Single Player Standing

[PhilTheFragger]

In all reasonableness you can only be expected to play through a slower group if that group has a gap in front of them, or they are looking for a ball or 2.
If there is no gap, there is no point irrespective of the group size.

That single golfer playing through will impact on your group time, and if he gets through more groups, each occasion will have a knock on effect, so the first group catches up with the second, both groups catch up with the 3rd etc.

 

[patricks148]

In all reasonableness you can only be expected to play through a slower group if that group has a gap in front of them, or they are looking for a ball or 2.
If there is no gap, there is no point irrespective of the group size.

That single golfer playing through will impact on your group time, and if he gets through more groups, each occasion will have a knock on effect, so the first group catches up with the second, both groups catch up with the 3rd etc.

it works if every slower group lets the single though, but that's not really your concern only that you let a faster player/'s though at the end of the day

 

[Deleted member 15344]

In all reasonableness you can only be expected to play through a slower group if that group has a gap in front of them, or they are looking for a ball or 2.
If there is no gap, there is no point irrespective of the group size.

That single golfer playing through will impact on your group time, and if he gets through more groups, each occasion will have a knock on effect, so the first group catches up with the second, both groups catch up with the 3rd etc.

Surely going by pace of play and etiquette if you are holding up a quicker group then your responsibilities are to allow them through even if there is no gap - then it’s up to the group in front.

 

[GF23]

Pretty sure we do.

Yes, we do, in the Local Rules (Shouldn't be, but it is)

 

[HughJars]

I dont get why you would want to play alone during the main part of the day.

Practice in peace. it's relaxing. What's your issue exactly?

 

[jim8flog]

There are players at our course that have no choice but to go out as a single player on a Saturday morning. We have a number of swindles that generally play in fourballs and are nearly all closed groups because of the numbers they have already.

Ours is one of the last to go out in the morning and we normally have arranged our groupings before we even get to the tee. We will accommodate single players on the day but only if we have space and are not all in in fourballs or three balls when we are playing a 3 ball comp. WE see the same 2 or players every week turn up just as we are setting out.

It has been suggested to them to get together and arrange a Saturday game then they would not have the problem.

I have watched one single play go in after just a few holes when he has been ahead of us because one group would never let any group through them.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Practice in peace. it's relaxing. What's your issue exactly?

When the course is dead, no problem.
When it’s a Saturday or Sunday morning then join in.
None of the swindles at our club are so up themselves to not invite single players in.

 

[User20205]

When the course is dead, no problem.
When it’s a Saturday or Sunday morning then join in.
None of the swindles at our club are so up themselves to not invite single players in.

Agreed. If a roll up has no space get more spots. A roll up by definition can’t be closed. Otherwise it’s not a swindle/roll up etc

 

[KenL]

Nowhere does it say to only let a group behind if there's a gap in front!

A quicker group (a single stands out in this respect) should be let through.

 

[Robster59]

How do you know they're quicker if you're keeping pace with the group in front? You can't go any faster?

 

[Slab]

How do you know they're quicker if you're keeping pace with the group in front? You can't go any faster?

Same way you know that a cheetah following a wildebeest is gonna be quicker, even if it’s keeping pace with the one in front

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Same way you know that a cheetah following a wildebeest is gonna be quicker, even if it’s keeping pace with the one in front

Ooo Slabs gone all “Wilbur Smith” on us ( or is it Eric Cantona? ) 😂

Like it 👍

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Surely going by pace of play and etiquette if you are holding up a quicker group then your responsibilities are to allow them through even if there is no gap - then it’s up to the group in front.

My comments were from the perspective of the faster group.dealing with their reasonable expectations

Anyone who has played with me will know that I’m very good at letting faster groups through .

 

[Robster59]

Same way you know that a cheetah following a wildebeest is gonna be quicker, even if it’s keeping pace with the one in front

OK I was playing devils advocate but if the whole course is busy, letting a single player through will concertina a delay as each group has to pause to let him through. If I am playing on my own and the course is full I don't expect to be let through (although I am grateful if I am). All that will happen is I then get stuck behind the next group, and so it goes. If the group ahead lose a hole on the one in front of them then I do expect to be let through, whether as a single or more.