Playing partners

[mr_g0lfpunk]

I used to play with my mate in every medal and competition going in the first year I joined my club. we ended up playing with a guy that had noticed our names were always together on the timesheets each week and advised that he thought it wasn't the best for your game as you're not learning anything new from other golfers. ever since then I try and play with different people every week and you start to pick up on certain shots you've maybe never seen played before in certain parts of the course and it makes you think about doing that next time and seeing if it can help.

familiarity can help I think but once you've got over the nerves of playing with new people then I definitely think it can be beneficial.

 

[richart]

For me I prefer playing with as many different people as possible - as the people who have played with me will testify I like to socialise whilst playing with a good old chat and think it's great way of meeting people.

I think it would help people's games more by playing with people beyond their roll up bubble - certainly plenty at my place that won't play in any drawn comps unless they are with their mates

Don't you have to play with different people, as no one wants to play with you twice.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Don't you have to play with different people, as no one wants to play with you twice.

That's prob true

 

[USER1999]

I am happy to play with any one who doesn't annoy me. Particularly in medal. Sadly, that narrows it down. A lot.

 

[duncan mackie]

There is no doubt that who you play with and how they are playing will impact on most players in some way or another.

Beyond that the variables become huge!

 

[Capella]

All our comps are drawn, so I play with different people there every time, most of them better players than me (not difficult) and even though that sometimes makes me nervous especially at the beginning of the round (not neccessarily on the first tee, tough. I am deadly off the first tee ... nerves settle in later), I have a feeling I play better when I play with strangers esp. better players. I play a lot of social golf with my mum, actually most of the time when I don't play a comp, I play with her, and while we both enjoy this, I am lacking any sense of competition when I play with her. I wouldn't say she is dragging me down or anything ... I just care less.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Our weekend roll ups are randomly drawn before play and so the chances of laying with the same people every time are small. Add in the drawn competitions and I get to play with a decent number of golfers on a regular basis. As a result I don't get bogged with the same partners all the time so hard to use that as an excuse for my ongoing mediocrity

 

[Jamesbrown]

I played with a group of players I met at my first club. Moved to another club with them too and continued to play together.
Eventually I moved to a new club alone that has three qualifiers a week as that is my preference.

Ive met many new people at my club and even played with a group of Chinese friends!
I don't wish to have a regular group again.

 

[londonlewis]

I think it is good to play with different people so you can see how others put together a good score and can learn from that too.

 

[User 105]

I think it can cause problems. I've played with the same PP for probably the last 3 years. At my current place they don't draw comps so we always end up pairing up as pretty much everyone else just plays in their cliques. I don't really like it as I used to enjoy getting to play with other people.

The other thing is my PP is off 24 I'm off 11. When my m8 is having a mare it can drag me down, stopping, looking for balls etc. I've actually given up competitive golf this year as I just don't enjoy it at my current club.

But I miss it soo much I'm going to re-join my previous club, just to play comps.