What does "Ready Golf" mean to you?

kchacker

Define "ready golf", however you see fit. A sentence, a paragraph, 10 pages, a bullet point list, whatever. Go.

kelco9

If you're ready to hit and your partner(s) aren't, hit your shot. The only time this wouldn't apply is if your play is going to interfere with your playing partner's shot or preparation. Some guys will sit and wait for their playing partner to hit their next shot because they're away, even though the guy whose away is still down raking the trap and the rest of you are on the green waiting to putt. It's a waste of time and really slows play.

FauxAmish

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mikeintopeka

Kelco did a nice job on explaining what I would have said. I am very concientious of the group in back of me and hate it if we are holding them up because more often than not, I've been in that group being held up. I'm 'that guy' that will say "the group behind is pushing us and it will be quicker if we just start playing 'ready golf' instead of waving them through". It works more times than not.

PA-PLAYA

Be ready to play your shot, even if it's not your turn to play. And don't be afraid to tell your playing partners to quit playing grab-ass and play golf when it's their turn to play, especially if they bitch at you when you've played out of turn.

It shouldn't take 20 minutes to make a bogey (or worse).

mikeintopeka

Ready Golf does NOT mean be ready to circle the green and start reading the break when you are now 'away' on the green. Huge pet peeve of mine.

sdandrea1

You should be either hitting your shot or getting ready to hit your shot, without disturbing or impeding the progress of others in your group.

It does not mean sitting your ass in the cart while your cart riding partner is hitting and your ball is 10 feet away. Get out of the cart, get a club and go to your ball while he/she is hitting - just one example. On the greens, we putt in turn based on who's away, but each of us are behind our ball, getting ready to putt.

FauxAmish

sdandrea1

Simplified ... Not difficult. 😉

PA-PLAYA

sdandrea1

Huge pet peeve of mine is this scenario: I'm driving the cart: playing partner hits the right side of the fairway with tee shot. I hit the left side of the fairway with tee shot, at-most, a 10-yard difference. I park in the middle, splitting the difference. I hit my approach shot, and my playing partner is waiting for me to replace my divot, put my club in the bag, and drive the cart all of 20 feet so he can get a club out of his bag so he can hit.

Just
don't
get
it

potbunker

If someone is not ready and they are not in your line of fire or a distraction, fire away.

Honors on the tee are great, but not important unless it is a serious match.

Start reading your putt before you walk onto the green.

I use the following example with my middle school golfers.

A foursome is playing.
Each player shoots 100.
Each player takes 5 unnecessary seconds to play each shot.
5 seconds X 100 shots X 4 players = 2,000 seconds divided by 60 seconds in a minute =

33 minutes your foursome added to the round. The tip of the iceberg.

Plus, always keep 3 tees, a coin, 2 balls and a ball mark repairer in your pocket at all times. It bugs the crap out of me when someone walks to the tee, to discover they don't have a tee to use. Yes, I'm old and you are on my lawn!

Sorry, I'm a math person.

kchacker

potbunker Plus, always keep 3 tees, a coin, 2 balls and a ball mark repairer in your pocket at all times.

If you think I'm carrying two balls in my pocket, you're crazy. Not a testicle joke. 😀 I always have one tee, a ball marker, and a ball mark repair tool in my right pocket....and that's all that is in my front pockets. There is never a ball in my pocket; there may be one in my hand if I potentially have to drop. I'm quite particular about this.

DC300

potbunker

And for F sake place you bag or the cart between the green and where you are going next. Not behind you so you waste another minute per hole going backwards to get it. THAT is my pet peeve, use your head, if your ball is on the right side of the green, but exit point is left, leave it in the middle at least so you don't putt to the middle, turn back around, go get the bag, walk back past the hole etc. Now I'm all worked up just thinking about it.

potbunker

kchacker

One is in your hand or in play and the other in your pocket.

Remember, these are young kids who lose a bunch of balls and often don't know where the next ball is in their bag.

And my bet is you are organized and don't waste time on the course.

kchacker

potbunker

I understand what you're getting at. I will confess to taking extra time over a couple shots a round when I'm flummoxed, but I'll tell whomever is in front of me to go ahead and hit while I figure it out.

kchacker

My main reason for posting this was to make sure I wasn't missing anything obvious. For those of you who might be lurking and know me, it isn't you.

I'm making sure I have all of my ducks in a row before addressing this with some guys I play with. Two of them must be delivered to their ball via the cart and it's wearing me down. The question "who is away?" also gets asked on nearly every hole. Who cares if your 30' putt is six inches shorter? Just hit it!

They also won't drive past any ball...they must park behind the furthest ball back, even if it is 40 yards off the target line.

The real issue is they think they're playing ready golf. Which is going to make this a challenge.

potbunker

kchacker

Yikes! You are being double teamed.

How about trying to break them of these habits one bad habit at a time?

Let us know how this plays out.

ode

kchacker

Yikes...that would drive me nuts.....hopefully they are receptive

raggmann54

It shouldn't take 20 minutes to make a bogey (or worse).

Get rid of the GPS, phone, distance gizmo. Use your brain and eyes to gauge distance. You are not that good to need to know the distance down to the last inch. Today I almost took my buddy's phone with course gps app and shoved it up his ass - he was taking forever - reading from cart, reading over the ball, two practice swings, re-check the phone, then be 10 feet short and 5 feet right....Ready golf means hit the damn ball...

garyt1957

raggmann54 Get rid of the GPS, phone, distance gizmo. Use your brain and eyes to gauge distance. You are not that good to need to know the distance down to the last inch. Today I almost took my buddy's phone with course gps app and shoved it up his ass - he was taking forever - reading from cart, reading over the ball, two practice swings, re-check the phone, then be 10 feet short and 5 feet right....Ready golf means hit the damn ball...

If he does all that it's not the gps. He'd do the same thing but walk up to a sprinkler head 3 times if no gps was involved. He's just anal. There is absolutely no reason a gps should slow play.

kchacker

ode hopefully they are receptive

We shall see. The hint approach hasn't worked. I'm almost always well past them off the tee, and when we get to my cartner's ball, I grab two or three clubs and my rangefinder and head off for my ball unless I'll be in the line of fire. I'm the only one to have done that so far.

I did get admonished once for playing first off the tee when it wasn't my honor...I was the only one on the tee box! When I snapped back, the message was received. At least that practice been disbanded - unless someone makes birdie. They can have the tee box.

kelco9

I think courses should pay my wife and I to be the first group off the tee each day to set the pace. We rarely play over 3:15, and that's walking on some pretty tough walking courses (and my wife only hits the ball about 120 yards at a time). We played 2:50 the other day on a demanding course. And, no, we aren't rushing. I take my game seriously and we play all putts to the hole and take our time reading putts and hitting shots (we even hit an extra shots here and there for practice). There's no mystery to this: get to your ball and hit your shot. Pretty simple.