Golf Random Irritations

Christmas and new year holidays... Because I do get them off as a rule any days off is family stuff so I'm missing my golf. Unlike Easter when I'm off and can sneak out a few times.

Such is life but boy I'm almost at 2 weeks not even held a club
 
PJ87 said:
Christmas and new year holidays... Because I do get them off as a rule any days off is family stuff so I'm missing my golf. Unlike Easter when I'm off and can sneak out a few times.

Such is life but boy I'm almost at 2 weeks not even held a club
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Hang on, you can’t post family things on the gladden the heart thread and then moan about having to do them on here!
 
It's a kind of slow play irritation, but it was so much more. Slow play first.

Yesterday afternoon we were following a two ball, following a fourball, following a three, who are holding everyone up (entitled young men). By the 6th, they have pulled away from the four who are holding up the two. By the 8th, the four are out of sight and the two too far behind.

2hrs 10 min for 9 holes. We went back to the 1st and played the front again in just under 1hr 30 mins. It wasn't only the slow play.

The two were guests and very inexperienced golfers. They walked the full length of the 3rd without playing a shot and joined the four on the 4th tee. They explained to the bemused golfers that the Pro had told them the 2nd was closed and were informed in return that they had walked past the Par 3 2nd which was indeed closed and had just walked up the 3rd.

They then waited for the four to get on the green of the Par 4 4th before hitting tee shots that didn't get half way. Very respectful. On the fifth, one of them walked 50 yards past his ball before returning to play it. This was repeated on the Par 3 6th, where he topped his ball 20 yards off the tee. I didn't see his second as I was putting out, but I was there in time to see him walk all the way to the green and then return 50 yards to play his 3rd. His 4th was right and short, he chipped and having walked past the signs saying "all traffic this way" skirted around the ropes placed to ensure this happens. I think he managed to stay off the green with his trolley, but I'm not certain.

The next three holes continued in the same vein. Leaving the security gates open, ignoring the routing, walking to where the ball wasn't. And that's the main reason for going back around the front.

It may have been prudent to stop them and educate them, but where would you start, and besides, I'm not very good at doing calm and rational, I was already wound up and in these situations I struggle with not losing it and besides, I didn't want to spoil their day 😁
 
upsidedown said:
Absolutely devastated to hear of the passing of Trevor, Fozzie.
Played against him in County matches , was his caravan neighbour when he won the English Seniors and played practice round with him last year .
Gonna miss you Trev 😥
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Horrendous :cry:
 
The term mini driver. I have just seen the blurb for the new Titleist one. It’s just a 3 metal with a different name. My current 910 3 metal is almost the same spec as this new offering. Just marketing bull 💩
 
srixon 1 said:
The term mini driver. I have just seen the blurb for the new Titleist one. It’s just a 3 metal with a different name. My current 910 3 metal is almost the same spec as this new offering. Just marketing bull 💩
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The term “metal” when describing woods. It’s just woods regardless what material they are made of. 🙃
 
Getting to the range to practice driver and finding out that the top tier, where the spaces are, you aren't allowed to hit driver any more
 
On Tuesday on one of our holes (15th ) the group behind (part of our swindle) pressed us to allow them to tee off just after us rather than wait on the tee.

Very strong left to right wind and away my ball went out of sight. I got to the distance where I expected my ball to be but it was in a difficult to get to place. I got to it and realised it belonged to one of the guys behind. So much search time gone I did not have enough left to look for mine properly so lost ball, also having had to look at 2 other balls that belonged to the group behind.
 
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The committee at ours always adopts a polar opposite stance to everywhere else on pretty much everything.

This winter has been no different when it comes to playing qualifying competitions and allowing members to submit general play cards.

In years gone by we have played qualifiers regardless of conditions. On more than one occasion, when the course has been frozen solid, and there have been piles of snow by the edges of the greens, we have still played qualifiers regardless of the fact that nowhere else does.

Contrast that to this year. This week we have received an email informing us there will be no qualifiers and general play cards will be refused until at least the end of February because of winter conditions. Please correct me if I’m mistaken, but I thought winter rules were now a thing of the past, meaning qualifying events could be played all year round.

