Golf Random Irritations

Got the clubs out of the car this morning only to find that my driver shaft had said goodbye to the head. It seems that the rub mark had weakened the shaft over time. Had to borrow my mates 3 wood for the day.
 
I don’t doubt it’s been said here times, but people who show utter disrespect for the course.

We played nine yesterday evening and the greens, recently subject of spring maintenance, were littered with pitch marks. On at least two greens there were marks within three feet of the hole. I’m not saying those in front had caused them, but they cannot have failed to see them, yet made no attempt to repair them.

And some of the bunkers. My god, the footprints. More like kids sandpits than a golf course feature.

What we need are snipers in trees to rid our courses of this scourge.
 
Golfnut1957 said:
To my mind, life was much better with a separate LIV Golf tread, LIV Golf over there the rest where it's always been. Now, my **** filter gets overloaded on the Professional Golf thread and I find myself just avoiding it, which is a shame as I used to enjoy contributing.

C'est la vie. Back to GolfWRX.
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Au revoir mon cher.
 
Billysboots said:
I don’t doubt it’s been said here times, but people who show utter disrespect for the course.

We played nine yesterday evening and the greens, recently subject of spring maintenance, were littered with pitch marks. On at least two greens there were marks within three feet of the hole. I’m not saying those in front had caused them, but they cannot have failed to see them, yet made no attempt to repair them.

And some of the bunkers. My god, the footprints. More like kids sandpits than a golf course feature.

What we need are snipers in trees to rid our courses of this scourge.
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We have recently opened some new bunkers as part of the renovation programme going on. As they were new you'd think members would want to treat them with care but the number of footprints each weekend around 9.00am onwards is ridiculous and I am sure it can't just be those going out in front of me
 
Members of the WhatsApp group failing to realise that a group with a high handicapper will win the scramble and low scores will be plentiful as it is basically 3 mulligans per shot - again!
 
Billysboots said:
I don’t doubt it’s been said here times, but people who show utter disrespect for the course.

We played nine yesterday evening and the greens, recently subject of spring maintenance, were littered with pitch marks. On at least two greens there were marks within three feet of the hole. I’m not saying those in front had caused them, but they cannot have failed to see them, yet made no attempt to repair them.

And some of the bunkers. My god, the footprints. More like kids sandpits than a golf course feature.

What we need are snipers in trees to rid our courses of this scourge.
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All it would take would be a video camera in a tree....and then someone boring enough to want to watch through the video to see who is doing it.....and then naming and shaming. It would work. It won't get better unless someone jumps all over the culprits.
 
Mandofred said:
All it would take would be a video camera in a tree....and then someone boring enough to want to watch through the video to see who is doing it.....and then naming and shaming. It would work. It won't get better unless someone jumps all over the culprits.
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I had exactly this conversation with our course manager a couple of years ago.

During wet weather, in common with most clubs we have areas roped off to prevent traffic. There was one such area behind a green and it was apparent that golfers were ignoring it. This was causing such an issue for the greenkeeping staff that they installed a camera.

The inevitable happened, and a member was captured lowering the rope and wheeling his trolley through the quagmire, because he was simply too lazy to go the long way round.

I was told about it by a member of the shop staff who also showed me the video. I didn’t know the member concerned, but the staff did. I asked the manager if he was going to publish the footage on the club website and detail who the member was. The purpose of that should have been clear. Both to shame the member concerned and discourage others from doing the same.

His response? No, because he didn’t want to embarrass the person concerned. But surely, that would be the whole point of such an exercise. And if said member took his custom elsewhere then that would merely have been an added bonus. Golf clubs do not need such imbeciles as playing members.
 
Billysboots said:
I had exactly this conversation with our course manager a couple of years ago.

During wet weather, in common with most clubs we have areas roped off to prevent traffic. There was one such area behind a green and it was apparent that golfers were ignoring it. This was causing such an issue for the greenkeeping staff that they installed a camera.

