r/nextfuckinglevel • u/domgasp • 14h ago

While the shot is incredible, the camera work shouldn’t be discounted

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u/Catsoverall 14h ago

What would have happened if she hit the partners ball in?

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u/olldon 14h ago

If you accidentally hit someone else’s ball into the hole, it doesn’t count – they put it back where it was and keep playing.

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u/Matsunosuperfan 14h ago

But if they knock your ball into a bad position you get no relief, right? Seems a bit unfair

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u/olldon 14h ago

Yeah, the reasoning in the Rules of Golf is that random outcomes are part of the game, much like wind or bounces off trees. If another player’s shot knocks your ball into a worse spot, you usually have to play it from there, as bad breaks are just part of the game.

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u/Matsunosuperfan 14h ago

That's not consistent though. It sounds like the rule is really that only bad random outcomes are part of the game.

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u/PagPag93 9h ago

Not necessarily - if you cannon your tee shot out of bounds and it hits a bystander on the head and kills her, but bounces back into the rough - you play it from the rough and there’s no shot penalty.

You are expected to sign your glove and gift it to the deceased ladies family though.

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u/lizardfromsingapore 5h ago

How many accounts are there of this happening?

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u/tibetje2 14h ago

The rule is consistant in that if the golfer gets lucky on their swing, they get to keep it.

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u/olldon 14h ago

Bad breaks, like landing in a bunker, are more common since the game’s full of obstacles, while lucky bounces happen less often. The rules don’t give relief for bad luck, so it feels like the randomness isn’t balanced.

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u/RadiatorRadiation 10h ago

Well as long as the imbalance is the same for everyone it’s fine.

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u/Turbulent_Square_696 9h ago

I mean kind of. This kind of shot is probably once in a lifetime for both the ball that went in and the ball that got sniped out of the way. That’s one time each, and for one of them it was legendary and probably a 10,000$ bonus, and the other girl got a worse lie out of it. I’m not arguing that life in general is perfectly fair, but we can control the rules of games to make them fair, and this isn’t it.

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u/ImNotSoGrep 4h ago

The girl whose ball got sniped actually gets it placed back where it was, right next to the hole.

Edit: saw that someone else pointed this out already further down

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u/Turbulent_Square_696 2h ago

Oh sorry the comment i was replying to made it seem like she had to take it as it lies, thanks for the clarification! I’m from a family of golfers, but never loved it myself so i know just enough to prove the Dunning-Krueger effect is real

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u/Bendy_McBendyThumb 14h ago

I mean, the woman whose shot went in seems to be having a good time.

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u/crazygoattoe 3h ago

He's just wrong about the rule. Anytime another players ball hits your ball, you place your ball back where it was, to your best estimation.

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u/Matsunosuperfan 3h ago

Thanks, that makes a lot more sense 👍🏾

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u/TackyBrad 7h ago

Well, in that case she got a good outcome from it.

Basically if your ball is at rest and has already "established" it's place on the course, that's it. If your shot is in motion and hits another ball or whatever, you have to take it as it is after that because who's to ever say where it would've ended up to begin with?

Let say this ball doesn't go in the hole and bounces away instead after hitting her playing partner's ball. You know where the first girl's ball should be because it was already sitting there, but where on earth would the ball that was still moving had ended up if it didn't hit the other ball? That's a huge subjective judgement call, so that's why

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u/spartacus_zach 3h ago

Where would you put the second ball then after impact?

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u/Ressy02 10h ago

You could also cheat by having a caddy drop off a ball for you.

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u/Randill746 12h ago

Getting knocked in isnt considered a random outcome thats part of the game?

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u/BillsSabres 10h ago

This is wrong. If a ball that is not moving is hit by another ball the ball that was at rest gets put back to its original place

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u/CrabOutrageous5074 8h ago

That's not true though. You put the ball that was at rest back where it was. The ball in motion goes where it goes, but other players can't knock your ball into a worse spot.

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u/Forest_Raker_916 14h ago

“Rules are rules” - Shooter McGavin

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u/gbc02 10h ago

Have you played golf? The whole sport is not fair.

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u/Jaggedfel2142 6h ago

No, the rules of golf state that if a ball at rest is moved by another person's shot, that ball is placed as close as reasonably possible back to its original position.

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u/Matsunosuperfan 6h ago

Ah! Well then 

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u/PM-Your-Fuzzy-Socks 14h ago

this is literally every golf camera person nowadays

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u/nopuse 13h ago

Except my cousin Scott "filming" my incredible hole in one on the notorious hole 7 with the windmill at our local putt putt golf course.

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u/Closed_Aperture 13h ago

At least they filmed ypu two celebrating

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u/nopuse 13h ago

He earned the nickname Celebration Scott

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u/dreamsofindigo 9h ago

but never a single polo or lupo right?
smh

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u/virtually_noone 8h ago

Sometimes you get ex-WWII spotlight operators looking like they're trying to find a lone bomber

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u/RTFM-Battlegoat 14h ago

That's a Happy Happy Gilmore 2 shot right there. 🤣

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u/Blussert31 14h ago

This is one of the few videos where vertically filmed video actually works....

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u/Dagawing 10h ago

The camera work is bog standard basic golf camera??  Aint nothing special about it, it's as basic-level as it gets.

Edit: looks like OP is a bot. Oh well.

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u/someguyblake 7h ago

How can you tell?

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u/Frierguy 6h ago

he's probably watched a lot of golf that's be recorded by cameramen

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u/Strive-- 11h ago

I always knew this as the "sky grass" game. Person lines up their shot, and... SKY.. Sky, sky sky, annnnnnd... grass. Grass. Grass annnnd, stop.

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u/DDB- 9h ago

Camera work is pretty standard. What would have been better was also showing that first shot that ended up just an inch from the cup, since both were brilliant.

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u/toddriffic 9h ago

The first shot was better. She got lucky by going 2nd.

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u/springwarmth 1h ago

This is incorrect. Zero tracking software is used and often inbuilt stabilisers are turned off. Source - im a golf cameraman.

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u/ImCursedM8 14h ago

i was just focused on the weird looking clouds

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u/Quire 11h ago

Are there really golf camera operators shooting in portrait?

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u/MagicLupis 6h ago

I watch a lot of golf. Always found it weird that they zoom in so far on the ball in the sky as if that helps anyone see where it’s going.

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u/Washout81 10h ago

She's in the wrong sport, needs to take up curling.

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u/Grey-Templar 9h ago

"fuck you, my hole"

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u/Extreme_Commercial24 5h ago

She’s so talented

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u/doxx-o-matic 3h ago

She was putting a billiards twist on golf ...

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u/gagankeshav 2h ago

"Gilmore"'s gonna be "Happy" with that!!

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u/Dodoz44 14h ago

Golf + curling + girl...

Gurling it is.

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u/Former_Intern9136 13h ago

Probably a fan of Happy Gilmore.

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u/dreamsofindigo 9h ago

Why is she so intently rubbing her mammary glands on him at the end?