Jump to content
IGNORED

Most frustrating round ever...


elivate
Note: This thread is 5712 days old. We appreciate that you found this thread instead of starting a new one, but if you plan to post here please make sure it's still relevant. If not, please start a new topic. Thank you!

Recommended Posts

Played Sunday and it was excruciating...

I have a playing partner that I go with fairly regularly and we usually just get paired up with another twosome, this was the case Sunday... This is always fine with me...

Sunday we play with a coupe and the guy starts off bad, slices his drive into trouble right, no big deal.. But, he loks for his ball forever... She leaves her ball which was just shy of my drive, walks back 50 yards and begins to help... Finally she finds it after heading back to hear ball, and he is halfway across the fairway getting ready to drop, so thej he walks back across and gets ready to play his ball... I then wait for her to go through her routine, then I get to hit and chunk my wedge! Nothig more frustrating then waiting 10 minutes to hit and doing that... I should have played my shot ahead of them... hindsight...

Anyway, I can't let it go and then I proceed to triple bogey the hole, after a perfect drive... stupid...

The kicker is that we get to the next tee and the group ahead still has not finished up...

This is turning inot the slowest round I have ever played... We get to the tee on the 11th hole and my partner checks his watch... 3 hours!!

The group ahead of us is pathetically slow, poor etiquate, have no idea what they are doing... the girl we are playing with says it is open two holes ahead of them, so me and my partner say screw it and we drive to the 13th tee... well we get there and there is a group on the green and a group on the tee! So now we were screwed so we decide to just head in to the clubhouse, as we drive by the finishing holes the entire course is gridlock... No marshals in sight...

I guess that is the price you pay to play on a public course... but this was the worst I have ever seen...

end rant...

What's in the Bag

Driver: HiBore 10.5* ProLaunch Blue 65s
Hybrid: No Fear 3i
Irons: Launcher LP 4-PW Harmonized 50* GWAmerican Standard 56* SWStriker by Golf Trends 60* LobPutter: Pro Response bladeBall: Tour Fire

Link to comment
Share on other sites


Public Courses really need to start enforcing pace of play rules with more marshalls and course rangers. Pace of play rules are there for a reason, to make the round more enjoyable for all people on the course. If courses are going to let pace of play become a non-issue than more instances like what elivate described are going to become more common and that is only hurting courses and golf.

Whats in my Warbird Hot Bad:

Driver: 907D1 9.5 - 65-S Aldila VS Proto --- FT-IQ coming soon?
2 Hybrid: Rescue mid-TP 16 deg
3 Hybrid: Rescue TP - HC Tour Only Model 19 deg - DG X-1004-PW: 695CB Irons - Project X 6.0Wedges Vokey SM58, Vokey SM54, Vokey 250Putter Futura PhantomWhere I WorkMy...

Link to comment
Share on other sites


What really makes me mad about it is the course management. They love raking in the green fees but they never have a marshal on full time. What they do is ask regular players if they will marshal in return for free golf...

I like playing the course, and if two of us get out early enough in the morning we can play 18 in 3 - 3 1/2 hours easily, so Sunday was just completely unnaceptable...

My only other options are courses that require a long haul to get there or the local "country club" and I can't afford $400 a round, that is what a membership would end up costing me with the number of rounds I manage to play each summer... oh well, gonna have to suck it up I guess...

What's in the Bag

Driver: HiBore 10.5* ProLaunch Blue 65s
Hybrid: No Fear 3i
Irons: Launcher LP 4-PW Harmonized 50* GWAmerican Standard 56* SWStriker by Golf Trends 60* LobPutter: Pro Response bladeBall: Tour Fire

Link to comment
Share on other sites


Dude you have noooo idea. Funny you should mention this because I had the same experiance yesterday. Probably even worse.

What happened was me and my friend do the same thing as you, pair up with another twosome when we get there. Well first off our tee time is 20 minutes late. Then there just happens to be a group of four old ladies 2 groups infront. Turns out that 2 of the women in their group have never played before. They also never gave up on looking for their ball (God forbid they lose one of their 12 for $10 Noodles) and read their putts like it was the final hole of the PGA Championship. To give you an idea of how slow they were, after 4 holes we had been on the course for 2 HOURS!!!

Only to make things worse, they refused to let us play through. They complained that they had already let 2 groups go infront of them. I felt like screaming at them "Don't you think that there's a reason that 2 groups have played through!!". Finally we had to skip the tenth hole (yeah we waited that long) and just left them in the dust.

