I wish I was the confrontational type

[Odvan]

Why not just tell them, guys we are being held up by group in front and chill out with the drives until we are out of range, no confrontation, no arguing, no shouting, no reporting them like a child telling the teacher on someone. Just simply communication something that people seem unable to do on a golf course. Oh forgot to mention if you did have a quiet word you would feel better and not feel the need to write about it online.

Well communicated, that.

 

[One Planer]

Why not just tell them, guys we are being held up by group in front and chill out with the drives until we are out of range, no confrontation, no arguing, no shouting, no reporting them like a child telling the teacher on someone. Just simply communication something that people seem unable to do on a golf course. Oh forgot to mention if you did have a quiet word you would feel better and not feel the need to write about it online.

Hitting a ball toward a group that is well in range, especially, as the OP says the ball flew right over them, isn't clever. It's down right dangerous and has no place in golf.

Have you ever been hit by a golf ball? I have (... By accident) and it hurt like hell. It's not nice and it does,kind of, scare you.

If reporting people, for what is blatantly, doing something with the potential to cause harm to other folk on the course, call me a snitch, a grass, a scab, whatever, I'll keep doing it.

 

[Foxholer]

Why not just tell them, guys we are being held up by group in front and chill out with the drives until we are out of range, no confrontation, no arguing, no shouting, no reporting them like a child telling the teacher on someone. Just simply communication something that people seem unable to do on a golf course. Oh forgot to mention if you did have a quiet word you would feel better and not feel the need to write about it online.

I was playing a few weeks ago and one of our 4 ball who is a idiot nobody in the club can stand kept saying to me all the time how far do you think you can hit the ball to me. By the 7th i blasted a ball very far over the heads of the 4 ball infront. They were not happy at all. By the 13 he still kept on at me so i tee off again and another monster drive over the 4 ball and one was a committee member. I had a right telling off and rightly so. Never listen to other people on the course as when the s@@t his the fan they walk away

Seems to depend on the 'communication' apparently!

 

[Pin-seeker]

Why not just tell them, guys we are being held up by group in front and chill out with the drives until we are out of range, no confrontation, no arguing, no shouting, no reporting them like a child telling the teacher on someone. Just simply communication something that people seem unable to do on a golf course. Oh forgot to mention if you did have a quiet word you would feel better and not feel the need to write about it online.

But is it more childish than firing balls over the heads of the group infront to show off to your playing partners as you did??? Can't make my mind up :blah:

 

[Deleted member 18121]

Why not just tell them, guys we are being held up by group in front and chill out with the drives until we are out of range, no confrontation, no arguing, no shouting, no reporting them like a child telling the teacher on someone. Just simply communication something that people seem unable to do on a golf course. Oh forgot to mention if you did have a quiet word you would feel better and not feel the need to write about it online.

There was no need to tell them as at times they were waiting on the same tee box as us waiting for the competition to move out of range.

Also, what part of "I wish I was the confrontational type" didn't you get? If people are willing to fire golf balls at me why would I want to antagonise them by having a word? IMO if you've got people that unreasonable in the first place then I wont give them the time of day and will make me even more unlikely to play through when there are 36 slow people infront of us.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

'they were only visitors'......does that make a difference then?

I would have applied proper golfing etiquette and let them through at the first opportunity as I would have been holding up a faster game.

How many hours were you on the course?

 

[two-clubs]

I think I would have let them through - wouldn't want idiots with itchy trigger fingers behind me..

 

[Deleted member 18121]

'they were only visitors'......does that make a difference then?

I would have applied proper golfing etiquette and let them through at the first opportunity as I would have been holding up a faster game.

How many hours were you on the course?

I doubt very much if the club would do much about visitors....members yes, as they've got more to lose.

So you're telling me that if you were being held up by 9 groups of 4 balls in a competition in front of you that you'd still let people through? If the 2 behind could have played through and made distance on us then fair enough, but we'd have just been waiting for them on every tee to clear out of our way.

 

[Deleted member 18121]

I think I would have let them through - wouldn't want idiots with itchy trigger fingers behind me..

that's the approach I'll take in the future I think, let them get held up behind someone else rather than me....as someone else mentioned, its then their problem and not mine.

What gets me about the whole situation is that they knew the course way backed up the whole way round.

Oh well, live and learn.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I doubt very much if the club would do much about visitors....members yes, as they've got more to lose.
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I meant that if it was the club captain playing with the pro..I bet you would have let them through. But...as you said 'they were only visitors'.

During your round there must have been a few times when it was possible to let them through, lost ball, short hole etc. They would then have had the opportunity to play through the matches in front and you would have enjoyed a less stressful round.

You did not say how many hours your round took?

 

[Deleted member 18121]

I meant that if it was the club captain playing with the pro..I bet you would have let them through. But...as you said 'they were only visitors'.

During your round there must have been a few times when it was possible to let them through, lost ball, short hole etc. They would then have had the opportunity to play through the matches in front and you would have enjoyed a less stressful round.

You did not say how many hours your round took?

ahhh I misunderstood....no, they were 2 lads about 20 years old just there for a days golf.

No, we kept up with the group in front at all times.....like I say it was a slow round (5 hours 15 minutes), the group in front were held up, on each tee box.....it really was a day when no one was making headway.

