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On many of those courses there has to be a certain pace maintained...some have clocks that tell you weather or not you're on pace.
Also, most courses have multiple signs that say to keep up with the group ahead of you and let faster groups play through. Besides the signs, it is also usually listed on your scorecard and somewhere on the golf cart, if you are riding.
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My uncle was hit by a golf ball when some idiot didn't feel like waiting. I had an incident as well when I was putting on a green and a ball came and landed within a few feet of me. This was when I was younger, maybe 13 at the time and I was golfing with my grandfather. It's not only rude, it's dangerous. I shot the same when I was 13 as I do now, so I wasn't great, but I wasn't awful and we always moved fairly quick.
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I know this is kinda off topic, but I start Golf Lessons soon. Which is good, considering I need a Spring Sport after Football Season ends.
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There is never a excuse for hitting into a group unless you hit a cart path once or twice and the ball bounces a extra 50 yards or something like that.
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There is never a excuse for hitting into a group unless you hit a cart path once or twice and the ball bounces a extra 50 yards or something like that.
Or you are teeing off at 1 and you hit your drive so far right that it hits a tree lining the 9th fairway and a big ole branch falls out of the tree on top of a cart riding by.. not that that could ever happen 
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LOL....well, that too. Nobody would actually think you were aiming to do that. One time I saw a guy on a adjoining hole hit his ball into a tree about 15 yards off the green on a par 3 and have the tree spit it out into the hole. Talk about a lucky Bastid. 
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One time I saw a guy on a adjoining hole hit his ball into a tree about 15 yards off the green on a par 3 and have the tree spit it out into the hole.
Talk about a lucky Bastid.
Was his name Happy Gilmore?
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j/c relating a story: Last year we played a course with clocks on every other tee. They always showed the same time (our tee time...and we were always about 5 minutes behind it). When we got to the tee (a few minutes early) the starter told us that the group ahead of us had cancelled so there would be an open hole...and I noticed that there was nobody behind us. (This was early Sunday morning no less) We played a blissful 9 holes. Never saw the group in front or behind us. No rushing, just golfing. (we had actually fallen about 5 minutes behind our tee time) Well, after we played the 10th, a ranger drives up from in front of us (coming from the 11th fairway - so he sees an open hole in front of us). Of course he feels the need to tell us that we're behind. We tried to explain that there was no group in front of us when we started...but no, we were behind.  (mind you, the group behind us was still no where in sight) My point is....I don't care HOW LONG it's taking your group to play a round of golf....If you're not holding anyone up, then you're not playing too slowly.
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My point earlier about someone driving up our back was not because we were going slow, it was just a very busy Sunday afternoon on a public course, but the idiot behind us thought he was special and shouldnt have to wait, just like everyone else on the course had to wait.
I won't deny that idiots exist. Sometimes at public courses however, people aren't familiar with the yardage or have to hit blind shots so some of it might be explainable by lack of course knowledge.. however in that situation, when the entire course is slow, my opinion is usually, why push it because you're not going anywhere.
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We have moved aside and let faster groups play through. Especially if it is a smaller group than ours that is riding while we are walking.
If there is nobody in front of me holding ME up, I'll let smaller groups go.. but if it's a Saturday morning and the entire course is filled with 4somes and a couple guys come out as a 2some in the middle, then they can wait.
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last summer i had the longest wait ever. By the time we hit the 3rd hole there was a hold up of 3-4 groups in front of us all waiting on the same tee box  . This I never understood. If the rangers are doing their job you should never have more than one group waiting on a tee box. It really is frustrating to wait 20 minutes in between holes, and if you are in a groove, you can lose that. Now that im working full time, Im gonna start shelling out to golf the nicer courses. Less wait and much better expereince. Now all i need is the ground to dry up so they start letting carts on the grass.
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I used to play a course fairly regularly that had a par 3 15th hole, then the 16th was a short par 4 and a moderate to long hitter could cut the corner and get to the green with a big shot... and of course, darn near everybody imagines they are a long hitter...  So essentially you had back to back par 3s, which usually created quite a bottle neck, especially since on the second one, people would try to cut the corner and 50% of them would end up looking for their ball.... 
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Holy cow, you have to be kidding me.... a hole in one via hitting a tree...... what are the odds. I had a ball hit a tree branch fairly close by and get stuck. We walked under the tree and you can see the ball wedged between 2 branches. The funniest moment I ever had golfing was when a friend of mine and myself were out at Flying B years back. There was a tree directly in my way, so I had to adjust my shot. I mishit the ball, wound up striking the tree, came straight back at my face, and I caught it without even moving. We about died laughing. 
