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He faked a hole in one. Now he’s paying for it
Golf.Com ^ | 08/08/2026 | Josh Schrock

Posted on 08/09/2026 5:41:52 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen

eing labeled a cheater on the golf course is a black mark that’s virtually impossible to remove. Whether it’s a wild cheating scandal at Q School or someone fluffing their lie during a Saturday morning scramble, cheating in golf isn’t new.

But what happened recently at WingHaven Country Club near St. Louis rocked the local golf scene and is spreading after the culprit went on ESPN Radio in St. Louis to confess.

(Excerpt) Read more at golf.com ...


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During the round he faked taking an important phone call, ran ahead of the group and claimed he teed off before the others arrived BUT he actually pre‑placed a ball in the hole before a member‑member event to fake a hole‑in‑one and win the pot. Security‑camera footage later revealed he had driven to the green early that morning and planted the ball.
1 posted on 08/09/2026 5:41:52 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

Guy like that can never be trusted for anything.


2 posted on 08/09/2026 5:44:42 AM PDT by albie
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“If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States..."

H.L. Mencken
3 posted on 08/09/2026 5:50:25 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Kid Shelleen

Doubt that I would get away with that at Porky’s.


4 posted on 08/09/2026 5:53:12 AM PDT by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect )
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To: Kid Shelleen

Before I started my current job, 3 employees took me out to play a friendly round of golf. I found out after that my honesty in keeping score was a major factor in hiring me.


5 posted on 08/09/2026 5:53:41 AM PDT by albie
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To: Kid Shelleen

Don’t they have rules?

A friend’s brother had a hole-in-one and ended up buying drinks for everyone at his club.

Hit another one two years later. Same routine.

Was expensive golf those days.


6 posted on 08/09/2026 5:54:45 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Kid Shelleen

A hole in one is not legal if it is not witnessed. He had to know that.


7 posted on 08/09/2026 5:57:15 AM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I’m sorry...I got caught.


8 posted on 08/09/2026 5:57:56 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911/June 14, 1944)
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To: albie
Guy like that can never be trusted for anything.

He's destined for a career in politics.

9 posted on 08/09/2026 5:59:55 AM PDT by LouAvul (They're doing it again because you didn't hang them last time.)
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To: albie

He is angry that his children were brought into this. Ha. He brought the family into it. He has been cheating for years. His golf buddies know or suspected. He is one excuse after another. He’s the guy who goes to a bowling weekend, and never realizes his wife put a brick in his bag till he got home and bragged about his scores. LOL


10 posted on 08/09/2026 6:09:47 AM PDT by healy61
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To: Dr. Franklin

The full quote is:

“If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.”

And the context makes it even funnier. He had just explained that the YMCA’s gymnastics program gave him an “ineradicable distaste” for calisthenics and that he hated sports “as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.”


11 posted on 08/09/2026 6:10:54 AM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: Dr. Franklin

The full quote is:

“If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.”

And the context makes it even funnier. He had just explained that the YMCA’s gymnastics program gave him an “ineradicable distaste” for calisthenics and that he hated sports “as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.”


12 posted on 08/09/2026 6:10:54 AM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: Kid Shelleen

“You learn a lot about a person on the golf course”


13 posted on 08/09/2026 6:12:48 AM PDT by VMI70 (My Goal in Life is to be the Kind of Person My Dog Thinks I Am)
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To: jroehl
The full quote is: “If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.”
And the context makes it even funnier. He had just explained that the YMCA’s gymnastics program gave him an “ineradicable distaste” for calisthenics and that he hated sports “as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.”


So they can't ship the black lesbians of the WBNA to Argentina because no one would want to buy them there?
14 posted on 08/09/2026 6:25:11 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Kid Shelleen

i don’t trust folks who cheat at pool ... a bunch of us cousins were playing a friendly game of eight ball on a rec room table when we were young adults when i heard a quiet “click” as one of my cousins surreptitiously tipped a ball into a side pocket when everyone else was distracted by something else ... it was one of those old-fashioned tables without an automatic ball return, and there was a ball already in the pocket that made the click when he tipped the ball in ... i walked away from the game without saying a word and never looked at my cousin the same again ...


15 posted on 08/09/2026 6:25:23 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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i don’t trust folks who cheat at pool ... a bunch of us cousins were playing a friendly game of eight ball on a rec room table when we were young adults when i heard a quiet “click” as one of my cousins surreptitiously tipped a ball into a side pocket when everyone else was distracted by something else ... it was one of those old-fashioned tables without an automatic ball return, and there was a ball already in the pocket that made the click when he tipped the ball in ... i walked away from the game without saying a word and never looked at my cousin the same again ...


16 posted on 08/09/2026 6:25:55 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Kid Shelleen
I played with a guy, once, years ago and he hit a ball clearly OB but went ahead and claimed that he found it in bounds.

I knew he was lying and never played with him again and it only took another year for more members to find out directly about his cheating, and he was so shunned that he finally quit the club and moved on.

I never went around broadcasting about this bum's cheating, but if another member asked me why I wouldn't play with "Joe", I told them.

Golf is a game, if you cheat at a game, WTF kind of rat are you?

17 posted on 08/09/2026 6:28:44 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS)
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My grandfather once said that a big disappointment in his life was having all his sons-in-law cheat at golf.
18 posted on 08/09/2026 6:36:40 AM PDT by PeaRidge
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My neighbor plays at nice private club and quit playing the annual member-guest tournament because he said every year a few members would bring in ringers who sand bagged all season to bring up their handicaps.


19 posted on 08/09/2026 6:44:31 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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A bogie
20 posted on 08/09/2026 6:49:07 AM PDT by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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