rollin
"Just playin golf pally"
- Joined
- Aug 28, 2012
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- Handicap
- 15.7
I suppose your geographic location matters. As someone who plays in New England i have found that many courses have carry requirements, hazards directly off tee, etc. Thats why I was connecting tees to HC, a little based on distance but more on difficulty of the requirements. If someone is a 8 handicap the chances of them duffing a drive 20 yards on the ground is much less than a 20 playing back there. Again, generally speaking... I understand there are exceptions.
Honestly (and im not trying to be mean here nor tell you why you did something) but i think at least in part you were probably connecting tees to caps because it is unfortunately very often what we hear very often just about anywhere. Its sort of like a "jojn the wagon" type of thing. Enough people b*tch about something often enough and its very easy to join up. I know playing mostly as a single and paired with so many different people I must hear a million times about the people ahead playing the wrong tees.
One day (always sticks in my head) there was a guy in my 4some (all of us singles and strangers to each other). Nice enough a person but he was constantly making remarks about the group ahead who were spraying balls fairly consistently poor from the tees. he kept on blasting about it to us......syaing things like ..."you see this? they shouldnt be playing from there" or "why are they playing those tees" and in this constant bitching of his, he was also implying that it was all related to pace and how people like that ruin the pace and on and on and on. This happened most every hole where we waited just even a minute to tee off. By the 8th hole I kind of had enough. i mean the pace wasnt even a problem as it really wasnt bad. Also the group ahead was always within a shot or a shot and a half of the group ahead of them. And so...... we were all freindly enough with each other by this point and so I said "but whats the difference?" and " just maybe they happen to have a bad day today from the tees". he goes on......'they dont belong there.....this is why rounds take too long....they have no business there" etc,etc. i said "but we arent even playing a bad pace" and i also said "and they are on pace with the group ahead anyway". I also said that i can play teerribly bad from the tees on any guven day so should i be moved up and you have seen how well im hitting today but tomnorow I might spray balls just like they are. He just insisted this is what is wrong with golf. I mean we actually began (respectfully in a friendly way)) arguing about it. He could not open his eyes to realize the pace wasnt even bad nor realize they were on with the group ahead anyway, nor ever would he even consider tee choice has little to do with creating the real problem. All he saw was the group not playing well enough and in his mind this is the reason pace is ruined everywhere. How was just so cought up in what they were doing nothing else mattered. All in all we were all at our cars in the usual 420ish. The way he went on you would think it took us 5 and half hrs and it was all the fault of the guys ahead of us even though they kept up with the group ahead of them.