And honestly she did a great job! Shw was only 1 stroke above Brandt! That is far from blamable! But it is that selfish me attitude that ended up making them take 2nd place!
In the end on paper seth was the overall winner at 39... but individual stats do nothing and if you take the 9 shots that we added on Brandts score that were not true he would have taken 2nd to Brandt!
SO there you have it! The undesputed champs of mini put put! Some may say that it is not a title worth being proud of.. I say it is the only one of being proud of!
As we started off the night I was paired with Amanda and Brandt with Seth. The Very first whole Brandt went first and got a +2 on the course. Seth went and got a even par. I wend and got a +2... At this point I was worried. Then Amanda went. My worry was swept away as Amanda took 4 shots to even get off the green. She would hit the ball and it would come back, 4 times! Now Amanda played the poor girl act and i was feeling generous in the beginning and let her start over every hit. I did not penalize her or make her even count those hits. She ended up finishing that course with a +2 (unofficially) and officially a +6 but we did not count them. Toward the end we started getting real close.. That is when the real cheating came in..
On whole 4 Brandt was given a non legal putter. The head of the putter was loose and was not regulation standard for official put put play! When Brandt hit it the head of the putter bent and the ball moved in crazy directions, no fault of the golfer. Regulations state in chapter 6.1.3 - "if a golfers putter do not meet the National Mini Golf Association (NMGA) regulations and the golfer is given the faulty putter. The putter has the option of picking up the ball and re shooting the shot with a additional putter" Seth would not let this happen! He was furious that the hit did not count. Even though we were backed by offical NMGA rules we decided to take the stroke just so they had no way of complaining of unfair play.
Later on brandt hit the golf ball and the putter rolled over the top of the ball... Seth imidatly demanded that Brandt take a 3 stroke penelty for the act. Even though it was not a official call and the outcome of the hole was not effected in any way. We decided to once again take the hit just so we can say that we beet them! Through a few more series of cheating from Amanda and seth we ended the game with Brandt/Brandon 94 - Seth/Amanda 96 (this is including the 4 strokes that brandt was man enough to add on and the 4 that i was gullable to remove off Amanda's score card in the first hole) But that was not enough.... They needed to find a way to cheet! Amanda quickly changed some scores on her paper claiming that they were not correct on my paper... Once again knowing that i was 100% correct i added hers up and it would have gave them a 94 meaning we tied! Knowing that they already had 8 strokes removed from their score we decided to give them the extra 2 on top of that to end in a tie! Meaning we had a 1 hole sudden death to determine the champs (even though we had already earned it... But i was not worried, karma always comes back) Brandt went first and got a 5 shot. Amanda went 2nd on got a 6. then i went and got an amazing 2 shots! Whiched forced Seth to have to get a whole in 1 to even tie!.... Which obviously he did not! :) we Left the offical undisputed champs of the world!
Seth later tried to blame Amanda for bad golfing when the pressure was on in the sudden death! And honestly she did a great job! Shw was only 1 stroke above Brandt! That is far from blamable! But it is that selfish me attitude that ended up making them take 2nd place!
In the end on paper seth was the overall winner at 39... but individual stats do nothing and if you take the 9 shots that we added on Brandts score that were not true he would have taken 2nd to Brandt!
SO there you have it! The undesputed champs of mini put put! Some may say that it is not a title worth being proud of.. I say it is the only one of being proud of!
Turpy, Brandt, I am glad that you pulled out the W even after the infuriating oppisition.
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what were you going to blog about again?
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