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I noticed a post in the Breaking 90 thread where the poster mentioned they had to play off the back nine which threw their game off.
For a variety of reasons, the pro shop will have you start on the back nine instead of the front nine. At Painted, it's usually league-related. Late afternoon and evening leagues are usually nine hole leagues, and they will alternate playing each nine every week. So when we have them starting on the back nine, we run the entire day starting on the back nine, so that by the time the leagues go off, #10 is open for play. 99% of the people ask why and when we tell them it's because of leagues they are good with it.
But I've seen people get irate that we don't let them go off the front since it's open and everyone is on the back. I ask them if they demand to go off the back when it's completely open when we start the people on the front, and they still don't get it, even when I explain that "for today, the front nine is the back nine". They ask why we do it all day long when the league doesn't start until way later, and the reason is so that WHEN the league starts, we don't want there to be anyone going from #9 to #10 and having to wait.
Is it a big deal to you when you have to start on the back nine instead of the front nine when that is the rule of the day? Our first hole is a Par 4 and our tenth hole is a Par 5.
For a variety of reasons, the pro shop will have you start on the back nine instead of the front nine. At Painted, it's usually league-related. Late afternoon and evening leagues are usually nine hole leagues, and they will alternate playing each nine every week. So when we have them starting on the back nine, we run the entire day starting on the back nine, so that by the time the leagues go off, #10 is open for play. 99% of the people ask why and when we tell them it's because of leagues they are good with it.
But I've seen people get irate that we don't let them go off the front since it's open and everyone is on the back. I ask them if they demand to go off the back when it's completely open when we start the people on the front, and they still don't get it, even when I explain that "for today, the front nine is the back nine". They ask why we do it all day long when the league doesn't start until way later, and the reason is so that WHEN the league starts, we don't want there to be anyone going from #9 to #10 and having to wait.
Is it a big deal to you when you have to start on the back nine instead of the front nine when that is the rule of the day? Our first hole is a Par 4 and our tenth hole is a Par 5.