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True life AITH incident from this weekend
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Now I would respectfully disagree. “Good enough” has nothing to do with being focused…..Playing golf and being focused on playing the game is nothing more than respect for the game, yourself and others playing on the course. Talent has very little to do with maintaing pace of play. Maintaining pace is perhaps the most important part of playing golf today. Not drinking beer….not goosing your partner s=duringn their swing……not throwing clubs all over the course after bad shots…….
(Once at a PGA rules seminar, I remember an old tour ref talking about his days as a Tour rules official…..One day he was sent to “time” a group that had fallen out of pace and he watched them for 3-4 holes….After the group had finished, he was confronted by other players who wanted to know why he hadn’t penalized the group…He responded “Hey, these guys were playing terrible golf…all 3 of them…..and playing bad is not a rules infraction.”….Screwing around on the course, and not sticking to your knitting…that is a different story….Those are the folks who need to be asked NOT to come back again.)
My initial thought on this situation is "it's a Sunday, and many weekend golfers can turn a beautiful day on the course into Amateur Hour" (which is exactly what happened).
Me personally, when I played weekend golf (don't play any more), I made damn sure I got there as absolutely early as possible. That isn't a 100% cure, but generally my experience was that early risers have their golf course shit together. They're there to get in and get off before the Mulligans spoil their day.
Me personally, when I played weekend golf (don't play any more), I made damn sure I got there as absolutely early as possible. That isn't a 100% cure, but generally my experience was that early risers have their golf course shit together. They're there to get in and get off before the Mulligans spoil their day.
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Earliest tee time we could get was 8:45 so that probably did play a role.
I prefer 7-8 am
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Not in today’s world, with guns in everybody’s pockets! No where is safe. You just never know what can happen where……Our group had a similar situation a couple of months ago, it started on the 10th tee….got nasty and ugly there……and then we watched the group finish duking it out on the 16th fairway….when we finished, we got there just in time to see two of the group being handcuffed and loaded into a squad car for a ride downtown. WTF….I just paid to play golf!
A couple other thoughts...
1) I kinda believe they baited you with their green antics. Most (not all obviously) golfers know not to pull shit like that when they got a group right on their asses - and we do sort of live in a world where it is seemingly OK To Be An Asshole In Public.
2) Yes, you were an asshole, but you weren't The Assholes. There's a big difference between those two.
My buddies and I came up with a saying about situations in life where sometimes, it's appropriate to "say what you mean - and say it mean". To me, that's all you were really doing.
Golf courses usually post in some fashion to where slow players HAVE to let those behind them through. You know this, they knew this - everybody that golfs knows this. That's why I kinda believe they knew exactly what they were doing there. They were going to take their shitty playing out on someone - and you just happened unfortunately to be on the receiving end.
That sucks...but don't let it linger next time on the course. Be cool, Leonard...be cool.
They are complete ass hats and should get the fuk out of the way if they are going to play like that. I don't mind slow players if it's because of a lack of talent. When they are taking practice putts and fuking around that is an issue. People don't care anymore about following rules or worrying about anyone other than themselves.
However, since they let you play through I want to know how your shot turned out. The pressure had to be up there not to shank another shot in front of the same people you were talking shit to.
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Thankfully it was a pretty easy par 3 and I dropped one on the fringe and two-putted for par. One of my playing partners got a birdie and the other two also par’d out.
So those guys couldn’t say shit 🙂
I can deal with slow play, it's dependent on the number of golfers on the course, plus you can always play through if there is a gap.
What I can't stand and should be a war crime but is never enforced, is slobs eating sunflower seeds and spitting the shells on the green. Absolute SOTE.
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The cart we had Sunday had one compartment full of sun flower seed shells.
Anything south of I-80 in Illinois might as well be Missouri.
One of my biggest pet peeves. Keep them off the green and tee boxes. Same with the lung darts
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