 

[Curls]

At first read I was quite annoyed, as one half of a 2 ball constantly held up by 4 balls who think that letting us through is pointless. It's not pointless, if everyone let faster groups through the 4 balls would not finish any slower than they were going to and we'd be through and finished well in advance of them. However I see that the procession ahead were in competition, so the 2 ball (visitors or members it doesn't matter) would not have priority.

However I still would have let them through, and explained this to them as they passed. If you just said "you can go through, but be aware every one of those 4 balls in is a club comp and you won't be allowed through", then they would have either calmed down or gone home. As someone said this is about communication, and they were bang out of order to shoot towards you - no excuse for that - but regardless I would have let them through anyway.

 

[Deleted member 18121]

At first read I was quite annoyed, as one half of a 2 ball constantly held up by 4 balls who think that letting us through is pointless. It's not pointless, if everyone let faster groups through the 4 balls would not finish any slower than they were going to and we'd be through and finished well in advance of them. However I see that the procession ahead were in competition, so the 2 ball (visitors or members it doesn't matter) would not have priority.

However I still would have let them through, and explained this to them as they passed. If you just said "you can go through, but be aware every one of those 4 balls in is a club comp and you won't be allowed through", then they would have either calmed down or gone home. As someone said this is about communication, and they were bang out of order to shoot towards you - no excuse for that - but regardless I would have let them through anyway.

As I mentioned previously, 99% of the time I'm always one to let people through....but there shouldn't have been a need (on this occasion) to explain what the hold up was. On the 3rd, 8th and 15th we were still waiting on the tee to play when the 2 ball walked up and had to wait for us to tee off.... I'm sorry, but I don't see that any explanation is needed when they can 100% see for themselves that we were being held up.

Common sense and common decency were missing from this pair.

But in the future I'll let people play through and just smash my drives back at them when they're barely 180 yards down the fairway.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Club booking system is totally wrong to take money off two visitors then send them out after 40 club members playing in a four ball competition.

Do they really need the money that badly?

 

[Deleted member 18121]

Club booking system is totally wrong to take money off two visitors then send them out after 40 club members playing in a four ball competition.

Do they really need the money that badly?

good point and good question..... this is a club that has been doing groupon vouchers regularly all this year, so I guess the answer is yes.

to be fair to them when we're booking a tee time we are always told if we're going out just before/just after any kind of comp....I'd hope the visitors were afforded this same information.

 

[Curls]

As I mentioned previously, 99% of the time I'm always one to let people through....but there shouldn't have been a need (on this occasion) to explain what the hold up was. On the 3rd, 8th and 15th we were still waiting on the tee to play when the 2 ball walked up and had to wait for us to tee off.... I'm sorry, but I don't see that any explanation is needed when they can 100% see for themselves that we were being held up.

Common sense and common decency were missing from this pair.

But in the future I'll let people play through and just smash my drives back at them when they're barely 180 yards down the fairway.

I guess what I was getting at is if they were visitors they might not have realised the competition angle, they probably thought if they could get through you, they could get through the next etc etc. I'm not saying they were right, far from it, no one should ever strike within range of anyone, I'm saying they possibly were not in full possession of the facts which a quick word would have rectified. You keep saying they could see for themselves, it sounds like you didn't speak to them at all (even before the close shots incidents). That would annoy me, I like a friendly hello and chat on the tee box if its slow, its not nice getting shut out.

Very often confrontation arises from simple misunderstanding, I'm saying the whole thing could have been avoided if you just spoke to them but as a visiting 2 ball who didn't understand there was a comp on getting ignored on every tee probably annoyed them. There's no excuse for what they did and there's every chance they're pretty ignorant chaps, but not speaking to them at all only exacerbated the issue.

 

[SaintHacker]

Who's to say the comp groups in front wouldn't have let them through? I realise they don't have to, but equally they don't have to not let them.
I was on the opposite end of this situation Friday afternoon. Going round as a two ball being held up by a 4 ball of seniors who steadfastly refused to let us through as they hadn't lost a hole. We ended up walking off after playing 8 holes in 2 and a half hours.
Sorry if it sounds harsh but I think a bit of common sense and courtesy from both groups would have solved your problem before it started to get nasty.

 

[Deleted member 18121]

Couldn't disagree more....why should (potentially) 10 groups of 4 balls stop and let a 2 ball through just because in the scheme of things they'd get round quicker? 40 people would then be slowed up waiting for these guys to get through.

For me personally if I'm ever in this situation when playing alone or in a 2 ball I give myself a bit of space/time to play my game and pick my shots.

If the group in front of me are keeping up with the group in front of them I would NEVER dream of trying to get through them or firing balls up behind them as they're doing what they're supposed to be doing.

 

[SaintHacker]

I didnt say they would let them through, or even if they should, but they didn't get the option as you chose to not let them through as you assumed they wouldn't be allowed through. Whilst firing balls at you is completely wrong you've exacerbated the situation by being so stubborn about holding them back IMO

 

[Deleted member 18121]

I didnt say they would let them through, or even if they should, but they didn't get the option as you chose to not let them through as you assumed they wouldn't be allowed through. Whilst firing balls at you is completely wrong you've exacerbated the situation by being so stubborn about holding them back IMO

ha ha ha yeah ok ..... it was me being stubborn.