Palmerstown House

GolfingGod · 06-07-2014 05:16PM

First Up wrote: »

Six hours? Good grief. I hope you lodged some sort of protest. I know clubs need to generate income but surely not at any price. If that's the sort of thing that can be expected, the bunkers are the least of their worries.

Sure doesn't sound like fun. From my own experience, members comp usually take 4.15-4.30, longest I've taken was second round of captains stroke and that took 5. Lads in shop happy if you call in slow play and send someone out in a buggy pretty much straight away. Have to say that having a ranger all the time would also be great.

First Up · 06-07-2014 05:30PM

GolfingGod wrote: »

Sure doesn't sound like fun. From my own experience, members comp usually take 4.15-4.30, longest I've taken was second round of captains stroke and that took 5. Lads in shop happy if you call in slow play and send someone out in a buggy pretty much straight away. Have to say that having a ranger all the time would also be great.

4.30 + for a strokes competition (especially 4 balls) is understandable. Its a tough course from the middle tees. But 6 hours is ridiculous. I know you have to make some allowance for society golfers but PH isn't that hard from the front tees so these must have been right hackers. But even then, they have to know when to pick up and move on. If that sort of society is playing any course, the club owes it to the members and other visitors to put a ranger out too.

GolfingGod · 06-07-2014 05:49PM

First Up wrote: »

4.30 + for a strokes competition (especially 4 balls) is understandable. Its a tough course from the middle tees. But 6 hours is ridiculous. I know you have to make some allowance for society golfers but PH isn't that hard from the front tees so these must have been right hackers. But even then, they have to know when to pick up and move on. If that sort of society is playing any course, the club owes it to the members and other visitors to put a ranger out too.

100% agree.

First Up · 06-07-2014 06:22PM

By the way, is there any catering at PH these days? I was at some very classy events there in the past, with the upstairs bar, terrace and function room offering a great venue. Has that been re-activated?

GolfingGod · 06-07-2014 06:28PM

First Up wrote: »

By the way, is there any catering at PH these days? I was at some very classy events there in the past, with the upstairs bar, terrace and function room offering a great venue. Has that been re-activated?

Yeah, all back up and running although I haven't used them yet.

Carpo86 · 06-07-2014 07:03PM

Took me just over 4 hours to play in the member's comp yesterday (standard time on a Saturday morning). Surprised that the ranger wasn't around to speed things up as he was around at 2pm when I was leaving yesterday. 6 hours and 10 minutes is just painful...

mags1962 · 06-07-2014 11:11PM

Members are very aware of the pace of play, in the main, but I'm sure all clubs have this issue. Is a ranger really the answer though as he can't really do anything to groups that are holding up play, he can't remove players from the course forcibly can he. It's up to all of the players to make sure that they remain in touch with the group in front of them and surely it's that simple?

First Up · 07-07-2014 07:35AM

mags1962 wrote: »

Members are very aware of the pace of play, in the main, but I'm sure all clubs have this issue. Is a ranger really the answer though as he can't really do anything to groups that are holding up play, he can't remove players from the course forcibly can he. It's up to all of the players to make sure that they remain in touch with the group in front of them and surely it's that simple?

If that was the case, why have rangers at all? Of course they can speed things up; just a matter of reminding groups to keep moving, pick up if out of a hole etc. Societies are a "necessary evil" for clubs but six hours is simply not acceptable.

dar_cool · 07-07-2014 08:43AM

Played there in a work society recently, we were the same, over 6 hours on the course, our society would have a lot of novices on it, don't play golf usually but it was painfully long, waiting at every shot, I was fuming at the end of it!!

First Up · 07-07-2014 08:49AM

dar_cool wrote: »

Played there in a work society recently, we were the same, over 6 hours on the course, our society would have a lot of novices on it, don't play golf usually but it was painfully long, waiting at every shot, I was fuming at the end of it!!

Societies with that sort of membership should know better than going to courses like PH - and courses like PH should have that conversation with them before taking the booking. There's plenty of shorter, easier tracks around where novice golfers can have a reasonable day out without blocking the course up for everyone else.

GolfingGod · 25-07-2014 02:04PM

Played on work outing this week in PS and longest round was 4.45 (4 balls). Anybody taking more than 5 really need to educate their players on picking up whem out of the hole.

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