We all decided to walk off today...

[woody69]

Lightning and injury only reasons you should walk off in a comp

Interesting opinion, but I can't really agree I'm afraid. It really isn't that black and white. It's nice you have set yourself a high standard that no matter the weather (lightening aside) you would continue to slog it out even whilst not enjoying it or being able to hold a club properly because your hands are so cold and wet. I love playing golf because I enjoy playing. I'm not trying to make a living out of it, so when that enjoyment wains due to the conditions I'm happy to walk in.

 

[ArnoldArmChewer]

Don't worry about it, it's your right to dq yourself. We only managed 9 holes yesterday as the course was becoming unplayable.

 

[palindromicbob]

Interesting opinion, but I can't really agree I'm afraid. It really isn't that black and white. It's nice you have set yourself a high standard that no matter the weather (lightening aside) you would continue to slog it out even whilst not enjoying it or being able to hold a club properly because your hands are so cold and wet. I love playing golf because I enjoy playing. I'm not trying to make a living out of it, so when that enjoyment wains due to the conditions I'm happy to walk in.

I'm with you on that one. I play as a hobby and for enjoyment. If I am not enjoying it then what is the point of continuing.

I've had days with bad weather and bad golf but loved every minute of it.

I've had days with good weather and decent golf but it took every ounce of my energy to stop from walking in.

To walk in now and again because you aren't enjoying it is fine in my book. If you find you are doing everytime then give up the sport.

For the record I've have walked off once in competition due to not enjoying it. This lack of enjoyment was reflected in my score but my score did not dictate me walking in. If I let my scoring influence me finishing a round then I'd rarely complete one.

 

[BTatHome]

Rules of golf say that you will be DQ'd ... club rules could be anything from a competition ban, to just a telling off.

 

[bladeplayer]

I tend to stay out if the course is open , got battered on sat came 8th out of 9 people that finished ha 20pts for 13 holes 30 won but 25 was second

i did walk off one day 2 over through 9 , i bombed a drive off 10 was up near the green , half way up the fairway i decided enough was enough , it was a lovely day but the company was rubbish , playing with 2 right (smiffy word) ..

golf is about enjoyment , its our pastime if your not enjoying it you are right to walk in provided there is someone to mark your FC score card,, but its a bad habit to get into , you often learn more from your bad rounds , you definately improve mentaly by the way you keep it together on a bad day

BUT as Bob said if your are doing it every time or even regularly , then maybe its time to seek another pastime

 

[garyinderry]

id only ever walk in if it was a full agreement with everyone in the group. it has nothing to do with any other group.

ive stayed out plenty of times when one guy calls it a day and the other wants to continue as he has a half decent round going.

I would expect the same! :thup:

 

[woody69]

I tend to stay out if the course is open , got battered on sat came 8th out of 9 people that finished ha 20pts for 13 holes 30 won but 25 was second

i did walk off one day 2 over through 9 , i bombed a drive off 10 was up near the green , half way up the fairway i decided enough was enough , it was a lovely day but the company was rubbish , playing with 2 right (smiffy word) ..

golf is about enjoyment , its our pastime if your not enjoying it you are right to walk in provided there is someone to mark your FC score card,, but its a bad habit to get into , you often learn more from your bad rounds , you definately improve mentaly by the way you keep it together on a bad day

BUT as Bob said if your are doing it every time or even regularly , then maybe its time to seek another pastime

Could not agree more and I have never walked in because I was having a bad round. Last comp I had 11 through 9 and finished with 19. Worst golf of my life, it's like I had forgotten how to hit a ball. I think I played worse that day than I have ever played. I was better the first time I actually played 18 holes, but I wasn't even tempted for a second to walk in.

 

[London mike 61]

Interesting opinion, but I can't really agree I'm afraid. It really isn't that black and white. It's nice you have set yourself a high standard that no matter the weather (lightening aside) you would continue to slog it out even whilst not enjoying it or being able to hold a club properly because your hands are so cold and wet. I love playing golf because I enjoy playing. I'm not trying to make a living out of it, so when that enjoyment wains due to the conditions I'm happy to walk in.

I agree with you and I could not have put it better, I enjoy golf for what it is and if that enjoyment is not there I don't see the point in continuing.

 

[North Mimms]

id only ever walk in if it was a full agreement with everyone in the group. it has nothing to do with any other group.

ive stayed out plenty of times when one guy calls it a day and the other wants to continue as he has a half decent round going.

I would expect the same! :thup:

Same here- I think it's bad form to walk in and leave your fellow competitor without a marker, but if everyone in the group wants to call it a day, fine.

I play golf for enjoyment. I can still enjoy a round even if I am playing badly (it's better than work) but golf should never be a chore

 

[davidy233]

At lots of clubs (certainly every club I've been a member of) spaces are limited - if you start a round and don't complete it then you are depriving someone else of the chance to play in the competition.

My previous club would ban you from comps for a month if you walked off - unless they shut the course.

