I have been on the course and actually called the clubhouse to get a marshall sent out to me. I let them know what is going on and they take care of it. Just the sight of a marshall watching a group seems to speed them up.
Nobody likes slow play and there is no excuse for it..We are not talking about the group in front having a bad hole and spending 5mins looking, it happens. In my experience some people just aren't ready to play wether they are good, bad or indifferent. They waste time on the greens relooking at lines that they cant see in the first place(ranting I Know.... or chatting on the tee instead of getting on with it. If you are not under pressure you can stroll along at a steady pace, but if you are being pushed, for whatever reason, speed up or let them through.
Its all about etiquette and understanding the game.
We had a couple of YG's behind us a couple of weeks ago and they were waiting on the tee to hit 300yds drives, which they scuffed and smothered and we were a 4ball that they could not push! blah blah blah...I'll shut up now
I'm a big advocate of "ready golf" also. I think it's great to observe rules like farthest from the hole etc., but if it's a crowded day, play in a timely fashion.
I used to play golf with a guy that was a little "portley" and had one speed . . .sloooow. He was a new golfer, so when he would blade a ship across the green, he would go grab his pull-cart, walk around the green, skull it again, and repeat the process. There were times he wwas 100 yards back in the fairway when I had already marked my ball on the green. Anything to speed it up.
People of that mindset figure as long as they each side in approx 2 hrs 10 min, no one behind them should complain. One thing that made it worse was there were a handful of times we were one of the first 3 groups going off on a Sunday morning.
Trouble with all that, is you trying to speed things up means your not playing at your pace.
A friend of mine started 12 months ago...He had lessons and he asked me question after question, then we played few times and he picked up a lot of information on speed of play, etiquette etc. Its stood him in good stead already down to 18 now and you could take him anywhere and he would never hold you up.
Some people just don't get it
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Ouch, don't you feel badly for the people you're holding up? I know if I'm ever playing slowly or with some one who is, it kills me to think what the people behind me are thinking...
today, a friend and i played 18 holes but there was a group of 5 ahead of us that took forever. we had to wait for them on virtually every hole. at least they could have waved us on a par 3 and let us pass. the group in front of them must have finished their round while they were on the 16th hole. some people! :mad:
Ouch, don't you feel badly for the people you're holding up? I know if I'm ever playing slowly or with some one who is, it kills me to think what the people behind me are thinking...
That's the one thing that bugs me about my 4-some. I love 'em all, but they don't play quite as fast as I'd like. We're always under 4 hours, though. A couple of them don't like to let others play through, also. It rarely happens that we're holding someone up, but I've had to force the issue a couple of times lately and just waved the guys behind us through without getting the ok from the others in my 4-some. My cardinal rule on speed of play is - If you aren't waiting to hit and the group behind you is, then you wave them through.
Put me down for hating slow play also. It drives me mad. One time we were playing during the summer (it was about 110 with 80% humidity.. agh) and we had a slow foursome in front of us who wouldn't let us through. Play behind us was starting to get backed up and there was NO ONE in front of them at all. We finally got mad and passed them while they were walking onto the green.
But, nothing else drives me more mad when the clubhouse/starter doesn't realize the rate they are letting players on the course. For those new technologically advanced courses, this isn't a problem. However, on old courses where they can't see the first tee from the shop and don't have a starter, this becomes a problem. At my home course, the first hole is a par five. One day I was walking alone, and realized there was a foursome on the teebox, there was a foursome on the first part of the fairway, there was me about half way on the fairway walking, then there was a foursome on the green. Please, this is rediclous.
I find that slow play irritates a lot of people.....thats why i nap between shots.
No, really, if there is a group in front playing slow i hit my drive last no matter my score on previous hole. Most of the guys i play with drive a lot shorter than i so when they can hit, they go by the time they have hit hopefully the group in front is outta range.
Trouble with all that, is you trying to speed things up means your not playing at your pace.
This is very true, and I would get so po'd I didn't play well. That is why I said I "used" to play with this guy. This guy was like this after he had been playing for 4 years. He also couldn't hit an iron, and wouldn't try, so he would try to run up a 3/4 swing 5 wood from 125 yds out. I get worked up just typing about it.
I would get ahead of my group, so the people behind us would know it wasn't me holding everyone up.
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I think ladies play the slowest!....I could have a nap after every shot before I played my next shot lol!
That's why I always play with the men or junior boys at my club........ but it could be because the ladies have higher handicaps, but they sure do chat alot!
Sorry in advance to the men but, generally it's the guys that play slow. At my club the ladies will normally play 18 holes (walking) as a 3 ball in about 3.5 hours. The guys will be 4 hours +. On a weekend I dread getting behind a mens 4 ball because I know I am going to have to wait on every tee.
I don't think the slowness is gender dependent, but there's something about old lady foursomes that make people nervous. At this one golf course I frequent, when people see old lady foursomes in the clubhouse, I see folks going up to the counter to ask if they're teeing off after the ladies.
Last incedent I had was last memorial day, group of five in front of us, just college students out for a good time but they were each playing 2 balls, we were ****, took the four of us, who usually can finish in 3.5 hours or 4, over 5.5 hours to play,
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I think that the ladies get a bad rap on slow play, because generally speaking they don't hit it as far and it often takes them more shots to get out of range.
February 13th, 2005, 04:44 AM
or chatting on the tee instead of getting on with it. If you are not under pressure you can stroll along at a steady pace, but if you are being pushed, for whatever reason, speed up or let them through.
It rarely happens that we're holding someone up, but I've had to force the issue a couple of times lately and just waved the guys behind us through without getting the ok from the others in my 4-some. My cardinal rule on speed of play is - If you aren't waiting to hit and the group behind you is, then you wave them through.
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