If you don't finish (insert tee time spacing plus a couple minute buffer) behind the group ahead of you, you get fined.
Do you have a controversial golf take?
- Thread starter
- #127
Disagree
No way do I want to see a wife beater and jeans on the course! Do away with collard shirts, but certainly not a graphic T with some silly saying.
bogeyworkman
New member
- Joined
- May 28, 2020
- Messages
- 24
- Reaction score
- 11
Putts on the fringe or on really tight lies should be counted as putts not chips if you are tracking your putting stats
Love this.
I'd set it up so that if you finish in 3:45 or less you get a $10 discount. But if you finish more than 10 minutes after the group ahead of you, you are penalized $20.
Obviously this would have some Kinks that need to be worked out, but in my experience people will do ridiculous things to save 10 bucks.
Per 2019 USGA "Local Rule" all Lost Balls can be dropped one club length in the fairway no closer to the hole at point of entry to the area where you are virtually certain that the ball was lost with a 2 stroke penalty. Also applies to balls OB. Ball is dropped from knee height. I clear this with the random foursome that "we're playing with official USGA 2019 local rules, right?"
Also another little known 2019 official rule is that you can drop out of a bunker in line with the flag for a 2 stroke penalty. If you really suck at bunker play sometimes it's the best option. I witnessed a situation in my last round where my playing partner would have benefited.
Because walking sucks. Everyone wants that over with a soon as possible.Most slow play groups I see are in carts. Just saying ...
Hamfist
I promise not to murder Canadan.
2 strokes!?!?! In what kind of Draconian dystopia are we living???
Lou W
Well-known member
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2017
- Messages
- 2,087
- Reaction score
- 1,290
- Location
- Poway, CA / Walker, MN
- Handicap
- 13.3
That’s how I count them. If I’m using my putter as a putter off the green, it’s a putt
Ooh, no. I've got to draw the line at no shirt. Even though I'd rather not see it, I'll take a dirty wife beater on some guy... especially if he's pushing 300 pounds. I dont want to see moobs of any kind. Front or back. Ugh. No.
There are some people that can't play golf unless they're able to ride... health conditions and such. Some are members here... I feel for him because he's not able to play when his state course opened up but were walking only.
Posting score as a single happens anyway.
No to anchored putting.
Drop from where you like. I'd prefer ankle height... better yet, just place the ball.
#1. The beverage cart should be replaced by beverage stations. Too many holdups mid hole waiting for people to get drinks.
#2. All golfers should have their first round be a "how to play golf" round with a course rep. Teach simple etiquette, how to fill divots and fix ball marks, when/where to take relief, and how to act on the course.
#2. All golfers should have their first round be a "how to play golf" round with a course rep. Teach simple etiquette, how to fill divots and fix ball marks, when/where to take relief, and how to act on the course.
Or just throat punch impudent smokers. Even as a smoker I'd vote for it. I hate seeing that crap just as much as a non-smoker.
#1 could be staffed by this bartender from the Love Boat.
For #2 that should be taught in school.
- Joined
- Feb 27, 2019
- Messages
- 20,310
- Reaction score
- 38,372
- Location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Handicap
- 0.1
My home course had one up until a few years ago. My mom and her friends and a few other groups would play. They eventually opened it up to anyone. That being said she now plays with my dad and his buddies if they need a player on men's day. Equally opportunity.
Yeah, it would make getting stuck behind a slow group more painful, but I'd bet you the club house would get a few calls if they got a bad group out there, and then they'd actually solve it. I think the peer pressure with this would solve the slow group problem. Heck you could even do a discount, play in under 3;30 get 10$ back.
Its not about the extra hour its about enjoying the round. I understand for everyone its different for me, but it really kills my round if I'm waiting at my ball for 5 minutes before all of my shots.
I'd go the other way, limit bags to 11 clubs.
I'm always surprised that walk vs riding is such a contentious issuer here at THP.
- Thread starter
- #144
Pr3cision
Member
#1 won’t happen because the course gets significant revenue on drinks and because they can pay their beverage cart people barely anything because they are tipped employees.
I totally get having a strong preference, but you don't hear the riders complain about the other as much. I think all these purists who say the game was meant to be walked and pros should have to carry their own bag blah blah blah should have to play every round carrying their bag, on uneven terrain, wearing no arch/padding flat leather shoes, in a heavy wool three piece, because that's how the game was 'meant to be played', and they can sit at home with their blistered feet and aching backs while we just keep on riding well into old age.
Acesteve
Well-known member
I had another, when you are laying 6 on a par 4, can't find your ball, and are holding up the course;;;; take an 8 and move on
Under the new "local rule" you get to drop in the fairway, not two club lengths in from the out of bounds stakes, or two club lengths from where you think it might have ended up - whether that's still in the woods or in the rough. Instead of making the walk of shame, rehitting and taking a stroke and distance penalty, the local rule assumes you hit a provisional ball and it landed in the fairway. You get a near perfect lie. I don't think this is draconian at all.
Yeah, if you hit it well, but OB, and didn't hit your provisional well, you'd probably love to be laying the same but in the fairway near the first one.