Losing 5 holes

[Bunkermagnet]

Is this acceptable in a Club Championship, and if not how should it be dealt with?

 

[jim8flog]

What do mean by 'losing 5 holes'?

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

Absolutely not acceptable in any format at all to lose 5 holes on the group in front of you.

 

[Orikoru]

You can't play your Club Champs off only 13 holes surely!?

 

[Bunkermagnet]

What do mean by 'losing 5 holes'?

Falling 5 holes behind the group in front

 

[irip]

Where there any circumstances for this?
Were they a larger group than others?
Did any of the group fall ill during the round?

As far as dealing with them unless you have something in the comp rules then it may be hard to do anything about it.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Where there any circumstances for this?
Were they a larger group than others?
Did any of the group fall ill during the round?

As far as dealing with them unless you have something in the comp rules then it may be hard to do anything about it.

No. Last group out, a 3 ball as were all the others. I player the sole reason. Took 4 mins to access a put even before taking the shot, as an example. The group in front finished when this group were still on 13. It toally detsroyed the other 2 players game. BUt the slow player is a "good" player apparently, and seems to be allowed to get away with it.

 

[IanM]

Surely the comp committee needs to have a word.

My home club has the finals as matchplay and they go out with a referee.

In regular play, a punch in the face often helps speed up folk like this!

 

[clubchamp98]

No. Last group out, a 3 ball as were all the others. I player the sole reason. Took 4 mins to access a put even before taking the shot, as an example. The group in front finished when this group were still on 13. It toally detsroyed the other 2 players game. BUt the slow player is a "good" player apparently, and seems to be allowed to get away with it.

Best golfer I have played with was the slowest.

Absolute nightmare and nobody would play with him.
He was told in no uncertain terms not to put his name with us anymore.

This is something clubs need to adress imo but have not done so and left it to members.

 

[irip]

No. Last group out, a 3 ball as were all the others. I player the sole reason. Took 4 mins to access a put even before taking the shot, as an example. The group in front finished when this group were still on 13. It toally detsroyed the other 2 players game. BUt the slow player is a "good" player apparently, and seems to be allowed to get away with it.

Someone needs to have a quiet word with him over a pint, preferably away from the club.
Explain that what he is doing is impacting everyone else and spoiling there golf.
Try and be diplomatic and rather than have a go explain it to him in simple terms, he may not realise how slow he is.
If that don’t work a swift kick up the arris every time he takes more than 30 seconds to hit the ball works equally well.

 

[Imurg]

Golf in general needs to grow a pair and ban these selfish morons from playing comps for a while...at our level and at the top of the tree..
I couldn't care less if they were the best player in the club or the worst or Rory or anyone else.....it's just not acceptable.
The other 2 should have just walked off and left him to it....and made a very strong complaint to the Powers that be....

 

[Springveldt]

No. Last group out, a 3 ball as were all the others. I player the sole reason. Took 4 mins to access a put even before taking the shot, as an example. The group in front finished when this group were still on 13. It toally detsroyed the other 2 players game. BUt the slow player is a "good" player apparently, and seems to be allowed to get away with it.

I’m surprised the other 2 didn’t say anything. I know I’d having been saying “we’ve lost a couple of holes here, we need to get moving” etc.

If he didn’t take the hint I’d just start teeing off on the next hole while he was still “assessing” his putts.

How can anyone be so self absorbed to not notice they have lost 5 holes?

 

[IanM]

How can anyone be so self absorbed to not notice they have lost 5 holes?

There are thousands of them running around loose! (OK, maybe not running)

 

[Hobbit]

If I’d been playing with him I’d have a gentle word to start off with then something stronger. If that hadn’t worked I’d give him the choice of keep up or be left behind. Get him sign the card he was marking and give him his card back, signed up to whatever hole we’d reached when we decided to leave him behind.

Once back in the clubhouse I’d have words with the comp guys to let them know what’s gone on. As Imurg said, a grip needs to be got…

 

[RichA]

Why didn't his playing partners deal with him?
You're taking too long. You need to speed up.
If you don't keep up with us we will leave you behind.

When it comes to sanctions for slow play, is it an individual or the whole group that is considered at fault?

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Someone needs to have a quiet word with him over a pint, preferably away from the club.
Explain that what he is doing is impacting everyone else and spoiling there golf.
Try and be diplomatic and rather than have a go explain it to him in simple terms, he may not realise how slow he is.
If that don’t work a swift kick up the arris every time he takes more than 30 seconds to hit the ball works equally well.

It's a she, and not quite 18.
Apparently off to the American Uni system next year, with a golf scholarship.

 

[RichA]

It's a she, and not quite 18.
Apparently off to the American Uni system next year, with a golf scholarship.

Then presumably she has a coach of some sort.
Obviously needs a bit more sensitivity than dealing with the middle-aged male prima donna that we'd all assumed.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Then presumably she has a coach of some sort.
Obviously needs a bit more sensitivity than dealing with the middle-aged male prima donna that we'd all assumed.

I agree, and probably I should have said it at the outset. But in the same light, you hope someone might read it and think "hang on..." so something is said or done by the coaching or parents.

 

[IanM]

I assumed it was a young player, raised watching golf on tv, where the Tour Pros take all day to hit a shot and the rules officials look the other way.

Kids copy what they see on tv. Always have.

 

[timd77]

Interesting how most of us probably assumed it was a man, presumably because we all have that one majorly slow player, ‘damn everyone else’, at our own clubs!

I’ve always thought that the much better players were within their rights to take longer over their shots, because they’ll naturally take fewer shots than the rest of us, and end up taking a similar amount of time overall. But 5 holes is ridiculous and something needs to said.

Are her parents members there, with her being quite young? Maybe they should be the ones to talk to her about it.