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Are you obligated to join up with the group in front or back if you are a single?

I played with 2 other guys last week (we were 3 singles), the 4 some in front of us lost 3 guys after the front 9, which made this guy a single player. The course was packed that day, 4 somes all the way through, so there was no way he was playing through.

Every hole on the back 9 was 2 to 3 groups deep. But this single refused to join up with us. For the first couple of holes, we waited patiently for him to ask us to join him after he would tee off, but he wouldn't even acknowledge us, we then asked if he wanted to join us at 11, he politely said no thanks. Now, I know there is nothing that says anybody has to join up with anybody else, but isn't it just common courtesy?

And after feeling shunned by this guy he decides, at 17, to join up with the 4 some in FRONT of him, making them a group of 5 and played out the last two holes with them. To each his own...I guess.

No real knowledge of what you're mentioning as if courtesy or not, perhaps he was trying to work out some swing flaws and was viewing things as joining up as a distraction, who knows? I wouldn't take offense because of it.

Some people just don't like playing with strangers. I know I'm one of those people. It's just a wierd feeling for me. About him joining the group in front of him....I don't know about that one.

Seems a bit strange that he joined the group ahead of him to make a fivesome. Surely it would have been better to join your group??

Despite the fact that if anybody were to be found in a fivesome on the courses I play they would have been told to either split up or be thrown off the course.

Well I guess I would not think too much about it but it was a bit strange he joined a group of four. I play a lot as a single and always welcome someone to join me on the course matter of fact I like to join up with another group or have another single join me. I play to a 12.5 handicap and if I play with some that is better than me I do my best not to hold them up or if someone who plays say in the 100’s I try to make them feel as comfortable as possible.

Wouldent that be the pro-shops fault? They should have joined him up with you guys at the turn but whatever.

Thats wierd that he joined up with the 4-some though.

If the people ahead or behind seem to be moving along at their own pace or if they are playing a match I will stay away. If they invite me along, then I will join them.

If the course is packed and I am playing as a single, I think I would feel obligated to join a group either in front of me or behind me if they didn't have a foursome already. Usually, I've found that people will just invite you if there's a wait at a hole or something.

same here.

I like joining up with others. When my friend and I went last Sunday the starter sent us out to the first tee alone, so I asked if he wasn't pairing us up with anyone and evidentally he wasn't planning on it. But he wound up sending two guys out to the tee after I asked. They were really nice. I like meeting new people and seeing how they play. I thought it was odd that the starter was going to send out a twosome when there were other people waiting to play.

You also have to keep in mind that golf is such an individual sport and some folks just don't like to let you see them not playing well.

I have a buddy of mine, that when we play football, we compete at the highest level, and in Fantasy Football, he and I were the tops of the league and battled year-in-and-out...but when it comes to golf, he's no comparison to me and just won't golf with me...he'll golf with others, but not with me!

I'm not great, I'm pretty good though...I can play well at times and stink too! Funny how this can be.

I agree that the staff at the course should have done something about it. If the course was packed, they should have a ranger driving around. He should have suggested it to the single.

That is pretty funny in an odd way. True though about being an individual sport, yet if one does any sort of competitive golf you get paired up with people you don't know. I just try to play my game, it doesn't matter who I'm playing with. I also try to focus on beating the course (never happens) that way it takes the mental aspect of what the others are doing out of it (somewhat)

He probably felt obligated after they kept catching up to him. As others have said , I wouldn't make to much of it. He probably was just nervous & uncomfortable playing with strangers.

I really don't like playing with people I don't know. I can't say I've had a bad experience, but I get nervous and it's a distraction. I'd rather play in my own comfort zone.