Time for a whinge.

[bozza]

When our course was very busy on Saturday's during the winter two years ago, the committee introduced a rule that not only singles but also two balls had no standing. It worked really well as two balls joined up with other two balls and more golfers got round before it got dark.

Doesn't anyone else find it a pain when the course is full of 3 and 4 balls, and then suddenly some two balls appear and have to be let through by everyone. When the course is that busy they should join up, assuming they are not playing a Club match. Clubs with two tee starts can specify who goes off which tee at a certain time, and then has priority.

Personally i would have a problem with a single playing on a Saturday morning, expecting to be let through the whole field. Glad our committee decided singles have no standing.

When the course is quiet during the week or in the evening i wouldn't have a problem letting a single through, but the only time it has happened we have joined up. Golf should be sociable.

But why should a single golfer be penalised, i don't currentley know really anyone at my club and the few people i know can't always play as much as me so if i pay my membership or green fee then surely i should have as much right to anyone else on the course if i'm out as a single golfer or a fourball.

 

[viscount17]

you're quite right in that if you pay the same fee you should have the same rights but playing solo is never going to widen your circle of potential partners.
It can be difficult just hanging around the first hoping to make up a group, you can wait for ages then be a spare part to an established pair. far better that the pro shop let it be known that at busy times you will be grouped and do the pairing. it does though mean that you may not get out quite when you hoped to.

 

[Alex1975]

I'd have asked to go through them.

Same

 

[need_my_wedge]

When our course was very busy on Saturday's during the winter two years ago, the committee introduced a rule that not only singles but also two balls had no standing. It worked really well as two balls joined up with other two balls and more golfers got round before it got dark.

Doesn't anyone else find it a pain when the course is full of 3 and 4 balls, and then suddenly some two balls appear and have to be let through by everyone. When the course is that busy they should join up, assuming they are not playing a Club match. Clubs with two tee starts can specify who goes off which tee at a certain time, and then has priority.

Personally i would have a problem with a single playing on a Saturday morning, expecting to be let through the whole field. Glad our committee decided singles have no standing.

When the course is quiet during the week or in the evening i wouldn't have a problem letting a single through, but the only time it has happened we have joined up. Golf should be sociable.

What if I'm a single who doesn't expect to be let through......?


I have a problem with this attitude, as previously mentioned above, I pay the same as the other members and therefore I am entitled to play golf whenever I want/ can play. We do not book tee times, you turn up and play when you want to. There are regular groups that roll up at specific times early on Saturday/ Sunday, good to avoid them, but equally, they will invite single golfers to join if they want to. Recently we had a proposal from a couple of members to ban single and two balls before 10am at the weekends. It was voted out unanimously....

If I want to play on my own, which I enjoy after a week of crap at work, or a bad day sometines, it's nice to be able to go and play a few holes. The number will stretch depending on how busy the course is, how much time I have etc. I never try and push through a group in front, will often drop extra balls on chips and such if there's no one behind me. I get called through more often than not, or offered to tag up with 2 and 3 balls if I catch them.

There should be no reason to stop me playing as a single or a double at any time.

 

[richart]

When our course was very busy on Saturday's during the winter two years ago, the committee introduced a rule that not only singles but also two balls had no standing. It worked really well as two balls joined up with other two balls and more golfers got round before it got dark.

Doesn't anyone else find it a pain when the course is full of 3 and 4 balls, and then suddenly some two balls appear and have to be let through by everyone. When the course is that busy they should join up, assuming they are not playing a Club match. Clubs with two tee starts can specify who goes off which tee at a certain time, and then has priority.

Personally i would have a problem with a single playing on a Saturday morning, expecting to be let through the whole field. Glad our committee decided singles have no standing.

When the course is quiet during the week or in the evening i wouldn't have a problem letting a single through, but the only time it has happened we have joined up. Golf should be sociable.

What if I'm a single who doesn't expect to be let through......?


I have a problem with this attitude, as previously mentioned above, I pay the same as the other members and therefore I am entitled to play golf whenever I want/ can play. We do not book tee times, you turn up and play when you want to. There are regular groups that roll up at specific times early on Saturday/ Sunday, good to avoid them, but equally, they will invite single golfers to join if they want to. Recently we had a proposal from a couple of members to ban single and two balls before 10am at the weekends. It was voted out unanimously....

If I want to play on my own, which I enjoy after a week of crap at work, or a bad day sometines, it's nice to be able to go and play a few holes. The number will stretch depending on how busy the course is, how much time I have etc. I never try and push through a group in front, will often drop extra balls on chips and such if there's no one behind me. I get called through more often than not, or offered to tag up with 2 and 3 balls if I catch them.

There should be no reason to stop me playing as a single or a double at any time.

Have a feeling that a group playing a full round have priority over those playing a few holes.

Our club introduced singles having no standing as it was trying to be fair to the majority rather than the minority. Hence singles having no priority at the busiest time on the course, Saturday morning. You could have a situation were a load of singles wanting to play by themselves rather than join in with the rest of the club, and being waived through every group on the course. I understand that under R & A rules a single counts as a group,and slower groups, i.e two's three's and four's have to let a faster (single) group through. Rounds for three's and fours would take for ever.

Singles are fine but not when course is at it's busiest. Hence the committee decision.

 

[Matty]

I'd have skipped a few holes or asked to play through. Those 4 in front are a disgrace!

 

[need_my_wedge]

I should add, that if I want to play first thing Saturday/ Sunday, I do go and join the groups. If I'm playing as a single, or out for a knock with my 10 yr old son, I usually go out after lunch or evenings in the summer, I don't aim to add to the traffic during busy times. But for me it's the principle, we have no tee times, therefore as a full paying member I have should have the right to play at any time I choose, as much as the next person.