Mantis Toboggan wrote: » This attitude sickens me, an absolute blight on the game.
Golf is my Game wrote: » Well where do you expect the slow group to fit in when there isn't a gap.
Seve OB wrote: » if you are entered into an 18 hole competition..... then yes, you are expected to play the full 18 and not leave someone stranded
JCDUB wrote: » There's no room for slow groups on the golf course. Particularly when there's no gaps. You either keep up with the group in front of you, or you let others who are capable of doing that through. If that means you're constantly standing aside and letting groups through all day, so be it. However if you're doing this you really don't belong on a golf course.
Golf is my Game wrote: » So the quickest group, whatever that speed they decide to play at, sets the required speed for everyone else on the course?
Golf is my Game wrote: » Equally, that just means you are the slowest. So whoever the slowest group is should not be their. Where do quick golfers (and I'd say in reality their only quick on the days that suits them to be) get this God complex about their speed being the right speed?
Seve OB wrote: » And to get us back on topic.... who else is excited about competitions starting back up again next week and the battle for the handicap reductions can commence. I've no doubt that i'll probably leave the reasonably good golf that I've been playing under casual conditions behind and go out and shoot 20 something points.... that would be typical wouldn't it!
Golf is my Game wrote: » Which is unfair on them.
blue note wrote: » How is that impact minimal? Fair enough you won't delay the first group playing through by doing that. But once they walk through you won't be able to hit your second shot until they've cleared the green. In the meantime the group behind them will have surely finished the previous hole (if not they'll be more than a hole behind the group they were following). So they'll be on the tee waiting for you to clear when you're playing your second. So immediately you're in a situation where, if you're slow, you're holding up the group behind you. If you wait for the group in front of you to get a bit of distance ahead before letting the next group behind you through, everyone behind them will be catching up with each other and bunching. Then the next time you call someone through, if you do it in a similar manner, the group following them will be on the tee waiting for you to hit your second before the group ahead has even reached the green. And then you're in a situation where the groups you let through will benefit from it from the point that you leave them through. And the groups behind will suffer for it. Players playing a different paces is a problem, but definitely not one with an easy fix. I don't think calling groups through helps on the very busy days unless you're looking for a ball or the like because I don't see how what I've outlined above isn't the case. And from experience, I've been a couple of groups back from the slow one in the past and exactly what I've outlined has happened. The slow group lets others through every few holes and we all end up waiting while they rejoin play. If I'm close enough to the top it's nice to get the clear run after you're called through, but if you're not you'll end up chatting to the next group on a tee box waiting for the fairway to clear.
GreeBo wrote: » You hit your tee shot and walk to your ball, when the group behind get to the tee you stand back and let them hit. As they are walking down you continue playing. When they are ready to hit their seconds you stand back again, if needed. Continue this until they have passed you. This is quicker than each group playing sequentially, you are making the operation parallel, this is more efficient. The 2nd group behind are not catching up any quicker than they were before, as you are not slowing down the 1st group behind, anytime they are ready to play you let them, but you dont down tools and wait for them to pass you by. /edit the highlighted bit is whats causing the problem, you dont stop while you let someone play through!
Mushy wrote: » Very much looking forward to them. My exact handicap is 12.4 so a nice challenge to stay at 12
Mantis Toboggan wrote: » Sure aren't all the handicaps being discarded and replaced later in the year anyway!
woodyg wrote: » i forgot the world system was starting end of the year, wonder if they push it back?
etxp wrote: » Cant wait for comps to start back, I just hope I can carry my current form into them. I think the good conditions of the courses at the moment are probably accounting for a couple a shots a round at least. one of our first comps is stroke play with the prize free membership for next year so hoping to do well in that.
Golfhead65 wrote: » Que all the new members with bogie handicaps to be well in the hunt, I know that in our club there will be some mad scores put in for 1st few comps
Seve OB wrote: » I don’t expect anything less than 42 points will win most competition’sfor a while
slingerz wrote: » 42 wouldn’t get you much in our place. CSS was regularly 39/40 points last year. Not unusual so see 45/46 points come in. Highest I recall from last year was a 49
willabur wrote: » 45/46 is an outrageous average for a winning score.
