It seems that more and more people are takin up golf. I remember 10-15 yrs ago, we would go out on a Thursday morning about 7:00am - 8:00am and we would breeze right through. We might come across one or two groups at the most. Man! those days are long gone.
Here in Socal (la/orange county) they've built a few courses, but they are packed........tough to even get a tee time, even on weekdays.
Yeah in my area the courses aren't to bad. As long as there's no tourny going on I'm alright. I can take my time and have a ball. I couldn't imagine playing with a ton of people on the course.
my area isn't too bad, i'm a member at 4 courses... 2 of which opened last week, 1 opens in 2 weeks, and the other, a brand-new Raymond Floyd design opens late next month. i can always find somewhere to play, but thats in little old central IL. a few of the cheaper, "hack" oriented courses are quite saturated on weekends, but thats just about it.
There are plenty of golf courses just not enough that are reasonably priced. The high priced clubs have plenty of openings. The lower priced tracts are usually filled.
Adam, We drive out there every once in a while but the traffic....... (#6381 reason not to live in CA)
I always hear how people go out on the course drop a bunch of balls around the green to practice chipping, or 20yard pitch shots.
I guess I'd have to join a country club to do that around here.
It seems that more and more people are takin up golf. I remember 10-15 yrs ago, we would go out on a Thursday morning about 7:00am - 8:00am and we would breeze right through. We might come across one or two groups at the most. Man! those days are long gone.
Here in Socal (la/orange county) they've built a few courses, but they are packed........tough to even get a tee time, even on weekdays.
Let's see, you live in an area with great weather most of the year, a fairly large percentage of the population with the income to play golf and the second largest metropolitan area in terms of population. Combine the three and it would seem obvious you have all the indregiients for crowded courses.
While we don't quite have the year around weather and population that Southern California does there are quite a few people in the Dallas area that like to golf but their seems to enough courses to handle the traffic, and in most cases I can find a decent course to play for under $50 in greens fees.
There are plenty of golf courses just not enough that are reasonably priced. The high priced clubs have plenty of openings. The lower priced tracts are usually filled.
Amen to that! The county courses here in Central NJ have on-line tee times or phone-in tee times and its VERY DIFFICULT to get a decent time in advance. However the higher-priced courses usually have openings.
I guess I'm fortunate to live in an area (at home, not here at school) where there are plenty of golf courses and the population of golfers seems to be on the decline a bit. I only know of one public course within 50 miles that has a greens fee over $40 and for the most part, they're all in decent shape. Getting a time on weekend mornings isn't really easy, but any of the off times are usually clear and pace of play isn't normally an issue (4 hours or so for weekend rounds is normal...a tad too long for my tastes but judging by what others here have said about their areas, it ain't too bad). I really would like to see another really good, more upscale layout somewhere around, but at the time, the population isn't really nutty enough about golf to support it.
There are plenty of golf courses just not enough that are reasonably priced. The high priced clubs have plenty of openings. The lower priced tracts are usually filled.
Same thing on Long Island. For me, to play the higher priced courses means playing in the afternoon, when the rates go down.
Arizona in the winter is occasionally difficult to get weekend tee times on the decent priced courses. In summer, you can play anywhere you want after 10 A.M.
March 6th, 2006, 06:30 PM
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