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Holy cow, you have to be kidding me.... a hole in one via hitting a tree...... what are the odds.
about the same as the odds of hitting it directly in the hole I'd imagine. 
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Playing short holes I almost had one.....the ball bounced up, ran up to the pin and hit it, but didn't sink. Never came close on an actual course.
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Whackiest thing that ever happened to me was years ago, when I skulled a 3-iron from about 175. It was a line drive that went into a dry creek about 120 yards away, hit off a rock, bounced high and forward, rolled onto and across the green, hit the pin but didn't drop. I swear on Joe Thomas's head it happened. Tap in birdie off a horrible shot. Gotta love those. 
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I have 1... in 32 years of playing golf, most of it pretty good golf. As the old saying goes, if you knock it within a foot, it's a great shot.. if it goes in, it's luck. I was lucky enough to have mine happen in a tournament so I had the full 4some see it, two groups on the next tee saw it, the ladies selling chances at hitting the green saw it and the group walking off the green behind us saw it... and it was a good shot, a nice high 6-iron about 180 yards to a semi-island green which landed about 5 feet in front of the hole, bounced once, rolled about a foot and dropped in...
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My point is....I don't care HOW LONG it's taking your group to play a round of golf....If you're not holding anyone up, then you're not playing too slowly.
Exactly! If I'm playing a round and notice we're out there alone, I start playing multiple balls. Most in my group does too. Well, unless we're playing for money. You can practice specific shots that you can't work on at the driving range. For example, hitting a long iron from a bunker or a chip and run while the ball is way below your feet. Like you said, if you're not holding anyone up, you're playing at the right pace.
In general, and this is to anyone, I always found it kind of odd that people get so worked up over being on the golf course too long. You'll never hear me complain about it. I find it to be a very fun place to be. You're not at the job, not doing yard work, not at the in-laws, not stuck at some lame 3-yr olds birthday party, not trapped in the house during winter and you're not dead.....who cares how long the round takes! Enjoy yourself!
What is the fascination with playing the quickest round possible? It's like those guys that always brag about driving to Aunt Jenny's in 30 mins instead of the 45 mins it should take. "I was going 95 on I71. I made good time." To me, golf is about shooting the lowest round possible and having fun with your buds (while drinking lots of beers).
I get that playing at a nice pace keeps you in a zone and that may lower your score but......are we all that in a hurry to leave the golf course on a nice sunny day?
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What is the fascination with playing the quickest round possible?
I hear what you are saying, I myself think being on the course with a 6 pack of beer is the greatest time of the year. However waiting 10 minutes in between holes is annoying, a lot of people wanna get into a groove and some dont feel you cant do it waiting that long.
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Considering the average player on any given day can't break 90, I'd say most of them need to get out of a groove.
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What is the fascination with playing the quickest round possible? It's like those guys that always brag about driving to Aunt Jenny's in 30 mins instead of the 45 mins it should take. "I was going 95 on I71. I made good time." To me, golf is about shooting the lowest round possible and having fun with your buds (while drinking lots of beers).
I get that playing at a nice pace keeps you in a zone and that may lower your score but......are we all that in a hurry to leave the golf course on a nice sunny day?
I still get what you are saying... but I go there to play golf, not stand around. If I go bowling, I expect to bowl, not bowl once and wait 15 minutes to bowl again. If I go to the horse track, I go there to bet and watch races, not bet on a race then wait an hour for another one. If I go to the bar I go there to have a few beers, not drink a beer and wait 45 minutes for the next one... see what I'm saying? Yes, being on the course is more fun than working... but regardless of what you are doing, you want it to have a flow to it...
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I was playing in a 4 man scramble last year and a college kid (it was a fund raiser for Wright State University, where my ex-Brother-in-law went) hit a hole in one on a 185 yard par 3 to win $10,000. It was pretty cool; he couldn't tell that it went in because there was a large bunker with a tall lip in front of the green - we all just saw the lady that was spotting the hole jump out of her chair and go running for the green. The dude dang near got another hole in one on another par 3 (this one was only 120 yards) for a computer - put it about 1 foot from the cup to win closest to the pin.
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I would rather cut grass v stand in the middle of a hot fairway watching some goofball take 7 hacks to get on the green hole after hole...not to mention then watching them bob a putt, stub it, then bob it again.
Lucky I don't have to do that much anymore. A round of golf should take about 3:10...10 minutes a hole with a 10 minute stop at the turn to hit the restroom and grab a beverage and snack..That is if I ride. If I use a caddy, it takes maybe 15 minutes longer.
