Hey, when I joined my first private club.... I'd spent the past 20+ years adjusting to a 5-hour round, simply because there was no enforcement by the public courses that I frequented regarding pace of play.
I developed my usual routine over those two decades.... whether it was killing the wait-time with conversation with my playing partners, or cleaning my golf clubs while I waited... I got into a routine that helped me "climatize" to the situation.
So I'm a year in at my private club. A playing partner, who was sincerely genuine in his approach to me to help me maintain a fairly welcoming status to the other players at the club, made this remark to me one afternoon.
"You have a reputation for being a somewhat 'deliberate' player."
Instead of me taking immediate offense to his perspective, I decided right then and there - "well... the last thing I want at my new private club is a reputation of being a slow player." I thanked him for his advice and went about making the "adjustment" from a 5+ hour round of golf that I'd been accustomed to all those years at the public courses I played to "adjusting" to a much more efficient style of play.
And it took me about a month to make that adjustment.
Early on - my average scores increased 4-5 shots per round. But here's the interesting thing... once I made that adjustment, once it hit me that I have less time to contemplate every last thing before each and every shot - my commitment level increased. Less time for thought led to better results.
I was more accepting of the occasional bad shot, which led to a better mental frame of mind overall as it pertained to my recovery abilities.
My entire game improved.
And all because I was basically "forced" to embrace a more efficient, carefree style of play. Less forethought, less time to think about all of the extenuating circumstances prior to every last shot. I went from being one of the slower players in my group to having to wait on the other players in my group at the private club.
It was a great lesson I learned, and it helped my game. All because one guy in our group had the balls to confront me. I could've taken offense to it, but I simply decided to use it as motivation to adjust and become a more proficient player. And I'm sure the guys playing behind me appreciated it even more.