Slow play moaners

[Foxholer]

That’s fine, i wasn’t communicating with you & the intended recipient understood ???

Twaddle - and more twaddle - then!

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Twaddle - and more twaddle - then!

Twaddle to you perhaps...so why don’t you avoid involving yourself In other people’s discussions?
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[patricks148]

Twaddle to you perhaps...so why don’t you avoid involving yourself In other people’s discussions?
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i thought your Orig reply was closer to the truth

 

[Orikoru]

That’s fine, i wasn’t communicating with you & the intended recipient understood ???

So did everyone else mate.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

So did everyone else mate.

I don’t think he’s terribly bright...seems to think he is however?

 

[Deleted member 1147]

i thought your Orig reply was closer to the truth

Me too ?

 

[USER1999]

To me, ready golf isn't running after your ball so you can be first to hit next. It's about taking your tee shot while the guy whose honour it would have been is faffing about marking his card instead of playing. It's about having a putt while someone else is returning to their ball after looking at their putt from behind the hole. It's being ready to play if someone is changing club selection, etc.

Now that I think about it, if people stopped faffing about and got on with playing, there would be no need for it.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

To me, ready golf isn't running after your ball so you can be first to hit next. It's about taking your tee shot while the guy whose honour it would have been is faffing about marking his card instead of playing. It's about having a putt while someone else is returning to their ball after looking at their putt from behind the hole. It's being ready to play if someone is changing club selection, etc.

Now that I think about it, if people stopped faffing about and got on with playing, there would be no need for it.

To me it’s things like putting when the player who is away is raking a bunker, or laying up when someone else is going for the green

 

[Imurg]

Or a short hitter teeing off first when they cant reach the group ahead while the bomber could...gives the group ahead more time to get away and keeps the game going.

 

[Orikoru]

To me it’s things like putting when the player who is away is raking a bunker, or laying up when someone else is going for the green

Yeah this kind of thing is sometimes overlooked as well. If I'm playing with two guys who outdrive me by 40 yards (and I often do) then I'm going to be teeing off first on most of the holes if there's a group in front of us, regardless of who's 'honour' it is. It's just common sense.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

I used to play with a short hitter, I barely ever used any honours earned by my scores.
He went first and I waited!

 

[jim8flog]

A single does have standing on the course.

Priority/ standing on a course is decided by a club not by the R&A rules. Note there are no longer any etiquette rules/guidelines in the R & A Rule book (2019 Rule changes).

 

[patricks148]

Yeah this kind of thing is sometimes overlooked as well. If I'm playing with two guys who outdrive me by 40 yards (and I often do) then I'm going to be teeing off first on most of the holes if there's a group in front of us, regardless of who's 'honour' it is. It's just common sense.

even been known for members of our group to rake the bunker for a PP if he has caught a Fairway bunker, esp if its only a case of getting out and we are all much further on

 

[sunshine]

You are off a similar handicap to me, and I know the feeling of feeling rushed. Unless you are doing ridiculous pre shot routines or counting scores whilst still on the green, I wouldn’t worry too much. 3.5 hours seems ok for a round.

I try and play ready golf and find I’m at my best when I’m playing efficiently but not rushed. On my first ever medal, only my 3rd time doing 18 holes, I put 160 odd on the card and we were still waiting in several places on the group in front. My first 3 holes accounted for 40 odd of those shots. High handicappers are an easy target but not always the cause of slow play.

Don't see any issues with the OP the way he / she described the situation. The moaner sounds like a grumpy git.

But 160!!! In a medal! You probably shouldn't be entering medals at that standard, for your sake as much as everyone else's.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Don't see any issues with the OP the way he / she described the situation. The moaner sounds like a grumpy git.

But 160!!! In a medal! You probably shouldn't be entering medals at that standard, for your sake as much as everyone else's.

I don’t understand playing a competition in only his 3rd ever 18 holes.
Surely more practice rounds should have been played before entering a medal.

 

[clubchamp98]

Don't see any issues with the OP the way he / she described the situation. The moaner sounds like a grumpy git.

But 160!!! In a medal! You probably shouldn't be entering medals at that standard, for your sake as much as everyone else's.

This could be an unintended consequence of the changing handicap system.
As handicaps get bigger (54 I think) rounds will inevitably take longer ,or more going through.
What is the maximum cap now for comps?

 

[jamiet7682]

Yeah im shooting about 100 on a par 66 and i want to get about 5 shots off that before i even think about entering a comp. Each to their own though, i just wouldnt have the balls

 

[patricks148]

I don’t understand playing a competition in only his 3rd ever 18 holes.
Surely more practice rounds should have been played before entering a medal.

i suppose if you can only play certain days and theres comps on i suppose it would be logical to play in them for handicap.

my 3 cards when i started were all in a Sat comp as that was the only day i could get a game

 

[chellie]

The decision by some not to let a faster group through because they have nowhere to go is a little odd in my opinion. First of all it seems a bit odd that someone would actually make that decision. Do they actually know that the group in front won't let them through at an appropriate time, and so on up the field? Secondly, does it hurt to let a group through? You wait less than 10 mins before you can resume play, and you have the added benefit of not having a quick group immediately behind you.

I know its quite prevalent in golf these days, the we're not letting them through because they have nowhere to go, but I think its short sighted and selfish.

It's a huge bug bear of mine at ours should HID and myself get the chance to go out in the week together. If I can't get us a tee time before 10.00am I know that we will be held up by a group of 4 men and not let through 99% of the time and I can tell that before we've even finished the second hole.

 

[Orikoru]

I don’t understand playing a competition in only his 3rd ever 18 holes.
Surely more practice rounds should have been played before entering a medal.

This could be an unintended consequence of the changing handicap system.
As handicaps get bigger (54 I think) rounds will inevitably take longer ,or more going through.
What is the maximum cap now for comps?

I think clubchamp is right. Personally I didn't want to even join a club until I could play to 28 handicap standard - that was the maximum then obviously - as I thought it would be a waste of time trying to play comps and not being able to play near my handicap. Obviously now the handicaps go up to 54... but that still means you have to shoot in the 120s to play to that. Shooting 160 has to be about 90 shots over par... handicaps ain't ever getting that high, lol.

Maximum handicap for comps is variable and set by each club's committee I think?