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If 3 of you are playing ready golf and another member of your group took 1.5 minutes per shot they’ll never keep up with the rest of you.
Jesus!!!!!!
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robinthehood
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If someone was taking 1.5 mins every shot id be telling them to hurry up
Oddsocks
Ryder Cup Winner
The 4th would be getting told to hurry the **** up!
If we are all playing ready golf and the field is stacked up, it is what it is. If however we are playing ready golf and losing pace of the group in front, I can be quite subtle “ guys, we’ve held them twice, the next time we hold them I’m calling them through! “
cliveb
Head Pro
The organisers of competitions don't need to invent anything to deal with this.
All they need to do is make sure their comps are played according to the rules of golf:
All they need to do is make sure their comps are played according to the rules of golf:
HowlingGale
Head Pro
This was kind of the point I was trying to make at the open when Darren Clark's group, which was first out, took 4.5 hours to complete. Has no bearing on me and the way the TV coverage was set up there's no way you were watching players hit shots all the time so them being slow doesn't really matter.
If someone's slow in our group when I play I speed up and make sure they know they're holding me back.
Reemul
Head Pro
My son and I played this afternoon, we followed a 4 ball that looked like they were play The Open, so as hell, no way were they letting us through, marked everything and were taking forever. After 9 holes the chocie was get someone out of the clubhouse to get them to let us through or stick with it. My son said he had enough and lets go home as he didnt want the aggro, so we left.
Now I know this wasn't the right chocie but heck it's Sunday PM and all I want to do i play a nice friendly round of golf with my kid, not drag a ranger out, not argue with players in front either. Luckily not had this happen too often but god it's a drag
Now I know this wasn't the right chocie but heck it's Sunday PM and all I want to do i play a nice friendly round of golf with my kid, not drag a ranger out, not argue with players in front either. Luckily not had this happen too often but god it's a drag
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Simply give the slow player a yellow card for the first offence, and a second is a red card and a one shot penalty. Get two red cards in an event and its a DQ.
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Why does a round of golf take longer now than it did 25 years ago?
robinthehood
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You're 25 years older and that much slower 😉😂🤣
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I believe that both girls in the match were slow but they kept pace with the group in front and indeed the group behind lost a hole , the girl in the video apparently was normally quicker than her competitor. There was a whole thread about it on Twitter - guess it’s easier to judge from one clip
I didn't watch golf back then, only been watching it on tv for 10 yrs or so. What are your thoughts on this? I could make an educated guess but I'm assuming you will have noticed the differences.
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Deleted member 1147
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Longer courses?
Faster greens?
More info available?
JB Holmes?
Bigger purses?
Psychologists?
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That was a useful contribution ðŸ‘
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
As an aside, was the pace of play in the Nicklaus era, say the early 70's slower than that of the previous generation. Did golf then get slower in Woods heyday and has it simply got slower again in the last decade again?
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I believe Nicklaus was about when the last day of the Open was 36 holes but I may be wrong.
NWJocko
Tour Winner
This is the biggest issue raised in this thread re slow/selfish play to me. Kids potentially (or in reality in this example) being put off playing further because some idiots are taking forever and the risk of it putting them off the game altogether, painful to read really.
rulefan
Tour Winner
Are you talking pro golf or club golf?
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Either. I am assuming, but interested in the views of others, that both the pros and amateur games have seen ongoing issues with the game getting slower and slower. Are both getting slower say every 15-20 years or is it just a perception?
robinthehood
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cant say for the pro and cant say I care, but for club golf, in the last 10 years I have been regularly playing, I cant say there has been any change either way, no slower or faster
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
Golf has got way slower, tennis also, and the over rate at cricket too. As people have become more pressed for time, oddly, sports have expanded, to become slower.
As for golf, there is now this view that it can't have been slow, as it only took 4 hours. Where did this 4 hour time come from? It is garbage. Golf used to be nearer 3 hours. Handicaps have not changed, equipment has got better, players have just got slower.
I played behind a few juniors recently. Jeez they were slow. Not bad players, just ludicrously slow. If they are the future of the game, we are doomed.
As for golf, there is now this view that it can't have been slow, as it only took 4 hours. Where did this 4 hour time come from? It is garbage. Golf used to be nearer 3 hours. Handicaps have not changed, equipment has got better, players have just got slower.
I played behind a few juniors recently. Jeez they were slow. Not bad players, just ludicrously slow. If they are the future of the game, we are doomed.