The thing was for the first nine I was shooting so bad because I couldn't find a groove. It's a good thing we went ahead when we did though because it was pitch black out just as we got off 18.

All said and done, 6 hours....

l Bag l TaylorMade Stand Bag

l Driver l TaylorMade '07 Burner 9.5* l 3-Wood l Titleist 910F 15* (D1 shaft setting)

l Hybrids l TaylorMade '07 Burner 19* : TaylorMade '10 Rescue 22*

l Irons l TaylorMade r7 5-PW l Wedges l Titleist Bob Vokey 52* 56* 60*

l Putter l Scotty Cameron California Del Mar 34" l Balls l TaylorMade Penta TP

Link to comment
Share on other sites


Note: This thread is 5712 days old. We appreciate that you found this thread instead of starting a new one, but if you plan to post here please make sure it's still relevant. If not, please start a new topic. Thank you!

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Want to join this community?

    We'd love to have you!

    Sign Up
  • TST Partners

    TourStriker PlaneMate
    Golfer's Journal
    ShotScope
    The Stack System
    FlightScope Mevo
    Direct: Mevo, Mevo+, and Pro Package.

    Coupon Codes (save 10-15%): "IACAS" for Mevo/Stack, "IACASPLUS" for Mevo+/Pro Package, and "THESANDTRAP" for ShotScope.
  • Popular Now

  • Posts

    • First off please forgive me if this is not a proper post or not in the proper location, still learning the ropes around here. Second, it's important that I mention I am very new to the game with only about 10 rounds of golf under my belt, most being 9 holes. Only this year have I started playing 18. That being said, I am hooked, love the game and am very eager to learn and improve. To give you an idea of my skill, the last 2 18 rounds I played were 110 and 105. Not great at all, however I am slowly improving as I learn. Had been having bad slicing issues with the driver and hybrids but after playing some more and hitting the range, I've been able to improve on that quite a bit and have been hitting more straight on average. Irons have always come easier to me as far as hitting straight for some reason. Wedges have needed a lot of improvement, but I practice chipping about 20-30 mins about 3-5 times a week and that's helped a lot. Today I went to the range and started to note down some distance data, mind you I am averaging the distances based off my best guess compared to the distance markers on the range. I do not currently own a range finder or tracker. From reading some similar posts I do understand that filling gaps is ideal, but I am having a some issues figuring out those gaps and understanding which clubs to keep and remove as some gaps are minimal between clubs. Below is an image of the chart I put together showing the clubs and average distances I've been hitting and power applied. For some reason I am hitting my hybrids around the same distances and I am not sure why. Wondering if one of them should be removed. I didn't notice a huge loft difference either. The irons I have are hand me downs from my grandfather and after playing with them a bit, I feel like they're just not giving me what could potentially be there. The feel is a bit hard/harsh and underwhelming if that makes sense and I can't seem to get decent distances from them. Wondering if I should be looking to invest in some more updated irons and if those should be muscle backs or cavity backs? My knowledge here is minimal. I have never played with modern fairway woods, only the classic clubs that are actually wood and much smaller than modern clubs. I recently removed the 4 and 5 woods from my bag as I was never using them and I don't hit them very well or very far. Wondering if I should look into some more modern fairway wood options? I appreciate any feedback or advice anyone is willing to give, please forgive my lack of knowledge. I am eager to learn! Thank you.  
    • I would think that 3 in a row with the same players might get some behind the scenes examination from the SCGA if they were suspect.  Are there any clubs questioning the results?
    • What simple fact? A golf match is not a coin flip — there is a fact for you. I'm trying to help you, and you're throwing out what could easily be called sour grapes. Come with FACTS, not weak analogies. Then you've got nothing. Hopefully they've done a better job of making their case. 😛 
    • It's pretty close. The odds of a 50/50 shot going your way 21 times are greater than 1 in a million!  I guess your point is, that simple fact is not enough to declare these guys dirty rotten sandbaggers. I disagree, but fair enough. I posted it here on the message board to get different perspectives, after all.  I probably won't be digging further into specific scores. I have no dog in this fight beyond a generalized contempt for sandbagging. With that said, it would not surprise if a lot of clubs shared my concern and were grousing about it to the SCGA.
    • I had an article on Cam Smith pop up along with this..... Current major eligibility list for all LIV Golf players Here's a look at which majors, if any, all LIV Golf players are eligible.  
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

Welcome to TST! Signing up is free, and you'll see fewer ads and can talk with fellow golf enthusiasts! By using TST, you agree to our Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy, and our Guidelines.

The popup will be closed in 10 seconds...