Pace of Play

Typhoon · 2020-05-16T13:48:45+00:00

Little fun fact with NO CARTS. Since we’ve opened back up every tee time from 5:15 am until close has been booked. Pace of place is faster without carts....

Par4QC

Typhoon People have NO idea how long a round is supposed to take.

What are you basing that off of?

Us that can play really good(kinda good) or those that typically play your course.....that, from your descriptions, are complete hacks that can't break 100 and are not really there to 'play golf'?
If it is the latter, then a 6 hour round would not be anything if everyone is playing at that same pace/no one getting held up.

imo, a round of golf takes however long it takes to play, given the abilities of those playing. It only gets upsetting when those of vastly varying abilities are playing at the same time. And there is just no way to avoid that. It happens every course/every day. Golf course Marshalls are fucking jokes. They can do nothing about anything except 'remind'.

Your course allows what happens there, to happen. And they profit greatly from what we see in your posts. So, I do not see any reason for complaints about those people.

Typhoon

Par4QC I laugh at it now. When I go out there I tell the people flat out, “ people out here are awful and have no idea what they’re doing “. I go out there hoping to find 6 groups on one tee… I’m not playing so who cares. I’m hoping for 7 hour rounds…. Just so I can tell them they do it to themselves.

Walterjn

Typhoon But we stand in the club house and say” where the fuck is he going “ more times than you think.

I believe that!! Similar problem at my little course...
My favorite cart buddy is a lefty. He and I play on a semi regular basis at the little course, walking mostly. When we play a large course, I seem to drive and I'll put the cart next to the ball. All either one of us needs to do is get out, grab a club and hit. It seems to help that both of us are facing the cart on the other side of the ball.

sdandrea1

I teed off in a 3 some last week at 7:30. We all shot low 80s. I was home at 1030. Life is good.

Typhoon

Just took a foursome 45 minutes to get to the first green. Our old guy from the shop drove up to them. They said they keep hitting all their balls on the woods.

TWo of the 4 had rentals. Jack said to them before they went out, “ do you guys play golf”… they said not really. Jack told them to play a scramble amd told them what it was. He also said to them, “ you picked a bad day to play”…. They said, why, it looks nice out?.

Their best drive didn’t make it out of the tee box. I said to Jack, why are they teeing up where there are no markers. He said, that’s where their best drive ended up.😂

Par4QC

Typhoon I was behind those guys today!! They finally let me go on #3 while they were searching woods, bushes, 20 acres of rough......on both sides of the FW. 🤣

johnnydoom

One of a few reasons I didn't get excited about spring rolling around this year. The courses are always packed and a few groups will be sprinkled in jamming up the works. I haven't played yet this year primarily due to worries about work, but I also haven't missed the 5 plus hour rounds. When the heat starts cranking and drives people off the courses I'll get out there.

ode

Played yesterday with my buddy, we are walking, see a couple on 4 while we are on 1. We catch em on 9, 🤞 they are 9 holers...nope they make the turn and start the hurry up golf and we start the waiting game. I see something small crawling around on 11 green 🤔. Then I see momma pick it up and she's got a toddler she's toting around! They are running back and forth from cart to ball, to cart to green, etc. and playing with an infant in between. My buddy and.i laughed on #13 after 4 holes of it. They kicked it into gear after that and ther wasn't much waiting.

Typhoon

ode You just watch and say, what the heck has happened to golf? And what kind of place let’s an infant out on the course??

As I said, I’m pushing for 7 hour rounds… I don’t play so I don’t care. I want people to complain and I can tell them why it happens … and they can look at themselves and see most of what I tell them happening in their own group.

ode

Typhoon I've read about what goes on at your course and it sounds like a zoo. I'd have to be first off. Slowest I've gotten around this year was 4h45m. and that is painfully slow. One of the starters said a bunch of FIBS teed off mid morning and slowed up the hole shit!

Walterjn

ode FIBS???
Never heard that one...

ode

Walterjn FIBS???

🤔@Par4QC can shed some light on that😁

DonM

Walterjn Fucking Illinois Bastards.

It's what the Cheeseheads call Illinoisans when they take over their recreational spots. There's only about 159 people living in Wisconsin so it doesn't take much to overwhelm them.

