Amongst the guys I regularly play with, we agreed that we would play by the strict rules of golf. When I first moved here and started playing with this group, they were noodling the ball around, taking preferred lies and free drops, gimmees from everywhere... I never said a word, I just kept playing it down and following the rules. One of them even said, "You should take a drop, that's a bad lie." I replied, "Then I would be playing some game other than golf." I never got snooty about it, I just kept playing it right.

Eventually, I think they all started to see how bad they had gotten at ignoring the rules and decided to play real golf... It is so much more fun to me when you are playing by the rules.