Should the number of holes be reduced?

searay · 17-12-2014 10:52PM

18 holes is the right number in the summer for the main competitions.

Our club's first 12 holes loop back to the clubhouse so the midweek competions and winter leagues are run over the 12 and it boosts the numbers playing and entering those comps. We can all play the last 6 if we've time and the weather is ok.

In the short winter days, I find it's easier to get out for 12 and it makes frost delays less of an issue. Similarly 12 holes in the showers doesn't feel like an ordeal and it's enough to keep the game going.

superhooper · 17-12-2014 11:26PM

charlieIRL wrote: »

I don't think the amount of holes should be reduced, when I plan to play a round of golf I allow adequate time for it. I never head out thinking "i need this to be an x hour round ttone home by y"

Fair enough, but I'm just wondering if there are many others on here with small kids?

GreeBo · 18-12-2014 12:22AM

superhooper wrote: »

Fair enough, but I'm just wondering if there are many others on here with small kids?

anyone I know with small kids either plays before 9 or after lunch, as before 9 is much faster and after lunch usually means nothing to rush home to.

tayto lover · 18-12-2014 12:25AM

When my kids were small I played at 7 am and was home by 12 or 1 o'clock.

stockdam · 18-12-2014 12:29AM

gman127 wrote: »

I think we're dancing around the real issue here - the 40+ hour working week!!

Leaves no time for golf!

That's my problem. If and when I get to the course then I'd like 72 holes or as many as I can play before dark.............floodlit courses would be cool as well as ones with undersoil heating

stockdam · 18-12-2014 12:31AM

tayto lover wrote: »

When my kids were small I played at 7 am and was home by 12 or 1 o'clock.

You rotter. So you left your wife and kids for 17 or 18 hours!

Rikand · 18-12-2014 01:27AM

stockdam wrote: »

You rotter. So you left your wife and kids for 17 or 18 hours!

Rotter ?

More like legend!

Sean_pop · 18-12-2014 11:08AM

No!!

Some people spend that time and much longer in the Pub.

superhooper · 18-12-2014 11:50AM

superhooper wrote: »

Fair enough, but I'm just wondering if there are many others on here with small kids?

GreeBo wrote: »

anyone I know with small kids either plays before 9 or after lunch, as before 9 is much faster and after lunch usually means nothing to rush home to.

Yes I mainly played the early tee times if I could get them as they were really hard to get.

charlieIRL · 18-12-2014 01:10PM

superhooper wrote: »

Fair enough, but I'm just wondering if there are many others on here with small kids?

my kids are 9 & 11!!

But with me, I only play weekday golf as I just don't have the time during the weekend with the kids activities and sports so I head out after work and i'm home when i'm home!! Only played one Sunday this year and the few Saturdays with the society.

digginz · 18-12-2014 01:21PM

It wouldn't be that much of a change if golf was reduce from 18 to 15 holes and it would save around 40min

I'm happy to play 18 but if it was changed to 15 I wouldn't mind

alxmorgan · 18-12-2014 01:35PM

Keep it at 18. But let's keep it moving. No need to race. But 4 hours is plenty for a fourball. I do it all the time with a wide range of handicaps.

It's the guys not being ready to play who are mostly to blame.

Sean_pop · 18-12-2014 01:44PM

It will always be 18 holes!!

superhooper · 18-12-2014 01:57PM

charlieIRL wrote: »

my kids are 9 & 11!!

But with me, I only play weekday golf as I just don't have the time during the weekend with the kids activities and sports so I head out after work and i'm home when i'm home!! Only played one Sunday this year and the few Saturdays with the society.

So it probably gets harder to get out as the kids get older depending on what they are into. I would think Soc golf is my future.

alxmorgan · 18-12-2014 02:29PM

superhooper wrote: »

So it probably gets harder to get out as the kids get older depending on what they are into. I would think Soc golf is my future.

Thing I find with society golf is it takes much longer. Longer travel, start later, guys not as used to playing etc all add to the time.

First light Sunday morning is the trick with young kids. Home by lunch

Mickiwi · 23-12-2014 10:57AM

Just before having a family myself I received the best advice from a few older mates who already had kids. "Make sure you start as you mean to go on". 18 Holes every Sunday without fail.... rain, wind whatever... 4-5 hours once a week is not too much to ask. If the weather is so bad the course is closed then the range it is! Personally would not want to see any courses built shorter, hate the fact that some courses go to 12-14 holes in winter, but a round and a bit of practice never hurt anyone..

I have had a couple of mates take the "year off" golf when starting their family and a game of golf for them is a now rear thing with months of planning...

Should the number of holes be reduced?

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