 

[woody69]

At lots of clubs (certainly every club I've been a member of) spaces are limited - if you start a round and don't complete it then you are depriving someone else of the chance to play in the competition.

My previous club would ban you from comps for a month if you walked off - unless they shut the course.

If you had a player that was regularly walking in, then I can understand that, but one off due to terrible conditions. I'd tell the club to shove it up their backsides if they banned me for that.

 

[GB72]

I sometimes think that this is another problem with some members at clubs that reflects badly on the game. What harm has walking in done to the person in question, none. What has been gained by the tutting and disapproving looks other than to potentially offend a member of club and yet people still feel the need to do it.

I am going to blaspheme here and say it out loud 'THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE THAN GOLF' so if the conditions are awful, there is nothing wrong about thinking about your health and heading in, if you are not enjoying yourself, and as long as the rest of your group is OK with it, there is nothing wrong with calling it quits early, hell I will even admit that I was held up on the course badly one Sunday and was going to be late for a family Sunday Lunch so I walked off because not doing so would upset my mother.

There are some people who believe that golf, the golf club and everything around it is the most important thing in the world and nothing should change that and everyone should feel the same. Well, to me it is not, life is too short to suffer in the wind and rain being miserable all because of what someone else may think.

 

[chrisd]

Rules of golf say that you will be DQ'd ... club rules could be anything from a competition ban, to just a telling off.

I've never heard of anyone getting a telling off, much less a ban, for walking in in awful weather at either of the two clubs I've been a member.

 

[In_The_Rough]

If the weather is awful and everybody is happy to walk in the what is the problem. The knob described in the OP is everything about golf that gives it the stuffy fuddy duddy reputation it has. At my previous club they had some like this but they never kicked up a stink about anything like this to be fair. I really cannot see what concern it is to him or why he should care 1 bit what another group is doing, seriously what is his problem I just do not understand people like this in what is ultimately a pastime that people do for fun

 

[CheltenhamHacker]

I had a similar issue to this yesterday. Turned up at the course for the medal, to find out it's off short tee's, therefore no handicap adjustments. Blowing a gale and tipping it down, I asked the pro what happens if I don't tee off, or I walk off midway round. I was informed that it would go before the handicap committee who would likely punish me somehow. No idea how, likely a comp ban or such like.

So I tee'd off, in the wind and rain, with a FC who stated, from the 1st hole, that "we won't make it round 18, no way, they will call us in". true to form, they called us in after 12 holes, as one of the greens was so waterlogged, that you couldn't get to the hole without going through standing water.

What slightly annoyed me is that my FC, who had played there years, knew we would be called in, but if I had had enough after 11 holes, might have been punished. If they know that certain holes flood in torrential rain, then why let the comp start in the first place!

 

[Birchy]

Some insane stories on here and we wonder why non golf people are intimidated by golf clubs.

I walked off on the second day of captains weekend this year with both my playing partners as we felt us staying out there was detriment to the safety of others, the course and our sanity One of my FC's was an ex captain as well and he didn't seem too bothered by it and nor did anybody else.

 

[In_The_Rough]

Money matey. Get people in spend a few quid in the bar/shop etc then call it off partway in and reschedule and go through it all again. Cannot think of any other reason

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I had several rounds in 2013 when I just wanted to walk in. I was embarrassed to be out there but I was marking a card so felt obliged to stay out. However if conditions are so bad, and none of you are in the mood to play on I see no problem if you all walk in. Had one of the group had a good score going and wanted to have played on I would have kept going our of respect for his wishes

 

[Dodger]

We played goswick yesterday only 9 holes the weather was the worst I've ever played in

Poof,I played 18 in lovely weather.


...........then sat and laughed at the folk running off with their brollies broken and inside out!

 

[woody69]

Received this email from the committee yesterday. I believe it was a blanket email sent to those who walked off.

All,

The committee would like to remind all members who play in competitions of the protocol that must be followed at all times.

If you need to withdraw from a competition after the draw has been published you must ring the pro shop and request a cancellation number. Please be aware that members who withdraw from a competition less than 24 hours prior to the start on 2 occasions in a 3 month period will be subject to disciplinary procedures

In addition, whilst the weather last Sunday may have been extreme and some would argue that the course should not have been opened in the first place, the decision on whether the course is open rests with the Club. It is NOT the responsibility of any committee member to close the course for any reason. Given the competition on Sunday did go ahead, the committee would respectfully request that players do not walk off the course in the middle of any competition until such time as the course is officially closed or play formally suspended by a member of the club staff.

Kind regards,

The Committee

What a bunch of jokers. I still fail to see how, if all 4 players in the group make the decision to walk in how that affects anyone else. I can understand the need to put deterrents in to prevent players signing up for comps and then simply not playing seeing as a comp is often restricted in the number of people who can play, but considering this was the 3rd round of our winter comp and the pairs who did call it a day would be DQF and the conditions were rather extremem, I don't see what business it is of "the committee" to essentially force people to stay out on the course.

Myself and a group of others will be respectfully telling "the committee" to go do one quite frankly.