The inevitable happened, and a member was captured lowering the rope and wheeling his trolley through the quagmire, because he was simply too lazy to go the long way round.

I was told about it by a member of the shop staff who also showed me the video. I didn’t know the member concerned, but the staff did. I asked the manager if he was going to publish the footage on the club website and detail who the member was. The purpose of that should have been clear. Both to shame the member concerned and discourage others from doing the same.

His response? No, because he didn’t want to embarrass the person concerned. But surely, that would be the whole point of such an exercise. And if said member took his custom elsewhere then that would merely have been an added bonus. Golf clubs do not need such imbeciles as playing members.
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I don't think you would need to name+shame on the first video offense. Just take them aside and make it clear that the next time you even hear someone say they did it again... all hell will rain down upon their heads. Naming+shaming included. Unless there is a penalty....some people will just ignore the rules. Whether it's ball marks on the greens, raking sand, putting back divots....things are getting slowly worse. Not relevant to golf much....but the amount of dog poo out and about is getting crazy. Unless someone steps up and zaps the culprit....it's going to get worse as well.
 
Billysboots said:
I had exactly this conversation with our course manager a couple of years ago.

During wet weather, in common with most clubs we have areas roped off to prevent traffic. There was one such area behind a green and it was apparent that golfers were ignoring it. This was causing such an issue for the greenkeeping staff that they installed a camera.

The inevitable happened, and a member was captured lowering the rope and wheeling his trolley through the quagmire, because he was simply too lazy to go the long way round.

I was told about it by a member of the shop staff who also showed me the video. I didn’t know the member concerned, but the staff did. I asked the manager if he was going to publish the footage on the club website and detail who the member was. The purpose of that should have been clear. Both to shame the member concerned and discourage others from doing the same.

His response? No, because he didn’t want to embarrass the person concerned. But surely, that would be the whole point of such an exercise. And if said member took his custom elsewhere then that would merely have been an added bonus. Golf clubs do not need such imbeciles as playing members.
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Are there any privacy or GDPR issues with setting up video cameras like that? I think it's a good idea but wonder about what other issues it might create.
 
YandaB said:
Are there any privacy or GDPR issues with setting up video cameras like that? I think it's a good idea but wonder about what other issues it might create.
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I don’t know but I doubt it. I don’t see it as being any different to installing a CCTV camera above your front door.
 
We played after the Captains day competition yesterday, so the whole course was being used by members all morning. I must've repaired at least 2 or 3 on most greens. People just don't care, they'll be the first to kick off when the greens are crap.
 
A couple of summers back I played an early solo round on the Sunday after a medal held on the Saturday..it was a big comp and we didn't have any visitors ( I checked)
Our 10th hole is a downhill par 3....I repaired 35 pitch marks o that green.......
I can't understand the mindset
 
YandaB said:
Are there any privacy or GDPR issues with setting up video cameras like that? I think it's a good idea but wonder about what other issues it might create.
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There is no expectation of privacy in a public place. Two things; there should be signs up advising there is CCTV surveillance. What the club do with the footage is where GDPR comes in. Sharing it with committee members/employees as part of a workplace discussion is fine. Sharing it with another member is not fine.
 
Teebs said:
We had a Junior regional comp on Friday.

Played Sat morning first thing and must've repaired 5 recent pitchmarks per green.
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It’s not an issue confined to any demographic, sadly.

We have a small group of senior members who openly suggest there is no requirement to repair pitchmarks near the front of the greens. Yes, really.

But to follow groups round and see them not rake bunkers, or ignore pitchmarks near flags, regardless of who has made them, really boils my wee. I will always say something, but I accept not everyone wants the confrontation.

We have a fella in our regular roll up who is a bugger for not repairing his pitchmarks. He is always told.

It’s frustrating for other golfers. It must be heartbreaking for greenkeeping staff to see their hard work treated with such disdain. Especially when the same golfers who behave so selfishly are invariably the ones to whine about the state of the course.
 
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