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How Much Would it Speed Up Play?
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It would also make everyone having to pay the same amount for a cart fee more palatable.
Wait ... what? Do they not? Do you charge drivers extra or passengers?
I'd bet it could speed up play at least half an hour if not more. Some groups would still likely all head to one ball and wait, but if used correctly it could significantly help speed up pace of play.
Definitely would help. You would still have the guys who would sit there and wait for the other folks to hit and then get out, laser a number, pick a club, and take 5 practice swings.
If you go to a course and you end up in a two seater cart by yourself, you pay the same amount as you would if you had to share a cart with someone. The fee is per golfer, not per cart as it should be. If carts were single occupant, this wouldn't be an issue.
At a public course, this is the answer. Seems like they all want to convene a meeting at every ball.
Got it - that makes sense. I wasn't thinking of it like that at all.
Maybe they should start renting them by the hour then?
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Going straight to your own ball. But also in theory would create more congestion on the fairway and around the greens.
It's hard to say, but I have to imagine maybe it 15 minutes faster? Maybe more?
It's hard to say, but I have to imagine maybe it 15 minutes faster? Maybe more?
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My guess and this is purely a guess. If a typical par plays a round in a double chart in 4 hours and 30 minutes if you give them both single carts instead I bet they are under 4 hours probably closer to 3 hour 45 minutes.
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It would speed fast players by a large margin. Moderate speed players would play faster too. They would all be even more upset with slow players that would still be relatively much slower.
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Generally speaking though, walkers could do that and do not for the most part.
The argument (which is incorrect) is that walkers are as fast as riders, because they can go directly to the ball.
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I'll say that using something like the Finn Scooter was great because I could go hit my shot, and then close the gap on my playing partners while they were finishing their shot or working through their shot. It definitely made the experience better not having to wait on someone else to get to my ball.
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For sure. I still go back to covid golf though and everybody in their own cart was substantially faster, even with packed tee sheets.
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These posts being back to back is exactly the reason it COULD...but it would depend on the people driving.
The amount of times I see two carts drive to each ball separately four separate times instead of either dropping someone off, or at the very least, going to a ball that belongs to someone in the cart (so one cart at one ball, the other cart at another), drives me crazy. If I saw four different carts at one ball, that would be enough to make me walk off the course.
Yeah, that would.be maddening
Where I am at, I would say zero as the course is 100% Lithium, plus MOST of the members that can, pay their course trail fee, and most have better carts than the course as all are LSV. But I can see it at a public, but you still have to get the players to move along, fancy cart or not, its still the players responsibility to move along.
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The carts weigh less, have a smaller footprint and wouldnt cause more damage, generally speaking.
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A lot, but not as much as eliminating practice swings.
I disagree. Most people at my club have their own cart so a lot of groups will have 4 carts in a group. You can absolutely tell the difference in a 2 person cart. They are pretty much always the last to the green by a fair margin. The last two round ls I played I was the 2nd rider and even with having my clubs ready or walking to my ball we were still behind. It’s not going to be a huge difference but 2 carts of 2 vs 4 carts of 1 would probably be a 15-20 minute difference if all other things were equal.