TwoSolitudes
Swingin' for the fences
- Joined
- Jan 15, 2010
- Messages
- 1,511
- Reaction score
- 12
So I arrived at the course about an hour early, to warm up a bit. Gathered in front of the tee box are 12 guys from Japan (or maybe Korea). They are all eating breakfast suhsi rolls and putting togehter rolls of 10 euro bills. They all have Yamaha and other high end Japanese cubs with exotic shafts in them- XXXX stiff.
I pay my fees and ask what is going on. The club lady says they are having a mini-tournement of skins for 100 euro a hole per player! And the course let them in for a 630am start- an hour and a half before the next tee time.
As I walk over to the range I watch three of them tee off. Pop up. Water ball. Woods. hmmm...
At 830 our tee off time comes and we are away. At every hole we can see one of these guys fishing out a ball from the water or searching in the woods. By the 7th we had caught up to these guys and the for the rest of the round we were waiting on every tee. Wating a long long time.
On 9 I was getting ready to drive and one of these guys walked out to the middle of the fairway and stood there staring. None of them spoke English (or Dutch or French) and attempts by us to get them to hurry up were met with laughter. I have never seen a worse group of players. We couldn't even play through becasue there were 3 groups of them and they were all horrible.
On 18 there were- no joke- 10 of us (4 groups) sitting around the tee box waiting for the fairway to clear. I guess the club thought a 90 minute head start would have been enough. They must have paid a lot of extra to not be bothered by the marshalls. Pretty funny- unless you had to finish up in less than 5 hours!
100 euro a hole! Hell I would have cleared a few 1000 euro off them easily.
EDIT- it occurs to me while writing this, that it must have been some kind of corporate thing. Maybe they were all trying 'not to beat the boss'. :confused2:
I pay my fees and ask what is going on. The club lady says they are having a mini-tournement of skins for 100 euro a hole per player! And the course let them in for a 630am start- an hour and a half before the next tee time.
As I walk over to the range I watch three of them tee off. Pop up. Water ball. Woods. hmmm...
At 830 our tee off time comes and we are away. At every hole we can see one of these guys fishing out a ball from the water or searching in the woods. By the 7th we had caught up to these guys and the for the rest of the round we were waiting on every tee. Wating a long long time.
On 9 I was getting ready to drive and one of these guys walked out to the middle of the fairway and stood there staring. None of them spoke English (or Dutch or French) and attempts by us to get them to hurry up were met with laughter. I have never seen a worse group of players. We couldn't even play through becasue there were 3 groups of them and they were all horrible.
On 18 there were- no joke- 10 of us (4 groups) sitting around the tee box waiting for the fairway to clear. I guess the club thought a 90 minute head start would have been enough. They must have paid a lot of extra to not be bothered by the marshalls. Pretty funny- unless you had to finish up in less than 5 hours!
100 euro a hole! Hell I would have cleared a few 1000 euro off them easily.
EDIT- it occurs to me while writing this, that it must have been some kind of corporate thing. Maybe they were all trying 'not to beat the boss'. :confused2: