How is this possible?

[louise_a]

I played in a Shotgun today, most tees were occupied at the start, it took us 5 hours to get round after being held up on nearly every shot, however there was another girl from our club playing and she said they got round in just over 4 hours and hardly had to wait on shots.

 

[srixon 1]

The group in front of you must have been tediously slow.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

One or two groups behind them and in front of you were Prob holding people up

Seen it at ours - we have finished half an hour behind some groups in a shotgun start abd found out one group lost 3 holes

 

[Liverbirdie]

A certain club had given the captains prize out before, to a first time winner, only for another group to come in 45 minutes later with a winning score.

Before you ask I wasn't on the handicap committee then.

 

[Slab]

A certain club had given the captains prize out before, to a first time winner, only for another group to come in 45 minutes later with a winning score.

Before you ask I wasn't on the handicap committee then.

Ouch!

Often we have a published cut off time for cards to be in, if its submitted later then its not counted for prizes

 

[Liverbirdie]

Ouch!

Often we have a published cut off time for cards to be in, if its submitted later then its not counted for prizes

Since then a count em out, count em in policy was applied.

 

[duncan mackie]

I played in a Shotgun today, most tees were occupied at the start....

the clue is in this statement

you have less than 18 groups out on the course which is therefore relatively empty (honest - a normal course will have up to 30 groups on it at any one time when 'full') so there is slack out there somewhere. The group that managed the faster time took advantage of this whilst others (in front of you) clearly didn't!

starting with 24 or so groups will usually mean everyone ends up with the same round time (probably long too)