Gimme

Golf ball just before the hole, a possible gimme situation

A gimme is a stroke in golf . Alternatively, the German-language term gifted putt is used. The name Gimme is the abbreviation of the English give (it to) me , in German give it to me .

description

A gimme is an agreement between golfers not to have to perform a putt when the ball has been played so close to the hole that the player's opponent trusts him to definitely pocket with the next stroke. The gimme is not executed as a stroke, but is still counted like a normal putt. Granting a gimme can shorten the duration of the game.

Gimmes are in accordance with rule 1.1 in stroke play is not permitted and only in match play provided.

Others

At the Solheim Cup 2015 in St. Leon-Rot in Baden-Württemberg there was an incident that was received as a "gimme scandal". In a four-ball game in which Charley Hull (England) and Suzann Pettersen (Norway) played against Allison Lee and Brittany Lincicome (both USA), it happened on the 17th hole that Lee's ball fell just short of the hole. Since several gimmes were granted on both sides during the game, Lee assumed that this would also be the case at that hole and picked up her ball. As a result, however, Hull and Pettersen complained that they had not granted a gimme, and the hole was counted against the Americans, the Europeans won the game.

literature

Patrick Labriola, Jürgen Schiffer: The great golf lexicon . HEEL Verlag, Königswinter 2015, ISBN 978-3-95843-168-3 , p. 152 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Eugen Pletsch: The path of the white ball . Verlag Kosmos, 2005, ISBN 978-3-440-10439-2 , pp. 224 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
David Arscott: Golf. A Very Peculiar History . The Salariya Book Company, Brighton 2011, ISBN 978-1-908759-07-8 , pp. 85 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

↑ Rule 1.1 The golf game of the official golf rules on the German Golf Association , accessed on March 26, 2019
↑ Rule 3.2 b giving the official golf rules to the German Golf Association , accessed on March 26, 2019
↑ Peter Tichatschek: Solheim Cup - the "Gimme Scandal". Austrian Golf Association, September 21, 2015, accessed on July 22, 2016 .

[1] Rule 1.1 The golf game of the official golf rules on the German Golf Association , accessed on March 26, 2019

[2] Rule 3.2 b giving the official golf rules to the German Golf Association , accessed on March 26, 2019

[golf_at-3] Peter Tichatschek: Solheim Cup - the "Gimme Scandal". Austrian Golf Association, September 21, 2015, accessed on July 22, 2016 .