Jacko_G
Blackballed
How do we battle this?
On Sunday I played our season opener AM-AM competition. Our team consisted of two guys in their 60's, one in his 50's and me the young whippersnapper in his 40's. Thankfully we were out first at 0800 hours and were round in 3 hours 45 minutes which is pretty reasonable going for Mach Dunes as it is a fair walk.
Anyway the second game finished a full 45 minutes behind us! How is it possible for game 2 to lose three, maybe four holes on the first game? It sets the tone and pace for the rest of the field and is really poor.
Medals are just as bad now, over 4 hours for 3 balls, why?
I am by no means the quickest player but I know to be ready to play, I know where to leave my clubs, I know when I should be tending the flag and to be ready to play when its my turn (if we're not playing ready golf - which we often do)so we maintain pace.
Is etiquette the issue? Are clubs not doing enough to promote and enforce this? The amount of golfers I see leaving bags at the front of greens or the opposite side of the green to the next tee, golfers standing chatting or farting about instead of being ready to play etc etc leads me to believe that clubs needs to bring etiquette up fairly regularly to try and educate a lot of "ignorant" golfers.
On Sunday I played our season opener AM-AM competition. Our team consisted of two guys in their 60's, one in his 50's and me the young whippersnapper in his 40's. Thankfully we were out first at 0800 hours and were round in 3 hours 45 minutes which is pretty reasonable going for Mach Dunes as it is a fair walk.
Anyway the second game finished a full 45 minutes behind us! How is it possible for game 2 to lose three, maybe four holes on the first game? It sets the tone and pace for the rest of the field and is really poor.
Medals are just as bad now, over 4 hours for 3 balls, why?
I am by no means the quickest player but I know to be ready to play, I know where to leave my clubs, I know when I should be tending the flag and to be ready to play when its my turn (if we're not playing ready golf - which we often do)so we maintain pace.
Is etiquette the issue? Are clubs not doing enough to promote and enforce this? The amount of golfers I see leaving bags at the front of greens or the opposite side of the green to the next tee, golfers standing chatting or farting about instead of being ready to play etc etc leads me to believe that clubs needs to bring etiquette up fairly regularly to try and educate a lot of "ignorant" golfers.