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That's cool. Unfortunately I didn't win anything (unless you count the sleeve of balls for getting it on the green).. the next hole is a par 4 and I hit it off the tee into a fairway bunker and made it from the bunker... The holes were 10 and 11... I started the back nine with a 1 and a 2.. 4 under after 2.
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I have never had a ace. I have holed out from about 150-170 yards 3 times, and several more 2's on short par 4's where I chipped in.
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I think both of you have it right.
I want to go and play at a comfortable and leisurely pace. I want to relax and not worry about groups playing up behind me. By the same token, I want to keep it moving along so as to not lose focus and I certainly don't want to be held up by others in front of me.
I'm all for taking my time, but I don't want to be out there for 5 hours and only play 9 holes (yes, that HAS happened to me). By the same token, I have no desire to rush through it for the sake of being able to squeeze in a round between other committments... playing 9 in only an hour is just as unenjoyable as playing 9 in 5 hours.
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them bob a putt, stub it, then bob it again.
What does bob and stub a putt mean?
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Plumbob.
Stub...hit it way short, or just a terrible putt in general.
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Plumbob.
Stub...hit it way short, or just a terrible putt in general.
Ok I get the stub but I have no clue what a plumbob is.
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It's as simple of a tool for determining vertical as there is... a string with a pointed weight on one end. Plumb-Bob
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You squat behind the ball and hold the putter so it hangs down (like a plumb bob) and you look along the line from the ball to the hole. It's supposed to visually help you separate the right side from the left side and read breaks better... I've never found much use for it.
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I understand now, thanks DC
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You squat behind the ball and hold the putter so it hangs down (like a plumb bob) and you look along the line from the ball to the hole. It's supposed to visually help you separate the right side from the left side and read breaks better... I've never found much use for it.
I think they have proven it is useless since by holding the putter, you have to exert pressure which greatly influences how the putter will hang....not to mention the putter isn't exactly balanced.....but, people have seen it done and decide to do it.
To bad they don't spend more time watching pros fix ball marks or not dragging the feet on the greens.
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When plumb bobbing, you need to use your dominant eye...and you need to know how to hold your putter so it hangs straight. To determine your dominant eye - put a golfball on the floor (anything about that size actually), take an empty toilet tissue roll (if you don't have one, go empty the one in the bathroom, your wife won't mind) hold the tube out a couple of feet and look at the ball through it (with both eyes) NOW close one of your eyes. If the ball remains in the tube, that's your dominant eye. If the ball jumps out of the tube, your other eye is your dominant eye. What's straight for your putter? Take your putter over to a door jam. Hold your putter like you would plumb bob next to the door jam. Rotate your putter until it's parallel to the door jam. That's how you will hold the putter when plumb bobbing. On the course - align your dominant eye, the ball and the hole in a straight line. Hold the club out so that the lower part of the shaft covers the ball (or disects it). Whichever side of the upper part of the shaft that the hole appears on is the direction the putt will break. This has been a public service announcement.
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I find it interesting that almost all of the posts on this thread are about the idiots people encounter on the golf course, while no one really seems to want to talk about how to actually get better.
Ahhh...........the irony...... *L*
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Thats the way we played growing up... if we were out alone then we played multiple balls...
I play by myself a lot and will typically play two... figure I'm not really holding anyone up and really don't want to catch people... I prefer just hopping in with a group but can't always do that.
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I almost hit one on a par 3 down in Jupiter... About 160 out, over a lake. I miss hit it, thought it went into the lake, so I turned around to grab my bag. The group I was playing with told me "Hey, it's going in!" Rolled right by the hole, ended up about 3 yards away.  Can't wait until the summer, it's nice and cheap to play, plus nobody in their right minds would go out when its so hot. I consider myself in decent shape, but I almost passed out walking the course next summer. Would gladly do it again!
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Kind of like the simpleton who doesn't move their grocery cart from the middle of the aisle allowing you to pass because they can't decide which Hamburger Helper they want this week.
I feel the same way about uppity, upper-middle class snobs who get lost in the supermarket on their way to the filet mignon, and seem so very inconvenienced when they have to walk around my cart while I'm trying to save a few pennnies by checking the prices...
... The type who make others wait in line because they want their expensive fruit tray delivered to them at the check-out line, instead of getting it themselves like any normal person would do.
You know - that kind of elitist windbag.
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I find it interesting that almost all of the posts on this thread are about the idiots people encounter on the golf course, while no one really seems to want to talk about how to actually get better.
Ahhh...........the irony...... *L*
it is almost impossible to talk about getting better. If that was the case this thread would have 10x the replies.
any columbus golfers have a nice course suggestion in C bus? Ive only been to Ramyond Memorial and the the OSU course.
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