If you don't finish (insert tee time spacing plus a couple minute buffer) behind the group ahead of you, you get fined.
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Eliminate par. It's archaic and only good for making bad golfers play slower. Add up your strokes at the end, lowest wins.
DisagreeEliminate dress codes on courses open to the public. ... especially now that people have put on their Covid weight. Sometimes they only have one or two pairs of pants that fit.
Love this.If you don't finish (insert tee time spacing plus a couple minute buffer) behind the group ahead of you, you get fined.
All the OB, drop radius, stroke & distance rules should be abandoned and one rule implemented: everything is a lateral hazard. Place a ball (yes, bend down and give yourself a nice lie) within 2 club lengths of where you went in, and add a stroke. If there is a question, a playing partner will spot your placement.
Because walking sucks. Everyone wants that over with a soon as possible.Most slow play groups I see are in carts. Just saying ...
2 strokes!?!?! In what kind of Draconian dystopia are we living???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.
That’s how I count them. If I’m using my putter as a putter off the green, it’s a puttPutts on the fringe or on really tight lies should be counted as putts not chips if you are tracking your putting stats
No just any kind of shirt. And honestly, I'd be perfectly fine playing alongside shirtless golfers. In general, I think golfers are far too anal about what other people are doing, and that attitude drives people away from the game. Dress codes are just another example of this. In my opinion, if what you're wearing would be acceptable in public, it is acceptable on the golf course.
2nd Jman, ban riding. It’s a game meant to be walked, you’ll generally play better & the courses will be in better shape.
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These are all against actual recent rulings:
- allow posting scores played as a single
- allow anchoring for putting (I never did it, but will now try it if allowed)
- drops from shoulder height, or anything other than knee height - so awkward
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.Ban all tobacco products on the course.
#1 could be staffed by this bartender from the Love Boat.#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.
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.Ladies days are dumb.....
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.What about everybody behind them? Do they pay extra too? This will just make the arseholes even angrier.
Here’s a controversial take: don’t try to squeeze in 18 if you don’t have an hour extra to kill afterwards. Play 9 if you absolutely, positively can’t afford to be done in more than 4 hours. Leisurely golf isn’t the problem, players who are rushing everyone else through the course so they can finish “on time” are.
I'd go the other way, limit bags to 11 clubs.I’m in favor of increasing the allowable club limit. My take is, if a player is good enough to make the shot with a certain club, why limit his/her ability to do so? I’m not saying unlimited, but I don’t think 16 clubs is unreasonable. I’d like to carry both a utility iron and hybrid instead of having to decide between the two, maybe an extra wedge, etc. If one shot calls for a hybrid based on circumstances, then another calls for a utility iron, doesn’t make sense to me that I shouldn’t be able to have both clubs in my bag. I know technically I could, but then the same question arises around whatever club I removed to make room, and the cycle continues.
I'm always surprised that walk vs riding is such a contentious issuer here at THP.Because walking sucks. Everyone wants that over with a soon as possible.
Joggers are the BEST!
#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.
I'm always surprised that walk vs riding is such a contentious issuer here at THP.
2 strokes!?!?! In what kind of Draconian dystopia are we living???
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.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.