Speed of play at the Masters

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The pace that these guys are playing at is absolutely ridiculous. No wonder slow play as a scourge filters in to the club game. They set a very, very poor example indeed.

GET ON WITH IT!!!!!!!!!
 
Put a bleeper on their bag, and when it hits 4 hours, it bleeps and in you come. Work out the winner using duckworth lewis.
 
Put a bleeper on their bag, and when it hits 4 hours, it bleeps and in you come. Work out the winner using duckworth lewis.
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I've heard of Duckworth Lewis, is he an American player?? Who is he playing with this week??
 
The pace that these guys are playing at is absolutely ridiculous. No wonder slow play as a scourge filters in to the club game. They set a very, very poor example indeed.

GET ON WITH IT!!!!!!!!!
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Off a good handicap like 3.6 you would be lucky to break 90 round Augusta so don’t knock it till you have tried it!
Remember that its not a race!

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The pace that these guys are playing at is absolutely ridiculous. No wonder slow play as a scourge filters in to the club game. They set a very, very poor example indeed.

GET ON WITH IT!!!!!!!!!
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Off a good handicap like 3.6 you would be lucky to break 90 round Augusta so don’t knock it till you have tried it!
Remember that its not a race!

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Fair point but there a difference between not racing and slooooowww.

They're taking so long I can grow a beard between shots. Some rounds on Friday took best part of six hours - that nearly 20 mins a hole. 500yds is 3-4 mins walk which leaves about 15 mins to carry out the execution of 3-4-5 shots. To me that's <u>too</u> slow.
 
Slow play in the pro ranks is like a disease, they seem to play at a speed where they do not want to be held up, so if the guys in front are slow, you go slower and the group behind does the same and so on.
 
They are slow but look what there playing for,perhaps we should take a leaf out of there books and play a little slower and take all the conditions into consideration.It seems to me they take notice of the wind a lot more than i do as an ameteur,maybe it has more of a factor than i think it has
 
No way. The average amateur can faff about with club selection all day, and then fat it 20 yards. Amateur play is slow enough already.
 
Hear Hear

There's not much worse than watching a pre-shot routine that takes all of 90 seconds only to see the culprit hit the divot further than the ball, start all over again and repeat until murder is committed.
 
I think that until the powers start slapping penalty shots on players there will be no change to the pace of play. The question is who would be big enough to do that to Woods (in particular but not the biggest culprit by miles) et al in the last round of a major championship
 
Hear Hear

There's not much worse than watching a pre-shot routine that takes all of 90 seconds only to see the culprit hit the divot further than the ball, start all over again and repeat until murder is committed.
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You make it sound like you never duffed a shot in your life. Shame everyone isn't scratch like you.
 
If someone is going to hack it round in 90, me included, they might as well get on with it. Average golfer is what, 18 handicap, so par 72, gross 90. It can't be hard to knock it round in 90, in under 4 hours. Just hit it, walk after it, and hit it again. Simples.

Not got anything against pre shot routines, every one should have one. A guy in my society, who can't break 120, has a routine which (no kidding) takes a minimum of 3 minutes per shot, and he always does it. Often takes 5 shots to move it 20 yards. Stands over the ball and makes rotary movements over it like stirring lumpy custard. For 3 blimmen minutes. What is going on in his head?

Yep, I'm not off scratch (or close), but if you are playing junk, playing slower isn't going to make it any better. There comes a time for walking up, and whacking it.
 
The pace that these guys are playing at is absolutely ridiculous. No wonder slow play as a scourge filters in to the club game. They set a very, very poor example indeed.

GET ON WITH IT!!!!!!!!!
Click to expand...

Off a good handicap like 3.6 you would be lucky to break 90 round Augusta so don’t knock it till you have tried it!
Remember that its not a race!

Cookie
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I strongly doubt that I would break 90 but that and my handicap are irrelevant.

What I do know for a fact is that I wouldn't take any practice swings (my grandfather played for Yorkshire and drummed into me at a very early age that "no golfer ever hit a decent golf shot with a practice swing son!) and when it was my turn to play, I would be ready to hit the ball. The second part of that sentence is the key - it doesn't really matter how long you faff about getting ready to play your shot as long as when it is your turn to hit the ball, you are ready to do so in a very short space of time.

Simple really. If you take ages in a pre-shot routine, do it in advance of when your playing partners expect you to hit the ball in a timely fashion.
 
Pay your money, play your game. If you are holding someone up let them through.

At the Masters there is NO WHERE TO GO, you're hardly going to ask Tiger if you can play through! Every single issue, problem or rules query gets passed back down the entire field. If you think that's an issue I'd suggest you find a different game that is more suited to your timeframes.
 
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