Remedy for slow play

Khamelion

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Now I'm not condoning this method but it does work :)

Two young lads jumped in during my last round, as a four ball we had already let a single play through, when we caught up with these two lads, they were slow, I mean they were barely shuffling their feet as they trudged up the fairway.

We stood around waiting to tee off on the 11th for around 5 mins, my mate says "if you're not going to tee off" it was my honor, which is a rarity, "then I'm going to".

My driving had been mediocre to say the least, but this time I caught the ball right in the sweet spot and off she went, we were looking at the ball, looking at the lads, back at the ball and was just about to shout fore when the ball landed smack in the middle of the pair as they meandered down the fairway, they stopped, looked back and then got a lick on.

I measured the drive on my GPS at 275yds, if I'd tried to get the ball to land where it did it would've been in the trees.

We caught up with them on the next tee where I did apologize

Cheers
Dave
 
chris661 said:
How funny would it have been if the ball had landed smack bang on one of their heads?
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Never said it was funny and all four of us thought they was far enough away to warrant a safe drive, not for one moment did any of us think they were reachable and as I wrote the drive was 275yds and while yes I can hit a ball that far or further we all thought they were out of reach.

The speed they were walking it would've literally been another couple of mins for them to move 10yds they were seriously walking that slow.
 
I was on the receiving end of one of those warning shots once. Unlike you the guy behind knew exactly how far he could put it and knew we were in range.

Would have understood it if we were being slow but at the time we where waiting for another group to leave the green and another group ahead of them was just teeing off anyway so we had been keeping pace.
 
To be fair we've played rounds where everyone has concerteenered up and in those circumstances everyone in front and behind just waits as they know the score, but in this instance these two lads had wandered down from the club house dunno where they had come from as neither was old enough to drive a car and we think they had played the 4th then the 13th and were going back down the 10th as they had not been in front of us at any other time.

Also there was no one in front of them so they had no excuse for the speed they were walking
 
chris661 said:
To be fair there is no excuse for landing a ball in between them either.
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Indeed you are quite correct there is no excuse for landing a ball inbetween them, but I as have written, all four of us in our group thought they were far enough away for it to be safe enough for me to drive off.

Not for one moment did any of us think the ball would reach them and I did apologize.
 
Someone did that to us once, I was playing with a mate and 2 friends of his and there were people in front of us, anyway, one of the friends whom I didnt know was the size of a Samoan Prop after a course of steroids and when they caught up to us he told them that the next time they did that he would beat the cr@p out of all of them. Sorted that issue out

You could see that they didnt have anyone in front of them, but taking someone out with a golf ball wont be funny. Shout abuse at them if you have to do something
 
I think the point is kind of being missed here, as the starting post said, I'm not condoning the bombarding of other players with golf balls, it's stupid and dangerous and as GeneralStore has written, if someone did that to a group I was playing in I dare say there would be some stern words spoken ;)

In fact in the captain's competition my dad was playing in at the weekend one player ended up with 4 stitches in a head wound caused by a badly sliced shot from another player teeing off further up the course. Purely unintentional or course, but the damage a ball can cause was all to apparent.

So going back to my original post, I would not intentionally try to hit another player and the fact that I hit a 275yd drive that landed between the two lads is pure luck and very fortunate that it did not hit either of them.
 
We've all felt like doing it but it only takes one impatient golfer to kill someone for the sake of a couple of extra minutes. If these kids jumped in and were really that slow surely the simple solution was to tell them they had no right as they weren't playing the whole course and ask to go through
 
aw everyone hits one when they dont think they can reach the guys in front.

but as has been mentioned (and as you have agreed) bawling all the names of the day is the safer option.

i usually just stick mine to the left or right of them/ lol

Phil
 
glad you cleared it up about not intending to hit them etc. not being funny, if someone aimed at me on purpose, and the ball landed a few feet from me. id stop, take out my 3 hybrid and smash it back to them
 
Thats not good etiquate. What you should do is either stamp it into the fairway, put it in your pocket or toss it into a lake.
 
SocketRocket said:
Thats not good etiquate. What you should do is either stamp it into the fairway, put it in your pocket or toss it into a lake.
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yeah, true! if we had water, it'd be going in there! in the pocket is theft, so a nice 7 iron into the thick gorse will do the trick.they would get the message and hopefully would just have a quiet word next time......
 
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