Bazz
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Golf Random Irritations
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sjw
Well-known member
The fact that so many shots on Sky's coverage (or whomever they get it from), not just this tournament but all of them, doesn't have the sound synced with the picture. You hear the strike sometimes before the player's even taken the club away. How difficult can it be? Don't see it on any other sports
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
Every time there's a shotgun start, me and my partner get one of the longest walks. I think they're punishing me for complaining about the IG payments.
When we have one you can go in to the office and donate to charity to choose your tee, naturally the ones furthest away from the car parks are the last to go.
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
I noticed it today and had the same thoughts.
nickjdavis
Head Pro
Watching the group in front get to our 11th green. There is a continuous bunker all round the front, posts and ropes prevent folk from walking round the green to the right....traffic is supposedly channeled to the right. Bloke in front attempts a wedge approach from maybe 40 yards and duffs it into the bunker.
He walks in to the bunker, plays out. Walks back to his bag, picks it up and then pauses, looks right (at the pathway he is supposed to take), starts walking left before spotting the roped off area. Pauses and then confidently strides through the bunker to the green. Putts out, walks off.
We collar him at the 12th tee....he admits walking through the bunker (claims course ignorance) but said he raked it. When asked how be managed to throw the rake back 10 yards from the greenside of the bunker so that it landed perfectly, with the head in the sand and the handle in the rake rest, he looked at us as though we were idiots.
Same fella, tees off on 15, his second shot finds a bunker on the 14th fairway, plays out, strides confidently off, with not a glance at the rake.
As we putt out on the 17th they still haven't teed off on 18....they apologise for the slow play (there is a society out there) saying they've been waiting on every hole for the group in front. To which one of my group said..."well if you spent some time raking a few bunkers you might not have waited around so much". More blank looks.
...and on 18 we have some newly laid turf in front of the green....all fenced off and a dedicated path around the right side of green that has a big sign saying "please stay on the path"...two of them putted out and traipsed back across the new turf, climbing over the ropes to get back to their bags, one walked obliviously through a newly planted shrubbery, the other had somehow maneuvered his trolley up the path (despite the sign being deliberately placed in the middle of the path to deter anyone from taking trolleys up the path) and decided he would exit the green with his trolley across another area of newly laid turf.
Does my bloody head in.
As i said to one of the guys....if this is how they treat a golf course how do you think they'd treat your daughter?
On the upside...i used the group ahead as a good source of visual imagery and twatted some monster angry drives over the closing holes.
He walks in to the bunker, plays out. Walks back to his bag, picks it up and then pauses, looks right (at the pathway he is supposed to take), starts walking left before spotting the roped off area. Pauses and then confidently strides through the bunker to the green. Putts out, walks off.
We collar him at the 12th tee....he admits walking through the bunker (claims course ignorance) but said he raked it. When asked how be managed to throw the rake back 10 yards from the greenside of the bunker so that it landed perfectly, with the head in the sand and the handle in the rake rest, he looked at us as though we were idiots.
Same fella, tees off on 15, his second shot finds a bunker on the 14th fairway, plays out, strides confidently off, with not a glance at the rake.
As we putt out on the 17th they still haven't teed off on 18....they apologise for the slow play (there is a society out there) saying they've been waiting on every hole for the group in front. To which one of my group said..."well if you spent some time raking a few bunkers you might not have waited around so much". More blank looks.
...and on 18 we have some newly laid turf in front of the green....all fenced off and a dedicated path around the right side of green that has a big sign saying "please stay on the path"...two of them putted out and traipsed back across the new turf, climbing over the ropes to get back to their bags, one walked obliviously through a newly planted shrubbery, the other had somehow maneuvered his trolley up the path (despite the sign being deliberately placed in the middle of the path to deter anyone from taking trolleys up the path) and decided he would exit the green with his trolley across another area of newly laid turf.
Does my bloody head in.
As i said to one of the guys....if this is how they treat a golf course how do you think they'd treat your daughter?
On the upside...i used the group ahead as a good source of visual imagery and twatted some monster angry drives over the closing holes.
