When do you think you will next play golf?

[Deleted member 25172]

So to sum up, leaving the flag in, car park golfers, don't swap cards, have a booking system ..

Looks like this has settled a lot of debates that have played out on the forum ?

If I know this forum right then I’m sure we can spin it around for a few more laps (pages) going round in circles about nothing. ?

 

[Yorkshire Hacker]

Are they not public footpaths? I know of quite a number of courses - usually in the quite venerable category - who have public footpaths on them, and these are public rights of way.

Yes Rosecott, I omitted the word public. They are public footpaths and anyone has a right to use them. We give walkers priority when they cross the course.

 

[Fish]

GUR or at worst preferred lies. I'm sure I won't be alone in not wanting to play out of some lazy sods foot prints.

Carry or get the club to supply or sell these.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1255418550107492361

 

[patricks148]

with Bunkers, with no rakes at least all those who don't bother to rake anyway will get a taste of what its like

 

[Diamond]

Playing devils advocate here.

If the flag is so contagious that we're not allowed to touch it and the ball is not allowed to fall below the lip of the hole so players can easily retrieve it.

How the hell does that work for us links golfers where at times the flag is blowing all over the shop?

I suspect I won't be playing any competitive golf if/should golf start again..

This is killing clubs. It's actually killed my enthusiasm for the game and I'm genuinely in danger of walking from the game as I'm not missing it at all. All this flaffing about when you do get back is hardly making it appealing.

Indeed the world we have been so used to may never be the same again.

 

[Wolf]

Playing devils advocate here.

If the flag is so contagious that we're not allowed to touch it and the ball is not allowed to fall below the lip of the hole so players can easily retrieve it.

How the hell does that work for us links golfers where at times the flag is blowing all over the shop?

I suspect I won't be playing any competitive golf if/should golf start again..

This is killing clubs. It's actually killed my enthusiasm for the game and I'm genuinely in danger of walking from the game as I'm not missing it at all. All this flaffing about when you do get back is hardly making it appealing.

Absolutely agree with that Jacko_G, I'm in the same boat, haven't played now since October initially due to family commitments in run up to Christmas, then because of the weather course was shut most weekends when i could play and now this Covid19. I literally have no enthusiasm or current desire whatsoever to play again. But it's not a woe is me attitude, I literally am not bothered by it or interested in playing. I've found since all the time away from playing I enjoy running again, I was getting far more time with my kids before lockdown thanks to the weather, more time with the wife and we were doing more fun things altogether. So now the thought of going back and playing and missing a valuable 5 hrs minimum at least because of travel, playing time etc to get there just doesn't appeal as much as the alternatives I've been doing since.

 

[patricks148]

a guy posted a vid on FB last night of the two guys he caught on his course, Layland i think it was. they were not members and the attitude of the guy he spoke to, no shame at all

 

[Orikoru]

I think we could get by without rakes, we always used to do it with our feet, never a problem if you do it properly.

Yeah you can mostly smooth it with your foot, unless the sand is rock hard for whatever reason. And I don't think any comps will be running, so in a friendly round you can just move your ball in the bunker or do whatever you agree with your fellow players really.

 

[Crazyface]

Not sure if it's been touched upon yet but my club posed an interesting question on FB earlier.
With no rakes in the bunker, how do you think play should proceed if you hit into one.
GUR, preferred lies etc?

Doesn't matter. It will be a knock with mates. Take the thing out and chuck it down somewhere good. No penalty, we're not counting anyway. C'mon....

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Doesn't matter. It will be a knock with mates. Take the thing out and chuck it down somewhere good. No penalty, we're not counting anyway. C'mon....

This is how we played the few times before lockdown. Decide between yourselves and get on with it.

 

[Orikoru]

Immediately before lockdown we were dropping out of bunkers.
I'd prefer to keep bunkers in play and just smooth with the feet after the shot.

Yeah, I think if you land in somebody's foot print or crater, just move your ball 6 inches in the bunker onto a flat bit of sand. Seems reasonable to me.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Immediately before lockdown we were dropping out of bunkers.
I'd prefer to keep bunkers in play and just smooth with the feet after the shot.

The club should be making the decision so everyone knows where they stand, we need to keep some sort of normality and playing to a set of rules.

If the club are running unofficial comps then you are absolutely correct. If you are just having a social knock then it really doesn't matter.

 

[patricks148]

I disagree.
The default is we play out of bunkers and rake it.
If rakes are taken away there should be a blanket rule that bunkers are either out of action or, just do what we used to do and smooth it properly with your foot.

So you get the groups who want to just chuck the ball out when everyone else is playing as it lies... Are the guys chucking the ball out going to care about their footprints? I doubt it.

You can't have some playing properly and others just marching in and out the sand with not a care.

when the first phase of our course upgrade last year, all the new bunkers were " no play zones" for the first half dozen comps, i think the same was planned for the rest this year, we had no issues

 

[Jacko_G]

I won't be playing out of some fat lazy sods footprints and I'll not be smoothing over any either I'll be taking my ball out. If I have to step into the bunker to retrieve my ball I'll smooth over that for any bunker players coming behind.

This is sadly not golf as we know it anymore.

 

[Orikoru]

But the point is there won't be a footprint because you smooth it after playing.
If everyone is smoothing it properly, then landing in a footprint will be just down to some lazy selfish git who probably wouldn't have bothered anyway.

Well that doesn't mean they will, does it? That's the same as before when some people wouldn't rake the bunkers.

 

[howbow88]

I'm just happy that it sounds like we will be getting out again within the next few weeks. Bunkers, flags in, etc, I don't care - hitting the ball on a golf hole and not into a net in my back garden will feel incredible (until I see it fading towards the trees of course).

 

[patricks148]

I won't be playing out of some fat lazy sods footprints and I'll not be smoothing over any either I'll be taking my ball out. If I have to step into the bunker to retrieve my ball I'll smooth over that for any bunker players coming behind.

This is sadly not golf as we know it anymore.

get yourself one of those ball retrievers, mind you will have t wait to get it fitted

 

[Deleted member 3432]

Well that doesn't mean they will, does it? That's the same as before when some people wouldn't rake the bunkers.

No different to those that don't repair pitch marks. Feckless golfers are still going to be feckless golfers.

We smoothed bunkers with out feet years ago and proper golfers who rescpect the golf course and fellow players will do it properly. It isn't that difficult.

 

[sunshine]

I won't be playing out of some fat lazy sods footprints and I'll not be smoothing over any either I'll be taking my ball out. If I have to step into the bunker to retrieve my ball I'll smooth over that for any bunker players coming behind.

This is sadly not golf as we know it anymore.

I thought you weren't going to play any golf at all (at least this year)?

 

[Jacko_G]

I thought you weren't going to play any golf at all (at least this year)?

Quote me where I said that Mr Smart Ass?