Masters 2023

IJames

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If I'm getting round a golf course in 4 hours I'm pretty happy with that. Not fussed about being waved through, as it often leads to having to rush through a couple of holes which I don't like, I'm there to enjoy myself.
The biggest cause of a slow round is people looking for golf balls, what they are doing on and around the green, or the time taken to assess yardages etc is pretty insignificant.
Even folk looking for golf balls isn't a massive problem imo - unless it's frequent! Time lost on one hole is normally caught within a hole, or maybe 2, because there's no waiting for the group ahead to be out of range plus allowance for the once a decade magic connection! :rolleyes:
 
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Anoetic

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How can pacing up and down the course possibly take less time than glancing at a screen and reading a number?? :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
I didn’t say how far or how often I did it……so who’s laughing now numbnuts…..…..and I agree a watch is the best solution not a range finder
 

jim8flog

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Surely, you'd be interested in distance to the pin for the shot to the green! Or are the flags front-middle-back colour coded? That's pretty much the only distance I need to know on a course I'm used to!

They are colour coded but I have good eyesight*. Most times it is a choice between 2 clubs so the decision become very easy. My game is no longer to a standard where I hit to a precise yardage anyway.

I remember once reading a tip that most amateurs should know the yardage to the back of the green and take the club which with their very best reaches that distance, we very rarely hit our very best shot so the ball should always bee on the green with a straight shot.

* Or latest course manager thinks we do not need them because the size of the greens does not warrant it.
 

sunshine

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I didn’t say how far or how often I did it……so who’s laughing now numbnuts…..…..and I agree a watch is the best solution not a range finder

I thought this thread was to discuss the Masters but you appear to have turned up to insult people and discuss your personal experiences of slow play (which would only be relevant if you played at Augusta). How is this contributing? 🤷‍♂️
 

Voyager EMH

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I only watched the highlights so I didn't notice any slow play.
Thanks to this thread I am better informed.
Thanks all!
 

Imurg

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Cantlay is saying that when he and Viktor got to then2nd tee the group in front of them were still there...and then they waited pretty much all the way round...
 

Bratty

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Just had an email from Clubhouse Golf, "New season clothing as seen at The Masters".
No sign of Hovland's Day 1 shirt! 🤣🤣🤣
 

pendodave

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Does anyone know how far behind the group ahead Cantley's group was, if at all.

He's the one get roasted online.
I'm pretty sure I saw them waiting on 15 to play their second shots. The amateur and Henley were both very slow throughout the week, and were in the two groups ahead of them. Cantley gets the rap because he has a particularly annoying putting routine, so it's obvious that he's slow.
Professional golfers will take as much time as they can because they think that it gives them an advantage. They'll never speed up until they are made to.
It's both profoundly depressing, and not worth worrying about.
In the first instance because it makes watching golf painful.
In the second, because nothing is a better waste of sanity than worrying about something that will never change.
 
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