🙂

Par4QC

ode I'm working on a huge mathematical calculation right now, concerning 'slow play/pace of play'.

Sunday, 4 of us played 18 in about 4 hours, riding. Yesterday, I played 18 alone in about 2 hours, riding.
Trying to figure out if I was playing slow. The only variable was that yesterday I was waiting on every hole.

I guess I'm the only one on this site that might have something else to worry about other than how long it takes to play golf.
I don't do tournaments any more, except 1 every year, so I never run into any rounds longer than what should be considered 'normal'.

Plus, I've always thought, still do/always will, if you have 'some place to be at a certain time'.....you got no f**king business going to the golf course then bitching about slow play. If I go play.....I have 'all day'. Otherwise I don't go. Always have been of that mindset.

pike51

You can play fast without trying both walking and riding simply by playing ready golf. If it's cart path only, that generally slows things down to a crawl and I wish more courses would just go walking only instead of cart path only.

This past Friday, I was first off at 9 am (I was shocked) at a course I had never played about 45 minute from home. I made the turn in right at 1 hour. Walking off the 10th green, the head greenskeeper approached me and asked if I had permission to start on the back from the pro shop. I politely explained I had just made the turn. He was concerned because they had 3 greens they'd yet to drag (they had punched and sanded the day before). I let him know I wasn't concerned with that and I'd hit short of those greens and take a 2 putt and move on. He said he wished he could clone me, LOL.

Point is, I played in right at 2 hours by simply playing ready golf. Saturday morning, my regular group finished in just under 3 hours (all walking) and having to wait on the last 3 tees.

potbunker

Par4QC if you have 'some place to be at a certain time'.....you got no f**king business going to the golf course then bitching about slow play.

For the most part, I agree. Depends upon what is taking place in front of you.

The last two times I remember getting pissed:

No one on the course. A single went off in front of my wife and me. He started playing 2 and 3 balls on each hole and we waited and waited. My wife really set him straight on hole 4. We played through.

A 6 hour round as a foursome and no one in front of us held us up. My buddy and I were steamed!

Par4QC

Par4QC I used to play the local amateur tour. I could play the course on a Wed. and shoot 79, then in the tourney on Sat./Sun. and would shoot 100 both days. It was a shotgun start and would pass 5.5 hours most weeks. 1 day we had 5 4somes waiting on the same tee!!
I said hell with that. Timing is everything with me.

ode

Par4QC I hope to be there some day.....there being retired and of the mindset that slow play does not bother me that much....kudos to you👍! I will say I've gotten better at it and.been able to slow my pace down when required. It's when bottle necked when it is more difficult, i.e. others are catching me/my group on the tee box!

johnnydoom

Par4QC I guess I'm the only one on this site that might have something else to worry about other than how long it takes to play golf.

I don't really care about getting done quickly. My problem is that my concentration wanes with the delays between each shot and I don't have the discipline to fix that. It's more of a personality thing. I don't mind wasting time, but I at least want to waste time doing what I want to do instead of standing around on a tee box or in a fairway waiting. If I'm playing alone or with one other then the waiting is expected as a matter of course since less people play faster than more and that doesn't bother me at all. But while I'm waiting, I can't help but notice the guy that in the group in front that waits for his partner to hit from the other side of the fairway before drawing his own club, then takes four or five practice swings, advances the ball 20 yards, cleans his club, lasers the new range, draws a club, change his mind and gets another club, throws some grass into the air to check the wind......

After that my nerves and my game are shot.

Walterjn

According to golfpass, my little course is 1560 yards long.
https://www.golfpass.com/travel-advisor/courses/3627-zaca-creek-golf-course
I buzzed around there yesterday in about 45 minutes, that was taking my time, hitting provisional, looking for original balls, and the like. I caught the guy ahead of me on hole 8.

potbunker

Walterjn

I love it!

Par4QC

ode Don't get me wrong, I hate slow play. To me there are 2 different slow plays....you're f'ing around/never played before, or you are old. There would be no excuse for someone like me or you to play slow. I don't tolerate it nor allow it to happen in my own group, when playing with others. And they know before we even get there! But we never hurry. That's as bad as slow. And when I see people hurrying behind, I may even become a snail. Like I said, if you got a place to be at a certain time, keep the hell off the golf course. You never know how long it may take out there.

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