[cometgolfer]

Bagger,

There is nothing worse than playing with a "trunk-slammer". You know, the guy that "gives up" sometime during the round, and usually lets the rest of the group know that he plans to quit. I've learned to ignore them, but I always found it to be dis-respectful to his/her playing partners. These guys obviously haven't learned the invaluable lesson that, in golf, you NEVER KNOW what is going to happen. I bogeyed the first 3 holes on day 1 of a club championship last week and still had a realistic chance to shoot 2-under on the front (I managed to miss 3 putts inside of 4 feet on the next 6 holes to turn at 1-over).

"No-show W/D's" on a subsequent day of a tournament are simply trunk-slammers that decided to save some gas money. And that always puts the tournament committee in a bind having to re-shuffle pairings, usually at the last minute.

CG