Four-Balls No More?

A rammel article from a plank. When the inevitable question comes along “ why don’t you buy golf magazines”. Just refer them to that post.
 
To be fair, I think Slab (with all due respect) has also been a bit "click-bait" with the title of this thread :LOL:

The article clearly states getting rid of fourballs in individual strokeplay comps, so yeah I'd wholeheartedly agree.

Would anyone on here actually disagree with this from the article?
"Getting stuck behind a series of four-balls in a club competition is painful, especially when playing in a medal where everyone is having to play every shot."
 
Eesat 90210 said:
To be fair, I think Slab (with all due respect) has also been a bit "click-bait" with the title of this thread :LOL:

The article clearly states getting rid of fourballs in individual strokeplay comps, so yeah I'd wholeheartedly agree.

Would anyone on here actually disagree with this from the article?
"Getting stuck behind a series of four-balls in a club competition is painful, especially when playing in a medal where everyone is having to play every shot."
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Guess it depends, at our place everyone is in a fourball so you dont really get stuck behind them. I'd say its better for all groups to be the same size than to limit the size of the group.
 
Eesat 90210 said:
To be fair, I think Slab (with all due respect) has also been a bit "click-bait" with the title of this thread :LOL:

The article clearly states getting rid of fourballs in individual strokeplay comps, so yeah I'd wholeheartedly agree.

Would anyone on here actually disagree with this from the article?
"Getting stuck behind a series of four-balls in a club competition is painful, especially when playing in a medal where everyone is having to play every shot."
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Or your could accept that numbers of a group do not make slow play, individuals make slow play.
 
GM have a bunch of unimaginative, miserable sods writing their online content these days. 'Golfers' who seem to hate golf and everything it's about. He seems to have put absolutely no thought into his 'opinion' piece whatsoever. No fourballs means less members get to play - less money for clubs. No more pairs matchplay either.

The standard of most articles on GM just makes you sad these days. I think half of us on the forum could do better.
 
Orikoru said:
GM have a bunch of unimaginative, miserable sods writing their online content these days. 'Golfers' who seem to hate golf and everything it's about. He seems to have put absolutely no thought into his 'opinion' piece whatsoever. No fourballs means less members get to play - less money for clubs. No more pairs matchplay either.

The standard of most articles on GM just makes you sad these days. I think half of us on the forum could do better.
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Let me loose for a column. Readers would come rushing back. 👍
 
Didn’t read the article but the best time to play our course was during COVID when 2-ball only restrictions were in place. Rounds became 2.5-3h at most.
 
To get everybody out in 3s we would have to change our tee interval to 7 minutes instead of the 9.

As I understand it one of the the troubles is we have to tell Intelligent Golf what tee intervals we want and they then set that interval for every day. Although there might be someway round that for comps.


We used to go out in 3s many years ago and players were expected to go round in 3 hours 20, we also had 6 minute intervals then but generally speaking pace of play was much faster (no yardage books, GPS or lasers back then).
 
Definitely not for me, but I know of a 9 hole course nearby that have banned 4 balls since Covid. When I talked to a member last year, I think they were possibly going to allow them again soon
 
We were always 3 balls for singles comps pre COVID. We now are 3 balls for medals but 4 balls for Stablefords. This works fine.
 
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