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Pet hates on the course that other golfer's do ?

thecraw said:
Honestly what is funny about that?

What is difficult about hitting your ball, walking after it, a look at the green, waggle, hit it again????????


Golf is a straightforward game. People just bumble about because they are used to it. Three hours is all that is required to get round a course if you don't fart about. Some golfers need educated.
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Educated or not; lost balls, old people, tee time overcrowding, shanks and duffs, fats and thins... shall I go on? The perfect 3 hour round is never achievable. Don't get angry about it, just enjoy the game (even if there is a 10 minute wait on a few tee boxes!).
 
Playing partners treading on my line of putt.

People scooping the ball out of the hole with the blade of the putter.

Slow play... 3 and a half hours to play 18 holes should be more tha enough. a mate told me there were a group that took 3 hours to play the front 9 at CS last week.....!!!
 
mykweb said:
On the first par 3 which was about 170 yards he pulls out a 8 iron. I had a 6 in my hand. I managed to land on the front of the green about 10 feet from the flag. He meanwhile was 4 shots to the green and then 5 puts. :)
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That's about it!

My partner bought some new clubs and now he's fixated on distance, he strike a decent ball but I'm trying to hit more club easy and he thrashes a lower club, but, at the end of the day its the score that goes on the card that matters!
 
thecraw said:
Honestly what is funny about that?

What is difficult about hitting your ball, walking after it, a look at the green, waggle, hit it again????????


Golf is a straightforward game. People just bumble about because they are used to it. Three hours is all that is required to get round a course if you don't fart about. Some golfers need educated.
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Not everybody hits it long and straight every time. Some of us have to look for a ball now and again and when you play off 20+ handicaps it generally takes you longer anyway. It's swings and roundabouts, a four-ball of Cat 1 golfers would probably get round quicker than two 20+ handicappers.

The problem is slower golfers not letting faster ones through when they get the chance.
 
dufferman said:
Educated or not; lost balls, old people, tee time overcrowding, shanks and duffs, fats and thins... shall I go on? The perfect 3 hour round is never achievable. Don't get angry about it, just enjoy the game (even if there is a 10 minute wait on a few tee boxes!).
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Even if you duff it, just walk up and hit it again. Doesn't take long unless you fart about with clubs, take 5 minutes to decide what club to duff next. Tee time overcrowding is something I've never experienced in my life. You book your time and turn up. If its run properly it flows like clockwork.

Its the people who don't allow faster groups through that cause the log jams and frustration.

Lost balls, always hit a provisional and be prepared to play when its your turn. Easy.

I always enjoy the game and apart from once my last few rounds have all been under 3 hours.
 
srixon 1 said:
Not everybody hits it long and straight every time. Some of us have to look for a ball now and again and when you play off 20+ handicaps it generally takes you longer anyway. It's swings and roundabouts, a four-ball of Cat 1 golfers would probably get round quicker than two 20+ handicappers.

The problem is slower golfers not letting faster ones through when they get the chance.
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I agree with the bit in bold. I don't agree about higher handicap golfers having to be slower. Just be ready to play when its your turn, have the distance and club in mind and play. If it goes a little wild play a provisional or drop another ball where you think you lost it if its a bounce game.

Just don't spend 20 minutes looking for a Dunlop DDH in a clump of gorse.
 
for me its people walking on the line of my putt.

Also people that cant handle losing a ball, its as if they only have one ball. Taking ages to find it and getting annoyed cos they couldn't find it, when chances are they are looking 30/40 yards further forward than they actually hit the ball, that's why they cant find it.
 
On the subject of lost balls, groups that pretend to ignore a group waiting on the tee whilst they spend their 5 minutes looking for a ball. There are signs all over the club, if it is not immediately apparrent that the ball will be found and there is a group on the tee, call them through then look.

Playing partners who are always asking for a line on where there ball went when they spray one wide but are always gossiping, fiddling with their bag etc and are never watching when you need similar help.

People who spend ages crawling round the green like spiderman to get the line on a putt then invariably leave it 3 ft short.

One of my playing partners who lines up the little arrow on the ball when teeing off. He cannot hit it straight anyway and just slows things up.

Groups who pretend that you are not there when you are clearly faster than them and it comes to time to let you play through. Or those who are slow, spend an age on the tee then suddenly speed up and sprint off when they see a quicker group approaching.

From some of the comments above it is clear that some golfer see it as a massive slur on their manhood if they have to admit that they are playing slower than another group and actually have to let them through.
 
I don't like playing with people who can't deal with a bad round. Everyone plays poorly from time to time, you can still be good company. I once played with a bloke who buried his putter head in the green after a missed putt, never again. :o
 
therod said:
I don't like playing with people who can't deal with a bad round. Everyone plays poorly from time to time, you can still be good company. I once played with a bloke who buried his putter head in the green after a missed putt, never again. :o
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He might not have felt so bad if he had 2 strokes on the hole.

One of my pet hates is when a high handicap player makes a bogie on a low SI hole that he feels he should have made par, eh hello your not meant to make par here:confused:
 
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people who stop after our 9th hole, go into the Clubhouse for a leak or a coffee, stay in there for a few minutes then walk out just as your group is on the way to the 10th tee.
Why couldn't they just take an extra minute, if they'd looked they'd have seen there was nobody behind us....

People who leave their bags 100 yards from the tee, walk back and duff their shot. They then walk the 100 yards to their bag, pick a club, walk back again and do it all over again.
Just take the bloody bag with you Cretin!!!
 
Slow play for me everytime.

Also the course I play is "common land" so you share the course with sheep, horses and dog walkers !

All of which I don't mind one bit, BUT when the dog walkers take to walking down the middle of fairways when you're on the tee it can be somewhat frustrating !!

I completely understand they have as much right as be to be there as I do, but isn't it just common courtesy to get out of the way? I wouldn't go and stand in the middle of their kids kicking a football around on the beach even though it would be my right to do so.

:rant:
 
Aside from the OP (My personal favorite BTW :thup: ), I have a new one.

People who leave a tee in the ground on the tee box :angry:

Why?

Is it so hard to bend your back and pull your un-damaged tee peg out of the ground and put it in your pocket.

I lost count of how many I tee's, un-broken and un-damaged, I pulled out of tee boxes at the weekend. There must be some real rich folk playing my track at the minute :D

As an asside, I have no idea why this has strated to grate my gears as much as it does :mad:
 
Definately slow players for me. Ive played with some people who are so slow that by the time i come to hit my ball ive lost the will. We are here to play golf so why not be ready? Plenty time to talk in between shots.
 
Gareth said:
Aside from the OP (My personal favorite BTW :thup: ), I have a new one.

People who leave a tee in the ground on the tee box :angry:

Why?

Is it so hard to bend your back and pull your un-damaged tee peg out of the ground and put it in your pocket.

I lost count of how many I tee's, un-broken and un-damaged, I pulled out of tee boxes at the weekend. There must be some real rich folk playing my track at the minute :D

As an asside, I have no idea why this has strated to grate my gears as much as it does :mad:
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In that case, can i have all my unbroken tee's back please?
 
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