CobraX51
F-ck Yeah Baby!
Daylight Savings time is here and sometimes you tee it up on a given weekend around 2:00 or whatever. Maybe you had errands in the morning, maybe you had family activities, or maybe you were just sick of watching the sh!tty ass Josh McCown Jets and booked a tee time with a friend.
We got paired up with 2 randoms, which was fine. One kid who looked to be in his early 20s said he was playing the tips at like 7000 yards, more power to him. My buddy and I were going to play 6400 yards but the other random in our foursome was playing 6700 so we joined him so we wouldn't have a foursome playing 3 different tee boxes.
The issue was the kid playing the tips. He had the game to play the tips, he bombed it, hit some great irons, and besides one bad hole he played very well.
Mind you, we teed off at 2 and know we gotta finish at or before 6 due to darkness.
This kid would walk up to the tee box with his rangefinder. Laser a bunker or tree which is easily 300+ out and then go back to his cart to grab driver or 3wood. He would look at the fairway from the tee box as if he was playing at Shinnecock, rehearse his swing, stand over the ball, half backswing, then hit his full swing, he did this every single time, only on Par 3s he would take 2 or 3 irons.
To our delight, he said he was only playing 9, he shot like +2 or +3, again a great player. The 3rd random immediately said to us that the kid was super slow and it was annoying. My buddy and I just shrugged and said "Yeah we're just having fun out here." The 3 of us breezed thru the back 9 to the point that on 18 we had just enough light to finish the round. Had we played the 2nd 9 with this kid their would be no way we finish this, we'd probably get in about 15 holes tops.
What is a respectful way to either tell a random to pick it up or simply say "Look dude we are trying to finish this round so we are going to just skip onto the next hole" without making him feel like a POS for being Jordan Spieth on a GolfNow Hot Deal round?
We got paired up with 2 randoms, which was fine. One kid who looked to be in his early 20s said he was playing the tips at like 7000 yards, more power to him. My buddy and I were going to play 6400 yards but the other random in our foursome was playing 6700 so we joined him so we wouldn't have a foursome playing 3 different tee boxes.
The issue was the kid playing the tips. He had the game to play the tips, he bombed it, hit some great irons, and besides one bad hole he played very well.
Mind you, we teed off at 2 and know we gotta finish at or before 6 due to darkness.
This kid would walk up to the tee box with his rangefinder. Laser a bunker or tree which is easily 300+ out and then go back to his cart to grab driver or 3wood. He would look at the fairway from the tee box as if he was playing at Shinnecock, rehearse his swing, stand over the ball, half backswing, then hit his full swing, he did this every single time, only on Par 3s he would take 2 or 3 irons.
To our delight, he said he was only playing 9, he shot like +2 or +3, again a great player. The 3rd random immediately said to us that the kid was super slow and it was annoying. My buddy and I just shrugged and said "Yeah we're just having fun out here." The 3 of us breezed thru the back 9 to the point that on 18 we had just enough light to finish the round. Had we played the 2nd 9 with this kid their would be no way we finish this, we'd probably get in about 15 holes tops.
What is a respectful way to either tell a random to pick it up or simply say "Look dude we are trying to finish this round so we are going to just skip onto the next hole" without making him feel like a POS for being Jordan Spieth on a GolfNow Hot Deal round?