Monthly poll time: slow play + matchplay irritations...

[JezzE]

Me again - busy today, I'm afraid, following a week's holiday and a trip down to St Pierre Mon & Tues for the Centenary Society qualifier...

Anyway, it's poll time again and this month we're looking at what you think is the biggest cause of slow play, and what irritates you the most in matchplay

Only one answer each as usual please, so you'll have to be selective!

AS ever, many thanks for your help

 

[Imurg]

Can I vote for all of the above in both questions please....?

I don't think I can vote for just one..

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Can I vote for all of the above in both questions please....?

I don't think I can vote for just one..

I was just thinking the same thing, there are several in each category I'd choose.

 

[Region3]

Several in the first category I'd like to pick, but none in the second. Life's too short to get irritated by something you can't do anything about.

 

[Leftie]

Several in the first category I'd like to pick, but none in the second. Life's too short to get irritated by something you can't do anything about.

+1 Jezz.

Sorry, but as the experiment at Crowborough a while back proved, there is not really just one main cause of slow play. Each reason suggested plays it's part - together with several others

As far as matchplay is concerned you can't let anything your opponent does upset you. It's probably the only form of golf where you are actually effectively playing an opponent rather the course. Take it as it comes

Sorry, but I can't vote for only one in either section.

 

[Snelly]

I don't get annoyed in matchplay for any of those reasons.

And as to question 1, the primary cause of slow play is not really articulated although the closest is probably "general lack of awareness". In my view, not being ready to hit the ball when it is your turn to play is the biggest issue. This renders the painful pre-shot routine or ambling as irrelevant.

If it is your turn to hit, be ready to swing the club. You can do your convoluted pre-shot waste of time routine for as long as you like whilst others are playing or if you are first to hit, walk to the ball quickly and get it done by the time everyone has caught up.

 

[JezzE]

Some of you must have the calmest of temperaments if you wouldn't get at least the teensiest bit annoyed by some of those matchplay irritations... I admire your self-control greatly!

 

[chrisd]

Some of you must have the calmest of temperaments if you wouldn't get at least the teensiest bit annoyed by some of those matchplay irritations... I admire your self-control greatly!

Patience of a saint Jezz!


Chris

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Nothing worse than going 4 up after 4 and being all square again after 9. Get it back to 3 up again after 12 and then have to sweat it out until the 17th for the win.

There are loads of reasons fr slow play but I went for lack of awareness. Card marking on greens, standing there drinking/eating instead of being ready to play, chatting to partners. It all adds up.

I didn't want to get drawn on the dodgy handicap one. We've probably all come across a guy off soemthing much higher than they performed to on the day but how can you say, particularly if they are from another club, that its dodgy. OK there are probably some at your own track that you know are better than their current handicap (reading this Sundance???? ) and who you know will probably be a few shots better if you play them but again, if they are putting cards in all the time (to be fair Sundance does enter everything) then what else can they do if they haven't reached their natural plateau yet

 

[BoadieBroadus]

initially i wold have gone for the golfers of poor ability spraying them around the course and the resultant time spent looking, but there's not a lot that can really be done about that, and everyone's been there...

when i considered the times i've been stuck in an agonisingly slow moving group, the reason has always been one player with an excruciatingly slow pre shot routine with practice swings, looking at the break from every direction, backing off shots etc...

or another reason: being stacked up in 4 balls on a pay as you play with insufficient intervals for the sake of course profits

 

[bladeplayer]

I think general lack of awareness covers a multitude .. aware of where to be & when to be there . aware enough to be ready to play when its your turn etc ..

 

[sev112]

Opponent (esp in Final) chipping in 4 (or was it 5 ?) times