Our course is perfectly playable. We are yet to lose any days to the weather, the greens are mint, and the bunkers all in play. And we can’t submit any score for handicap purposes at all.

Have I misunderstood what clubs can and cannot do now? Or are the committee at ours flying solo again?
 
Billysboots said:
The committee at ours always adopts a polar opposite stance to everywhere else on pretty much everything.

This winter has been no different when it comes to playing qualifying competitions and allowing members to submit general play cards.

In years gone by we have played qualifiers regardless of conditions. On more than one occasion, when the course has been frozen solid, and there have been piles of snow by the edges of the greens, we have still played qualifiers regardless of the fact that nowhere else does.

Contrast that to this year. This week we have received an email informing us there will be no qualifiers and general play cards will be refused until at least the end of February because of winter conditions. Please correct me if I’m mistaken, but I thought winter rules were now a thing of the past, meaning qualifying events could be played all year round.

Our course is perfectly playable. We are yet to lose any days to the weather, the greens are mint, and the bunkers all in play. And we can’t submit any score for handicap purposes at all.

Have I misunderstood what clubs can and cannot do now? Or are the committee at ours flying solo again?
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How would they refuse general play cards, go into your record and delete them after they've been submitted?
 
The massive assumptions, on other threads, that just because someone has a higher handicap they don't work on their game....or isn't trying to get better...or is cheating the system as a result...

Jeez, we do like a good generalisation on these boards.....

Does anyone just play golf anymore for the love of playing golf.?
 
Billysboots said:
The committee at ours always adopts a polar opposite stance to everywhere else on pretty much everything.

This winter has been no different when it comes to playing qualifying competitions and allowing members to submit general play cards.

In years gone by we have played qualifiers regardless of conditions. On more than one occasion, when the course has been frozen solid, and there have been piles of snow by the edges of the greens, we have still played qualifiers regardless of the fact that nowhere else does.

Contrast that to this year. This week we have received an email informing us there will be no qualifiers and general play cards will be refused until at least the end of February because of winter conditions. Please correct me if I’m mistaken, but I thought winter rules were now a thing of the past, meaning qualifying events could be played all year round.

Our course is perfectly playable. We are yet to lose any days to the weather, the greens are mint, and the bunkers all in play. And we can’t submit any score for handicap purposes at all.

Have I misunderstood what clubs can and cannot do now? Or are the committee at ours flying solo again?
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GP scores, or any acceptable scores for handicapping, can be ‘turned off’ if , due to extreme adverse conditions (this might include being frozen solid), which, in the opinion of the committee, mean that the course is unfit.
They also should be turned off if the course in play does not meet the measurement requirement (markers more than 10 yards from the fixed measurement point or the total length more than 100 yards shorter or longer than the official measure) and other criteria to render a course acceptable (e.g. bucket holes, unacceptable local rules such as lift clean and place in the rough etc.).
 
D-S said:
GP scores, or any acceptable scores for handicapping, can be ‘turned off’ if , due to extreme adverse conditions (this might include being frozen solid), which, in the opinion of the committee, mean that the course is unfit.
They also should be turned off if the course in play does not meet the measurement requirement (markers more than 10 yards from the fixed measurement point or the total length more than 100 yards shorter or longer than the official measure) and other criteria to render a course acceptable (e.g. bucket holes, unacceptable local rules such as lift clean and place in the rough etc.).
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Thanks - that’s the sort of detail I was after. It’s certainly my understanding from what I have read elsewhere.

If that’s the case then, yet again, our committee is making it up as they go along. None of those conditions apply to us and, regardless, to simply place a blanket ban on members submitting cards for the best part of three months seems totally excessive when nobody can tell them now what the course will be playing like in six weeks time.
 
Billysboots said:
Thanks - that’s the sort of detail I was after. It’s certainly my understanding from what I have read elsewhere.

If that’s the case then, yet again, our committee is making it up as they go along. None of those conditions apply to us and, regardless, to simply place a blanket ban on members submitting cards for the best part of three months seems totally excessive when nobody can tell them now what the course will be playing like in six weeks time.
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Do you get a lot of visitors in winter.?
If their club is non conforming for GP cards they could still put them in using your course.
This could mean overuse of your course over winter but good for revenue.

Just a guess!
 
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