Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
Yeah, but it's not a ball losing course is it Patrick???
Fairly wide open if I remember correctly.
S-l-o-w play!
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Yeah, but it's not a ball losing course is it Patrick???
Fairly wide open if I remember correctly.
i wouldn't say that at all plenty of gorse and rough in the summer, this year if you miss the fairway you lost the ball.
anyway you played in winter off the yellow
Back in the 1960's when I started playing golf, most people could get round an 18 hole golf course in 3 hours or less. However that was before new players were exposed to slow play and interminable pre-shot routines by the tour pros on television. Something has to be done about slow play on the pro tours IMHO!
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Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
We could remove live golf from our screens and replace it with a time delayed coverage that's had all the faffing edited out
The group we were following were doing all the PSR faffing about, but with less successful outcomes than the tour pros!
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Is this a serious comment? :mmm:
chellie
Tour Winner
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
Raining that day too Pat, so I don't think we were getting much run on the ball at all.
I reckon you could eat it alive in the Summer with nice firm fairways.
hors limite
Assistant Pro
There always seems to be not so subtle digs at the senior ranks when we are on the slow play topic. Last week I played an inter club competition in 3 ball format. The course was fairly tight and unfamiliar to a lot taking part. The two groups made up of younger players in front didn't seem able to adapt their game to the challenges of the course. Their admittedly long drives disappearing into all sorts of impenetrable crap with the inevitable one { or more}provisionals and an interminable search for lost balls. After about nine holes the penny began to drop and they began to abandon their poor impressions of Rory for a bit of accuracy. Play then speeded up a treat.
Smiffy dear boy Ive love to see you try, if it was as easy as you say it it the CSS wouldn't be 3 shots over par
its only 6000 off the yellow what did you need run for?
Green Bay Hacker
Journeyman Pro
A four ball round our place is 4 hours on comp days. Always has been and always will be unless it is rammed and can take up to 5 hours. We all know it will take 4 hours and I don't think I have heard anyone moan about that. We have three par 3's in four holes quickly followed by a driveable par 4 so there tends to be a wait on those holes but that is the norm and people accept it.
Break90
Tour Rookie
Nonsense. If you're waiting on every shot for 18 holes, you'd be waiting on every shot for 9, 12 or 14 holes in your idyll.
and on most courses you'd have a long walk in from the 12th or 14th green.
if you can't spare the time to play the game, use a pitch and putt course, or play something else
Perhaps Delc's membership and club need to read the GM pieces on the main site about slow play
If they do, I hope they read the bit about deep rough. They had started to cut it down with rough cutters (4 Flymos mounted on a sit on mower) yesterday after allowing it to grow all Summer. For the last few years it has only been cut down once a year, in the Autumn. For several months it has been pretty much instant lost ball if you stray into the stuff!
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
I'll tell you (I already have) 100yrs ago Harry Vardon saw this coming - he felt the 4 ball was an awful (American) development and guaranteed to make rounds long and frustrating.
The society golfers who were holding us up were playing in three-ball groups, so that wasn't the problem! Maybe they just needed educating to get a move on and stop faffing about!
ScienceBoy
Money List Winner
Everyone has ideas, views and suggestions on how to bring the game into the modern age. I firmly believe the short course length OR reduction in hole number would benefit the game.
Having a course of 12 holes in length is not a new idea however...
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
Yup I guess its fair to say we play 18 because that's whats there, if it was 15 that's what we'd accept as the norm
Maybe the IOC (& golf) missed a trick and should've made the Olympics 9 hole rounds? Would be an excellent platform to introduce a shortened version of the game to the world
garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
No one is forced to play 18 holes.
Those that have to travel to make any kind of effort to get to the course might not bother if they were only going to get 9 or 12 holes.
Sometimes 18 isn't enough for me. I regularly do the first 3 again if I have played poorly.
Those that have to travel to make any kind of effort to get to the course might not bother if they were only going to get 9 or 12 holes.
Sometimes 18 isn't enough for me. I regularly do the first 3 again if I have played poorly.
