Sandbag – a bag filled with sand used in fortification.\u00a0 To deceive someone about one’s capabilities.<\/p>\n
Does \u00a0any sport\u00a0 toss the word sandbagger around more than golf?\u00a0 It seems like every time someone shoots an unusually low score or has a great hole, they will inevitably be accused of being a sandbagger.<\/p>\n
While it is almost certian that there are sandbaggers roaming golf courses all over the world, I would like to believe that most of our fellow golfers are honest people who happen to catch lighting in a bottle.\u00a0 Yet, as soon as this happens, the ‘bagger’ comments rain down like an unexpected afternoon shower.<\/p>\n
So the more important question is not whether some people ‘work’ the system, but, rather, why do their fellow competitors feel compelled to question their motives whenever they go above and beyond their normal capabilities?<\/p>\n
I personally have been in that situation and my response is that no one shows me sympathy when I have a bad round so why should they begrudge me the pleasure when I have a good round.<\/p>\n
Yes, some of the sandbagging comments are probably done in jest, but, I’d be willing to bet that a great deal of these comments have at least some sense of reality to them.<\/p>\n
So why do we (even in jest) accuse our fellow competitors of basically being cheaters?\u00a0 Maybe it’s jealousy.\u00a0 Or maybe frustration with our own game.\u00a0 Or human nature to not trust each other.\u00a0 Whatever the reasons, I really believe we need to lighten up on our reactions to others’ success.\u00a0 Maybe we could come up with a better term for someone who has an exceptional day on the links.\u00a0 Something that would celebrate a great accomplishment instead of denigrating what for someone may very well be a once in a lifetime achievement.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sandbag – a bag filled with sand used in fortification.\u00a0 To deceive someone about one’s capabilities. Does \u00a0any sport\u00a0 toss the word sandbagger around more than golf?\u00a0 It seems like every time someone shoots an unusually low score or has a great hole, they will inevitably be accused of being a sandbagger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ricos-rants"],"yoast_head":"\n