How To Cheat in Golf

i would love to know as well because i just picked up the game. i have no clue unless they change where they mark the balls on the fairway when no one is looking.

The person could have meant that help by caddies was in itself cheating. But knowledgeable caddies often give help (I think).

hmm, i thought the pros paid good money for caddies who could help them which i would assume isn't cheating. am i wrong??

These were not pros but businessmen on a friendly tournament, and were pissed off. They thought some of their friends bribed the caddies to do something. I don't know, maybe taking a ball out of the sand trap.
You could repeteadly hear: "f*cking caddies!"

Maybe the caddies were keeping score?

They could cheat in a lot of little ways. The caddy's could have been marking the score cards or it could have been something much less noticable.

For example - under the rules of golf you have to hit the same ball throughout a hole but some balls are designed for long straight flight (which is good off the tee) but they are less than desirable for short shots near the green. If a caddy picks up the ball they could replace it with a "softer" ball which would be better for short shots. Doing so would be a violation of the rules of the game.

Likewise, a shot that lands in a sand bunker often burrows into the sand. That make sit hard to hit out. A caddy could check the ball though (just to verify that it is the correct ball of course! ) and when they put it back down they could set it "up" on the surface of the sand which would be easier to hit out of the bunker. The same sort of thing can be done when a ball is hit into "the rough" (longer grass off the main fairway).

Good post fishin'.

Insofar we have 3 ways of caddy cheating:

1) Tempering with the score cards (easy if the golfers are tipsy, I suppose).
2) Changing a "hard" ball for a "soft" ball.
3) "Cleaning" the ground if it falls on the sand or the rough.

I also guess they can downright move it away from this uneasy parts. Is that easy or hard to do?

And I imagine there are other ways of cheating.

Hey, I heard about a golfer slammed the ball into someone's house next to the fairway. He walks in and whacks the ball out through the glass window on the other side of the house. His teammate asks why he didn't open the window first, and he says "That would be improving the lie."

See, there really are some honest golfers.

I find it very ironic that in golf, the gentleman's game, there are so many ways to cheat and so many people that use those ways to their advantage. I have found that in golf, cheathing really doesn't help you. When somebody finds out what you've been doing, you not only get whatever status you had revoked but you are then treated with very little if any respect and you might as well find a new place to play. Also when you shoot a good score and you didn't cheat it is much more satisfying and fulfilling. Those are just my experiences but please do all of us golfers a favor and try to keep the sport a gentleman's sport--don't cheat and stop others from doing so whenever possible.

I don't know if there are "hard" balls and "soft" balls in golf, but a ball with a liquid center would spin less and, therefore, be better off the tee or long shots on the fairway, but a ball with a solid center would spin more, relatively, and would be better for shots on the green where backspin is desirable.

Caddies could also improve lies on the fairway on in the rough.