Backsticks
Assistant Pro
While I will still maintain that the real driver of slower play over the last decades is the aping of the mannerisms of professionals from TV ; practice swings (yes, a modern affectation), glove on-glove off (I think A Palmer is to blame for the world acquiring that tic), etc, and more lately lasers, standing astride putts to feel the direction of the worms traffic or whatever they are doing, messing with shot trackers and phones, etc, today I realised there is another culprit hiding in plain sight - electric caddy cars.
Playing with three electric men, I was pushing my cart, and realised that despite the men not having to add the motive power, they were all nevertheless running them slower than I was pushing. Once seen, never unseen. And not sure how I hadnt noticed it before. Looking around the course I saw the same syndrome repeated elsewhere (I had the time, the round a right off from the 6th onwards).
Maybe it is the very power in the things that inhibits running them too quickly - slightly slower seems the instinct, maybe in order to ensure control and avoidance a runaway cart risk. Either way it is there, and undeniable. Pushing a cart or carrying a bag allows one to walk along briskly - the electric machine paradoxically a restraint not aid to walking speed.
Electric cart operators - next time you are motivated to complain about slow play, ask yourself about your bag transport choice. You are a contributor.
Disclosure - am always a push cart person. Never carry. Never motorised.
Playing with three electric men, I was pushing my cart, and realised that despite the men not having to add the motive power, they were all nevertheless running them slower than I was pushing. Once seen, never unseen. And not sure how I hadnt noticed it before. Looking around the course I saw the same syndrome repeated elsewhere (I had the time, the round a right off from the 6th onwards).
Maybe it is the very power in the things that inhibits running them too quickly - slightly slower seems the instinct, maybe in order to ensure control and avoidance a runaway cart risk. Either way it is there, and undeniable. Pushing a cart or carrying a bag allows one to walk along briskly - the electric machine paradoxically a restraint not aid to walking speed.
Electric cart operators - next time you are motivated to complain about slow play, ask yourself about your bag transport choice. You are a contributor.
Disclosure - am always a push cart person. Never carry. Never motorised.
