Sandbaggers are everywhere

I did a search on the Internet and over 33,000 listings showed up for “Sandbaggers.” I knew there were a bunch of them out there but I’m a golfer and had no idea Sandbaggers are everywhere.

There are Sandbaggers who play hockey, runners, DISC Golfers, bikers, spys, NASCAR drivers? NASCAR drivers who ride in the draft of a leader? Hockey players who lose a game (or three) so they’ll be dropped into a lower skill level division so they can ONE day win?

I know about real golfers who purposefully track only high scores so they’ll win net score prizes in tournaments but I never imagined there were running sandbaggers, pucking sandbaggers, and NASCAR drivers?

It’s a nightmare!

Now I picture a tournament, at say Firestone Golf Club (home of Bridgestone Tires) and in the foursome there’s a hockey stick welding, puck pushing guy on skates, a Discus throwing running man, a guy in a Formula One vehicle with a polo mallet, and a 50 something year old duffer dragging a golf cart. I can see skate trails, tread marks, and disc holes on the greens, and spys wearing a Humphrey Bogart hat lurking behind bushes on every hole. The nightmare ends with The Golfing Sandbagger having 2 strokes added to his score for his slow play.

Wake me up! Please!

J.J. Gowland,
Author, “Confessions of a Sandbagger”