Juniors with electric trolleys! Should this be banned

Perhaps it is your 15 clubs on the sig make your bag too heavy? :D
There are always exceptions to the rule but trolleys are not as efficient at getting round the course. If you can get round an empty course in 2 hours, fantastic. Try being stuck behind squadrons of leccy barons.
 
Who decides who is fit to play? They have all paid their membership fees?

If I was told there was a trolley ban for the next two months, I'd leave, and join somewhere else. So would half the membership.

My usual 4 ball has 4 under 50s, all with back issues, and one had a heart attack before Christmas. We all look fit enough, but sadly no one is.

If the club meet my physio bill, then I'll carry. They might have to pay my wages for a bit too.

All to save a bit of grass from wearing? Often no where near the fairway or green?

Some of you need to find something a bit more worthwhile to moan about.
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One too many bacon sandwiches and not sitting up properly at school doesn't give you the right to mess up the course for everyone else!

I'm sure there are a lot of people who need to use trollies at all time but the damage they do this time of the year is a big thing that can make the course look shabby and play shabby in areas for the rest of the year.

I'm not overly worried but the fact that they are the first one to moan about bare lies just off the greens makes me chuckle. The amount of people in trollies I see taking them right to the edge of even raised greens just to pull their putter out is pretty amazing.
Would you put that down to heavy putters?
 
A couple of years ago I was at a course and watched a chubby (obese) roughly 12 year old using one, it really wasnt a pretty sight. There is a Junior at ours whose bag is bigger than him!! He doesn't always carry but uses a push trolley but it is funny watching him carry such a heavy bag.
 
I wish we had more trolley bans and not this silly insistence on hedgehogs. Judging by the quagmire on the exits from some greens and on the wetter fairways they are hardly a ringing endorsement for keeping the course in better shape. The sad truth is that if we had an outright trolley ban, then a large percentage of our club (seniors and ladies) wouldn't be able to play as they aren't able to carry a bag for 18 holes. To keep people playing and money comin in via food and drink the club persists in trollies even when it is abundantly clear they shouldn't be in play. Definitely a case of profit over course maintenance but if more people are playing it can't be a bad thing.

I'd like to see far more roped off areas around the course and I'm not overly fussed if it adds 20 minutes to a game if the appraoches to, and the areas around the greens and greenside bunkers are getting the protection they need. They've started doing it on some holes but I'd like to see it on all 18
 
Maybe a solution would be carry / pencil bags etc... only if you tee off before 9.30 a.m at the weekend?

After that trolleys etc.. can then set off?

That way nobody is getting in any body elses way
 
Again, why should I have to wait for 9.30 to play, just because I want to use a trolley?

If the carrying guys want to run round, then set off one hour before sunset, and I'll bet the course is empty.

If you want to play at the busiest time of day, don't moan about slow play.

Any way, slow play is slow play, it has b all to do with how you transport your sticks.
 
The first 3ball out during every comp at our place are all senior members who all use trollies. Starting @ 08:00 on the dot they will back in the bar for a pot of tea before 11:00 without fail. Two of them will regularly shoot in the high 70s whilst the other is mid 80s, always returning cards, never a NR between them.

People who lack common sense cause slow play not trolley users.
 
Trolleys don't cause slow play, it's total BS. Fannying around with pre shot routines, not be ready to take your shot, leaving your bag on the wrong side of the green etc is what causes slow play.

If a young lad is so into his golf that he wants all the gadgets then what the feck has it got to do with anyone else. They might be spoilt, but maybe they've saved up all year to buy one, or maybe their parents just earn enough to be able to buy them whatever they want.

The fitness argument is without doubt the biggest load of crap I've ever heard, if you think carrying a pencil bag around a course is decent excercise for a kid then you must know some fat unhealthy kids.

Stop bleeding whinging and focus on what you do on the course not everyone else. If you think there should be a trolley ban at certain times of the year, go and see your committee
 
solutions is simple'
junior trolleys should be banned and the juniors should also become bag carriers for the ladies and seniors.
this will achieve two desirable objectives
- the juniors will be fitter
- there will be fewer trolleys to leave tracks on the course
 
"What do you want for Christmas Son?"
"Don't know Dad. Can't decide on a PS3 so that I can sit around all day with a glazed look on my face, walk around like a zombie totally ignoring everybody and have an attitude problem or an electric golf trolley that I can take out in the fresh air for 4 hours a day and socialise with others learning about etiquette and manners and keep reasonably fit and healthy".

I know what I'll be buying him.
 
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