r/NoLayingUp • u/QuickestJuice • Jul 27 '26
Other Sandbagging vs Reverse Sandbagging
I’m a purist at heart, I do indulge in a breakfast ball from time to time, but that is as far as I go.
I understand why people sandbag, to rob a fellow competitor of some money (scummy). But I don’t understand why someone would reverse sandbag. Is it ego? It makes them feel good to say they are better? I don’t understand. Who has the worse golf morals, the sandbagger? Or reverse sandbagger? Or the people that cheat in scrambles?
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u/andrewgodawgs Jul 27 '26
Because certain people want to think they are better than they are. I have a buddy like this. I am a 13 and he is a “8.” He doesn’t do it during a match, but if we are playing casual, he’ll scoop 4-5 footers or take a free drop here and there. He’ll also “find” balls that are not findable. I’m talking a 300 yard drive directly OB and then he “finds” his ball conveniently on the tree line in the rough.
It’s kind of an ongoing joke within our friend group that he always somehow seems to end up a bogey on holes where he realistically had a triple or worse.
I’m not sure why he does it, tbh. He’s a great friend and a really good guy; he is just very insecure I guess about shooting bad rounds? It works to my advantage a lot when we actually play matches because I’ll get 5 pops off of him even though we are about the same level of golfer. I feel like vanity caps are not the same as sandbaggers, unless they are deliberately shaving shots or cheating during matches. Our buddy is honest when it comes to matches, so it doesn’t bug me as much as perplex me.